Boston Symphony crisis: Board member leaps in

Boston Symphony crisis: Board member leaps in

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norman lebrecht

December 16, 2022

A board member of the Boston Symphony will succeed Gail Samuel in two weeks’ time as interim CEO.

“Jeff Dunn is a much-admired executive, recognized across industries for an innate ability to lead complex organizations with sound judgment and innovative ideas,” said Barbara Hostetter, Chair, Board of Trustees, Boston Symphony Orchestra. “We especially hold immense respect for Jeff’s experience in guiding organizations in times of change and are grateful to have him help us continue our forward momentum.”

Before his retirement in 2021, Jeffrey D. Dunn served as Executive Chairman, President & CEO of Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization that produces Sesame Street, the most awarded and influential show in the history of television. Under Dunn’s leadership, Sesame Workshop ended eight years of operating losses, won 38 Emmy awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, a Kennedy Center Honors award, and was named multiple times to Fast Company’s most innovative companies list.

It looks like chaos in tea-party town.

No present employee is qualified to step up to the plate and no outstanding external candidate is presently available. Nor will anyone of quality take the job until they know the true reason for Samuel’s abrupt departure.

 

Comments

  • Mem says:

    As shocking as Bert walking out on Ernie.

  • Barry Guerrero says:

    It’s usually referred to as ‘bean town’. I’ve never heard anyone call it ‘tea-party town’. I’m sorry if their throwing East India Trading Co. tea into the harbor was that traumatic for you. Taxation without representation was supposed to have been the real culprit, from our angle.

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