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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
Creativity SpotlightResearch shows that it leads to higher-performing, more-adaptable firms. -
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 culture 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 & Leadership Digital ArticleThe key to creativity is to stimulate your memory. -
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 […] -
Enliven Your Work with Mindfulness
Ellen Langer, professor of psychology at Harvard University, explains why we need to stop operating on auto-pilot. -
Life’s Work: An Interview with Marina Abramović
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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... -
Learning to Work with Intelligent Machines
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleAlthough companies spend billions on formal training for employees, most of the skills needed to perform a specific job can be learned only by doing it.... -
Twitter's Cofounder on Creating Opportunities
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAfter failing to make the basketball, baseball, and football teams in high school, the author persuaded the administration to start a lacrosse team, figuring...
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The Psychology of Problem-Solving
Management Case Study8.95View Details This technical note introduces the concept of applying subtractive thinking to problem-solving. The essential work of almost any employee in an organization... -
Managing Creativity at Shanghai Tang
Organizational Development Case Study6.95View Details Shanghai Tang is a luxury brand that focuses on Chinese-inspired fashion, accessories, and home decoration products. In Fall 2008, amidst a growing global... -
Be a Great Boss: The Hill Collection (4 Items)
This digital collection, curated by Harvard Business Review, offers seminal ideas by leadership expert and Harvard Business School professor Linda A.... -
The Age of Paradox
24.95View Details In this striking sequel to his best-selling book, Age of Unreason, Charles Handy shows how the changes he predicted are upon us. New developments in technology,... -
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... -
Kids Are Alright: How the Gamer Generation Is Changing the Workplace
14.95View Details Think video games are kids' stuff? Think again. According to authors John C. Beck and Mitchell Wade, all those hours immersed in game culture have created... -
Longfor: A Non-Traditional Company in China - When in Rome, Do Not Do What the Romans Do
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Longfor, a real estate company in China, treats every customer as an individual with distinctive tastes, preferences and needs; the homes it designs emphasize... -
Generative AI: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
Management Book22.95View Details The future of AI is here. The world is transfixed by the marvel (and possible menace) of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools. It's clear Gen AI will... -
Alex Atala: Bringing Brazil to the World
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Brazilian Michelin-star chef Alex Atala managed four restaurants, a foundation advocating for the environment, and a seminar focused on food and sustainability.... -
Octone Records
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In February 2007, Octone Records founders James Diener, Ben Berkman, and David Boxenbaum had been highly successful with the first two bands they had... -
Innovation at Mahindra & Mahindra (B)
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Chinese Online 2018-2020: Turnaround
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Chinese Online (COL) was one of China's largest Chinese-language digital content distributor. Its offerings ranged from literature, audio, TV, film, and... -
Eico: Designed in China
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details How can an organization help its employees' creativity thrive? When Rokey Zhang and Ricky Xu founded Eico in 2004, no one could predict the scale of China's... -
Idea Generation and Selection: The Alternative Use Exercise, Handout
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Handout supplement for case UV7313. -
E Ink
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details E Ink is a high-technology start-up attempting to revolutionize print communication through electronic ink displays. The founders and top managers of... -
Critical Mass: The IT Creativity Challenge
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Critical Mass was a highly successful Internet marketing services firm with a blue chip client list. The rapidly changing Internet environment demanded... -
Metropolitan School and Big Picture Co.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Set in the fall of 2003, examines the challenges facing Elliot Washor and the rest of the leadership of the Big Picture Co. (BPC) as they seek to build... -
Leading Teams
15.00View Details Leading productive teams requires laying the groundwork for success and following through effectively. This guide offers immediately actionable advice... -
The Creative Industries: Managing Products and Product Portfolios, Module Note
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This module note examines the way in which professional content producers in the creative industries approach product and product portfolio management,... -
Innovation at Mahindra & Mahindra (C)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to 609065
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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
Creativity SpotlightResearch shows that it leads to higher-performing, more-adaptable firms. -
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...