Lean business model

For decades, the business world has been fixated on achieving sustainable competitive advantage, a position within an industry that allows a company to...

Success can skyrocket when lessons are systematically captured and made available to everyone.

Three pointers for using the theory in practice.

Inexpensive videos can sell products, but you’ve got to know what works (and what doesn’t).

Online video offers a way to achieve higher engagement with consumers for far less money.

They're reinventing their appliance business with rapid prototyping.

Empathetic design takes more time but delivers better results.

Too much testing can backfire.

In the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies, called "the lean start-up," has begun to replace the old regimen. Traditionally, a venture's...

Researchers found a downside to messages of empowerment.

At mature companies, it’s tougher to turn on a dime.

Editor’s note: For more on the future of health care visit the HBR Insight Center on Health Care Innovations. In the April issue of HBR, Tom Lee describes the story of Gary Kaplan applying lean methodologies he learned from Boeing executives to improve performance at Seattle’s Virginia Mason Health Center. As much as health care […]

Large-scale planning isn’t the answer.

It puts a premium on customer experience, but undervalues strategic thinking.

How entrepreneurship changes when cash is abundant.

And it’s changing the way they do science.

Start-ups need both agility and direction.

According to a survey of executives.

The “Toyota” principles can also be effective in operations involving judgment and expertise

To many people, strategy is a total mystery. But it's really not complicated, says Harvard Business School's Felix Oberholzer-Gee, author of "Better,...