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Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they're in compliance with the law. -
Why Design Thinking Works
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhile we know a lot about practices that stimulate new ideas, innovation teams often struggle to apply them. Why? Because people's biases and entrenched... -
The Discipline of Innovation
Creativity Magazine ArticleIn business, innovation rarely springs from a flash of inspiration. It arises from a cold-eyed analysis of seven kinds of opportunities. -
Creativity and the Role of the Leader
Creativity Magazine ArticleYour organization could use a bigger dose of creativity. Here’s what to do about it. -
The Case for Reading Fiction
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's an easy way to build emotional intelligence. -
The Business Case for Curiosity
Creativity SpotlightResearch shows that it leads to higher-performing, more-adaptable firms. -
5 Ways to Boost Creativity on Your Team
Creativity Digital ArticleThe way we work today often stifles creativity. But it doesn’t have to. -
Creativity in Advertising: When It Works and When It Doesn’t
Advertising Magazine ArticleAsk a professional in the business what the key to success is in advertising, and you’ll most likely get an answer that echoes the mantra of Stephan Vogel, Ogilvy & Mather Germany’s chief creative officer: “Nothing is more efficient than creative advertising. Creative advertising is more memorable, longer lasting, works with less media spending, and […] -
Better Brainstorming
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleGreat innovators have long known that the secret to unlocking a better answer is to ask a better question. Applying that insight to brainstorming exercises... -
Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus
Leadership & Managing People Digital Article"Unfocus" enhances resilience, creativity, and decision making. -
Perfect Paradox of Star Brands: An Interview with Bernard Arnault of LVMH
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFew companies can boast a collection of star brands like LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the French powerhouse that owns the likes of Dior, Dom Perignon,... -
Managing Your Innovation Portfolio
Innovation Magazine ArticlePeople throughout your organization are energetically pursuing the new. But does all that activity add up to a strategy? -
How to Pitch a Brilliant Idea
Communication Magazine ArticleComing up with creative ideas is easy; selling them to strangers is hard. Entrepreneurs, sales executives, and marketing managers often go to great lengths... -
The Innovator's DNA
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine Article"How do I find innovative people for my organization? And how can I become more innovative myself?" These are questions that stump most senior executives,... -
Life’s Work: An Interview with Michael Ovitz
Collaboration and teams Magazine ArticleThe Hollywood superagent turned Silicon Valley adviser on winning over clients and building creative teams -
What Doesn’t Motivate Creativity Can Kill It
Innovation Digital ArticleManagement is widely viewed as a foe of innovation. The thinking goes that too much management strangles innovation (just let a thousand flowers bloom!). But we have found a much more nuanced picture. You really can manage for innovation, but it starts by knowing what drives creativity in the people who generate and develop the […] -
Create Better, Collaborate Better
Creativity Digital ArticleThis post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work. Much has been written about getting out of the box, but perhaps the most frustrating — and useful — guidance I have received in this came from a Zen teacher who pointed out that “the instructions for getting out of the box are […] -
Strategy Needs Creativity
Strategy Magazine ArticleAn analytic framework alone won’t reinvent your business. -
How to Unlock Your Team’s Creativity
Leading teams Digital ArticleEncourage a growth mindset. -
Lessons from the Egg Master
Creativity Magazine ArticleSuccessful brands are a paradox: always consistent yet always mutable. One of the best models for that elusive balance is the artisan brand. Artisan brands possess a signature look and feel that seems to be the creation of an individual sensibility yet also permits variations on form and execution within a set of consistent design […]
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Creativity under the Gun at Litmus Corporation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Teaches students to diagnose the circumstances under which time pressure can facilitate or hinder creativity. A team's creative "genius", Miles Grady,... -
Jaga: Managing Creativity and Open Innovation (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2007, the owner and director of marketing and research and development at Jaga was preparing for a meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss... -
The Medici Effect, With a New Preface and Discussion Guide: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation
28.00View Details Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory... -
Seven Keys to Creativity: Lessons From Art
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This study aims to analyze creativity and propose models for creating points of contact between artistic creativity and business creativity. The idea... -
Cypress Sharpridge: Raising Capital in a Time of Crisis
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Cypress Sharpridge, a REIT investing in agency securities, launched its IPO just before the collapse of the subprime mortgage market. The IPO failed.... -
Architects Collaborative, Inc., Spanish Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Although internationally recognized for quality design, the collaborative's billings have been on a plateau for four years and they are losing jobs to... -
Time Life, Inc. (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Time Life has historically been a continuity book publisher, selling 20-volume book series via direct mail. Now, however, music and video/TV divisions... -
Marquee: Reinventing the Business of Nightlife
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In January 2013, nightlife impresarios Jason Strauss and Noah Tepperberg are celebrating the re-opening of their famed New York City-based nightclub Marquee.... -
Both/And Thinking Toolkit: How to Transform Challenges into Opportunities
195.00View Details In their book "Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems," Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis show the importance of... -
Managing Your Career (HBR Working Parents Series)
24.95View Details Have the career you want--without putting your family last. Setting and achieving professional goals are complicated when you're managing a career and... -
The Creative Industries: Managing Products and Product Portfolios, Module Note
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This module note examines the way in which professional content producers in the creative industries approach product and product portfolio management,... -
Critical Mass: The IT Creativity Challenge
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Critical Mass was a highly successful Internet marketing services firm with a blue chip client list. The rapidly changing Internet environment demanded... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking (with featured article "Design Thinking" By Tim Brown)
24.95View Details Use design thinking for competitive advantage. If you read nothing else on design thinking, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard... -
Teaming at Disney Animation, Japanese Version
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Jonathan Geibel, Director of Systems at Walt Disney Animation Studios (hereafter referred to as Disney Animation), walked through the workspace occupied... -
The Imagination Machine: How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Company's Future
35.00View Details A guide for mining the imagination to find powerful new ways to succeed. We need imagination now more than ever--to find new opportunities, rethink our... -
Innovative Teams (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
12.95View Details Don't leave creativity up to the "creatives" in your organization. Fostering creativity within your team can help your organization solve problems, create... -
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics, Japanese Version
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Describes the reorganization of the drug discovery organization at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and focuses on the decisions to: (1) centralize decision-making... -
The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed
35.00View Details Imagine if the multinational hotel groups had founded Airbnb, or the big auto companies had launched Uber and Tesla, or Blockbuster had created Netflix.... -
Local Motors: Designed by the Crowd, Built by the Customer
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In the wake of the meltdown among US auto manufacturers in 2009, Jay Rogers - CEO of Local Motors - has a new approach for the automotive industry: Decide... -
Disney's "The Lion King" (A): The $2 Billion Movie
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details In 1994, just 10 years after its filmed entertainment division lost $33 million, Disney's animated creation "The Lion King" became the second highest...
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Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they're in compliance with the law. -
Why Design Thinking Works
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhile we know a lot about practices that stimulate new ideas, innovation teams often struggle to apply them. Why? Because people's biases and entrenched... -
The Discipline of Innovation
Creativity Magazine ArticleIn business, innovation rarely springs from a flash of inspiration. It arises from a cold-eyed analysis of seven kinds of opportunities. -
Creativity and the Role of the Leader
Creativity Magazine ArticleYour organization could use a bigger dose of creativity. Here’s what to do about it. -
The Case for Reading Fiction
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's an easy way to build emotional intelligence. -
The Business Case for Curiosity
Creativity SpotlightResearch shows that it leads to higher-performing, more-adaptable firms. -
5 Ways to Boost Creativity on Your Team
Creativity Digital ArticleThe way we work today often stifles creativity. But it doesn’t have to. -
Creativity in Advertising: When It Works and When It Doesn’t
Advertising Magazine ArticleAsk a professional in the business what the key to success is in advertising, and you’ll most likely get an answer that echoes the mantra of Stephan Vogel, Ogilvy & Mather Germany’s chief creative officer: “Nothing is more efficient than creative advertising. Creative advertising is more memorable, longer lasting, works with less media spending, and […] -
Better Brainstorming
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleGreat innovators have long known that the secret to unlocking a better answer is to ask a better question. Applying that insight to brainstorming exercises... -
Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus
Leadership & Managing People Digital Article"Unfocus" enhances resilience, creativity, and decision making.