Categories: Strategy

What Apple Learned from Kodak

Posted by: Helen Walters on December 05

Currently Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Bill Buxton writes a regular-ish column for the Innovation channel here at BusinessWeek. In the process of working on a new piece, we...

What do you want from T-Mobile? Deutsche Telekom's head of innovation and product development answers your questions

Posted by: Helen Walters on October 06

Hamid Akhavan, head of mobile communications, innovation and product development for Deutsche Telekom -- and the man in charge of T-Mobile International for most of Europe -- is coming to...

How to define--and execute-- "innovation" in investment banking?

Posted by: Reena Jana on September 15

Walking to work each day from the subway station to my office, I pass the headquarters of Lehman Brothers. Usually, there are tourists outside, taking home videos of the eye-catching...

Step back, look around, peer ahead: Bill Buxton's philosophy of innovation

Posted by: Helen Walters on May 13

Yesterday, we published an article by Bill Buxton, currently Principal Scientist at Microsoft (MSFT) and someone who has been at the forefront of technology innovation for years (he was involved...

If Microsoft + Yahoo! = Microhoo!? Can it be as cool as Google?

Posted by: Reena Jana on February 01

With news of Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid to buy Yahoo!, can you help but wonder, will the new Microhoo! (or whatever shape the new entity or entities take) be able...

Silverjet's a year old: how did the airline learn to evolve...quickly?

Posted by: Reena Jana on January 25

I met recently with Lawrence Hunt, CEO of Silverjet -- the all-business-class, transatlantic airline that launched last year...and survived (unlike competitor Maxjet). Lawrence and I discussed what lessons Silverjet learned...

The Bhutto Assassination -- Are There New Ways to Protect Public Figures?

Posted by: Reena Jana on December 28

Recent events in Pakistan bring to mind how we can possibly use innovative new technologies to better protect public figures at risk of assassination, kidnapping, or other dangerous threats. I'm...

Christie's vs. Sotheby's on YouTube

Posted by: Reena Jana on November 28

High-end art auctions at top houses Christie's and Sotheby's used to be ultra-exclusive affairs. But footage of these glam events where millions of dollars are paid for paintings, scultpures, photographs...

Will Gaming kill the Video Star?

Posted by: Helen Walters on August 17

MTV Networks announced yesterday that it'll invest $500 million in the expansion of gaming properties worldwide in the next two years. As the release puts it, the move "signal[s] the...