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June 24, 2011

Investment Bankers Can Learn From Stand-Up Comedians

Posted on Harvard Business Review: June 24, 2011 8:20 AM Yes, you heard that correctly. Let me explain. Originally from the Midwest and after a stint in the Navy, I ...

June 24, 2011

What Toyota Is Still Doing Right

Posted on Harvard Business Review: June 24, 2011 10:30 AM Toyota is famous for its Toyota Production System, an approach that effectively engages front-line workers in...

June 21, 2011

How to Handle a Raise Request

Posted on Harvard Business Review: June 20, 2011 9:00 AM "Can I have a raise?" Five little words cause a lot of stress and frustration. In many smaller ...

June 17, 2011

Secrets of Social Media Revealed in 1966

Posted on Harvard Business Review: June 17, 2011 8:00 AM Almost 50 years ago Ernest Dichter, the father of motivation research, did a large study of word of mouth ...

June 14, 2011

Four Simple Low Resolution Innovation Tests

Posted on Harvard Business Review: June 13, 2011 3:15 PM "Our new service tested off the charts—more than 5% of customers we surveyed said they would buy it," ...

June 10, 2011

How Mobile Phones Can Reverse-Innovate Health Care

Posted on Harvard Business Review: June 9, 2011 10:54 AM Note: This blog was co-authored with Justin Chakma, an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto. One...

June 3, 2011

Is Canada's Innovation Performance Really So Bad?

Posted on Harvard Business Review: June 3, 2011 10:30 AM On June 1st, Canada's Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity released a new, large report on Canada's ...

May 31, 2011

India's Decade of Collaboration

Posted on Harvard Business Review: May 31, 2011 10: 13AM This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work. On recent visits to India, we have ...

May 31, 2011

Why Your Business Doesn't Have a Seal Team Six

Posted on Harvard Business Review: May 31, 2011 10:17 AM Think of a team of military commandos and an image of camouflaged, disciplined athletes in their late teens or...

May 24, 2011

If All of Work Were Gamified

Posted on Harvard Business Review: May 23, 2011 12:53 PM Need to turn around your company? Trying to start a movement? Want to change the world? Easy Peasy! Just turn ...

May 20, 2011

12 Ways to Create Barriers to Competitors

Posted on Harvard Business Review: May 20, 2011 8:30 AM The only real way to grow sales and profits is to create innovative offerings with some "must haves" that ...

May 13, 2011

What? $300 a Night Plus $15 for WiFi?

Posted on Harvard Business Review: May 13, 2011 9:06 AM There's an award-winning doctoral dissertation in marketing, hospitality or behavioral economics to be done on ...

May 6, 2011

How Amazon or Apple Could Cause a War with China

Posted on Harvard Business Review: May 6, 2011 7:31 AM Or maybe Tata will provoke a diplomatic crisis with Pakistan. Perhaps Nomura will find itself under siege from ...

May 3, 2011

Sleepy Air Traffic Controllers? They Don't Need a Wakeup Call

Posted on Harvard Business Review: May 2, 2011 10:50 AM Were you outraged by the recent report that yet another air traffic controller was caught napping during his ...

April 29, 2011

Is Inflationary Innovation on the Way?

Posted on Harvard Business Review: April 28, 2011 10:50 AM The numbers don't lie: Inflation is coming back. Let economists debate the monetary nuances of QE2 and argue...

April 26, 2011

Why CEOs Should Watch the Royal Wedding

Posted on Harvard Business Review: April 25, 2011 11:02 AM The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton might seem entirely frothy and unworthy of the time of...

April 1, 2011

How Brainless Technology Cost Me $6.34 at the Supermarket

Posted on Harvard Business Review: March 31, 2011 11:35 AM Why does your supermarket herd you toward those clumsy self-service checkout stations while ignoring the ...

April 1, 2011

Want Innovative Thinking? Hire from the Humanities

Posted on Harvard Business Review: March 31, 2011 12:34 PM How many people in your organization are innovative thinkers who can help with your thorniest strategy ...

March 29, 2011

Four Reasons Any Action Is Better than None

Posted on Harvard Business Review: March 28, 2011 10:21 AM It's well-known that busy people get the most done. Their secret is simple: They never stop moving. Of ...

March 25, 2011

Beware of Innovations from Daily-Deal Sites

Posted on Harvard Business Review: March 25, 2011 11:05AM The daily deal industry, still dominated by Groupon, is in the midst of rapid-fire innovation, presenting new...

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