Innovation

A survey of over 600 business leaders from large U.S. companies suggests they’ve been reluctant to do so.

How to assess your priorities in a job search.

And what legacy companies can learn from their success.

How it could change our relationships with tech, and how companies can prepare.

It can reduce rudeness and make people feel more connected — but only under certain conditions.

This tactic can help organizations diversify sources of revenue, improve products’ appeal, and create entirely new businesses.

The best innovations reinforce the company’s purpose and create mutual value for its key constituents.

An advanced AI model considers much more than what competitors are charging.

Three practices can help.

Most go off course. To make sure yours succeed, consider these five steps.

Our minds can keep working on a task when we step away from it.

The company’s shift to Creative Cloud was an entirely new way to engage existing clients and attract new ones.

This issue's spotlight explores the intersection of people and technology in the workplace, looking specifically at robots, brain wearables, and human-like...

Too often, companies do a poor job of making innovation transparent to investors.

An analysis spanning more than 160 million U.S. jobs, 20 industries, and 800 occupations.

Traditional approaches don’t lead to breakthrough innovations.

Address some of the common assumptions that may be holding your team back.

Instead of relying on what has worked in the past, organizations need to focus on changing the way people think.

In addition to being powerful tools of persuasion and influence, emotions ground us in our humanity and give us important data about our environments.

Organizations that harness these forces will unlock productivity and creativity. Those that resist risk becoming relics of a bygone era.

The Genentech Spectrum case is about infusing flexibility in a medical unit of a global biotechnology company. The protagonist is Mauricio Silva de Lima,...

This sequel accompanies the case 1800.0. In January, 1997, the Rhode Island Department of Public Health inaugurated KIDSNET, an effort to harness the...

Kodak has been a leader in convenient and cutting edge products for many decades. However, the company has not adapted well to the market's shift toward...

More than a decade ago, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allowed...

Eastern Bank is a 200-year-old New England mutual bank with a community focus. Eastern specializes in small business lending, having made strategic investments...

In 2016, BASF's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer reflected on the co-creation innovation program started almost 18 months ago as part...

Ferran Adrià, chef at elBulli, the highest-ranked restaurant in the world for two consecutive years, faces two related decisions. First, Adrià and his...

Outlines alternative mechanisms for getting into business. Shows the means by which an experienced entrepreneur can gain control over the necessary resources...

In January, 1997, the Rhode Island Department of Public Health inaugurated KIDSNET, an effort to harness the power of information technology to ensure...

TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around a simple idea - helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing...

In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel's strong innovation track record and the country's...

Suitable for MBA and executive learners, this case series presents an engaging narrative that prompts students to discuss entrepreneurial thinking. An...

Set in September 2018, the case describes De Beers' attempt to halt the escalating disruption to its core business posed by diamonds grown in laboratories....

In February 2007, Octone Records founders James Diener, Ben Berkman, and David Boxenbaum had been highly successful with the first two bands they had...

Valve, one of the world's top video game software companies, has also become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person...

The case opens in 2017 with two of the five co-founders of MISHA telling the company's CEO Michal Portz that they believe it is time for the global venture...

Ravi Arora, Vice President (Group Innovation), Tata Sons Private Limited, and his Group Innovation team initially faced difficulty when introducing the...

Set in 2016, this case describes ING Bank's implementation of a radical new way of working using agile principles. ING's agile way of working has been...

For the past 20 years "disruption" has been a battle cry in business. Not surprisingly, many have come to see it as a near-synonym for innovation. But...

Too many applicants are screened out because they don’t fit a particular pattern.

For starters, it’s not the same as operational effectiveness.

Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors,...

When 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...

For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which...

Our ability to manage change hinges on our ability to manage ourselves, including our fears and anxieties.

While we know a lot about practices that stimulate new ideas, innovation teams often struggle to apply them. Why? Because people's biases and entrenched...

In 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...

Competing in overcrowded industries is no way to sustain high performance. The real opportunity is to create blue oceans of uncontested market space.