For the Hotel Business, it’s TripAdvisor or Bust
Research says that 85% of people will make a purchase after reading online reviews about a product or service. This has had huge implications for the hotel industry and helps explain why TripAdvisor, ...
19 Sep 201613min
The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black Female Entrepreneurs
Though not everyone may know her name, Madam C.J. Walker helped invent what have become staples of our modern country and economy: national sales forces, corporate social responsibility, and, yes, eve...
19 Sep 201617min
The Space Shuttle Columbia’s Final Mission
No organization wants to fail. But even for the best and the brightest, failure is inevitable, and occasionally that failure can be catastrophic. Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson descri...
19 Sep 201612min
The Power of Presence at the Podium
Running for office requires a lot of public speaking. But often, it’s what candidates aren’t saying that can make or break their campaigns. Take the case of Dan Silver, an experienced congressional ca...
19 Sep 201612min
A Microchip in Your Medicine
Digitally-enabled prescription medication may sound futuristic. Thanks to Proteus, the future is now. The company has developed the technology to place microchips inside prescription pills, allowing d...
19 Sep 201611min
Designing a Great Community
How do you manage a community, grow it, and sustain it? Threadless has done it since 2007 by crowdsourcing its T-shirt designs and selling the best ones. Harvard Business School professor Karim Lakhan...
19 Sep 201611min
Planning Change: Lessons from the World of Retail
Ron Johnson's career path has featured stops at some of the world’s largest and most innovative retailers, including Target, Apple, and J.C. Penney. At each stop, Johnson learned invaluable lessons, l...
19 Sep 201612min
Leadership from Below
Harvard Business School professor Rohit Deshpande discusses lessons for leaders from the heroic and selfless acts of the Taj Palace staff during the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai.
19 Sep 201611min
