Focus More on Value Capture
Stefan Michel, professor at IMD, says your business should rethink how it captures value, not just how it creates it.
Episodes
HBR IdeaCast
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Episodes
Does Your Sales Team Know Your Strategy?
Frank Cespedes, HBS professor and author of "Aligning Strategy and Sales," explains how to get the front line on board.
How Google Manages Talent
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, and Jonathan Rosenberg, former SVP of products, explain how the company manages their smart, creative team.
Fixing the College Grad Hiring Process
Sanjeev Agrawal, Collegefeed cofounder and CEO, explains what recruiters, new graduates, and college career centers need to do differently.
How Silicon Valley Became Uncool
Walter Frick, HBR editor, explains why we valorize tech heroes from the past, but scoff at today's entrepreneurs.
The Condensed October 2014 Issue
Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.
The Fall of the Talent Economy?
Roger Martin, former dean of the Rotman School of Management, on why talent's powerful economic position is unsustainable.
Privacy’s Shrinking Future
Scott Berinato, senior editor at Harvard Business Review, on how companies benefit from transparency about customer data.
How to Stop Corporate Inversions
Bill George and Mihir Desai, professors at Harvard Business School, explain why our corporate tax code is driving American business overseas.
Prevent Employees from Leaking Data
David Upton and Sadie Creese, both of Oxford, explain why the scariest threats are from insiders.
The Condensed September 2014 Issue
Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.
The Art of Managing Science
J. Craig Venter, the biologist who led the effort to sequence human DNA, on unlocking the human genome and the importance of building extraordinary teams for long-term results.
The Dangers of Confidence
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor at University College London, on how confidence masks incompetence.
The Future of Talent Is Potential
Linda Hill, Harvard Business School professor, and Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, senior adviser at Egon Zehnder, on the talent strategies that set up a company for long-term success.
To Do Things Better, Stop Doing So Much
Greg McKeown, author of "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less," on the importance of being "absurdly selective" in how we use our time.
Marc Andreessen and Jim Barksdale on How to Make Money
The tech luminaries on bundling and unbundling in the digital age.
The Fukushima Meltdown That Didn’t Happen
Charles Casto, recently retired from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, on how smart leadership saved the second Fukushima power plant.
Yang Yuanqing: The HBR Interview
Lenovo's CEO on how the PC leader is poised to win in the "PC plus" world.
The Condensed July-August 2014 Issue
Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.
When to Go with Your Gut
Gerd Gigerenzer, director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, on how to know when simple rules and snap decisions will outperform analytical models.
Succeeding Quietly in Our Recognition-Obsessed Culture
David Zweig, author of "Invisibles," on employees who value good work over self-promotion.
The Secret History of White-Collar Offices
Nikil Saval, editor at n+1, on how gender, politics, and unions have affected the American workplace since the Civil War.
Cross-Culture Work in a Global Economy
Erin Meyer, affiliate professor at INSEAD and author of "The Culture Map," on why memorizing a list of etiquette rules doesn't work.
How to Manage Wall Street
Sam Palmisano, former CEO of IBM, on striking a balance between running a company for the long term and keeping investors happy.
Taking Business Back from Wall Street
Gautam Mukunda, HBS professor, on the dangers of managing companies for shareholders.
Time Is a Company’s Most Valuable Resource
Michael Mankins, partner at Bain & Company, on how to get the most out of meetings.
Ruth Reichl on Challenging Career Moves
The renowned author and former editor of Gourmet talks about the magazine's closure and her recent transition to fiction writing.
Social Physics Can Change Your Company (and the World)
Sandy Pentland, MIT professor, on how big data is revealing the science behind how we work together, based on his book "Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread."
Best of the IdeaCast
Featuring Jeff Bezos, Howard Schultz, Francis Ford Coppola, Maya Angelou, Nancy Koehn, Rob Goffee, Gareth Jones, Cathy Davidson, and Mark Blyth.
How Companies Can Embrace Speed
John Kotter, author of "Accelerate," on how slow-footed organizations can get faster.