82 results for "Bronwyn Fryer"
It’s become pretty much common knowledge that great innovation springs from the ability to pull two unlike things together to create a beautiful third. Steve Jobs famously shifted a paradigm when he fused calligraphy with technology to create the Mac’s graphical user interface. Many great inventions fuse something very simple, cheap and widely accessible — […]
Feb 07, 2012
What makes visionary entrepreneurs such as Apple’s Steve Jobs, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Ebay’s Pierre Omidyar and Meg Whitman, and P&G’s A.G. Lafley tick? In a question-and-answer session with HBR contributing editor Bronwyn Fryer, Professors Jeff Dyer of Brigham Young University and Hal Gregersen of Insead explain how the “Innovators’ DNA” works. Fryer: You conducted a […]
Sep 28, 2009
No matter how we rail against the status quo, most of us are reluctant to take action in the workplace. Faced with choosing between our values and jobs,...
HBR's editors searched for the best new ideas related to the practice of management and came up with a collection that is as diverse as it is provocative....
Companies today glorify the executive who logs 100-hour workweeks, the road warrior who lives out of a suitcase in multiple time zones, and the negotiator...
Business leadership has become synonymous in the public eye with unethical behavior. Widespread scandals, massive layoffs, and inflated executive pay...
During his nearly 14 years at the helm of networking giant Cisco Systems, Chambers has developed an uncanny ability to sense market trends long before...
The historian David McCullough, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and well-known public television host, has spent his career thinking about the qualities...
Bronwyn Fryer is a senior editor at the Harvard Business Review. Why don’t companies do better job of making sure leaders are good at their most important job – that is, leading? You’d think we’d all have learned by now. After all, it’s long been known that it’s a bad idea to put people with […]
Jul 02, 2007
Stress is an essential response in highly competitive environments. Before a race, before an exam, before an important meeting, your heart rate and blood...
Let's say you're someone over 55 who has enjoyed roaring success in your career, launched your kids, called it quits. You've made your mark and your moolah,...
Mar 12, 2010
The Internet was supposed to make it possible for anybody anywhere to get anything anytime. Instead, it's magnified suppliers' miscalculations into global...
In a shocking study published in 2006, Don McCabe of Rutgers University and fellow researchers found that MBAs cheat more than other graduate students...
Apr 17, 2009
A homogeneous workforce can be a hindrance when it comes to innovation. In this interview, Chris Anderson--the chairman and host of the annual Technology,...
Most people think of Napster when they think of peer-to-peer systems. Nirav Tolia, CEO of Epinions, explains why the power of peer-to-peer goes far beyond...
