Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2020

Artists and musicians have studios, crafts people have workshops, professors and pastors have studies, and scientists have laboratories. The philosopher Immanuel Kant worked in bed at certain times of the day with blankets arranged around him in a particular fashion. Where is your creative space? Where do you do your best work?

Creativity 65

Creativity Incubator Project Rogers 65

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 2, 2012

It is always a bit overwhelming to be given the task of making anything you want , especially with a fully stocked workshop - complete with band saw and laser cutter - to suit your every need. In true Brown fashion, we had an astrophysicist, a philosopher, two biomedical engineers, and an international development major (me).

Class 178

Class Project Long-term Engineering 178

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

In early 2016 some numbers surfaced at a few of the Dorchester Collection’s luxury hotels that caught leadership’s attention: Complaints about our laundry service were on the rise, as was the cost of compensating guests for damage to their clothes. One hotel had to replace a fabulously expensive Givenchy evening gown.

Hotels 8

Hotels Fashion Budgeting Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. One of Rochet’s first tasks was to create a leadership development program that equipped executives with the knowledge, mindset, and ways of working the company would need to grow in the digital age.

P&L 9

P&L Agility Fashion Media 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? However, recently they began to take a more holistic approach, focusing on lifetime value and their most profitable segment, the “fashionable spender.” The leadership team conducts a weekly evaluation to assess, “Is what we’re doing working?”

Creativity 9

Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer—the first to hold the position—where he oversees design-led innovation across all the company’s brands under CEO Indra Nooyi. That’s where our work is really about innovation. I strongly believe that design and innovation are exactly the same thing.

Organization 8

Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Those hoping to launch the world’s next great innovation hub would be better off looking to an older, even more remarkable genius cluster: Renaissance Florence. This hothouse of innovation offers lessons as relevant and valuable today as they were 500 years ago. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center. Mentors matter.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Mentor Workshop 8