Culture
How Innovative Is Your Company’s Culture?
A new assessment tool can help executives pinpoint a company’s innovation strengths and weaknesses.
Executing Strategy
Outsourcing Business Processes for Innovation
Many companies pursue business process outsourcing to trim costs. But it can evolve into much more.
Mary C. Lacity and Leslie P. Willcocks
Leadership Skills
Why Good Leaders Don’t Need Charisma
To judge by the business media, you’d think top executives have to have charisma. Think again.
Christian Stadler and Davis Dyer
Customers
Why Managing Consumer Privacy Can Be an Opportunity
Managing consumer data courteously can be a way to build a good relationship with customers.
Avi Goldfarb and Catherine Tucker
Collaboration
Reinventing Employee Onboarding
Employee orientation practices that focus on individual identity can lower employee turnover.
Daniel M. Cable, Francesca Gino, and Bradley R. Staats
Culture
The Inside and Outside View of Innovation
Two recent books focus on different aspects of innovation — within and outside the organization.
Alden M. Hayashi
Collaboration
Organizing R&D for the Future
The art of collaboration is one that many research and development organizations have yet to master.
Marla M. Capozzi, Peet Van Biljon and Jim Williams
Digital Marketing
The Myth About Viral Marketing
Viral marketing is an appealing idea, but it doesn’t describe how online adoption usually happens.
Michael Fitzgerald
Executing Strategy
Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School
Open innovation was used in diabetes research to bring greater openness into every stage of research.
Eva Guinan, Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
Innovation Strategy
Bringing Research and Practice Together
Executives and academic researchers have perspectives that can complement one another.
Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Boards & Corporate Governance
The Trouble With Too Much Board Oversight
Is board oversight — helpful as it can be — detrimental to innovation?
Olubunmi Faleye, Rani Hoitash and Udi Hoitash
Executing Strategy
The Importance of IT-Enabled Flexibility in Alliances
New research shows that flexible IT can help facilitate strategic alliances.
Ali Tafti, Sunil Mithas and M.S. Krishnan
Boards & Corporate Governance
Bringing Opportunity Oversight Onto the Board’s Agenda
Boards need to monitor not only a company’s risks but also its ability to generate opportunities.
Larry Bennigson and Frank S. Leonard
Business Models
Optimizing Your Digital Business Model
If you lack a good digital business model, your customers may leave you behind.
Peter Weill and Stephanie L. Woerner
Talent Management
How Much Does a Company’s Reputation Matter in Recruiting?
New research sheds light on the role of a reputation for corporate social responsibility in hiring.
Pat Auger, Timothy M. Devinney, Grahame R. Dowling, Christine Eckert and Nidthida Lin
Climate Change
Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility to a Cynical Public
Unless companies communicate their CSR achievements wisely, they risk being accused of greenwashing.