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What Design Thinking Is Doing for the San Francisco Opera

Harvard Business Review

But they hoped that the benefits would extend far beyond this objective — that the project would introduce the Opera staff to new ways of thinking that offered the potential to fundamentally change how it operated. Madhav was in the MSx program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a program for mid-career managers.

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What the Rise of Russian Hackers Means for Your Business

Harvard Business Review

The North Koreans lashed out against Sony Pictures to protest a not-quite-Oscar-worthy film that featured the dramatic death of Kim Jong-un. You need not account for every contingency, but you can begin by ordering research on how other companies have managed (or failed to manage) the strategic communications aspect of a cyberattack.

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Your Smartphone Works for the Surveillance State

Harvard Business Review

It''s only through history and books or films that my generation has a grasp of what life must have been like. Just recently, I had the chance to watch the German film, The Lives of Others , which won the 2007 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The execution of these systems is, as you''d expect, very different.

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