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Connect Inventors with the Right Problems
Innovation Digital ArticleOpen innovation platforms are making it easier. -
How to Protect Your Company’s Inventions
Business communication Digital ArticleAn interactive tool for CIOs. -
Raytheon CEO Gregory Hayes: How Ukraine Has Highlighted Gaps in US Defense Technologies
Business and society Digital ArticleHow does a company that gets two million hack attempts each week think about security? -
It’s Time for the U.S. to Tackle Patent Trolls
Government policy and regulation Digital ArticleA single rule change would be a good start. -
Firms Led by CEOs from Former U.S. Frontier Areas Are Awarded More Patents
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe qualities that were needed to succeed on the frontier are the same ones needed to drive corporate innovation. -
Innovating in Uncertain Times: Lessons from 2022
AI and machine learning Digital ArticlePlus strategies for driving transformative growth in 2023. -
Are You an Inventor or an Entrepreneur?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleBeing an entrepreneur has more to do with a state of mind than a state of employment. And when you think of being an entrepreneur, it doesn't just mean... -
Necessity, not Scarcity, is the Mother of Invention
Creativity Digital ArticleBravo for companies that are starting to focus on innovation again! It’s about time. But even with this renewed attention to innovation, some managers keep projects resource-starved, in the belief that scarcity drives creative invention. Although ingenuity can sometimes spring up when means are scarce, managers beware: It is a dangerous miscalculation to think that […] -
Research: Arab Inventors Make the U.S. More Innovative
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How Biometrics Are Transforming the Customer Experience
Innovation Digital ArticleAs technology like facial recognition becomes more pervasive, companies need to prioritize privacy and security. -
Don't Let Them Steal Your Inventions
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA new U.S. patent regime gives rights to the "first inventor to file." You'd better make sure it's you. -
Recession: The Mother of Invention?
Inventions Digital ArticleWith soaring oil and food prices, falling home values, and the credit crunch beginning to take their toll on the U.S. economy, it’s a terrible time to try to expand businesses or innovate, right? Not necessarily. By some accounts, the worst of economic times—the Great Depression—was actually a rich period of management invention. I discovered […] -
Filing for a Patent Versus Keeping Your Invention a Trade Secret
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA checklist to help you decide. -
Lessons on Customer Engagement from Fan Controlled Football
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThe esports venture uses blockchain to let fans call the shots in real time. -
Research: Companies Led by Inventors Produce Better Innovations
Innovation & Leadership ResearchAccording to a study of 935 CEOs. -
Game-Changing Inventions
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A Network of Invention
Collaboration and teams Magazine ArticleCreativity in a community of inventors hinges on a few well-placed players. -
Who Owns Hackathon Inventions?
Innovation Digital ArticleDon’t let valuable IP slip through your fingers. -
Advertisers Must Be Inventors
Marketing Digital ArticleModern marketing success requires more than great commercials.
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PAREXEL International Corp.: Scaling Up
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Through the lens of biopharmaceutical contract research organization (CRO) PAREXEL, this case traces the evolution of the firm as it reinvents itself... -
Mary Kay Inc.: Enriching Women's Lives while Embracing Change
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In December 2020, Mary Kay Inc. Chief Marketing Officer Sheryl Adkins-Green considered several strategic dilemmas. Founded in 1963 by Mary Kay Ash, Mary... -
Nexleaf Analytics: Saving the World Using the Internet of Things
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 2019, a decade after co-founding Nexleaf Analytics, CEO Nithya Ramanathan faced an important decision that would impact the ability of the small, but... -
Cobalt Robotics: Scaling Workplace Robotics
Management Case Study11.95View Details Founded in 2016, Cobalt Robotics, based in Fremont, California, was a Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) company that built autonomous workplace robots that were... -
Tomorrow.io Goes to Space
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In March 2021, the weather company Tomorrow.io announced a new project to develop satellites equipped with radar for weather monitoring and launch them... -
Martine Rothblatt and United Therapeutics: A Series of Implausible Dreams
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 1990, satellite expert and Sirius XM founder Martine Rothblatt was determined to save the life of her seven-year-old daughter, Jenesis, who was diagnosed... -
Mastercard: Creating a World Beyond Cash
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In late 2021, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach and Chairman and former CEO Ajaypal "Ajay" Banga considered how Mastercard could best position itself for... -
invisaWear Smart Jewelry: Providing Peace of Mind
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details invisaWear is a start-up that used Internet of Things (IoT) technology to create a fashionable, single-purpose wearable for young females to provide them... -
John Deere Component Works (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The division has recognized the inadequacies of its existing, traditional cost system for estimating product costs. Describes the innovative activity-based... -
Regtech at HSBC
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Mark Cooke, Global Head of Operational Risk, needed to decide between a traditional regulatory control system and a new regtech system to manage non-financial... -
ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth,... -
JUUL and the Vaping Revolution
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In late 2019, San Francisco-based electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) maker JUUL Labs (pronounced "jewel") faced intense pressure. Sales of JUUL products... -
Le Frigorifique: Charles Tellier and the Creation of the Cold Chain (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details This case set describes the gale of creative destruction that came with the rise of refrigeration and the creation of a globalized food supply chain,... -
Telepass: From Tolling to Mobility Platform
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Telepass, until very recently the sole processor of electronic toll payments on Italy's highways, has ambitions beyond tolling. Since the mid-2010s, the... -
John D. Rockefeller and the Creation of Standard Oil
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Reconstructs the entrepreneurial journey of John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil and one of the most famous business figures in history. Traces... -
Telepass: From Tolling to Mobility Platform (Abridged)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Telepass, until very recently the sole processor of electronic toll payments on Italy's highways, has ambitions beyond tolling. Since the mid-2010s, the... -
JUUL and the Vaping Revolution: A 2022 Update
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This case provides a brief update (2019-2022) on the rise and fall of JUUL Labs, the maker of the popular JUUL e-cigarette. -
Leading The UK Vaccine Task Force
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the first six months of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, under the leadership of Kate Bingham. With a career spent in the private sector... -
Vytal: Packaging-as-a-Service
Management Case Study11.95View Details The Germany-based startup Vytal operated the largest digital-native reusable packaging-as-a-service network globally, having raised nearly €15 million,... -
Free and Open Source Software and Hardware
Management Case Study8.95View Details This technical note surveys the concepts of free and open source software and hardware. It introduces the concepts in general, providing a brief history...
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PAREXEL International Corp.: Scaling Up
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Through the lens of biopharmaceutical contract research organization (CRO) PAREXEL, this case traces the evolution of the firm as it reinvents itself... -
The Platform Thinking Process
Management Digital ArticleDigital platforms have completely reshaped everyday life in the modern world; nevertheless, innovation leaders do not always understand the importance... -
Mary Kay Inc.: Enriching Women's Lives while Embracing Change
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In December 2020, Mary Kay Inc. Chief Marketing Officer Sheryl Adkins-Green considered several strategic dilemmas. Founded in 1963 by Mary Kay Ash, Mary... -
Nexleaf Analytics: Saving the World Using the Internet of Things
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 2019, a decade after co-founding Nexleaf Analytics, CEO Nithya Ramanathan faced an important decision that would impact the ability of the small, but... -
Cobalt Robotics: Scaling Workplace Robotics
Management Case Study11.95View Details Founded in 2016, Cobalt Robotics, based in Fremont, California, was a Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) company that built autonomous workplace robots that were... -
Tomorrow.io Goes to Space
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In March 2021, the weather company Tomorrow.io announced a new project to develop satellites equipped with radar for weather monitoring and launch them... -
Martine Rothblatt and United Therapeutics: A Series of Implausible Dreams
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 1990, satellite expert and Sirius XM founder Martine Rothblatt was determined to save the life of her seven-year-old daughter, Jenesis, who was diagnosed... -
Connect Inventors with the Right Problems
Innovation Digital ArticleOpen innovation platforms are making it easier. -
Mastercard: Creating a World Beyond Cash
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In late 2021, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach and Chairman and former CEO Ajaypal "Ajay" Banga considered how Mastercard could best position itself for... -
invisaWear Smart Jewelry: Providing Peace of Mind
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details invisaWear is a start-up that used Internet of Things (IoT) technology to create a fashionable, single-purpose wearable for young females to provide them...