MIT Sloan Management Review

Innovation

What Helps And Hinders Innovation?

Recent research explores the interdependencies between various approaches to innovation.

The Advantage Of Tolerating Failure

When venture capitalists are more tolerant of failure, the successful companies in their portfolio tend to be more innovative.

Does IP Strategy Have to Cripple Open Innovation?

How your IP strategy might be killing your open innovation activities — and what you can do to make it an enabler, even a builder of industrial ‘ecosystems,’ instead.

How to Manage Outside Innovation

Should external innovators be organized in collaborative communities or competitive markets? The answer depends on three crucial issues.

A Systematic Approach to Innovation

In an interesting book, two Wharton professors analyze the innovation process.

Innovation From the Inside Out

Nurturing a new and lasting idea doesn’t result from analyzing market data. Aspiring creators must act on what nonprofits already know: you get the best answers by burying yourself in the questions.

Toyota’s Secret: The A3 Report

How Toyota solves problems, creates plans, and gets new things done while developing an organization of thinking problem-solvers.

The Power of a Mobilized Community

A new book highlights the role of communities in the diffusion of radical innovations.

A Culture in Common

For innovation, corporate culture matters more than location.

Good Days for Disruptors

In the minds of many, the financial crisis has given innovation a black eye. Disruption theorist Clayton Christensen disagrees.

From The Magazine

Fall 2009

Special Report: Sustainability

8 Reasons That Sustainability Will Change Management

Michael S. Hopkins

Transparency, accidental innovation, trust, collaboration — as sustainability affects how the world works, so will it affect how business works in the world.

Intelligence: Management

Debunking Management Myths

Martha E. Mangelsdorf

In this interview, Henry Mintzberg questions some of the conventional wisdom about managerial work.