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How Midsize Companies Can Make the Most of Disruption
Organizational change Digital ArticleNew research shows three ways these smaller companies can drive change rather than react to it. -
Ethics in the Age of AI
Management Digital ArticleThe next generations of generative AI, quantum computing, and other emerging technologies don't just pose a challenge for organizational operations and... -
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
How Generative AI Could Disrupt Creative Work
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleThree scenarios — and how to navigate them. -
How Biometrics Are Transforming the Customer Experience
Innovation Digital ArticleAs technology like facial recognition becomes more pervasive, companies need to prioritize privacy and security. -
Lessons on Customer Engagement from Fan Controlled Football
Innovation Digital ArticleThe esports venture uses blockchain to let fans call the shots in real time. -
Genpact CEO Tiger Tyagarajan: AI Is Getting Good, But Still Can’t Replace Human Curiosity
Business and society Digital ArticleIf developed the right way, technology will augment–not replace–human labor. -
Innovating in Uncertain Times: Lessons from 2022
AI and machine learning Digital ArticlePlus strategies for driving transformative growth in 2023. -
ChatGPT and How AI Disrupts Industries
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleA look back at the taxi business illustrates what OpenAI’s newest model might mean for creative work. -
What Makes Innovation Partnerships Succeed
Innovation Digital ArticleCollaborations often start with high hopes — then break down. Here’s how to actually make them work. -
Welcome to Web3
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleWeb3--a blockchain-based web that includes cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, decentralized finance, and more--promises to transform the experience of being... -
Making Quantum Computing a Reality
Digital transformation Digital ArticleHow Infosys is developing real-world applications of the technology. -
3 Exercises to Boost Your Team’s Creativity
Creativity Digital ArticleMove beyond brainstorming. -
How to Steer Clear of Groupthink
Collaboration and teams Digital ArticleThree research-backed strategies to keep innovative ideas flowing. -
Robots Need Us More Than We Need Them
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleResearch shows that companies that are investing heavily in digital technologies to harness the power of human-machine collaboration are dramatically... -
LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman on Innovating for an Uncertain Future
Business and society Digital ArticleLeaders prove themselves on the hard decisions–not the easy ones. -
How Incumbents Survive and Thrive
Disruptive innovation SpotlightResearch on the world’s biggest companies shows that digital disruption is less destructive than you might think. -
Persuade Your Company to Change Before It’s Too Late
Disruptive innovation SpotlightHow to make the case when the evidence isn’t yet clear -
Adapting to Digital Disruption
Disruptive innovation Magazine ArticleAs Big Tech grows ever more powerful and the number of unicorn start-ups keeps rising, it may seem that old-economy companies are doomed to suffer a slow demise. But the facts show otherwise. In this issue’s Spotlight package, HBR looks at how established firms are adjusting to the new digital landscape. -
The Strategic Advantage of Incumbency
Disruptive innovation SpotlightHow to unleash the power of complexity, trust, and commitment
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What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
How Generative AI Could Disrupt Creative Work
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleThree scenarios — and how to navigate them. -
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
Strategy for Start-ups
Competitive strategy SpotlightFirst answer two questions; then explore four paths. -
How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleInformation technology is revolutionizing products, from appliances to cars to mining equipment. Products once composed solely of mechanical and electrical... -
ChatGPT and How AI Disrupts Industries
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleA look back at the taxi business illustrates what OpenAI's newest model might mean for creative work. -
Kodak's Downfall Wasn't About Technology
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
McKinsey’s Three Horizons Model Defined Innovation for Years. Here’s Why It No Longer Applies.
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleIt assumes that breakthrough innovations will take years to develop. -
The Ambidextrous Organization
Innovation Magazine ArticleEstablished companies can develop radical innovations and protect their traditional businesses. The secret? Create organizationally distinct units that are tightly integrated at the senior executive level. -
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,... -
The Big Idea: The New M&A Playbook
Disruptive innovation Magazine ArticleWhy you should pay top dollar for a “killer deal”—and other new rules for making acquisitions -
Four Suggestions as You Face Your Industry's Steamroller
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleWhat do you do in the face of knowable threats? -
The Five Stages of Disruption Denial
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleWe tend to forget our initial reactions to new technology. We shouldn’t. -
Apple Pay Is Just a Big Giveaway to Credit Card Companies
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleThere's nothing revolutionary about being a middleman. -
Nintendo Wii’s Growing Market of “Nonconsumers”
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleIn May, Nintendo will seek to expand its successful strategy of expanding the video game market by launching the U.S. version of “Wii Fit.” All signs suggest that Nintendo’s strategy of “competing against nonconsumption” will continue to thrive. Nintendo’s strategy has long been one of our favorites. While Microsoft (who makes the Xbox 360) and […] -
Cuil’s Dangerous Strategy
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleAn article in the Wall Street Journal today described how a startup company called Cuil Inc. has assembled a “dream team” of engineers to try to dethrone Google Inc. Odds are that Cuil (pronounced “cool”) ends up like the seemingly unbeatable team of NBA players that finished sixth in the 2002 FIBA world championships. Cuil’s […] -
Research: Which Firms Are Allowed to Be Disruptors?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleNewcomers may have the will, but industry insiders have the way. -
Who’s Disrupting the Gaming Industry?
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleA recent edition of Fortune describes innovations in computer gaming that are likely to be as disruptive to incumbent players like Electronic Arts and Activision as the move toward cloud computing is to providers of shrink-wrapped software. While the incumbents have been engaged in the innovation equivalent of an arms race – ever more powerful […] -
A Manifesto for Leaders: Time to Summon Your “Animal Spirits”
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleWarning: This is my first post of 2009, so please excuse the length. You know things are dire when one of the country’s most influential columnists devotes several articles (and a new book) to parallels between what’s happening now and the Great Depression. Here’s Nobel laureate Paul Krugman in his latest New York Times column: […]
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Tools from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth"
69.95View Details There's a pervasive belief that innovation is random and unpredictable. The Innovator's Guide to Growth, however, argues that there are patterns that... -
MOVE Guides (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Having decided to go where her customers wanted to take her, CEO Brynne Kennedy had led MOVE Guides into the managed-moves market segment, in addition... -
Mercury Rising: Knight Ridder's Digital Venture
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Captures the efforts of newspaper publisher Knight Ridder to create a digital venture. Knight Ridder proves to be a pioneer in digital publishing, launching... -
Syngenta and Thought for Food: A Food-Security Innovation Platform
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2015, the corporate affairs executive of the leading Swiss agribusiness company Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Syngenta) and founder of the next-generation... -
Australia-Japan Cable: Structuring the Project Company, Japanese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In late September 1999, representatives from Telstri, Japan Telecom, and Teleglobe met to discuss the structure of the Australia-Japan Cable (AJC) project,... -
Wit Capital: Evolution of the Online Investment Bank
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Wit Capital brings democracy to the IPO process via the World Wide Web. This case encourages debate about the role service will play in this technology-intermediated... -
Blockchain: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
22.95View Details Can blockchain solve your biggest business problem? While the world is transfixed by bitcoin mania, your competitors are tuning out the noise and making... -
Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The co-founders (Black HBS alumnae) of an e-commerce beauty startup explore the unmet needs within the beauty industry. This case study examines the entrepreneurial... -
Riverview Law: Applying Business Sense to the Legal Market
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Riverview Law, run like a business rather than a traditional law firm, wants to expand its unconventional concept from the UK to the US. The firm's approach... -
The Rise of Mercado Libre
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Marcos Galperin, a graduate of Stanford Graduate School of Business, founded Mercado Libre in 1999 with a vision to build an e-commerce company focused... -
IBM Technology Group
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Explores two main issues: how the IBM Technology Group was able to build a robust, scalable, and functional IT platform using packaged enterprise resource... -
Geely Buys LTI
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Chinese automobile manufacturer Geely Automotive (Geely) bought the manufacturer of the iconic London taxi cab from its bankrupt British parent company.... -
Reinventing the Automobile: General Motors' AUTOnomy Project, Spanish Version
Technology & Operations Case Study14.00View Details Describes the history of General Motor's attempts to develop a hydrogen fuel-cell powered car. As of 2003, GM developed several prototypes of such a vehicle... -
Alphexo Corp.: Confidential Negotiation Information, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details A two-party, multiple-issue dollar-scoring negotiation exercise dealing with the formation and terms of an IT-industry joint venture. Subordinates have... -
Yelp
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Yelp was a popular on-line destination for reviews of local establishments, written by volunteer Internet users and read by 20 million people per month.... -
Onefinestay: Building a Luxury Experience in the Sharing Economy
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Miranda Cresswell, marketing director, and Greg Marsh, founder and CEO of onefinestay, were grappling with branding and positioning dilemmas. onefinestay... -
5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2020 Edition (5 Books)
115.00View Details Five years' worth of management wisdom, all in one place. Get the latest, most significant thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review in "5 Years... -
Movirtu's Cloud Phone Service: Funding a Base-of-the-Pyramid Venture
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Who are the right investors for a for-profit company targeting the world's poor? Before this start-up spends hundreds of hours pursuing venture capital... -
Aqua Bounty, Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Valuation of a pre-revenue biotech company at IPO using probability trees and real option techniques. Company is based in Massachusetts and lists in London... -
Jardine's Pizza Hut Hong Kong: Disruption of an Industry Leader
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the challenge faced by Pizza Hut Hong Kong. Pizza Hut dominated the territory's pizza delivery business. It eliminated competitors...
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What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
How Generative AI Could Disrupt Creative Work
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleThree scenarios — and how to navigate them. -
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
Strategy for Start-ups
Competitive strategy SpotlightFirst answer two questions; then explore four paths. -
How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleInformation technology is revolutionizing products, from appliances to cars to mining equipment. Products once composed solely of mechanical and electrical... -
ChatGPT and How AI Disrupts Industries
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleA look back at the taxi business illustrates what OpenAI's newest model might mean for creative work. -
Kodak's Downfall Wasn't About Technology
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
McKinsey’s Three Horizons Model Defined Innovation for Years. Here’s Why It No Longer Applies.
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleIt assumes that breakthrough innovations will take years to develop. -
The Ambidextrous Organization
Innovation Magazine ArticleEstablished companies can develop radical innovations and protect their traditional businesses. The secret? Create organizationally distinct units that are tightly integrated at the senior executive level.