The “Social Change through the Arts” Study Group is designed for anyone considering a career in the creative arts or cultural sectors, as well as for those interested in an introduction to the world of cultural entrepreneurship and the concepts behind creating social impact through the arts. We will examine the potential for the arts and cultural sectors to be a vehicle for social change. Over the course of five sessions, participants will become familiar with the definition and concepts behind cultural entrepreneurship and measurement methodology by analyzing the stories of leaders in the field and through studying organizational examples. The Study Group will use HBS case studies, current readings and discussion to examine how cultural entrepreneurship has and is making an impact in the world today. Global examples will be sought throughout, as well as artistic examples across different artistic disciplines.
The sessions will be led by Carla Dirlikov Canales, SICI Fellow and Professor of Cultural Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Guest practitioners and visiting scholars will be incorporated into each session.
Key Learning Outcomes:
Participants will:
Gain an understanding of cultural entrepreneurship and its relevance to society.
Learn major cases in this space and their application to social problems.
Apply analytic methodologies and identify common impediments to accurate cultural analysis.
Develop understanding of how an individual can use entrepreneurial principles to create positive social impact by engaging the power of culture.
Assess present-day social challenges and how cultural entrepreneurship could play a role in creating solutions.
Discuss why entrepreneurial failures occur and what can be done to prevent them.
Session 4 – Cultural Entrepreneurship: Different Examples
December 2nd, 2022
Guest: Rohit Despande
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, the Program for Leadership Development, the Owner/President Management Program and in other executive education offerings. He is currently co-teaching a MBA field/project-based course "Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship." He has also taught global branding, international marketing, and first year marketing in the MBA program as well as a doctoral seminar in marketing management. He is the faculty chair of the Global Colloquium for Participant-Centered Learning and has previously been coordinator for Marketing faculty recruiting, coordinator for Marketing doctoral program admissions, and faculty chair of the Strategic Marketing Management executive program at Harvard Business School. In addition to teaching marketing, he was a part of the design and delivery team that created the Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) MBA required course at HBS focusing on ethics and corporate governance and was faculty chair of the LCA in India executive program. In 2008-2009 Deshpande was recognized as the Henry B. Arthur Fellow for Business Ethics and in 2015 received the Robert F. Greenhill award for outstanding contributions to the HBS community. Most recently his case studies on "Terror at the Taj" and "Street Symphony" have won Silver Telly Awards and his co-authored paper "Consumers avoid buying from firms with higher CEO-to-worker pay ratios" won the 2021 Journal of Consumer Psychology Park Best Paper Award.
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlfuqtqDwoH90K5hvFWv4OV9Dz7yJnEOqS
Study Group Instructor
Carla Dirlikov Canales, SICI Fellow
Contact Email:
carla_dirlikovcanales@harvard.edu