Let's just cut to the chase, shall we? Business travel sucks. It's always been difficult. Today it's horrendous. In the next few years it could be unbearable as airlines consolidate routes and pile on fees. So veteran business traveler Marshall Goldsmith checks in to Harvard Business with...
The Nintendo Wii wants YOU!!! -- if you are overweight, a mom, a dad, older, or worried about your fading mental skills. In other words, if you are anyone but the traditional video gamer. Welcome to the world of Wii Fit, an $89 physical...
Harvard Business Review Editor Thomas A. Stewart has a thought-provoking list for you to contemplate, and its title doesn't lack for confidence: 9 Sure Bets For The Future. To give you a flavor, here are three of the nine trends Stewart thinks are sure enough for you...
Quarterlife was a made-for-MySpace show chronicling the lives of its young digital-age protagonists. It did OK on MySpace. Then the "good" news hit: NBC picked up the show last November, the first time in the US that a made-for-Internet program jumped to a TV network. ...
Harvard Business Review has just published its top breakthrough business ideas for 2008 Registration required. The list of 22 trends ranges wide, from a public transit agency that uses crowd sourcing to improve service, to hackers who increasingly are outsourcing their nefarious deeds to service providers. Want a real...
An ascendant philosophy in the area of product development and marketing goes like this: focus on a few products but do them better than anyone else; fire your least profitable customers and shower love on the money makers; choose carefully distribution partners who will add value rather than...
Quarterback Tom Brady and head coach Bill Belichick are key contributors to the year-after-year success of the football New England Patriots. No doubt. But an even greater reason for the Pats' consistent high performance level is the organization behind it. Like any great business, the...
The music industry is often excoriated for viewing electronic downloads as enemy rather than opportunity. It has a hate-love relationship with Apple, creator of the iPod and iTunes. It has a love-hate relationship with its own artists such as Prince who are trying to use digital to break the old...
Academics are increasingly studying strategy and competition in markets dominated by "platforms." What's a platform? They are products created to be platforms on top of which other companies can sell products and services. Cell phones are a platform -- they provided a multi-billion business for ring...
For the second holiday season in a row, Nintendo has botched forecasted demand for the Wii game system, leaving frustrated potential buyers clutching at -- well, nothing. Is it really this hard this hard to forecast? In a new blog on Harvard Business, Yossi Sheffi...
Amazon's new electronic book, Kindle, addresses many of the mistakes made by previous entries in this highly unsuccessful market. Better display. Low-priced titles. Built-in networking. Too bad Amazon forgot the key ingredient to technology platform success: openness. David Weinberger, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet...
Lifehacker.com is my favorite source of inspiration for tips on personal productivity -- just a beautifully designed, written, and frequently updated source of organizational goodness. So I was happy to read this interview with Lifehacker lead editor Gina Trapani on Harvard Business Publishing, written by Scott Berkun....
We've been a big advocate in this space of focus and simplicity. Focusing on a product or service with a small feature set provides your organization with a clear target around which to concentrate and innovate. Simplicity is the attribute that most likely is going to entice your customers to...
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