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  • 11 Jun 2021
  • News

Legendary CEO Shares Four Ways To Get Employees Jazzed Up Again

  • 14 Feb 2014
  • News

Q&A: Michael Wheeler on the importance of improvising

  • 07 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’

Muhammad Ali than a typical diplomat. "He's yakking and talking. He's jiving," marveled a colleague. Though he added: "The first time you see it, you think it's just bull." In fact, it was Holbrooke's way of pumping himself up and energizing the negotiation process.... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
  • 13 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

Ask jazz fans the world over to name their favorite compilation, and chances are their response is Kind of Blue. With music that is sophisticated and sublime, spare yet complex, trumpeter and composer Miles Davis (1926-1991) reached... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50225 Harvard Business School Case 515-701 Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center Under the leadership of artistic director Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • October 2008 (Revised November 2008)
  • Case

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

Examines how successful companies can “jump to the next S-curve” through an analogy to the life's work of Miles Davis, especially his paradigm-shattering Kind of Blue album in 1959. Students consider how and why Davis, who had already proven he was tops in his field,... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Creativity; Music Entertainment; Music Industry
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Improvisation

My research focuses on how teams and individuals improvise. Since my days as a jazz trumpet player, I have been fascinated by how groups and individuals perform novel actions in real time. My research investigates these improvisational processes in three... View Details
  • March 2006 (Revised February 2007)
  • Case

UBS: Towards the Integrated Firm

By: Rajiv Lal, Nitin Nohria and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In late June 2005, UBS Group CEO Peter Wuffli--anointed "Master of Zurich" by the financial press--was returning to Zurich from the firm's latest three-day Senior Leadership Conference (SLC). Tapping 600 top managers, this SLC featured an outdoor event at a former... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Programs; Leadership; Talent and Talent Management; Trust
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  • 13 Feb 2012
  • News

Wynton Marsalis Connects the Dots between Artists and Entrepreneurs at the Harvard Innovation Lab

  • 23 Jan 2012
  • News

Some See Two New Gilded Ages, Raising Global Tensions

  • 27 Sep 2012
  • News

Breaking the Cycle of Responsiveness at Work

  • 03 May 2012
  • News

Does high stress trigger creativity at work?

  • 05 Feb 2014
  • News

Emotions as a negotiating tool

    Rohit Deshpande

    Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; airline; banking; beauty products; beverage; financial services; home video games; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; tourism; video games

      Michael A. Wheeler

      Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

      Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
      • Web

      Faculty & Advisors | MBA

      partner for some of the most impactful and fastest growth companies of their generation including: 10x Genomics (Nasdaq: TXG), Amerigroup (Nasdaq: ANTM), and Jazz Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: JAZZ). Jim’s first success came while he was still... View Details
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      2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

      the buyback revolution and the results are fairly damning. CASE STUDY: Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center Professor Emeritus Rohit Deshpandé + More Info – Less Info This modified case discussion does not require pre-reading. Join a... View Details
      • 19 Dec 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

      how Apple's financial model contributes to its success and illustrates a critical lesson about risk management. Mike Wheeler on the Jazz of Negotiation Mike Wheeler, who retired as the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice,... View Details
      Keywords: by Danielle Kost
      • 19 Sep 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

      in an intellectual jam session, like a jazz festival of ideas. The other course is a new one, an elective curriculum course at the Business School. It’s focused on India, and the lens is one of creativity and entrepreneurship. India is... View Details
      Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace
      • 19 Apr 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      The History of Beauty

      Factor cosmetics began. The date coincided with the premiere of the first talking movie The Jazz Singer, at which Max Factor and his family were in attendance. 27 View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics