Writing goals and plans down on paper and defining them, precisely, help us productively confront what's in our minds and hearts. Chiseled words can help bring clarity and guidance. For that reason, ...

I love learning innovation so much that, along with my collaborator Eddie Maloney, we are trying to build a new interdisciplinary field. In higher ed, sometimes the best way to get some traction in ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. For most of the past 2500 years innovation was understood with a modifier: political innovation ...

Innovation is hard to define. Is it one major breakthrough that can change the world? Is it a novel product that meets the needs of a mass audience? Is it just something cool? We know something is ...

One of the most important things my team at Penn GSE works on is our ongoing endeavor to understand and theorize education innovation ecosystems, even as we build one. My years in edtech (see my last ...

Innovation labs, with their aspirations to foster systemic change, have become a mainstay of the social innovation scene. Used by city administrations, NGOs, think tanks, and multinational ...

Professor Gary Hamel, founder of the Strategos Consulting Firm and a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and the London Business School, ...

Throughout my time as executive director of MIT Solve, an initiative that seeks to drive transformational change in the world, I have learned and relearned a key lesson: Innovation is not what or who ...

In this book I integrate new theory and new research findings into the framework of a “free innovation paradigm.” Free innovation involves innovations developed and given away by consumers as a “free ...

A business can be distinctive and successful for a variety of reasons, one of which is innovation. Most companies mistakenly think that innovation is limited to creating ground-breaking tasks that ...

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. Uber doesn’t. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “What is Disruptive Innovation?” ...

Amidst all the banging on from the Australian government on the topics of innovation, agility, and exciting times, one question has yet to be answered: What exactly is an innovative company that is ...