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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies.

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What Xerox PARC Learned About Executing on Open Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Companies knew how to engage a design firm, license IP, and form joint ventures, but few knew how to truly co-develop innovations with external partners, such as PARC. PARC has since learned many more lessons — and is now an industry leader — in how to turn open innovation into a repeatable business model.

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How to Choose the Ideas Your Company Should Invest In

Harvard Business Review

My last post described how Innosight follows a three-stage process to evaluate investment proposals from outside entrepreneurs. But deciding how to invest in ideas at a corporation is a different beast. Can we get to the market without any technological miracles? If you don't have an innovation strategy , go and create one.).

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An Unexpected Lesson from Mandela: Why Context Matters

Harvard Business Review

This would be a breakthrough communication technology, with the power of connecting an excluded and fragmented continent with itself, with the world, and to this newly emerging phenomenon — that none of us quite understood at the time — called the Internet. Those were exciting times for the country. I told them my story.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen. You know, the future value of money, the present value of money — money today is worth more than in the future because you can invest it and get interest. It goes back to the 1970s. Lars is famous for that.

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