In the Developing World, MOOCs Start to Get Real

Putting free U.S. college courses online is only the first step to filling higher education needs around the world.As online education platforms like Coursera, edX, and Udacity burst onto the scene over the past year, backers have talked up their pot

Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview

An interview with Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. For more, see the April issue of HBR. Download this podcast A written transcript will be available by March 22.

Go Toward Your Fear, Do Less, And Five More Surprising Leadership Lessons For Women

Lori Senecal, chairman and CEO of New York-based ad agency Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners (kbs), has learned a thing or two about climbing to the top. She worked her way up to president of the flagship New York office of storied ad agency McCann

“Soft SOPA” & How Copyright Disrupts Technology Innovation

Copyright. Innovation. Free speech. These firestarting issues and the relationship between creation, law and technology were the topics in a Sunday panel that just may have been the sleeper hit of SXSW. Speakers included Andrew Bridges, partner at Fe

Profitable Growth Strategies

For many years I’ve been looking for comprehensive, high quality, affordable training to help small business owners to grow their businesses profitably. At one stage, I tried to develop my own training system and spent a huge amount of time working o

Time For An Education System Makeover

Our educational system needs a makeover – not based on politics or standardized test scores but on what we know about how our brains work and how we learn. Continue reading →

Why the ‘most innovative companies’ aren’t

You may recognize their brands, but these admired companies have few practices in common that would distinguish them from the rest of the rabble.

How to Be a Highly Innovative Company

Innovation isn’t just one persons job. A highly innovative company makes innovation the norm throughout the organization, from top to bottom.Watch most organizations operate and you’ll find that innovation typically emerges from one of three sources:

Customer Lifecycle: Choose your customers first

It seems obvious, doesn’t it? Each cohort of customers has a particular worldview, a set of problems, a small possible set of solutions available. Each cohort has a price they’re willing to pay, a story they’re willing to hear, a

Choose your customers first

It seems obvious, doesn’t it? Each cohort of customers has a particular worldview, a set of problems, a small possible set of solutions available. Each cohort has a price they’re willing to pay, a story they’re willing to hear, a