There is something ironic about the fact that a company that sells navigation information inside the car is three times as valuable as...

"Good artists copy, great artists steal." - Pablo Picasso Great art always draws upon deep images which are familiar to us on a...

I met a very bright young man today by the name of Ben Edelman, an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, who is involved in a...

A recent New York Times article mentioned that the very famous Nina Zagat was entering the Doctor rating business for insurance company...

My grandmother Catherine McCaig lived to be 105 years old, and worked until she was 99. She cried when she saw the beginning of James...

No one disagrees that we need to take doctor's records from their 17th century, paper-based, folio state into the electronic world, and...

Reading the above title you might think that I'm going to advocate a laissez-faire approach to management in which the Chief Executive...

Well, I admit it. I am fascinated by architecture. Not only the Notre Dame, can you believe the French are so conceited as to put a...

We used to love being the nation of the leading edge: the fastest and tallest of everything: fastest computers, tallest buildings,...

Many firms are trimming budgets - across the board. In general that is a bad idea - like when the Romans used to decimate the legions...

Back in 1993, Jeffrey Rayport and I were trying to understand the implications of the exploding information world. It was about a year...

The Kaiser Foundation recently released a study documenting the astounding fact that 8-18 year olds in the United States have increased...

One of the trickiest decisions in business is to assess: is this innovation too innovative for my firm? You need to decide, will the core...

Television is not dead - it has simply morphed to a innovative mode where new talent, stories, and content is bubbling up from the more...

This post was co-authored with Bret Schroeder and Tom Weakland and is also posted at HBR at http://tinyurl.com/yel2j3y Noncompliance with...

Walt Disney was equal parts technological genius and ancient story teller. He drew upon stories that reverberated with our humanity and...

There are few things in the world of commerce that I find more beautiful than the creation of a strategic itch that your main competitor...

Risk management is almost an oxymoron - like Jumbo Shrimp. Firms that are great at risk management are fastidious about statistically...

President-elect Obama is the first politician use the power of the network to create an edge-based organization -- and thereby raise more...

The iPhone is not just a device, it is an entire business design combining the device, price, and application innovation market. If...