Put away your thumbtacks. This site explores the little-understood world of electronic kiosks, which are used to expand remote services, explore e-commerce ideas, and implement m-commerce. What does a ...

For decades, Procter & Gamble fueled its consumer products engine from R&D inside its own walls. But as its markets have matured, P&G has directed its search outward. An excerpt from Harvard Business ...

A small but thoughtful set of responses to the question "Is Growth Good?" posed this month conveys the sense that the wrong questions were asked. According to the responses, growth is not only good—it ...

Dealmakers often forget the power of a good reputation. In this article from Negotiation, HBS professor Michael Wheeler tells why having a storehouse of credibility will put you head and shoulders ...

Martin Perry, currently teaching management and business research methods at New Zealand’s Massey University, has been affiliated over the years with university programs of urban planning, land ...

HBS alum Sir Ronald Cohen co-founded Apax Partners, a VC dynamo in Europe. Now he wants to make an equal impact in the name of social investing. At age twenty-six, Ronald Cohen (MBA '69) planted the ...

Management is a complex process. Good plans executed poorly may be worse than poor plans executed well. This is never truer than at times of disaster, in which plans made from afar have to be ...

Nonprofit management expert Peter Brinckerhoff is really making the rounds. We recently reviewed his new book, and now take a look at his year-old blog that expands on the work of his newsletter and ...

Respondents to the December column produced such a lengthy list of reasons why managers fail to act on their predictions that it is a wonder that organizations are ever able to respond with the ...

It's hard to remember, but in the year 2000, Dell was a company in trouble. Senior VP Kevin Rollins, today the company's CEO, saw clearly what the problem was, and it had little to do with supply ...

You have three potential innovations, but resources to develop just one. Here are diagnostics to help you make the best decision. From Strategy & Innovation newsletter. Would-be innovators know that ...

Many strategies never take off for lack of honest discussion, say Harvard Business School's Michael Beer and co-author Russell A. Eisenstat. A Harvard Business Review excerpt. by Michael Beer and ...