Innovation secrets of the masters of consumer product design 4/2/2001 According to Michael Schrage, research associate at MIT's Media Lab and author of Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies ...

To run a start-up internationally, declared panelists at the HBS Entrepreneurship Conference, it's vital to hire people you trust. Virtual relationships can be terribly hard to manage across borders, ...

Why has the quality of work life in industrialized countries diminished at a time when their economies have expanded and the level of affluence has grown? That’s the big question Francis Green, a ...

For decades, Procter & Gamble fueled its consumer products engine from R&D inside its own walls. But as its markets have matured, P&G has directed its search outward. An excerpt from Harvard Business ...

A small but thoughtful set of responses to the question "Is Growth Good?" posed this month conveys the sense that the wrong questions were asked. According to the responses, growth is not only good—it ...

Dealmakers often forget the power of a good reputation. In this article from Negotiation, HBS professor Michael Wheeler tells why having a storehouse of credibility will put you head and shoulders ...

HBS alum Sir Ronald Cohen co-founded Apax Partners, a VC dynamo in Europe. Now he wants to make an equal impact in the name of social investing. At age twenty-six, Ronald Cohen (MBA '69) planted the ...

Management is a complex process. Good plans executed poorly may be worse than poor plans executed well. This is never truer than at times of disaster, in which plans made from afar have to be ...

How would the business world—and society—be different if managers needed to be licensed the way doctors, lawyers, and the clergy are? Is business management a profession? Should it employ the ...

This book will be useful to any nonprofit leader who lacks formal business training or just isn’t sure how to apply business strategy to a nonprofit sector. The author, an associate professor of ...

Nonprofit management expert Peter Brinckerhoff is really making the rounds. We recently reviewed his new book, and now take a look at his year-old blog that expands on the work of his newsletter and ...

Search is a hot topic in high tech right now, so industry experts at Cyberposium's "Search Visionary" panel drilled down for the most promising avenues to growth. by Julie Jette The name of the game ...