Anger at business schools
Fired up by some stinging criticism from a former student, Joel M. Podolny once at HBS and Yale, shows admirable contrition for the failure of MBA programs to equip executives and their consultant advisors to run firms well. In The Buck Stops (and Starts) at Business School he vents the anger on this he shares with those outside business schools, and blames the carving up of management challenges by function that leaves academics without a holistic appreciation of things. He says Read more
Innovation through integration
Another interesting one in HBR is Teaming up to Crack Innovation: Enterprise Integration. Essentially makes the same points as the HBS Working Knowledge article on P&G’s New Innovation Model, which, though it is on only one case, is more informative about what was actually done. P&G also pushed the model harder outside the organisation than the HBR article suggests.