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Lessons on Customer Engagement from Fan Controlled Football
Innovation Digital ArticleThe esports venture uses blockchain to let fans call the shots in real time. -
Innovating in Uncertain Times: Lessons from 2022
Technology & Operations Digital ArticlePlus strategies for driving transformative growth in 2023. -
Necessity, not Scarcity, is the Mother of Invention
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleBravo for companies that are starting to focus on innovation again! It's about time. But even with this renewed attention to innovation, some managers... -
Connect Inventors with the Right Problems
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Are You an Inventor or an Entrepreneur?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleBeing an entrepreneur has more to do with a state of mind than a state of employment. And when you think of being an entrepreneur, it doesn’t just mean starting a company — I’ve started over half a dozen successful companies but have also brought my experience to established companies. Right now, I am the […] -
Firms Led by CEOs from Former U.S. Frontier Areas Are Awarded More Patents
Innovation & Leadership Magazine ArticleGeorge Mason University's Lei Gao and his co-researchers-Macquarie University's Jianlei Han, Zheyao Pan, and Huixuan Zhang-collected birthplace data on... -
Recession: The Mother of Invention?
Inventions Digital ArticleWith soaring oil and food prices, falling home values, and the credit crunch beginning to take their toll on the U.S. economy, it’s a terrible time to try to expand businesses or innovate, right? Not necessarily. By some accounts, the worst of economic times—the Great Depression—was actually a rich period of management invention. I discovered […] -
How to Protect Your Company’s Inventions
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Don't Let Them Steal Your Inventions
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA new U.S. patent regime gives rights to the "first inventor to file." You'd better make sure it's you. -
A Network of Invention
Collaboration and teams Magazine ArticleCreativity in a community of inventors hinges on a few well-placed players. -
How Biometrics Are Transforming the Customer Experience
Innovation Digital ArticleAs technology like facial recognition becomes more pervasive, companies need to prioritize privacy and security. -
Advertisers Must Be Inventors
Marketing Digital ArticleModern marketing success requires more than great commercials. -
Raytheon CEO Gregory Hayes: How Ukraine Has Highlighted Gaps in US Defense Technologies
Business and society Digital ArticleHow does a company that gets two million hack attempts each week think about security? -
It’s Time for the U.S. to Tackle Patent Trolls
Government policy and regulation Digital ArticleA single rule change would be a good start. -
Filing for a Patent Versus Keeping Your Invention a Trade Secret
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Research: Arab Inventors Make the U.S. More Innovative
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Research: Companies Led by Inventors Produce Better Innovations
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Game-Changing Inventions
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Who Owns Hackathon Inventions?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleDon't let valuable IP slip through your fingers.
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Verve Therapeutics: Taking DNA Editing to Heart
Management Case Study11.95View Details Verve Therapeutics, a public biotech company based in Boston, created a novel approach to addressing cardiovascular disease (CVD) - a leading cause of... -
Le Frigorifique: Charles Tellier and the Creation of the Cold Chain (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details This case set describes the gale of creative destruction that came with the rise of refrigeration and the creation of a globalized food supply chain,... -
Emerging Nokia?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details By late 2009, Nokia was grappling with the decision of whether to recover its leading position in the high-profit developed markets, where they were losing... -
Apple Stores
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details This case reveals the genesis of the Apple Stores, a revolutionary retail concept launched by Ron Johnson, Apple Computer's senior vice president of retail.... -
Byte
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In January 2021, Byte co-founders Scott Cohen and Blake Johnson reflected on how far their Los Angeles-based direct-to-consumer (DTC) orthodontics company... -
AEInnova: From Science to Business
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details "Scientists and technologists encounter and develop great ideas, but usually have difficulties finding a way to take them to the market. Once they decide... -
TiVo
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details TiVo is a digital video recorder that allows viewers to watch what they want, when they want to watch it. Fourteen months into the launch, sales are very... -
Somatus: Value-Based Kidney Care (B)
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Extend Fertility: Conceiving the Market for Egg Preservation (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In April 2003, entrepreneur and MBA student Christy Jones was planning a new venture to help women preserve their fertility. Her company, Extend Fertility,... -
Toraya
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Mitsuharu Kurokawa was the 18th generation leader of a family firm that produced and sold premium Japanese sweets, Toraya Confectionery Co., Ltd. He had... -
IBM: Design Thinking
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the 2012-2020 effort at IBM to implement design thinking throughout the company and hire thousands of designers to serve on every... -
Telepass: From Tolling to Mobility Platform (Abridged)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Telepass, until very recently the sole processor of electronic toll payments on Italy's highways, has ambitions beyond tolling. Since the mid-2010s, the... -
John D. Rockefeller and the Creation of Standard Oil
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Reconstructs the entrepreneurial journey of John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil and one of the most famous business figures in history. Traces... -
Regtech at HSBC
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Mark Cooke, Global Head of Operational Risk, needed to decide between a traditional regulatory control system and a new regtech system to manage non-financial... -
ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth,... -
John Deere Component Works (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The division has recognized the inadequacies of its existing, traditional cost system for estimating product costs. Describes the innovative activity-based... -
JUUL and the Vaping Revolution: A 2022 Update
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This case provides a brief update (2019-2022) on the rise and fall of JUUL Labs, the maker of the popular JUUL e-cigarette. -
The SMA Foundation: Steering Therapeutic Research and Development in a Rare Disease
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case explores incentives for rare disease drug development by chronicling the role of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Foundation in forming strategic... -
Martine Rothblatt and United Therapeutics: A Series of Implausible Dreams
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 1990, satellite expert and Sirius XM founder Martine Rothblatt was determined to save the life of her seven-year-old daughter, Jenesis, who was diagnosed... -
Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc. (B): Valor Glass and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details The (B) case offers a detailed account of Wendell Weeks's innovation strategy at Corning, and how his approach played a critical role in the COVID-19...
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Platform Thinking Mindset
Management Digital ArticleDigital platforms have completely reshaped everyday life in the modern world; nevertheless, innovation leaders do not always understand the importance... -
Verve Therapeutics: Taking DNA Editing to Heart
Management Case Study11.95View Details Verve Therapeutics, a public biotech company based in Boston, created a novel approach to addressing cardiovascular disease (CVD) - a leading cause of... -
A World That Changed... and the Need for New Glasses
Management Digital ArticleDigital platforms have completely reshaped everyday life in the modern world; nevertheless, innovation leaders do not always understand the importance... -
Le Frigorifique: Charles Tellier and the Creation of the Cold Chain (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details This case set describes the gale of creative destruction that came with the rise of refrigeration and the creation of a globalized food supply chain,... -
Emerging Nokia?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details By late 2009, Nokia was grappling with the decision of whether to recover its leading position in the high-profit developed markets, where they were losing... -
Lessons on Customer Engagement from Fan Controlled Football
Innovation Digital ArticleThe esports venture uses blockchain to let fans call the shots in real time. -
Innovating in Uncertain Times: Lessons from 2022
Technology & Operations Digital ArticlePlus strategies for driving transformative growth in 2023. -
Apple Stores
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details This case reveals the genesis of the Apple Stores, a revolutionary retail concept launched by Ron Johnson, Apple Computer's senior vice president of retail.... -
Byte
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In January 2021, Byte co-founders Scott Cohen and Blake Johnson reflected on how far their Los Angeles-based direct-to-consumer (DTC) orthodontics company... -
Necessity, not Scarcity, is the Mother of Invention
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleBravo for companies that are starting to focus on innovation again! It's about time. But even with this renewed attention to innovation, some managers...