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The Innovation Premium: Our Methodology

see photosCourtesy Concur TechnologiesClick for full photo gallery: Most Innovative Small Companies Many “Most Innovative” rankings of companies begin by asking executives to vote on which firms they...

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The World’s Most Innovative Growth Companies

see photosCourtesy Concur TechnologiesClick for full photo gallery: Most Innovative Growth Companies Drew Houston of DropBox, featured on the latest cover of Forbes, is running a business on a great...

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How Procter & Gamble Keeps Its Innovation Edge

Bruce Brown of P&G Recently, we interviewed Bruce Brown, Chief Technology Officer at Procter & Gamble (#24 on our World’s Most Innovative Companies list). Responsible for the company’s...

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Are You An Innovative Entrepreneur?

Pop quiz:  How do you define an entrepreneur?   The typical answer—which is technically correct—is that an entrepreneur is anyone who starts a business.  That includes folks who start lawn care...

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How We Rank The World’s Most Innovative Companies

We’re proud to be in our second year of producing the World’s Most Innovative Companies list with Forbes. We set out to create something very different than other innovation rankings, which mostly end...

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Frequently Asked Questions About The Innovation Premium

We first published our ranking of the World’ Most Innovative Companies in our book, The Innovator’s DNA (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011) and, with Forbes, we now mark the second year of producing...

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How Innovative Leaders Maintain Their Edge

see photosBloomberg/ Getty ImagesClick for full photo gallery: The World's Most Innovative Companies This issue marks our second year collaborating with Forbes to rank the world’s most innovative...

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The Secret To Unleashing Genius

Amazon isn’t an easy place to work. Its managers set steep goals, scrimp on budgets and expect long hours. But there aren’t many better places to be employed if you like the messy work of coming up...

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How We Rank The World’s Most Innovative Companies 2013

Most innovation rankings are popularity contests based on past performance or editorial whims. We set out to create something very different with the World’s Most Innovative Companies list, using the...

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An FAQ On The Innovation Premium

We first published our ranking of the World’ Most Innovative Companies in our book, The Innovator’s DNA (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011) and, with Forbes, we now mark the third year of producing...

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How We Rank The World’s Most Innovative Companies 2014

Most innovation rankings are popularity contests based on past performance or editorial whims. We set out to create something very different with the World’s Most Innovative Companies list, using the...

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About ‘The Innovator’s Method’ Research

By Jeff Dyer, professor of strategy at BYU and Nathan Furr, professor of entrepreneurship at BYU. The examples and conclusions from The Innovator’s Method are drawn primarily from a sample of companies...

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How Being a Good Manager Can Make You a Bad Innovator

What does good management look like? We teach what we think are good management principles in literally thousands of business schools around the world. Yet Scott Cook, founder and leader of Intuit told...

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Can Governments Innovate?

Governments can and should innovate. They just need to apply the right tools. NASA has been in the news quite a bit recently, and as usual, with questions about the effectiveness of how they spend...

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How Godrej Became An Innovation Star

Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing  is a 115-year-old company that sells consumer goods in India, most notably household appliances. For years it succeeded by bringing technologies developed abroad, such...

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Decoding Tesla’s Secret Formula

By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Nathan Furr The first thing you notice when you step onto Tesla Motors’ production floor are the robots. Eight-foot-tall bright-red bots that look like Transformers,...

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Tesla’s High End Disruption Gamble

By Jeff Dyer, David Bryce For adherents of classic disruptive innovation theory, Tesla’s potential as a market disruptor is minimal. After all, the company doesn’t go after low-end, price-sensitive...

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How We Rank The Most Innovative Growth Companies 2016

[dam_gallery] Most innovation rankings are popularity contests based on past performance or editorial whims. We set out to create something very different with the World’s Most Innovative Companies...

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How We Rank The Most Innovative Companies 2016

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Tesla’s Innovations Are Transforming The Auto Industry

Photo: Guus Schoonewille/AFP/Getty Images Tesla. The company name evokes very different yet equally strong responses from critics and fans. Critics argue Tesla loses money on each car sold. Indeed,...

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