• Innovation & Disruption

Digital is a known disruptor across industries at this point. And yet, incumbent businesses are struggling to respond. According to George Corbin, who has led digital strategy at two major established companies, the roadblock to innovation is simple — “It’s the operating model, stupid.”

• Innovation & Disruption

How can you be nimble and code switch as an established company? How can you think and act like a startup, but maintain large, ongoing operations? Change Logic’s Andy Binns unpacks ambidexterity as a way for incumbent firms to pause, adapt, and get ahead.

• Managing in the Digital Economy

The good, the bad, and the ugly. Professor Sunil Gupta has seen it all when big companies try to make digital transformation happen within their walls. His conclusion? The rules of strategy have changed in the digital age and large organizations need to start asking tough questions (across the board) to compete.

• Innovation & Disruption

How do you breathe fresh air into an established ecosystem? The Harvard Innovation Labs — one of the largest innovation centers at an institution that’s been around for 382 years — knows a thing or two about navigating change. This article shares ways established institutions can make way for innovation. We’re all ears.

• Innovation & Disruption

There’s no denying sports venues are at risk of extinction. That is, if they don’t future-proof. Sports Innovation Lab uncovers three areas venues should reimagine to stay in the game.

• Innovation & Disruption

You don’t get more incumbent than a library. So what’s a library to do when the world goes digital? Here’s a peek inside how HBS’ Baker Library is reinventing the customer experience by leveraging digital technology.

• Data and Analysis

You heard correctly. Target is successfully navigating the “retail is dead” — or at least drastically evolving — era. Professor Srikant Datar’s recent case study unpacks how Target went from data rich, but insights poor to lucratively leveraging the information it was collecting. You could say, Target’s in the retail and data business now.