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Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Technology & Operations 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
Creativity Magazine ArticleYour organization could use a bigger dose of creativity. Here’s what to do about it. -
The Business Case for Curiosity, Arabic Version
Leadership & Managing People SpotlightNew research shows that curiosity is vital to an organization's performance: Among other things, it improves engagement and collaboration and helps people... -
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
Communication Magazine ArticleComing up with creative ideas is easy; selling them to strangers is hard. Entrepreneurs, sales executives, and marketing managers often go to great lengths... -
How You Define the Problem Determines Whether You Solve It
Innovation Digital ArticleThe key to creativity is to stimulate your memory. -
Is Your Idea a Winner?
Ask yourself these four questions to find out. -
Collective Genius
Innovation Magazine ArticleNo longer casting themselves as solo visionaries, smart leaders are rewriting the rules of innovation. -
Can AI Ever Be as Curious as Humans?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWe can't program "aha" moments. -
Ultimate Creativity Machine: How BMW Turns Art into Profit
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleMany companies face the challenge of balancing art with commerce. The conflict between corporate pragmatism and artistic passion and quality is persistent:... -
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... -
Want to Keep Your Job? Stop Trying to Fit In
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleI was running along the six-mile loop in Central Park on a cold winter day when I passed the southern most end of the park where I noticed a large number... -
Life's Work: John Cleese
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe comic icon shares his thoughts on creativity, corporate humor, and how the team behind Monty Python made decisions.
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Ferran Adrià and elBulli's Transformation, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case tells the story of Chef Ferran Adrià and describes the transformation of elBulli, a renowned Michelin three-star restaurant located in Spain's... -
Umpqua Bank: Managing the Culture and Implementing the Brand
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Umpqua Bank is an Oregon-based business that is attempting to revolutionize the banking industry with a creatively nontraditional culture and a radically... -
Alessi: Evolution of an Italian Design Factory (B), Chinese Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Since the 1970s, world-renowned architect and designer, Alessandro Mendini, has acted as adviser and counselor to Alessi, the Italian household goods... -
Corporate New Ventures at Procter & Gamble
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble is faced with an urgent need to revitalize new-product innovation, given its recent focus on incremental product... -
Amelia Rogers at Tassani Communications (A), Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes a conflict that has arisen between an account manager and a creative director at Tassani Communications, a Chicago-based advertising agency... -
Innovation Magic
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Why do certain product and service experiences seem like magic, making them all but destined for success, while other items languish on store shelves?... -
elBulli: The Taste of Innovation, Spanish Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Ferran Adrià, chef at elBulli, the highest-ranked restaurant in the world for two consecutive years, faces two related decisions. First, Adrià and his... -
Management and Creativity in Television Broadcasting
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Management and creativity are sometimes assumed to be unrelated or even conflicting concepts. In the best cases, management controls enable artistic success... -
Best Buy: The Innovation Initiative, Video
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study150.00View Details Follows business development manager Toby Nord and his consumer insights team through the three stages of the Innovation Initiative: setting out to gain... -
Gucci Group: Freedom within the Framework
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Gucci Group's CEO had to decide if his decentralized management style was the most effective philosophy in an economic downturn. The sharing of customer... -
Kay Sunderland: Making the Grade at Attain Learning, Spanish Version
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Kay Sunderland is an account director at Attain Learning Inc., a business training solutions company. In January 2011, one of Attain's most important... -
Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being
A plan for conquering collaborative overload to drive performance and innovation, reduce burnout, and enhance well-being. Most organizations have created... -
Walt Disney and the 1941 Animator's Strike
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Focuses on the leadership lessons drawn from the events precipitating the Animator's Strike of 1941, depicting the growing pains of a company that was... -
Amelia Rogers at Tassani Communications (B), Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
British Broadcasting Corp. (A): One BBC
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Greg Dyke, the new director general of the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) must decide whether to extend an already ambitious change effort at the world's... -
Juice: The Creative Fuel That Drives World-Class Inventors
24.95View Details Building value in our global economy increasingly demands creating new opportunities and solving new problems. In a nutshell, that's what inventors do.... -
THE YES: Reimagining the Future of E-Commerce with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Japanese Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details THE YES, a multi-brand shopping app launched in May 2020 offered a new type of buying experience for women's fashion, driven by a sophisticated algorithm... -
Innovation and Creativity, French Version
99.00View Details Teams that flex their creativity and innovate regularly are simply more successful than others. Learn how to unleash your curiosity, overcome barriers... -
Both/And Thinking Toolkit: How to Transform Challenges into Opportunities
In their book "Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems," Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis show the importance of... -
Teaming at Disney Animation, Portuguese Version
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Jonathan Geibel, Director of Systems at Walt Disney Animation Studios (hereafter referred to as Disney Animation), walked through the workspace occupied...
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Generative AI Has an Intellectual Property Problem
Technology & Operations 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
Creativity Magazine ArticleYour organization could use a bigger dose of creativity. Here’s what to do about it. -
The Business Case for Curiosity, Arabic Version
Leadership & Managing People SpotlightNew research shows that curiosity is vital to an organization's performance: Among other things, it improves engagement and collaboration and helps people... -
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...