Fine Arts Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

challenge for firms based in suburban industrial parks. To stay relevant, they need to tap into urban hotbeds, but setting up operations there can be extremely expensive. In his work on global talent flows, Harvard Business School’s Kerr... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

the Art of Negotiation: How to Use Your Feelings to Your Advantage By: Brooks, Alison Wood Abstract—Negotiations can be fraught with emotion, but it’s only recently that researchers have examined how particular feelings influence what... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

proving to be inefficient and were drains on the public treasury. Business would do well to support improvements in the system that purports to protect their investments abroad. The Thatcher and Reagan revolutions in the industrialized... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

04 Sep 2019
News

What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)

“There’s a tendency to think, How hard could it be to run an arts organization? The answer is, every bit as hard; we just don’t have as many zeroes at the end of our budget. The practical mechanics of performing 200 concerts and reaching... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

publishers, and producers in other sectors of the entertainment industry live by this approach. You might think that spreading resources evenly across product lines is the safest approach, especially because no one seems to know for sure... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

13 Jul 2016
News

From Money to Ministry

He handled lending for the airline and aerospace industry during deregulation and many reorganizations. “I learned about relationship banking, as opposed to now, where it’s all about the deal, all quite transactional, to my dismay.”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

"Creativity," explains MBA Class of 1954 Professor Teresa Amabile, "is not just for the arts - it is possible and desirable in any activity." In her course Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Organization, Amabile aims to expand students'... View Details

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Bernstein Managing Human Capital Organizational Behavior Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Shai Bernstein Entrepreneurial Finance (Q2) Entrepreneurial Management, Finance Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Candace Bertotti The Arts of Communication General Management... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Fred Newman

traveling “sound effects guy” on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio show, “doing what I used to do behind teachers’ backs.” He uses acoustic technology to enhance the art of storytelling. “Information is in words,” says... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and content providers. We provide a model of bargaining and price competition within these industries and show that whether or not a piece of content ends up exclusive to one... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog

Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton describe critical moments in their negotiations with Vladimir Putin, etc. In the arts and sports : Music industry lawyer John Branca negotiates the purchase of... View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964

President & Chief Executive Officer, Barbara Franklin Enterprises Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION The Pennsylvania State University, 1962 B.A., Arts and Letters LIFELONG... View Details

19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

PublicationsBroadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract The long-standing argument... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

1985) (Scribner) In the classic tradition of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Tang presents for the first time in English the wisdom of Tang Taizong (598-649 AD), which is still being studied more than 1,300 years later as a guide to leading and... View Details

23 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

major life transitions—a new job, a sick parent, a partner’s layoff, or a return to work after a maternity leave, Whillans says. “Most employees will go about their day-to-day lives and be fine most of the time,” Whillans says. “But when... View Details

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

as by his words.” George E. Bates, "Polaroid Corporation," Harvard Business School Case 246-006, 1948 87 Edwin Land identified the intersection of science and art as the cornerstone of his research-based View Details

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

factory anywhere in the world is built today without billions of dollars in subsidies. The groundbreaking in Wisconsin that President Trump just attended is receiving around $3 billion from the state. So that industry goes through... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary, transaction cost, and resource-based theories of the firm. The book will be an... View Details