Jazz - Publications - Faculty & Research

2011
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Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details

Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Strategic Change; Jazz; Jazz Mindset; Improvisation; Innovation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Leadership; Management; Management Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizations; Creativity; Strategy; Auto Industry; Banking Industry; Bicycle Industry; Computer Industry; Consulting Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Education Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Music Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Retail Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Japan; Taiwan; Europe; Asia

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October 1992
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Charles River Jazz Festival

Charles River Jazz Festival must decide whether to press a compact disk (CD) of Friday's jazz performance for sale on Saturday and Sunday. The idea to press CDs is novel, so there is considerable uncertainty about how receptive customers will be. The festival must... View Details

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Decision Making

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23 Jan 2017
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Does Jazz Music Need Star Power?

24 Apr 2024
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What Managers Can Learn from Jazz Improvisation

November 2015
Case

Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center

By: Rohit Deshpandé

Under the leadership of artistic director Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) hosts performances and education events year-round for audiences in New York and across the United States. Despite the popularity of JALC's events, however, the U.S. audience for... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Management; Music Entertainment; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Growth and Development Strategy; Music Industry

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30 Apr 2024
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What Managers Can Learn from Jazz Improvisation

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Lessons from Jazz in the Live Online Classroom

Trumpeter Miles Davis is heralded as one the most influential jazz musicians ever, helping to drive forward major evolutions in the genre. While he has inspired scores of jazz musicians over the decades, a... View Details

19 Jan 2017
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Can Wynton Marsalis and Lincoln Center Save Jazz Music?

07 Apr 2014
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Negotiation and All That Jazz

07 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

propositions apply in negotiation, as well, according to Michael Wheeler's new book, The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World. As the title suggests, he sees negotiation as an art rather than an exact science. “By emulating what View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Jan 2017
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Can Wynton Marsalis and Lincoln Center Save Jazz Music?

Keywords: Re: Rohit Deshpande; Music

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

improvisational forms can help you shape your negotiations from the onset. Just as a piece of jazz springs from all the musicians in an ensemble, a negotiation evolves from interactions across the parties. No matter how much you prepare... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

11 Nov 2010
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The Jazz Process: Diversity Breeds Success

January 2022
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Strategic Agility: Lessons from Jazz

By: Francesca Gino and Gary Pisano

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31 Mar 2010
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Resilience is key to jazzing up your prospects

November 2015
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Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center

By: Rohit Deshpandé

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30 Oct 2023
Podcast

Mike Wheeler on the Jazz of Negotiation

In this episode of The Parlor Room, Harvard Business School Professor Mike Wheeler speaks with host Chris Linnane about how negotiation's improvisational nature makes it much like jazz. He also shares stories about a former president's photo and the acquisition of a... View Details