-
How to Get Unstuck
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTwo professors who have studied how leaders regain momentum in uncertain times suggest four ways to get your employees to face their fear, outrun hesitant... -
Why Today's Leaders Need to Be Perpetual Learners
Global Business Digital Article"Changing yourself in the job, especially if you're doing well, is one of the hardest things to do." -
Capitalism Needs Design Thinking
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA conversation between Roger Martin and Tim Brown. -
The Transparency Trap
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTo promote accountability, productivity, and shared learning, many organizations create open work environments and gather reams of data on how individuals... -
5 Ways to Design Products Customers Love
Innovation Digital ArticleTactics for empathizing with users. -
3 Ways Health Care Leaders Can Encourage Experimentation
Innovation Digital ArticleConsensus is often the enemy of innovation. -
Would Vegan Offerings Dilute Our Brand? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe founders of Protein Power Plates--a company with the slogan "Let's meat!"--contemplate adding plant-based burgers to their menu. This fictional case... -
From Prediction to Transformation
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleWhile the popular view is that insights are the key benefit of artificial intelligence, in truth AI creates value by improving the quality of decisions.... -
Stop Calling It "Innovation"
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThe word speaks to your stakeholders - but not to your employees. -
Set Up to Fail: Economist Paul Ormerod on Strategy and Extinction
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMost organizations bend over backward to avoid failure. They shouldn't, says economist Paul Ormerod. History shows that failure and success are inherently... -
Big-Project Engineers Have to Deal with Too Much Red Tape
Economics Digital ArticleCities can’t let bureaucracy stifle good ideas. -
Transient Advantage
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor decades, the business world has been fixated on achieving sustainable competitive advantage, a position within an industry that allows a company to... -
Don't Be Blinded by Your Own Expertise
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleA decade of research into top executives shows that expertise can actually severely impede performance, in two important ways. The first is overconfidence:... -
Life's Work: James Dyson
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner talks about what innovation means to him and why experience is overrated. -
Lean Service Machine
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleJefferson Pilot Financial (JPF), a life insurance and annuities firm, was looking for new ways to grow. Its top managers recognized that JPF needed to... -
How to Design Smart Business Experiments
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleManagers regularly implement new ideas without evidence to back them up. They act on hunches and often learn very little along the way. That doesn't have... -
Better Service, Faster: A Design Thinking Case Study
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIt involves a Winnebago. -
How the Best Restaurants in the World Balance Innovation and Consistency
Innovation Digital ArticleIt’s all about process. -
3 Exercises to Boost Your Team's Creativity
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleMove beyond brainstorming. -
To Encourage Innovation, Make It a Competition
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleFour tips for designing an internal contest.
-
Comparing Two Groups: Sampling and t-Testing
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This note describes sampling and t-tests, two fundamental statistical concepts. -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking (with featured article "Design Thinking" By Tim Brown)
50.00View Details Use design thinking for competitive advantage. If you read nothing else on design thinking, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard... -
The Design of Experiments
Management Case Study8.95View Details In innovation, experimentation is much talked about in the abstract, but poorly understood in practice. It bridges solution generation and implementation,... -
Bus Uncle Chatbot - Creating a Successful Digital Business (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Case Supplement for Case SMU948 -
Hubble Contact Lenses: Data Driven Direct-to-Consumer Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View 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... -
Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Describes Apple's approach to innovation, management, and design thinking. For several years, Apple has been ranked as the most innovative company in... -
IDEO Product Development
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Describes IDEO, the world's leading product design firm, and its innovation culture and process. Emphasis is placed on the important role of prototyping... -
Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, Updated Edition of the Global Bestseller, With a New Preface
A new edition of the bestseller that has helped aspiring leaders worldwide advance their careers and step up to larger leadership roles. You aspire to... -
AmazonFresh: Rekindling the Online Grocery Market
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details More than a decade after the high-profile failures of several early online grocers, grocery remains the largest single U.S. retail category and one of... -
Design Thinking in Action (B): From Insights to Ideas at South Western Railway
Management Case Study5.00View Details This case, a follow-up to "Design Thinking in Action (A): South Western Railway" (UVA-S-0377), finds South Western Railway (SWR) and its design-consultancy... -
Booking.com
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The case reveals how Booking.com has become the world's leading travel accommodation platform. The company has put online experimentation at the heart... -
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... -
Testing Autonomy in Pittsburgh
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Pittsburgh's mayor had been among the first to welcome self-driving vehicles, but was now one of many needing to react after a pedestrian fatality involving... -
LabCDMX: Experiment 50
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details There were probably 30,000 public buses, minibuses, and vans in Mexico City. Though, in 2015, no one knew for certain since no comprehensive schedule... -
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In 2006, the Cleveland Clinic and Mubadala Investment Company partnered with a bold ambition to deliver world class healthcare in the United Arab Emirates.... -
Artea: Designing Targeting Strategies
Sales & Marketing Case Study15.05View Details This collection of exercises aims to teach students about 1)Targeting Policies; and 2)Algorithmic bias in marketing-implications, causes, and possible... -
Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (D)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Kjell & Company was a Swedish retail electronics chain. The company's products consisted of home electronics and accessories. The company was noted for... -
Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments
35.00View Details Don't fly blind. See how the power of experiments works for you. When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out new business models, or developing... -
Measuring Impact at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 2020, the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)'s CEO, Matt Petersen, announced a first-of-its-kind equity earnback program, by which incubated companies... -
Design Thinking in Action (C): Experimentation in Action at South Western Railway
Management Case Study5.00View Details This third case in the series that begins with "Design Thinking in Action (A): South Western Railway" (UVA-S-0377) describes two waves of experimentation...
-
How to Get Unstuck
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTwo professors who have studied how leaders regain momentum in uncertain times suggest four ways to get your employees to face their fear, outrun hesitant... -
Why Today's Leaders Need to Be Perpetual Learners
Global Business Digital Article"Changing yourself in the job, especially if you're doing well, is one of the hardest things to do." -
Comparing Two Groups: Sampling and t-Testing
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This note describes sampling and t-tests, two fundamental statistical concepts. -
Capitalism Needs Design Thinking
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA conversation between Roger Martin and Tim Brown. -
Building Digital-Ready Culture in Traditional Organizations
Management Digital ArticleFor legacy companies, culture change is often the biggest challenge of digital transformation. How can they become more agile and innovative without alienating... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking (with featured article "Design Thinking" By Tim Brown)
50.00View Details Use design thinking for competitive advantage. If you read nothing else on design thinking, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard... -
The Transparency Trap
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTo promote accountability, productivity, and shared learning, many organizations create open work environments and gather reams of data on how individuals... -
The Design of Experiments
Management Case Study8.95View Details In innovation, experimentation is much talked about in the abstract, but poorly understood in practice. It bridges solution generation and implementation,... -
5 Ways to Design Products Customers Love
Innovation Digital ArticleTactics for empathizing with users. -
Bus Uncle Chatbot - Creating a Successful Digital Business (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Case Supplement for Case SMU948