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What Does Building a Fair AI Really Entail?
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Oslo Innovation Clinic Offers Treatment for Ideas
Innovation Digital ArticleThe first-of-its-kind Clinic of Innovation at Oslo University Hospital works a lot like an outpatient health clinic, but treats ideas rather than patients. Ideas walk in, are diagnosed, and are treated or referred; some are sent home with a prescription for further development, and an appointment for a follow-up visit. In addition to providing technical […] -
A User's Guide to Open Strategy
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Use Language to Shape a Creative Culture
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Tell Better Data Stories with Motion and Interactivity
Design thinking Digital ArticleWhen it comes to making visualizations, time really is on your side. -
What Ron Johnson Got Right
Innovation Digital ArticleThe ousted J.C. Penney chief understood the importance of intuition. -
What Customers Want from the Collaborative Economy
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How to Push Your Team to Take Risks and Experiment
Experimentation Digital ArticleNormalize failure. No, really: Do it. -
HBS Professor Linda Hill Says Leaders Must Engage with Emotions as Never Before
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With Innovation, You Don’t Get Points for Difficulty
Innovation Digital ArticleSomeone in India recently asked me what I thought about an innovation strategy featuring a heavy dose of “imitation.” My response was, “Innovation isn’t Olympic diving.” What did I mean? An individual diver’s scores for an event are a factor of two things: how well they execute their dive, and the “degree of difficulty” of […] -
Design for Action
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Learning the Fine Art of Global Collaboration
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Why Companies Are Betting Against Big Ideas
Innovation Digital ArticleWhen given a choice between getting $1,000 with certainty, or having a 50% chance of getting $2,500, most people will choose the certain $1,000 — even though the expected value (the average value over repeated trials) of the uncertain option is $1,250. Most people would reject a gamble where they would gain $100 if a […] -
Commoditized Technology and Commoditized Results
Innovation Digital ArticleAlan Kay was one of the dozen or so scientists who invented the personal computer. Alan and the other pioneers like Doug Englebart, were not aiming to create a new generic technology with the PC but rather their goal was to create tools to augment human intelligence individually and collectively. By studying the long journey […] -
The Customer-Centered Innovation Map
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Don't Ask for New Ideas If You're Not Ready to Act on Them
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Design Thinking Comes of Age
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3 Ways Big Companies Are Connecting with Younger Consumers
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Advice on Running a Government Agency Like a Startup, from Someone Who's Tried It
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What Holds Back Corporate Social Innovators
Global Business Digital ArticleAnd how to support them.
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Why Entrepreneurs Should Think Like Scientists
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The Middle Path to Innovation
Innovation Magazine ArticleForget disruption and incrementalism. Here’s how to develop high-growth products in slow-growth companies. -
Firms Led by CEOs from Former U.S. Frontier Areas Are Awarded More Patents
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Should Your Brand Hire a Virtual Influencer?
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Make Decisions with a VC Mindset
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Winning at Influencer Marketing
Management Digital ArticleOver the past 20 years the social media influencer industry has completely rearranged the way information and culture are conceived, produced, marketed,... -
Your Teams Should Drive AI Adoption — Not Senior Leadership
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The 3-Stage Process That Makes Universities Prime Innovators
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Corporate Learning Is Boring — But It Doesn’t Have to Be
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A Growth Strategy that Creates and Protects Value
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Why Playing It Safe Is the Riskiest Strategic Choice
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The Challenges of Becoming a Less Hierarchical Company
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Why Has the EV Market Stalled?
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GenAI Could Make Online Conversations More Civil
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Overcoming Common Challenges to Disruptive Innovation
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The Missing Link Between Strategy and Innovation
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Harnessing Imagination to Drive Innovation
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The Benefits of Innovation That Isn’t Disruptive
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Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A) (Abridged)
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Biogen, Inc.: rBeta Interferon Manufacturing Process Development
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Leading Transformation: How to Take Charge of Your Company's Future
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Explo Leisure Products
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TheLadders (B)
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Anthony Starks at InSiL Therapeutics (B)
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Hiperbaric: B2B 2.0
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Amil and the Health Care System in Brazil
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ExxonMobil: Business as Usual? (B)
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Hilti (A): Fleet Management?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case explores the strategic decision-making process of premium power tools manufacturer Hilti in 1999, when the company was considering implementing... -
From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (Abridged)
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CMGI: Organizational and Market Innovation
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Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2021)
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Faurecia Digital Transformation (C)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details The case covers real time experiences of the people involved in digital transformation, capture the lessons learned and explain how Faurecia was able... -
Alcatel Access Systems Division (B): Building for the Future
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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
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Cambridge Technology Partners (B)
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Team Wikispeed: Developing Hardware the Software Way
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What Does Building a Fair AI Really Entail?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleHuman systems are just as important as tech. -
Oslo Innovation Clinic Offers Treatment for Ideas
Innovation Digital ArticleThe first-of-its-kind Clinic of Innovation at Oslo University Hospital works a lot like an outpatient health clinic, but treats ideas rather than patients. Ideas walk in, are diagnosed, and are treated or referred; some are sent home with a prescription for further development, and an appointment for a follow-up visit. In addition to providing technical […] -
A User's Guide to Open Strategy
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleA framework for opening up your company's strategy process to outside participants without giving away your game plan. -
Use Language to Shape a Creative Culture
Organizational Development Digital ArticleLessons from IDEO. -
Tell Better Data Stories with Motion and Interactivity
Design thinking Digital ArticleWhen it comes to making visualizations, time really is on your side. -
What Ron Johnson Got Right
Innovation Digital ArticleThe ousted J.C. Penney chief understood the importance of intuition. -
Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A) (Abridged)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aeronautical engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization... -
What Customers Want from the Collaborative Economy
Innovation Digital ArticleAnd why your company can’t ignore it. -
How to Push Your Team to Take Risks and Experiment
Experimentation Digital ArticleNormalize failure. No, really: Do it. -
Biogen, Inc.: rBeta Interferon Manufacturing Process Development
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Biogen, Inc., a Cambridge, MA-based biotechnology company, is wrapping up a project to develop a new manufacturing process for a new drug product that...