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Leading Ideas

A 21st-Century Approach to Product Launches
Forget the old rules for bringing products to market. Procter & Gamble is helping to write a new playbook.

Smart Spenders: The Global Innovation 1000
Booz Allen Hamilton’s annual study of the world’s 1,000 largest corporate R&D budgets uncovers a small group of high-leverage innovators who outperform their industries.

Complementary Genius
Sometimes “sticking to your knitting” is exactly the wrong way to build your business.

Innovators without Borders
By Kevin Dehoff and Vikas Sehgal
For companies that want to build a global growth engine, offshoring innovation is both a challenge and a necessity. Read on...

The Innovation Sandbox
By C.K. Prahalad
To create an impossibly low-cost, high-quality new business model, start by cultivating constraints. Read on...

My Customer, My Co-Innovator
By Michael Schrage
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Beyond Brand Management
By Richard Rawlinson
The anatomy of the 21st-century marketing professional. Read on...

Growth Champions
By Edward Landry, Andrew Tipping, and Jay Kumar
How to drive the only marketing metric that matters. Read on...

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The World's Most Innovative Companies

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2006 issues

Special reports 2006

12/18/06 -- Best & Worst of 2006

12/04/06 -- The Soul Of A New Microsoft

07/10/06 -- How Failure Breeds Success

07/03/06 -- The Godfather of Invention

The IT 100
Emerging-market cellular players, wireless phone and gear makers, and Web giants are this year's stars

05/22/06 -- The Craziest Ad Guys In America

05/08/06 -- The Best Undergraduate B-Schools

04/24/06 -- The World's Most Innovative Companies

04/03/06 -- The BusinessWeek 50

03/27/06 -- Is Your Company Fast Enough?

03/20/06 -- Forever Young

01/16/06 -- Dream Machines

2005 issues

12/19/05 -- The Best of 2005

11/28/05 -- The Man Who Invented Management

11/21/05 -- Best Practices: 50 Smart Ways To Use The Web

11/14/05 -- IKEA

08/01/05 -- Get Creative

07/04/05 -- The Best Product Design

06/06/05 -- Hot Growth Companies

04/18/05 -- IBM: Beyond Blue

03/28/05 -- The Digital Hospital

03/21/05 -- Outsourcing Innovation

Spring 2005 -- BusinessWeek SmallBiz

03/07/05 -- Rewiring Your Body

01/10/05 -- The Best Managers...And The Worst

2004 issues

11/29/04 -- America's Top Philanthropists

10/18/04 -- The Best B-Schools

10/11/04 -- 75th Anniversary: The Innovation Economy

09/20/04 -- The New Nike

08/23-30/04 -- The Executive Life

Summer 2004 -- Bonus Issue: BusinessWeek SmallBiz

07/12/04 -- The Vanishing Mass Market

06/21/04 -- The Info Tech 100

06/07/04 -- Hot Growth Companies

05/17/04 -- The Power of Design

04/12/04 -- 3M's Rising Star

04/05/04 -- The BusinessWeek Fifty

01/12/04 -- The Best (and Worst) Managers of the Year

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Innovation Through innovative thinking and cutting-edge research, Accenture help their clients understand the landscape across several industries.

Accelerate Growth, Cut Costs by Optimizing Marketing’s Return on Investment
CEO Survey
Innovation is critical to success in today’s highly competitive, volatile world.
Executive Issues 2005: High Performance and the Need for Balance
Workforce performance issues top the agenda.
Good Ideas Are Not Enough: Adding Execution Muscle to Innovation Engines
Most companies commercialize less than one in five promising ideas.
The CEO Guide to Innovation Delivered
Turning Ideas Into Results

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Reinventing innovation at consumer goods companies

Web exclusive, November 2006

A range of orthodoxies is making it harder to develop breakthrough products in the consumer goods industry. It urgently needs a reformation. Abstract

Creation nets: Getting the most from open innovation

2006 Number 2

A typical large company can no longer rely solely on its own resources. Creation networks are a promising way to move beyond them. Abstract | Article

The adaptable corporation

2006 Number 2

To survive, organizations must execute in the present and adapt to the future. Few of them manage to do both well. Abstract

Innovation from Asia

2005 Number 1

The capabilities that companies gain serving cost-conscious consumers in emerging markets can become competitive advantages in developed ones. Abstract | Article

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Innovation

Connecting the Dots between Innovation and
Leadership
Published: October 04, 2006 in Knowledge@Wharton
At a recent Wharton roundtable discussion on leadership and
innovation, Wharton management professor Michael Useem,
event moderator, initiated discussion by posing a general
question: How are leadership and innovation linked? "How
exactly do we put those two together? How do we lead in a way
that generates innovation?" he asked, describing the synergy as
"a kind of high-octane fuel we ought to get as much of as we
can."

'Smart Growth': Innovating to Meet the Needs of the
Market without Feeding the Beast of Complexity
Published: October 25, 2006 in Knowledge@Wharton

I. Innovation vs. Proliferation: Getting to the Heart of the
Customer
What is the next big idea or market opportunity? The question
plagues CEOs of all growth-hungry companies as they race to scoop
their competition with a product or service that no one has thought of
before. But how do companies know what products and services their
customers want -- and will be willing to pay for -- next?
Henry Ford famously said, "If I had asked my customers what they
wanted, they'd have asked for a faster horse." In other words, the road
to true innovation is rarely illuminated by customers telling you what
to do next; they may often not know what they want next.

Will a New Theory Help Firms to Manage in a 'Flat'
World?
Published: October 25, 2006 in Knowledge@Wharton
The take-off point for the innovations that we now call
the "new economy" is generally traced to 1985, when
Michael Porter developed his value chain analysis. But
modern economics and the root of the theory of the
firm began long before that, in 1776, with the
publication of Adam Smith's treatise, The Wealth of
Nations. Since then, of course, technological, cultural
and other changes have shaken the theories
underpinning economic activity.

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Most Popular Articles of 2006 January 2, 2007

Open source, innovation, and networks were three business issues that busted out in research and reader popularity on HBS Working Knowledge in 2006. Here's a recap of our twenty-five most popular stories from last year.

Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
Why have decades of executives fumbled innovation? One reason: Existing corporate structures, controls, and incentives do work against out-of-the-box thinking. Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who has just published a Harvard Business Review article on the topic, discusses her research into the classic traps of innovation and how to avoid them.

HBS Faculty Member Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

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Innovation and Product Development

IMP³rove: European Innovation Management Landscape
The IMP³rove project began with an analysis of existing best practices in Innovation Management consulting approaches and self-assessment tools that are applied in Europe. The insights gained are being used to develop a concept of a future approach in Innovation Management Consulting for SMEs.
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Nanotechnology Is More than a Hot New Label
Nanotechnology is still in its early days, but it’s already clear that this will be the next game-changing technology across industries.
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Turning the Periscope on Manufacturing
A new approach to manufacturing helps companies improve their competitive position and drive revenue growth.
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The Counterfeiting Paradox
Counterfeiting is a billion-dollar industry. When it comes to prevention, all eyes are on China.
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Research At Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Social Innovation

Bad Preparation Puts Community College Students at Risk
Students heading for the nation’s community colleges are less likely to be prepared for the demands of college than their classmates heading for schools with competitive admissions standards, says education professor Michael Kirst. Lack of preparation means a higher dropout rate and poses a real threat to the future qualifications of the U.S. labor force. (June 2005) [Details]

Teachers' Preferences for Where They Teach May Disadvantage Urban Schools
New teachers overwhelmingly want to teach in school districts near where they grew up, say researchers, thus creating a “cycle of poverty” for some urban schools where few graduates go on to earn teaching degrees. It’s not just that teachers prefer teaching higher-performing kids, it’s that they want a school like the one they attended, says Susanna Loeb, associate professor in the Stanford School of Education. (June 2005) [Details]

MBA Graduates Want to Work for Caring and Ethical Employers
A survey of more than 800 MBAs from 11 leading North American and European schools found a substantial number were willing to forgo some financial benefits to work for an organization with a better reputation for corporate social responsibility and ethics. (January 2004) [Details]

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FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
Innovation 2006     (BCG Report)
Measuring Innovationd 2006     (BCG Report)
Innovating for Cash (R0309E) HBR article by Jim Andrew and Hal Sirkin
Innovation 2005     (BCG Report)
Raising the Return on Innovation     (BCG Report)
Making Innovation Pay     by Jim Andrew, Hal Sirkin
Innovating for Cash     by Jim Andrew, Hal Sirkin
Spurring Innovation Productivity    by Jim Andrew, Kermit King

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