Monthly Archives: March 2011

That hungry whirring noise heard around offices across the U.S. is the sound of March Madness brackets being fed to paper shredders everywhere. Bracket busting is reaching historic levels in this year’s NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball National Championship Tournament. … Continue reading →

Tony Tjan, managing partner of Cue Ball, outlines the key components on which entrepreneurial executives must focus.

This post is part of HBR’s special issue on failure. You may all recall the headlines, some years back, about an interesting social enterprise called the “playpump.” The idea was neat — hook a merry-go-round type of device to a … Continue reading →

Editor’s note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The gaming industry is on a roll. It’s routine for the biggest new games … Continue reading →

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor, explains why executives must constantly consider both the big picture and the details. She is the author of the HBR article Zoom In, Zoom Out.

Today’s news is full of details regarding the settlement talks between the largest mortgage servicers and government officials, including the Treasury Department and some state attorneys general. Such a settlement must be carefully crafted if it is to avoid making … Continue reading →

Gary Wendt, CEO of GE Capital during its heyday, once said to me that the secret of his continuing success was the fear that his business could fall off a cliff at any moment. Without that fear, the cliff often … Continue reading →

The New York Times Sunday Styles section profile on best-selling author Tim Ferriss provides some important lessons and reminders on how to become powerful. I have met Ferriss a couple of times at a small Bay-area business authors dinner organized … Continue reading →

We had a party for my mom’s 75th birthday a few weeks ago. I spent about 40 hours working on a “This Is Your Life” slide show for the evening. I collected and scanned dozens of old photos, dug up … Continue reading →

This blog was co-authored with Jay F. Terwilliger and Mark H. Sebell, managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc., a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. We use this simple framework to determine the success of an innovative effort. It takes corporate will, … Continue reading →