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Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Intellectual property Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they’re in compliance with the law. -
Why Design Thinking Works
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhile we know a lot about practices that stimulate new ideas, innovation teams often struggle to apply them. Why? Because people's biases and entrenched... -
How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight
Decision making and problem solving HBR BestsellerThe absence of conflict is not harmony, it’s apathy. -
The Innovator's DNA
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine Article"How do I find innovative people for my organization? And how can I become more innovative myself?" These are questions that stump most senior executives,... -
The Discipline of Innovation
Creativity Magazine ArticleIn business, innovation rarely springs from a flash of inspiration. It arises from a cold-eyed analysis of seven kinds of opportunities. -
Better Brainstorming
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleGreat innovators have long known that the secret to unlocking a better answer is to ask a better question. Applying that insight to brainstorming exercises... -
Creativity and the Role of the Leader
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn today's innovation-driven economy, understanding how to generate great ideas has become an urgent managerial priority. Suddenly, the spotlight has... -
The Business Case for Curiosity
Leadership & Managing People SpotlightNew research shows that curiosity is vital to an organization's performance: Among other things, it improves engagement and collaboration and helps people... -
Managing Your Innovation Portfolio
Innovation Magazine ArticlePeople throughout your organization are energetically pursuing the new. But does all that activity add up to a strategy? -
Creativity in Advertising: When It Works and When It Doesn't
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleDo highly creative ads really inspire people to buy products? Studies have found that creative messages get more attention and lead to positive attitudes... -
The Case for Reading Fiction
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's an easy way to build emotional intelligence. -
How to Pitch a Brilliant Idea
Presentation skills Magazine ArticleBefore you even know it, the stranger across the desk has decided what kind of person you are. Knowing how you’ll be stereotyped allows you to play to—and control—the other guy’s expectations. -
How You Define the Problem Determines Whether You Solve It
Innovation Digital ArticleThe key to creativity is to stimulate your memory. -
The Innovator's Question: What Would Fosbury Do?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThe groundbreaking high jumper is a great model for intrapreneurs. -
Big Shoes to Fill (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleJack Donally was a colossal figure who commanded a lot of respect, if not affection. Just before Jack suddenly died, the board appointed Stephanie Fortas... -
How to Encourage Small Innovations
Creativity Digital ArticleThe announcement of Apple’s iPad is turning many people’s thoughts to the innovations behind big ideas. Innovations such as these play a critical role in a company’s future, but companies often hinder themselves by focusing on finding the next big thing, when in reality, the next small thing might be more beneficial. The more that […] -
Five Tips to Break Through Your Filter(s)
Managing yourself Digital ArticleIt is no surprise that we instinctively seek out those who share our interests. This is especially true in times of increasing pressure and uncertainty. We have an understandable tendency in such times to seek out the familiar and comfortable as a buffer against the unforeseen changes around us. In so doing we can inadvertently […] -
How to Stay Creative When Life Feels Monotonous
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFive research-backed strategies to broaden your worldview - even when your world is shrinking. -
Bringing Science to the Art of Strategy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMany managers feel doomed to trade off the futile rigor of ordinary strategic planning for the hit-or-miss creativity of the alternatives. In fact, the... -
America's Looming Creativity Crisis
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe strength of the American economy does not rest on its manufacturing prowess, its natural resources, or the size of its market. It turns on one factor--the...
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Launching the New MINI (Multimedia Case)
Sales & Marketing Tool25.00View Details Focuses on how strategy is transformed into creative branding materials. Reports on the development of a wide variety of brand communication materials... -
Marketing James Patterson
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Can a successful novelist use direct-to-consumer marketing to grow his brand? The author, who in a previous career ran a major advertising agency, uses... -
elBulli: The Taste of Innovation
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Ferran Adrià, chef at elBulli, the highest-ranked restaurant in the world for two consecutive years, faces two related decisions. First, Adrià and his... -
Idea Generation and Selection: The Alternative Use Exercise, Handout
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Handout supplement for case UV7313. -
Innovative Teams (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
Don't leave creativity up to the "creatives" in your organization. Fostering creativity within your team can help your organization solve problems, create... -
The Imagination Machine: How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Company's Future
35.00View Details A guide for mining the imagination to find powerful new ways to succeed. We need imagination now more than ever--to find new opportunities, rethink our... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Creativity (Paperback + Ebook)
Leadership & Managing People Special Offer34.95View Details Does your organization support creativity--or squash it? If you read nothing else on cultivating creativity at work, read these 10 articles. We've combed... -
Disney's "The Lion King" (A): The $2 Billion Movie
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details In 1994, just 10 years after its filmed entertainment division lost $33 million, Disney's animated creation "The Lion King" became the second highest... -
Vipp A/S
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Rapidly growing Vipp sells highly differentiated (and expensive) "designer" versions of a product that most buyers think about in purely functional terms:... -
Strategic Planning at United Parcel Service
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In March 2005, CEO Michael Eskew has asked the Corporate Strategy Group to recommend changes to the strategic process to ensure it allows United Parcel... -
Generative AI: Reimagining Business Beyond ChatGPT
Management Case Study8.95View Details In November 2022, OpenAI launched the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT on the web. Demonstrating the ability to understand human language... -
Lit Motors
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In mid-2012 Lit Motors had created both engineering and design prototypes and conducted initial customer tests on less than $750,000 of investment. Lit... -
Alessi: Evolution of an Italian Design Factory (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Since the 1970s, world-renowned architect and designer, Alessandro Mendini, has acted as adviser and counselor to Alessi, the Italian household goods... -
Idea Generation and Selection: Word Charades, Handout
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Handout supplement for case UV7313. -
Dansk Designs Ltd.
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Dansk Designs Ltd., a supplier of high quality, highly designed tableware products, plans to enter a new product area in housewares. Past growth and anticipated... -
NTT DoCoMo (TM): Value Innovation at DoCoMo
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details As of November 2001, NTT DoCoMo is the only company that has been able to make money out of the mobile Internet. This case study describes how, in a very... -
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
22.50View Details The Art of Possibility offers a set of breakthrough practices for creativity in all human enterprises. This inspirational book is a synthesis of Rosamund... -
Architects Collaborative, Inc.
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Although internationally recognized for quality design, the collaborative's billings have been on a plateau for four years and they are losing jobs to... -
Digital Extremes Ltd.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In March 2005, the president of Digital Extremes in London, Ontario, had just received the latest industry data. The new Xbox 360 was a success and the... -
Humanocracy, Revised and Updated: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them
Management BookA "Wall Street Journal" Bestseller. In a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring....
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Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Intellectual property Digital ArticleStrategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they’re in compliance with the law. -
Why Design Thinking Works
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhile we know a lot about practices that stimulate new ideas, innovation teams often struggle to apply them. Why? Because people's biases and entrenched... -
How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight
Decision making and problem solving HBR BestsellerThe absence of conflict is not harmony, it’s apathy. -
The Innovator's DNA
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine Article"How do I find innovative people for my organization? And how can I become more innovative myself?" These are questions that stump most senior executives,... -
The Discipline of Innovation
Creativity Magazine ArticleIn business, innovation rarely springs from a flash of inspiration. It arises from a cold-eyed analysis of seven kinds of opportunities. -
Better Brainstorming
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleGreat innovators have long known that the secret to unlocking a better answer is to ask a better question. Applying that insight to brainstorming exercises... -
Creativity and the Role of the Leader
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn today's innovation-driven economy, understanding how to generate great ideas has become an urgent managerial priority. Suddenly, the spotlight has... -
The Business Case for Curiosity
Leadership & Managing People SpotlightNew research shows that curiosity is vital to an organization's performance: Among other things, it improves engagement and collaboration and helps people... -
Managing Your Innovation Portfolio
Innovation Magazine ArticlePeople throughout your organization are energetically pursuing the new. But does all that activity add up to a strategy? -
Creativity in Advertising: When It Works and When It Doesn't
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleDo highly creative ads really inspire people to buy products? Studies have found that creative messages get more attention and lead to positive attitudes...