Harvard Business School
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Disruptors sell what customers want and let competitors sell what they don't
By "decoupling" activities that consumers value from the ones they don't, enterprising digital startups are wreaking havoc on established firms. Thales Teixeira discusses his research on the second wave of Internet disruption
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Three ways firms can profit from environmental investments
Rebecca Henderson, John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, lays out three ways for firms to profit from investing in environmental sustainability: forestalling risk, increasing operational efficiency, and selling to the environmental niche
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Are technology companies ripe for disruption?
Today's tech products seem increasingly stuffed, full of features most users don't want - kindling for igniting Clayton Christensen's disruptive innovation. Is information technology the next industry to be disrupted? What do you think?
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Where did my shopping mall go?
The growing popularity of online shopping is remaking the world of offline shopping-stores are getting smaller, malls are getting scarcer. Rajiv Lal and José Alvarez look ahead five years at our radically transforming shopping experience
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How to break the expert's curse
Experts could be our most powerful teachers-but often they've lost the ability to connect with novices. Research by Ting Zhang reveals how experts can rediscover the experience of inexperience
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What are the limits on workplace transparency?
Should your salary number be available to everyone in your organization? Are businesses going too far or not far enough in becoming more transparent? What do YOU think?
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The quest for better layoffs
Professor Sandra Sucher wants to change the way business thinks about workforce reductions. "We want people to learn about the forces they unleash in the firm when they institute layoffs."
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How our brain determines if the product is worth the price
Are consumers more likely to buy if they see the price before the product, or vice versa? Uma Karmarkar and colleagues scan the brains of shoppers to find out
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Are we entering an era of Neuromanagement?
Will you be taking a brain-scan for your next job interview? Jim Heskett explores the emerging world of neuromanagement and what it means for both organizations and employees. What do YOU think?
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Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
When companies create new products, they are often also inventing new ideas—and that's where the real value resides. Gautam Ahuja discusses why companies fall short in fully exploiting their intellectual capital.
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Become a Value Creator
Managers who adopt a mindset to create value hold the key to becoming truly successful leaders, says Brian Hall