McDonald has dedicated his career to exploring innovation-related challenges and their solutions. His early research on startups drew the attention of Harvard’s Clayton Christensen, who became a ...

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2016 issue of strategy+business. Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. But they face a ...

Rita Gunther McGrath thinks it’s time for most companies to give up their quest to attain strategy’s holy grail: sustainable competitive advantage. Neither theory nor practice of strategy has kept ...

A global electronics manufacturer seemed to live in a perpetual state of re-organization. Introducing a new line of communication devices for the Asian market required reorienting its sales, marketing ...

A specialist in decision making, Santos started a class in the spring 2018 term called Psychology 157: Psychology and the Good Life. She wanted to understand what social science could teach people ...

But simply understanding the need for distributed responsibility is not sufficient if leaders don’t understand what it means to demonstrate responsibility themselves. One way of demonstrating ...

The good news for business leaders is that research and experience point toward sound approaches to the delivery and positioning of sustainable products. Working in tandem, PwC and the Center for ...

On March 1, 2010, Hiroshi Mikitani, the founder and CEO of Rakuten, a Japan-based e-retailer, announced that henceforth English would be the official language of the company’s 10,000 employees.

Indeed, elegance in enterprises is more necessary than ever because of the increasingly complex challenges executives face. Leaders must meet the evolving demands of workers as well as customers, and ...

Since its founding in 1957, GreenShield has been a nonprofit, focused on responding to the evolving healthcare and insurance needs of Canadians, while pursuing its social mission of Better Health for ...

Warren Buffett’s annual shareholder letters are famous, a key element of his mystique. Inevitably, they’re described in the business media as “folksy.” But this description misses the reason these ...

On the surface, the Lego Group didn’t look as if it was in trouble. The fourth-largest toymaker in the world at the time (today it is fifth-largest), the Lego Group sold €1 billion (US$1.35 billion) ...