Boss Class | Business

Handling a crisis: Keep calm and clarion

What can jazz teach managers about improvising through disaster?

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For nearly two decades, a pair of business professors at Columbia have looked to Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie for management tips. We compare their advice with real-world case studies at Uber, the Lime bike-rental company and a firm caught up in Russia’s war on Ukraine.

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