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The Risky Business of Diversification
Innovation Magazine ArticleOn the basis of a sample from the top 200 of the Fortune “500” and data from the PIMS (Profit Impact of Market Strategies) project, this author gives some guidelines for established companies on what to expect from new ventures. He points out that it takes an average of 10 to 12 years before the […] -
Set Up to Fail: Economist Paul Ormerod on Strategy and Extinction
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMost organizations bend over backward to avoid failure. They shouldn't, says economist Paul Ormerod. History shows that failure and success are inherently... -
The Challenges of Becoming a Less Hierarchical Company
Organizational Development Digital ArticleLessons from one company on how to navigate the ups and downs of going flat. -
The Self-Tuning Enterprise
Experimentation Magazine ArticleHow Alibaba uses algorithmic thinking to constantly reinvent itself -
How to Push Your Team to Take Risks and Experiment
Experimentation Digital ArticleNormalize failure. No, really: Do it. -
How Managers Can Build a Culture of Experimentation
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleInnovation is often more art than science. -
Why Business Schools Need to Teach Experimentation
Communication Digital ArticleThese skills are in high demand - and should be part of the MBA curriculum. -
Why Today’s Leaders Need to Be Perpetual Learners
Business and society Digital Article“Changing yourself in the job, especially if you’re doing well, is one of the hardest things to do.” -
Life's Work: James Dyson
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner talks about what innovation means to him and why experience is overrated. -
How Employees Shaped Strategy at the New York Public Library
Strategy execution Digital ArticleAn inside look at the organization’s radical approach. -
The Positive Power of Failure
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThis post is part of HBR's special issue on failure. This post was written with Mark Sebell and Jay Terwilliger, managing partners at Creative Realities,... -
Negotiating Innovation and Control
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThe other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. "That iteration-itis post you wrote really hit home,"... -
How to Steer Clear of Groupthink
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThree research-backed strategies to keep innovative ideas flowing. -
Increase Your Return on Failure
Experimentation Magazine ArticleMistakes can be incredibly valuable—provided you systematically capture their lessons. -
Choose the Right Innovation Method at the Right Time
Innovation Digital ArticleThe four stages of innovation require different tools. -
“The Power of These Techniques Is Only Getting Stronger”
Innovation SpotlightA conversation with Pinterest’s Jeremy King -
Design Thinking
Strategy & Execution HBR BestsellerIn the past, design has most often occurred fairly far downstream in the development process and has focused on making new products aesthetically attractive... -
Can Big-Box Retailers Provide Local Health Care?
Experimentation Digital ArticleBest Buy and Walmart are betting they can. -
Six Myths of Product Development
Operations strategy Magazine ArticleThe fallacies that cause delays, undermine quality, and raise costs -
IDEO's CEO, Sandy Speicher, Asks: What Is an Office Even For Now?
Global Business Digital ArticleGive people a reason-not a regulation-to come in to the office.
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Penicillin: The Miracle Drug
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case is a study of the initial discovery of penicillin and how it came to be a mass-market product. The discovery of penicillin is fascinating first... -
Design Thinking in Action (B): From Insights to Ideas at South Western Railway
Management Case Study5.00View Details This case, a follow-up to "Design Thinking in Action (A): South Western Railway" (UVA-S-0377), finds South Western Railway (SWR) and its design-consultancy... -
AmazonFresh: Rekindling the Online Grocery Market
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details More than a decade after the high-profile failures of several early online grocers, grocery remains the largest single U.S. retail category and one of... -
Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Describes Apple's approach to innovation, management, and design thinking. For several years, Apple has been ranked as the most innovative company in... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Technology and Strategy Collection (7 Books)
150.00View Details Are analytics and technology a strategic part of your business? Artificial intelligence, platforms, algorithms, machine learning. Most business leaders... -
Vineet Nayar and Sampark Foundation: Frugal Innovation at Scale (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In 2005, Vineet Nayar, the former CEO and Vice Chairman of HCL Technologies, and his wife, Anupama Nayar, committed $100 million of their personal wealth... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Entrepreneurship and Startups (Paperback + Ebook)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Special Offer34.95View Details The best entrepreneurs balance brilliant business ideas with a rigorous commitment to serving their customers' needs. If you read nothing else on entrepreneurship... -
Mastercard Labs (A) (Abridged)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details When Ajaypal (Ajay) Banga became the CEO of Mastercard in 2010, he shifted the company's competitive focus from card networks to cash itself. Mastercard's... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Entrepreneurship and Startups (featuring Bonus Article "Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything" by Steve Blank)
24.95View Details The best entrepreneurs balance brilliant business ideas with a rigorous commitment to serving their customers' needs. If you read nothing else on entrepreneurship... -
Behavioural Insights Team (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The Behavioural Insights Team case introduces students to the concept of choice architecture and the value of experimental methods (sometimes called A/B... -
Maria's Ristorante
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In an effort to save his business, Paul Marciano, the owner of Italian family restaurant Maria's Ristorante, runs a number of experiments focused on improving... -
Hubble Contact Lenses: Data Driven Direct-to-Consumer Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details As its Series A extension round approaches, the founders of Hubble, a subscription-based, social-media fueled, direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand of contact... -
Innovation Magic
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Why do certain product and service experiences seem like magic, making them all but destined for success, while other items languish on store shelves?... -
Balanced Snacking
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The Balanced Snacking case follows the entrepreneurial journeys of Gautam Gupta and Ken Chen. Gupta and Chen met as Babson undergraduates. The goal of... -
"Kickboxing" at Adobe Systems
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The world leader in software for creating and editing media identifies some gaps in its ability to create new kinds of software and appeal to emerging... -
Digital Disruption at the Vikatan Group: A Case of Adaptation and Strategic Persistence
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case traces the digital journey of the Vikatan Group, a Tamil media conglomerate in India. The case can be used to build a process-based framework... -
A Scientific Approach to Creating a New Business: MiMoto
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case describes the scientific approach taken by the founders of Mimoto - an electric scooter-sharing company offering dockless, keyless scooters available... -
Design Thinking in Action (C): Experimentation in Action at South Western Railway
Management Case Study5.00View Details This third case in the series that begins with "Design Thinking in Action (A): South Western Railway" (UVA-S-0377) describes two waves of experimentation... -
Bus Uncle Chatbot - Creating a Successful Digital Business (C)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Case Supplement for Case SMU948 -
Entrepreneurship Reading: Leading Breakthrough Innovation in Established Companies
40.00View Details In this Essential Reading, the authors explain what breakthrough innovation is; why it's important for large, established companies to excel at this type...
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The Risky Business of Diversification
Innovation Magazine ArticleOn the basis of a sample from the top 200 of the Fortune “500” and data from the PIMS (Profit Impact of Market Strategies) project, this author gives some guidelines for established companies on what to expect from new ventures. He points out that it takes an average of 10 to 12 years before the […] -
What Innovative Companies Can Learn from Keurig's Highs and Lows
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleExperiment, but be thoughtful. -
Hubble Contact Lenses: Data Driven Direct-to-Consumer Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details As its Series A extension round approaches, the founders of Hubble, a subscription-based, social-media fueled, direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand of contact... -
How to Recover from Failure (HBR Special Issue)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine Issue19.95View Details Harvard Business Review Special Issues are timely, single-theme collections of HBR articles written by some of the world's leading management scholars... -
How to Push Your Team to Take Risks and Experiment
Experimentation Digital ArticleNormalize failure. No, really: Do it. -
Why Today’s Leaders Need to Be Perpetual Learners
Business and society Digital Article“Changing yourself in the job, especially if you’re doing well, is one of the hardest things to do.” -
Innovation's Holy Grail
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAffordability and sustainability, not premium pricing and abundance, are the new tenets of effective innovation. Westerners are struggling with the shift... -
New Business Models in Emerging Markets
Disruptive innovation Magazine ArticleTargeting the middle market can be lucrative—but companies won’t be able to deliver unless they start from scratch. -
How Employees Shaped Strategy at the New York Public Library
Strategy execution Digital ArticleAn inside look at the organization’s radical approach.