Member - Ted Buswick |
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Back in the 1970s when I was earning Masters degrees in English and Arts Administration, I was exploring the arts through its multidisciplinary relationships, especially brain research. For the past four years, it’s been a delight to return to such multidisciplinary studies through my work with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). I joined BCG in Boston in November 1992, and divide my time between work in The Strategy Institute and being our oral historian and archivist. Within the Institute, I’m director of publications, work on projects, and scout new projects and relationships. I created and manage an Institute project relating the reading of poetry to strategic thinking. Before joining BCG, I was a senior acquisitions editor for Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, director of product development for the American Management Association, and a high school teacher of English and theatre (and for brief times I sold computers, did some ghost writing, and was a consultant). If I were doing what I’m academically prepared for, I’d be running a K-12 arts program or still teaching English and theatre. If I were doing what I love most, I’d be directing theatre full time. I'm active in the growing arts-in-business movement. I’m a co-guest editor (with Harvey Seifter) for a special issue of the Journal of Business Strategy on arts-based learning in business, published in September-October 2005, and I’m on the National Advisory Committee for the Creativity Connection, a program of the Arts & Business Council of Americans for the Arts. I recently led a panel on Poetry and Business at the First New England Poetry Conference. Slate Art: The Essential Guide, a book by Judy and Ted Buswick, will be published in spring 2006. Judy and Ted are also the proud grandparents of five granddaughters. A recent article I co-authored with Alastair Creamer of Unilever in the UK and Mary Pinard of Babson College is attached. The title is “(Re)Educating for Leadership: How the Arts Can Improve Business.” The article is also available on the Web sites of the Arts & Business Council of Americans for the Arts in the U.S. and Arts and Business in the UK. Also attached is “Poetry in the Boardroom: Thinking Beyond the Facts,” published in the Journal of Business Strategy, Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2005. This is a roundtable discussion among the journal editor, Clare Morgan of Oxford University; Kirsten Lange, a BCG vice president; and me. Clare, Kirsten, and I are the BCG team working on our poetry project and this roundtable discusses our work.
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