Lean business model

Researchers found a downside to messages of empowerment.

They’re reinventing their appliance business with rapid prototyping.

At mature companies, it’s tougher to turn on a dime.

Researchers found educationally diverse teams perform better, but adding MBAs to the mix has both negative and positive effects.

Inexpensive videos can sell products, but you’ve got to know what works (and what doesn’t).

And it’s changing the way they do science.

How entrepreneurship changes when cash is abundant.

According to a survey of executives.

Success can skyrocket when lessons are systematically captured and made available to everyone.

Empathetic design takes more time but delivers better results.

Too much testing can backfire.

It puts a premium on customer experience, but undervalues strategic thinking.

The “Toyota” principles can also be effective in operations involving judgment and expertise

A faster, smarter methodology for launching companies may make business plans obsolete.

Editor’s note: For more on the future of health care visit the HBR Insight Center on Health Care Innovations. In the April issue of HBR, Tom Lee describes the story of Gary Kaplan applying lean methodologies he learned from Boeing executives to improve performance at Seattle’s Virginia Mason Health Center. As much as health care […]

For decades, the business world has been fixated on achieving sustainable competitive advantage, a position within an industry that allows a company to...

Start-ups need both agility and direction.

Large-scale planning isn’t the answer.

Three pointers for using the theory in practice.

Online video offers a way to achieve higher engagement with consumers for far less money.