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Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
The Five Stages of Small-Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now. -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation -
Office of Strategy Management
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThere is a disconnect in most companies between strategy formulation and strategy execution. On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of,... -
One Number You Need to Grow
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleCompanies spend lots of time and money on complex tools to assess customer satisfaction. But they're measuring the wrong thing. The best predictor of... -
Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleExecutives have developed tunnel vision in their pursuit of shareholder value, focusing on short-term performance at the expense of investing in long-term... -
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? -
Off-Sites That Work
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleThe top team’s annual strategic off-site differs from all other meetings in its potential impact on the company. That’s why it should be designed and managed differently. -
The Case of the Expensive Expansion
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleVisits to the toy store were a lot different for Jim Clayton since he took the job as president of Playto Industries. Long lines at the checkout counter used to infuriate him. Now they delighted him because they signaled a boom in sales for Playto. Trips up and down the aisles used to be part […] -
Did We Expand Too Quickly? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe CEO of a climbing-gym chain whose UK locations are faltering must decide whether to press on or pull back from his international growth plans. This... -
The Strategy Trap Successful Companies Fall Into
Strategy & Execution VideoExploit the present, but not at the expense of the future. -
When Growth Stalls
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAn abrupt and lasting drop in revenue growth is a crisis that can strike even the most exemplary organization. The authors' comprehensive analysis of... -
To Innovate Better, Find Divergent Thinkers
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhen researchers asked carpenters, roofers, and in-line skaters how to improve safety gear for all three activities, each group turned out to be significantly... -
New Business Models in Emerging Markets
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMany Western multinationals expect to find most of their future growth in emerging economies. But they have frequently struggled to exploit the opportunity,... -
Preserve the Luxury or Extend the Brand? (HBR Case Study)
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleMany luxury brands are able to command high prices because of their excellent quality, solid reputation, and limited availability. But it can be tricky... -
Today’s Options for Tomorrow’s Growth
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleSince the rise in the use of discounted cash flow techniques, most managers face an increasingly difficult choice in evaluating complex investment decisions. Should they pursue risky projects that offer a below-target rate of return but could create valuable strategic opportunities later? Or should they stick with a less risky and more immediately profitable bet? […] -
Exit an Unprofitable Line of Business
Strategy & Execution VideoTo secure future growth, you need to systematically prune back unprofitable business lines. Once you've closed a business, reallocate talented employees... -
Putting Products into Services
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleHigh-end professional services firms, unlike product companies, traditionally experience only linear revenue growth. That's because selling more services...
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Brand Extension through Innovation: Sound Agriculture Grows the Greens
Management Case Study8.95View Details "This case follows the decision-making process of Erik Wolfe, senior product marketing manager at Sound Agriculture, an agriculture technology company,... -
Ingvar Kamprad and IKEA
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Traces the development of a Swedish furniture retailer under the leadership of an innovative and unconventional entrepreneur whose approaches redefine... -
Natura &Co: Sustainability at Scale
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Established in 1969 as a cosmetics lab in the city of São Paulo, Natura grew briskly over the ensuing decades and by 2004 it had become Brazil's largest... -
Identifying Opportunities Ladders: A Tool from "The Innovator's Guide to Growth"
6.95View Details Jobs-based thinking illuminates opportunities to innovate in the marketplace. These opportunities stem primarily from identifying jobs for which existing... -
Bulb 2018: Hypergrowth
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details After a wild and volatile year, Bulb, a new entrant in the UK residential energy market, ended March 2018 with 329,171 properties, 1.2% of the total residential... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Risk (with bonus article "Managing 21st-Century Political Risk" by Condoleezza Rice and Amy Zegart)
Strategy & Execution BookIs your business playing it safe--or taking the right risks? If you read nothing else on managing risk, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds... -
The Innovator's Solution, with a New Foreword: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Management Book35.00View Details The "New York Times" bestseller and seminal work on disruption--for every company seeking new growth. Clayton Christensen's bestselling book, "The Innovator's... -
Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (Abridged)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details A nonprofit in the healthcare arena explores strategies to achieve system-level impact. Founded in 1996 with a volunteer-staffed help desk at Boston Medical... -
3M: Rethinking Regionalisation to Adapt to Supply Chain Disruptions
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Set in April 2022, this case delves into supply chain disruptions faced by 3M in and after the Covid-19 pandemic, and the strategies used by the company... -
Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig
Sales & Marketing Case Study15.05View Details In the summer of 2018, Drinkworks CEO Nathaniel Davis needed to make a number of go-to-market decisions ahead of his company's upcoming product launch.... -
Hubble Contact Lenses: Data Driven Direct-to-Consumer Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details As its Series A extension round approaches, the founders of Hubble, a subscription-based, social-media fueled, direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand of contact... -
Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The IMEC case study allows students to discuss open innovation in the context of research organizations with industry partnerships. Johan Van Helleputte,... -
HUGE and Digital Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study15.05View Details In 2011, HUGE, Inc. is the fastest growing digital agency in the U.S. Its CEO, Aaron Shapiro, is considering a set of novel growth strategies to take... -
Natureview Farm
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Explores channel management issues in the U.S. food industry. Natureview Farm, a Vermont-based producer of organic yogurt with $13 million in revenues,... -
Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc. (A): Acquisition Suitors at the Door
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were best friends and socially conscious entrepreneurs when they founded Ben & Jerry's Homemade in the 1970s in Burlington,... -
Consolidation of Highly Fragmented Service Industries, Module Note
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Designed to familiarize students with the consolidation of highly fragmented labor-dependent service industries, offering insights into service firm growth... -
Akshaya Patra: Impact at Scale
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study15.05View Details Akshaya Patra, an Indian NGO, had set an ambitious goal of serving 5 million free meals daily to India's schoolchildren. Founded in 2000, Akshaya Patra... -
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... -
Argo Interactive (A): Surviving in the Roller-Coasting Mobile Industry
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This FocusCase is about a young VC-backed technology company in the UK, trying to turn around from a near-death crisis after their market did not pick... -
Prague Post
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Lisa Frankenberg, co-founder of the Prague Post, is faced with several business and professional decisions. The English-language paper she founded is...
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Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
The Five Stages of Small-Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now. -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation -
Office of Strategy Management
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThere is a disconnect in most companies between strategy formulation and strategy execution. On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of,... -
One Number You Need to Grow
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleCompanies spend lots of time and money on complex tools to assess customer satisfaction. But they're measuring the wrong thing. The best predictor of... -
Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleExecutives have developed tunnel vision in their pursuit of shareholder value, focusing on short-term performance at the expense of investing in long-term... -
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? -
Off-Sites That Work
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleThe top team’s annual strategic off-site differs from all other meetings in its potential impact on the company. That’s why it should be designed and managed differently.