Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
n her new Harvard Business School course, Creative High-Impact Ventures: Entrepreneurs Who Changed the World, professor Mukti Khaire looks at ways managers can team with creative talent in six “culture industries”: publishing, fashion, art-design, film, music, and food.
Content: Article | Author: Mukti Khaire | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Management
Mukti Khaire
Technologies seldom change culture by themselves; they might enable change in significant ways, yet without new ideas that question our sense of right and wrong they matter less. …The very act of creating a market […] of these products that go against conventions and norms of what we value, and of what we think is appropriate, means that you have to change what we think … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Mukti Khaire | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Culture, IT / Technology / E-Business
Mukti Khaire
Commentary influences culture, which influences what we consume, which is influenced by what is actually out there in the market. If you can shift one of these elements you can actually create a new market.
Content: Quotation | Author: Mukti Khaire | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Innovation, Marketing / Sales, Miscellaneous
Jim March
Jim March, professor emeritus at Stanford University…pointed out that our understanding of how to manage creativity is impeded by the lack of a theory of novelty, and proposed the beginnings of one. Three conditions seemed to him to be necessary for novelty—slack, hubris, and optimism—which suggest mechanisms that organizations could employ. Slack in an organizational setting means sufficient time and resources for exploration. Increasing hubris … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Authors: Jim March, Mukti Khaire, Teresa M. Amabile | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Creativity, Innovation, Organizational Behavior