-
The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleDisruption isn't the only approach. -
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleYou don't need a time line; you need a time cone. -
Why Now Is the Time for "Open Innovation"
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleCovid-19 has shown how companies can work together to solve problems. -
Building a Culture of Experimentation
Innovation SpotlightIt takes more than good tools. It takes a complete change of attitude. -
5 Ways to Design Products Customers Love
Innovation Digital ArticleTactics for empathizing with users. -
Two leading researchers discuss the value of oddball data
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleRoger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, talks with renowned autism and genomics researcher Stephen Scherer about how to tackle a big, messy... -
Impact Investing Could Accelerate the Fight Against Cancer
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWill a new generation of philanthropists embrace the opportunity? -
Does Crowdsourcing Need a Cash Prize to Work?
R&D ResearchOffering nothing is better than a small prize. -
Shrinking Fast and Smart in the Defense Industry
Government Magazine ArticleAuthor’s note: Alistair Hanna, Michael Reopel, and Stuart Flack, all of McKinsey & Company, contributed to this article. The U.S. defense industry is struggling to reorganize itself for growth, if not for survival. The disappearance of the communist threat and the desperate need to revive the U.S. economy have taken the defense industry for a […] -
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... -
Better Way to Innovate
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleHarvard professor Henry Chesbrough takes a look at leading-edge companies' latest moves to harvest ideas from outside and to benefit from sharing their... -
Transforming Life, Transforming Business: The Life-Science Revolution
Government policy and regulation Magazine ArticleAdvances in genetic research are setting off an industrial convergence that will have profound implications for the global economy. Farmers, computer companies, drugmakers, chemical processors, and health care providers will all be drawn into the new life-science industry. To make the transition successfully, they’ll have to change the way they think about their businesses… -
How Much Cash Does Your Company Need?
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn late 2001, the directors of Pfizer asked that very question. And with good reason. After its 2000 merger with rival Warner-Lambert, the New York-based... -
One Obstacle to Curing Cancer: Patient Data Isn’t Shared
R&D Digital ArticleLarge data sets could lead to a breakthrough. -
3 Ways to Incorporate Sustainability into Everyday Work
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleIt has to start with leadership. -
Being Early Beats Being Better
R&D Magazine ArticleThe study: Henrich Greve and Marc-David Seidel studied the role of first-mover advantage in determining which technologies get adopted and which do not. They tracked the sales history of two wide-body jets: the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. The researchers concluded that the DC-10’s one-year head start contributed to its greater success […] -
Funding Growth in an Age of Austerity
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleEveryone knows that corporate growth--true growth, not just agglomeration--springs from innovation. And the common wisdom is that companies must spend... -
Getting Unusual Suspects to Solve R&D Puzzles
R&D Magazine ArticleFor even the toughest of R&D problems, there are often people out there with innovative solutions already on their shelves or in their back pockets. The trick for corporate executives is finding and gaining access to those individuals. Our research with a company that broadcasts technological problems into the ether—and gets back solid results—has given […] -
Stop Panicking About Corporate Short-Termism
Innovation Digital ArticlePublic firms invest more in R&D than private ones. -
We Need Better Masks
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleRight now, it's our best option to contain the virus and revive the economy.
-
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.... -
Zoll Medical Corp. (D)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Nokia Telecommunications: Redesign of International Logistics
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Nokia faces the challenge of implementing the global network model: global R&D and production networks for global learning and control combined with local... -
Hewlett-Packard: Manufacturing Productivity Division (D), Glossary
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A), (B), and (C) cases. A glossary of terms. -
Bella Healthcare India
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Bella Healthcare India was originally established in Bangalore as a low-cost manufacturing facility for a U.S.-based cardiology equipment developer. Under... -
Corporate Research Group in a High-Tech Firm: Improving Research Effectiveness
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details A plan to reengineer a firm's corporate research group faces obstacles in the implementation phase, the team's sponsor leaves the company, a pilot for... -
Napo Pharmaceuticals: Triple Bottom Line of People, Planet, and Profits (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The Napo Pharmaceuticals case study provides students with an example of a biotech company that has pursued a triple bottom line of people, planet, and... -
Novartis AG: Science-Based Business
Organizational Development Case Study6.95View Details Novartis is a science-based drug company, which has important implications for its business strategy. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies... -
The Business Model of a University Research Lab
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case study teaches students how to think through the management of open innovation in the context of a different setting such as a university research... -
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details In 2006, the leadership team at Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. had to decide whether to keep its R&D organization in functional departments or restructure... -
Innovation at 3M Corp. (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Nivea (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the efforts of Beiersdorf, a worldwide leader in the cosmetics and skin care industries, to generate and commercialize new R&D through... -
Microsoft IT India
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Raj Biyani faced tough challenges managing Microsoft IT India: leading a remote development organization in which key decisions were made in Redmond,... -
Preferred Networks: A Deep Learning Startup Powers the Internet of Things
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Preferred Networks, Inc. (PFN), a start-up specialized in deep learning technologies, a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) research, differentiated... -
Monsanto's March into Biotechnology (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Very early in the history of biotechnology (about 1979), Monsanto made a major commitment to move into this field. This case recounts the history from... -
Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The pharmaceutical division of a diversified company has been asked to develop a Balanced Scorecard. Research and development projects take about ten... -
Gold Peak Electronics: R&D Globalization from East to West
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Globalization has prompted a new trend of cross-border acquisitions from the East to the West. Fueled by non-traditional motivations, Asian companies... -
Napo Pharmaceuticals: Pivot to Animal Health (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The Napo Pharmaceuticals case study provides students with an example of a biotech company that has pursued a triple bottom line of people, planet, and... -
FotoNation: Leveraging International Knowledge Connectivity
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2014, FotoNation, an international venture previously located in Ireland, produced innovative solutions for digital photography from its headquarters... -
Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard (Abridged)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The pharmaceutical division of a diversified company has been asked to develop a Balanced Scorecard. Research and development projects take about ten...
-
The 4 Types of Innovation and the Problems They Solve
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleDisruption isn't the only approach. -
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleYou don't need a time line; you need a time cone. -
Why Now Is the Time for "Open Innovation"
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleCovid-19 has shown how companies can work together to solve problems. -
Building a Culture of Experimentation
Innovation SpotlightIt takes more than good tools. It takes a complete change of attitude. -
5 Ways to Design Products Customers Love
Innovation Digital ArticleTactics for empathizing with users. -
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.... -
Zoll Medical Corp. (D)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Two leading researchers discuss the value of oddball data
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleRoger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, talks with renowned autism and genomics researcher Stephen Scherer about how to tackle a big, messy... -
Impact Investing Could Accelerate the Fight Against Cancer
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWill a new generation of philanthropists embrace the opportunity? -
Does Crowdsourcing Need a Cash Prize to Work?
R&D ResearchOffering nothing is better than a small prize.