PREPARATION AND PERCEPTION IN THE ARTFUL EVENT

Robert D. Austin joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 1997. 

He teaches MBA courses in Technology and Operations Management, the information technology (IT) module of an executive program for owner/ managers, and chairs the school's program for information technology executives He is developing a new MBA course called “Managing in the Creative Economy” which will debut in the spring of 2007.

Professor Austin's research focuses on management of knowledge intensive activities. He has written on these subjects in five books, The Broadband Explosion: Leading Thinkers on the Promise of a Truly Interactive World, (co-edited with Stephen P. Bradley, Harvard Business School Press, 2005), Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work (co-authored with Lee Devin), Corporate Information Strategy and Management, Creating Business Advantage in the Information Age (both co-authored with Lynda M. Applegate and F. Warren McFarlan), and Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations. He is the author of more than 60 business articles and cases published in both academic and practice oriented journals such as Harvard Business School Review, Management Science, and Information Systems Research. He is a consultant to many international companies, and a frequent speaker on subjects of business innovation, arts and business, and information technology management. In 2005-2006, he is a guest professor at the Center for Arts and Leadership, Copenhagen Business School.

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Abigail Adams is Artistic Director of the People’s Light & Theatre Company. During her 28-year association with the Theatre, she has directed more than 50 plays. Recent productions include Fabulation, The Member of the Wedding, The Miser, String of Pearls, Arthur’s Stone, Merlin’s Fire, In the Blood, and The Little Foxes. Ms. Adams served for ten years on the faculty at Swarthmore College and has also taught at New York University, Bryn Mawr College, Carnegie Mellon University and the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario. Other directing assignments include readings and workshops of plays by Russell Davis for the Public Theatre in New York, Playwright’s Theatre of New Jersey, Circle Rep, and New York Stage and Film. She has served as a panelist and site reporter for the National Endowment for the Arts, is currently on the board of the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation, and holds an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Ursinus College.

Henrik Hartmann became Theatre Manager at The Betty Nansen Theatre in 1992. He shares the position with director Peter Langdal, and together they have established The Betty Nansen Theatre as one of the most acknowledged theatres in Denmark. Hartman also co-founded the Edison Stage and the Theatre Company Hamlet. As General Manager at the Woyzeck-tour in 2002, he received international acknowledgment.

Hartmann is also a member of several boards and committees including the contact committee at the Danish National School of Theatre and the Danish Theaters Association, and he is chair at the Copenhagen Theatre Co-ordinations Society.

Betty Nansen Teatret

The theatre has a long history, and was re-named in 1917 for the actress and primadonna Betty Nansen, who returned from a failed attempt at fame in the United States. As manager, director, and actress, Betty Nansen began carrying out her dreams of a new, artistic theatre in Frederiksberg. The theatre repertoire ranges between ingenious and sometimes radical reinterpretations of classics; music shows with hip rock- and pop singers on the stage; and modern Scandinavian dramas. The current season has been devoted to plays by Henrik Ibsen.

Over the years The Betty Nansen Theatre has earned an international reputation, particularly with the production of "Woyzeck" with Songs and Music by Tom Waits, directed by contemporary theatre legend Robert Wilson ( U.S.A.). Woyzeck was originally produced at The Betty Nansen Theatre November 19, 2000. The Theatre then toured the production all over the world.

The Edison Stage is the annex of the Betty Nansen Theatre. It is a playground of genres and experiments, and the flexible facilities of the theatre hall make it possible to move the perspective of the audience. This corresponds with the visions of the managers who want to create a contemporary theatrical space in which there is only a short distance between thought and action.

C:NTACT: To read about C:ntact, the new Department of The Betty Nansen Theatre, based at the annexed stage Edision, read the pdf-file on the bottom of the page.

Mark Shimada has spent over 25 years helping individuals, organizations, and teams to envision and actualize compelling new possibilities that stir the heart. He has presented and performed at events ranging from the Association for Strategic Planning, Asian American Journalists  Association, Academy of Management's New Technologies Exposition, The ArtSpace7 Digital Media Festival, Seattle's Association Interactive Graphic Arts (AIGA) Experience Design Conference, Seattle University's Masters Degree Cohort in Organizational Renewal, Claremont College Leadership Forum, and at various local and national Training Events and Conferences.

After completing his Masters Degree in Instructional and Performance Technology, Mark joined the Boeing Company in 1989 to lead the evaluation process for over 500 courses delivered and managed by the internal training organization. In addition, he was a Performance Consultant and Project Manager where he implemented the training program for  Boeing's primary engineering and manufacturing design software. After moving to Washington, DC he led the reengineering of the U.S. Treasury Department's workflow processes, was the Managing Director for a systems integration firm located in Arlington, VA, and consulted for the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, Mark is a Boeing Program Manager for the design, development, and implementation of The Peer to Peer Learning Network for first level managers. In addition, he offers a development workshop for Boeing employees that uses his one-man show, "One Arrow, One Heart." He contributes to the Boeing Leadership Center, working with digital storytelling, zen calligraphy, theater, and visual art facilitation.

Kristian T. Hansen, PhD, is currently Project Vice President at Novo Nordisk A/S. Kristian oversees and manages the development of the entire medical device portfolio at Novo Nordisk. His main focus involves ensuring that unique device features are explored in clinical studies in order to provide extensive support for the product claims. As a comany with both launched and pipeline diabetes and biopharmaceutical products requiring advanced drug delivery systems, it is strategically important to show the full benefit and convenience of treatment offerings. Additionally, Kristian directs the commercial and technical risk assessment which mitigates the uncertainty associated with medical device development projects. Before taking on his current role in 2001, he worked for 15 years in various research and management positions within Novo Nordisk Research and Development.