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Clay Christensen's "disruptive innovation" explained why good companies fail. Now he's back to say disruption can help companies endure. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A MOTEL 6 ON A nondescript stretch of First […]

From Boom to Bust to War to Whatever Comes Next. Superstar investor Roger McNamee defines the new era of business and finance and shows where the smart money is headed. [...]

Can money buy happiness? (You'd be surprised!) What is the measure of true wealth? (Hint: Don't look at your brokerage statement.) Why do so many people with high incomes have […]

Why are so many women so passionate about shopping at Anthropologie? Because Glen Senk and his colleagues aren't just selling clothes and furnishings. They're selling a sense of adventure and [...]

Chris albrecht the 49-year-old president of HBO original programming, is standing in the middle of his beige-toned corner office on the sun-drenched top floor of a Century City tower, surrounded […]

THE FIRST THING YOU SEE WHEN YOU WALK INTO THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT MONTEFIORE IS A GLOWING GLASS MURAL OF THE MILKY WAY. THE SWIRL OF COSMIC BLUES AND PURPLES […]

Is the relationship just not working out? It's time for some counseling from the money shrink, Pamela York Klainer. Can money ever buy happiness? Only if you can learn how […]

Do you need a fresh start on creativity? Stanford professor Robert Sutton is a unique voice with an urgent message about how to generate and capitalize on new ideas. (*) […]

Computer-services pioneer is reinventing itself as a professional-services firm for the Information Age by featuring one-stop shopping with gourmet service. FROM THE GLASS-ENCLOSED AERIE OF A lobby perched atop a […]

WITH ALL THE ENTHUSIASM OF children let loose in Willy Wonka's wondrous chocolate factory, several hundred executives, scientists, and other professionals swarmed into the building near the banks of the […]

2 LEADING-EDGE CORPORATIONS ARE STRIVING TO WEAVE THEIR ENTIRE ORGANIZATIONS--AS WELL AS THE PIECES OF THEIR SUPPLY CHAINS INTO RESILIENT AND RESPONSIVE FABRICS FOR CAPTURING CUSTOMERS. DEBI COLEMAN, CHIEF EXECUTIVE […]

ASK ANY EMPLOYEE OF MAVERICK OUTDOOR RETAILER Patagonia Inc. to describe the company's mission, and the response will not stray far from that offered by Hal Arneson, director of creative […]

SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, GARY HAMEL, A CONSULTANT and professor of strategic and international management at the London Business School, stood before a sea of top planning officials somewhat embarrassed, he […]

BOB WALKER, DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE INformation systems at HewlettPackard Co., Palo Alto, Calif., remembers a time when employees would start out the day around the coffee pot, eating donuts and […]

SLOWLY BUT SURELY, THE SOFT GLOW OF environmental enlightenment is spreading across industry. Corporations increasingly are recognizing the connection between their products and processes and ecological impacts such as the […]

With a quirky redesign, Lars Kolind overturned this Danish hearing-aid manufacturer into the "ultimate flexible organization." LARS KOLIND MUST HAVE SEEMED AN UNLIKELY TURNAROUND ARTIST when he joined Oticon Holding […]

FUTURISTS REVERBERATING WITH tidings of the next epochal business revolution--the "creative revolution." While the ultimate form of this "next wave" (the third or fourth, depending on whom you consult) remains […]

Perhaps the kinder, gentler 1990s have succeeded in atomizing the Neutron Jack of the early '80s. Or, as crazy as it sounds, perhaps there never really was a Neutron Jack. […]

He may be the most influential consultant you've never heard of. He's certainly one of the most creative. And his new ideas about strategy are powering a number of high-profile [...]

A new breed of players discards the script and improvises the roles to bring the hidden assets in the corporate drama to life. HENRY FORD USED TO lament getting "the […]

Hidden value streams are bonanzas for managers learning to cultivate and capitalize on the new corporate gold. FOR A STRETCH FROM THE EARLY 18TH TO THE MID-19TH CENTURY, Americans were […]

Paul Romer has flipped the "dismal science" sunny side up with his insights on technology's contribution to growth. His take on the economics of innovation might change the way policy […]

A new survey helps managers separate the buzz from the tool and choose the right one for the job. DESPITE THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to teach an […]

(But who rules ideas?) Who would quarrel with the idea that ideas themselves are the most powerful currency in the new world of business? The real fight is over who [...]

Net Attitude: What It Is, How to Get It, and Why Your Company Can't Survive Without It, by John R. Patrick (Perseus, 2001) As the Internet Revolution has given way [...]

Or, What Business Can Learn From Ants For a book that begins with an account of the habits of slime mold, Steven Johnson's Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, [...]

Marcus Buckingham is that truly rare thinker and consultant: He makes it his job to speak truth to power. He teaches CEOs how to get the most out of their […]

Next: The Future Just Happened by Michael Lewis (W.W. Norton & Company, 2001) Michael Lewis has a knack for tapping the business zeitgeist. In Liar's Poker, he exposed the brittle [...]

Gallup guru Marcus Buckingham advises some of the world's most powerful CEOs. He also helps hard-charging leaders who aren't CEOs make the most of their talents. What would he think […]

The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business (Harvard Business School Press, 2001) By Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck Davenport and Beck are not the first writers [...]

WHEN WE LAST SPOKE WITH PIP COBURN, global technology strategist for UBS Warburg, he offered a bracing outlook on his field of expertise: "Tech stocks are going to be volatile […]

WHAT HAPPENS when you pack the technology industry's leading luminaries and a handful of the media elite's most celebrated boldface names onto a single stage in a single day? At [...]

Blurring the line between fun and work not only humanizes organizations but strengthens the bottom line. WHEN FORMER YANKEES manager Casey Stengel advised that "the secret [of being a good […]

TECHNO-LITERACY Re-schooling management minds for the knowledge age. AFTER NEARLY 40 YEARS TO ALLOW PETER Drucker's conception of knowledge work" to sink in, managers are turning a serious eye toward […]

GE's crusading CEO sees only more good things ahead the sooner the better. IN INIMITABLE TABLOID FASHION, a New York paper placed odds on General Electric Co. top executives last […]

IN HER NEW BOOK, FAD SURFING IN THE BOARDROOM (Addison-Wesley), Cambridge, Mass.-based management consultant Eileen Shapiro defines fad surfing as "the practice of riding the crest of the latest management […]

Between chaos and control, EDS finds a way for companies to have their cake and eat it toe in the new information environment. LOOKING DOWN FROM A ROW OF SLEEK […]

Media violence emerges as the next frontier in the ever-expanding realm of corporate social responsibility. IN HIS RECENT EXCORIATION OF the entertainment industry for the marketing of"mindless violence and loveless […]

LOOKING BACK TO THE BUSINESS BOOKshelves of twenty-five years ago from today's Babel of management books reveals a remarkably sparse and bland mix of guidebooks, textbooks, and rulebooks. Labor-relations primers, […]

LOOKING BACK TO THE BUSINESS bookshelves of twenty-five years ago from today's Babel of management books reveals a remarkably sparse and bland mix of guidebooks, textbooks, and rulebooks. Labor-relations primers, […]

A French team fabricates the first fully organic flexible transistor. AS GEE-WHIZ FUTURISTIC FANTASIES, wearable electronics and "smart" habitats predate Dick Tracy and the Jetsons. Now, in light of a […]

AS THE WORLD HURTLES TOWARD THE KNOWLEDGE economy, education reform has shot to the top of the business community's collective wish list. With schools locked into a "command and control" […]

Mexico and Chile are rated 1-2 as the region's economies move forward. DESPITE WIDESPREAD ECONOMIC REFORM AND increasing trade liberalization, Latin America is neither coherent nor integrated as a region. […]

THE CULTIVATION OF CREATIVITY IN ORGANIZATIONS IS the turf of the worker's immediate manager. John Kao, a Harvard Business School senior lecturer on creativity and organizations, envisions that the "job […]

THE FIRST ANNUAL BOZELL-GALLUP "WORLDWIDE Quality Poll" will not unseat you with explosive findings. It does not aim to. Rather, with a simple question asked of consumers in 20 countries-"In […]

BEFORE THE DONALD CLAIMED IT, the term "apprenticeship" referred to the quaint notion of learning a trade from a master. Of course, Trump's The Apprentice has little to do with […]