Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? These are rarely studied questions.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

Focus on forging relationships that give you energy, rather than sapping it. Of course, if your relationship with your boss or your coworkers is especially difficult, you may not be able to work around them. Case Study #1: Integrate your interests into the job. Case Study #2: Start doing the job you want.

Contract Manufacturing 16

Contract Manufacturing Case Study Delegation Learning-by-Doing 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Similar to 3M's or Google's innovation time, CLOs give employees a way to try out their ideas in a less risky environment — but in the context of the company's needs, as well. This helped them build new skills, reduced the cost we incurred on outside agencies, and created a great case study for the strategy work we sell as a service.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

How do you get energy and infrastructure into such dwellings? Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. Bhalla used the case study of the chulha stove, co-created by businesses, NGOs, and slum dwellers, to make his point.

Suri 13

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Undeniably there is more pressure on the things we all depend on: finite resources like water, energy, food, certain metals and minerals, and ecosystems like fisheries and forests. And of course, more pressure on climate. Of course, when the requirements of leadership change, so must the focus of leadership development.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. Innovative Then and Now… Still Creating. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. by Hank Moore.

Planning 61

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 61

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Editor''s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Hilde knew, of course, that Oskar, Caliska''s CEO, would want to know about the latest findings. "He''s Innovation' Pressure from the Top. "I

Case Study 8

Case Study Pharmaceuticals Bottom-up Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Of course, I probably won’t eat much lunch, but I can’t wait to hear about this big idea. We want to establish a prize to reward innovative ideas in this particular area.”.

Case Study 8

Case Study Career Planning Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

Nick Bilton of The New York Times strongly suggests that comfort and wealth are inimical to innovation. But a couple of academic studies suggest an alternative view — that in certain contexts, at least, innovation thrives in comfortable, calm, conflict-free zones. But of course solitude isn't really without conflict.

Cooper 12

Cooper Innovation Case Study Creativity 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

One of the driving principles of the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation is that everyone wins when everyone shares. As you design your hack or start to think about your innovation story, the first question to ask yourself is: does it tackle a root cause or a deeply embedded pathology of organizations?

Management 12

Management Short-term Strategic Planning How To 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. Meagher takes it a step further and imagines that Lowe’s could use energy usage data to inform consumers of programs that would save them money with local energy companies.

Industry 10

Industry Retail Software Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. Meagher takes it a step further and imagines that Lowe’s could use energy usage data to inform consumers of programs that would save them money with local energy companies.

Industry 8

Industry Retail Software Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Brands are spending a great deal of time and energy investing in platforms to get likes or pluses, and not really being social at all. So many brilliant people have been writing, speaking, and sharing case studies over that length of time, that if I only listed a few, I'd miss some really important thinkers.

Marketing 17

Marketing Brand Mass Marketing Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

There are many ways to define mentoring," says Jeanne Meister, a Founding Partner of Future Workplace and co-author of The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today. Even the promise of future help, if and when it's needed, can be enough to convince a mentor to give up his time and energy.

Mentor 16

Mentor Career Long-term Advice 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Most companies put innovation at the top of their agendas. But how many devote the energy and resources it takes to build innovation into the values, processes, and practices that rule everyday activity and behavior? Not many, as we argued when we launched the Innovating Innovation Challenge in October.

Innovation 8

Innovation Core Competence McKinsey Armstrong 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

As its victims know all too well, “death by PowerPoint,” the poor use of the presentation software, sucks the life and energy out of far too many meetings. Overfitting, like spreadsheet errors, can of course be caught and corrected. Software doesn’t always end up being the productivity panacea that it promises to be.

Software 8

Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8