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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. This led to the HR VP brokering a meeting with the CEO and an invitation to make a formal presentation to the Executive Committee. If you say we should, let’s do it.

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What Design Thinking Is Doing for the San Francisco Opera

Harvard Business Review

Madhav was in the MSx program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a program for mid-career managers. For instance, the marketing person was on the programming team, and the woman who would be responsible for programming at the new SFO venue joined the experience team. The SFO project began in January 2015.