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Wynton Marsalis, Entrepreneur
Jazz and classical trumpet player, composer, bandleader, historian, raconteur, and nine-time Grammy winner Wynton Marsalis appeared at the Harvard Innovation Lab in February, ably backed by a quartet of HBS professors. In a panel discussion titled “Artist as Entrepreneur,” Marsalis soloed with erudition and humor in discussing famous entrepreneurs in music, from Richard Wagner to Duke Ellington, and his own entrepreneurial experiences as an aspiring musician and currently as artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Jazz, Marsalis said, is “harmony through conflict,” adding that he’s a big fan of order and form, too. “Musicians have many tie-ins to business, to metrics, to plans,” he noted. “We’re very scrupulously structured.” Marsalis was accompanied by his longtime manager, Edward Arrendell (MBA 1980).
Photo by Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer
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