Innovation
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The Innovator’s DNA
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Innovation Isn’t an Idea Problem
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The Chair of Illycaffè on Creating Virtuous Agricultural Ecosystems
Managing employeesMagazine ArticleAdvancing the sustainability goals of the author’s grandfather, his company’s founderBuilding Your Own Brand Platform
StrategySpotlightTo sidestep the big online marketplaces, consider these four approaches.Choosing the Right Platform for Your Brand
Sales & MarketingDigital ArticleTo meet customers where they are, you can't beat selling on e-commerce juggernaut Amazon--or can you? This issue's Spotlight package examines the myriad...The Metaverse Will Enhance — Not Replace — Companies’ Physical Locations
StrategyDigital ArticleHow to craft a location strategy that bridges the digital and physical worlds.3 Ways to Innovate in a Downturn
InnovationDigital ArticleRecessions present different kinds of opportunities.Coding Isn’t a Necessary Leadership Skill — But Digital Literacy Is
Digital transformationDigital ArticleHow non-technical leaders can become great collaborators.Does Elon Musk Have a Strategy?
StrategyDigital ArticleA look across Tesla, the Boring Company, SpaceX, and his other companies reveals a consistent vision, organization, and ability to mobilize resources.What Makes Innovation Partnerships Succeed
InnovationDigital ArticleCollaborations often start with high hopes — then break down. Here’s how to actually make them work.How PayPal Gets Employees Invested in Innovation
InnovationResearchAn annual tournament allows employees to wager on the best ideas.- SPONSORED CONTENT FROM TRINET
The Power of Endurance: How to Make Your Small or Medium-Sized Business More Resilient
InnovationResearchPulse Sponsored By TriNet Case Study: Would Vegan Offerings Dilute Our Brand?
Competitive strategyMagazine ArticleA meat-focused restaurant considers its options.Would Vegan Offerings Dilute Our Brand? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Strategy & ExecutionMagazine ArticleThe founders of Protein Power Plates--a company with the slogan "Let's meat!"--contemplate adding plant-based burgers to their menu. This fictional case...Would Vegan Offerings Dilute Our Brand? (HBR Case Study)
Strategy & ExecutionMagazine ArticleThe founders of Protein Power Plates--a company with the slogan "Let's meat!"--contemplate adding plant-based burgers to their menu. This fictional case...Identifying Unmet Needs in a Digital Age
Innovation & EntrepreneurshipMagazine ArticleInnovation is all about finding and filling people's unmet needs. But even innovators and organizations renowned for their scanning capabilities often...- SPONSOR CONTENT FROM EY-PARTHENON
Four Ways Digital Leaders are Accelerating Their Innovation Strategy
InnovationSponsor ContentSponsor content from EY-Parthenon. Using Fiction to Find Your Strategy
StrategyDigital ArticleImmersing yourself in possible futures allows you to be creative and open to unexpected possibilities.Welcome to Web3
Technology & OperationsDigital ArticleWeb3--a blockchain-based web that includes cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, decentralized finance, and more--promises to transform the experience of being...- SPONSORED CONTENT FROM FOSFOR BY LTI
Building a Culture of Curiosity to Drive Better Business Outcomes
Technology and analyticsResearchWhite Paper Sponsored By Fosfor by LTI Think You Have a Great Idea? Ask These 6 Questions to Gain Perspective.
Corporate strategyDigital ArticleYou might not be seeing potential hurdles.What a DAO Can — and Can’t — Do
Business and societyBig IdeaAn introduction to decentralized autonomous organizations.
The Metaverse Will Enhance — Not Replace — Companies’ Physical Locations
StrategyDigital ArticleHow to craft a location strategy that bridges the digital and physical worlds.Why Design Thinking Works
Design thinkingMagazine ArticleIt addresses the biases and behaviors that hamper innovation.3 Ways to Innovate in a Downturn
Innovation & LeadershipDigital ArticleRecessions present different kinds of opportunities.What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & ExecutionMagazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which...Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done"
Sales & MarketingMagazine ArticleFirms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors,...Stop Eliminating Perfectly Good Candidates by Asking Them the Wrong Questions
Leadership & Managing PeopleDigital ArticleToo many applicants are screened out because they don't fit a particular pattern.How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Organizational DevelopmentMagazine ArticleWhen Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each...Does Elon Musk Have a Strategy?
StrategyDigital ArticleA look across Tesla, the Boring Company, SpaceX, and his other companies reveals a consistent vision, organization, and ability to mobilize resources.The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve
Innovation & LeadershipDigital ArticleDisruption isn't the only approach.Are You a Peacetime CEO or a Wartime CEO?
Strategy & ExecutionDigital ArticleBy my reckoning, Ben Horowitz is the most thought-provoking blogger on leadership and strategy today. He's also a lot more than a blogger. As one of the...Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
Innovation & EntrepreneurshipMagazine ArticleIn the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies, called "the lean start-up," has begun to replace the old regimen. Traditionally, a venture's...A Refresher on A/B Testing
Analytics and data scienceDigital ArticleSpoiler: Many people are doing it wrong.The Truth About Blockchain
Technology & OperationsMagazine ArticleContracts, transactions, and records of them provide critical structure in our economic system, but they haven't kept up with the world's digital transformation....The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
Leadership & Managing PeopleMagazine ArticleThe author, whose biography of Steve Jobs was an instant best seller after the Apple CEO's death in October 2011, sets out here to correct what he perceives...The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures
Organizational DevelopmentMagazine ArticleInnovative cultures are generally depicted as pretty fun. They're characterized by a tolerance for failure and a willingness to experiment. They're seen...A Refresher on Statistical Significance
Technology & OperationsDigital ArticleIt's too often misused and misunderstood.Understanding China
Global BusinessSpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:...Competitive Advantage of Nations
Strategy & ExecutionMagazine ArticleA four-year, ten-nation study of the patterns of competitive success in leading countries concludes that companies achieve competitive advantage through...What Is Strategy?
StrategyHBR BestsellerFor starters, it’s not the same as operational effectiveness.Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter
Organizational DevelopmentDigital ArticleResearch shows they're more successful in three important ways.
Note: The Cloud Computing Industry
Technology & OperationsCase Study8.95View Details Globally, the cloud computing industry is projected to reach $330 billion by 2022. Many enterprise software applications now run in remote computing facilities....Barca Innovation Hub: Getting the Ball Rolling on Innovation
Innovation & EntrepreneurshipCase Study8.95View Details This case study follows the Spanish football club, FC Barcelona, as it starts to innovate and create an organizational structure for open innovation....JFDI Asia: Southeast Asia's Leading Accelerator
Leadership & Managing PeopleCase Study8.95View Details In 2010, two entrepreneurs launched Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI), Southeast Asia's first start-up accelerator in Singapore. They aimed to help...Goodbaby: How a Chinese Underdog Became a World Leader Through Open Innovation
Innovation & EntrepreneurshipCase Study8.95View Details Goodbaby is an industry-leading manufacturer of juvenile products. Under a variety of brand names, nearly a third of the strollers in the world are designed...Drybar (A): The American Beauty Salon Industry in 2008
Strategy & ExecutionCase Study8.95View Details Drybar was launched in 2010 with the tagline "No cuts. No color. Just Blowouts!" by hair stylist Alli Webb and her brother Michael Landau. Blow-drying...Gillette's Launch of Sensor, Spanish Version
Strategy & ExecutionCase Study8.95View Details The introduction of the Sensor Shaving System, one of the biggest product launches ever, forced Gillette to reevaluate its strategy in its shaving and...PERSONAL CAPITAL: DIFFERENTIATING WITHIN DIGITAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Finance & AccountingCase Study8.95View Details The case introduces a classic digital disruption process applied to a secular sector, wealth management. It explains the current challenges of this industry,...Leveraging Your Networks: Harvard ManageMentor
49.95View Details This online will teach you to create a map of a network and assess the network, identify ways to strengthen a network, initiate and develop reciprocal...Airbnb in Amsterdam (B)
Innovation & EntrepreneurshipCase Study5.00View Details In December 2014, the City of Amsterdam and Airbnb announced an MOU to promote responsible home-sharing and to simplify the payment of tourist tax for...Lenovo: Disruption of the PC Industry
Innovation & EntrepreneurshipCase Study8.95View Details In 2004 Lenovo announced the decision to buy IBM's personal computer ("PC") business. Most people thought the Chinese company would burn its cash and...The Harder We Fall: The We Company's 2019 IPO Fiasco
Strategy & ExecutionCase Study8.95View Details The case describes WeWork's by-now-infamous fall from grace, during the turbulent autumn of 2019. Governance, financial strategy, and ethics are all prominent...HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Risk (with bonus article "Managing 21st-Century Political Risk" by Condoleezza Rice and Amy Zegart)
24.95View Details Is your business playing it safe--or taking the right risks? If you read nothing else on managing risk, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds...ObEN PAI: Building a World of Personal AI Avatars
Strategy & ExecutionCase Study8.95View Details The case charts the creation and development of ObEN, a Los Angeles start-up that offers two kinds of personal artificial intelligence avatars - consumer...Enel's Innovability: Global Open Innovation and Sustainability
Innovation & EntrepreneurshipCase Study8.95View Details The case describes how the Italian multinational Enel Group, one of the largest power utilities companies in the world, embraced the transformation of...Allen-Bradley's ICCG: Repositioning for the 1990s
Organizational DevelopmentCase Study8.95View Details Allen-Bradley's Industrial Computer and Communication Group (ICCG) underwent a period of rapid transformation in the 1980s, instituting a wide array of...IBM Corp. Turnaround, Portuguese Version
Technology & OperationsCase Study8.95View Details Describes the details of IBM's dramatic corporate turnaround in the early 1990s led by CEO Louis V. Gerstner. Accounts of events are from interviews with...Blk71: Growth of a Singapore Startup Ecosystem
Innovation & EntrepreneurshipCase Study8.95View Details The case charts the growth of Blk71 and related developments in Singapore's startup scene. It explores the factors that came together to help the startup...Digital Intelligence: Harvard ManageMentor
49.95View Details No matter your role, technology continues to transform how you do your work. With access to a dizzying array of new tools, customer insights, and data,...Samsung's European Innovation Team
Leadership & Managing PeopleCase Study8.95View Details The case details the work of Samsung's Product Innovation Team in Europe, the PIT EU, established in 2010 to fuel consumer-driven innovation (as opposed...SpaceX, Economies of Scale, and a Revolution in Space Access
Global BusinessCase Study8.95View Details From the time he transformed the world of online banking, Elon Musk had established himself as a bold innovator eager to challenge the status quo in hopes...
The Metaverse Will Enhance — Not Replace — Companies’ Physical Locations
StrategyDigital ArticleHow to craft a location strategy that bridges the digital and physical worlds.Why Design Thinking Works
Design thinkingMagazine ArticleIt addresses the biases and behaviors that hamper innovation.3 Ways to Innovate in a Downturn
Innovation & LeadershipDigital ArticleRecessions present different kinds of opportunities.What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & ExecutionMagazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which...Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done"
Sales & MarketingMagazine ArticleFirms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors,...Stop Eliminating Perfectly Good Candidates by Asking Them the Wrong Questions
Leadership & Managing PeopleDigital ArticleToo many applicants are screened out because they don't fit a particular pattern.How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Organizational DevelopmentMagazine ArticleWhen Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each...Does Elon Musk Have a Strategy?
StrategyDigital ArticleA look across Tesla, the Boring Company, SpaceX, and his other companies reveals a consistent vision, organization, and ability to mobilize resources.The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve
Innovation & LeadershipDigital ArticleDisruption isn't the only approach.Are You a Peacetime CEO or a Wartime CEO?
Strategy & ExecutionDigital ArticleBy my reckoning, Ben Horowitz is the most thought-provoking blogger on leadership and strategy today. He's also a lot more than a blogger. As one of the...