Business models

Why a dry-cleaning app will never make money.

Five of the 10 most valuable companies in the world today--Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft--derive much of their worth from their multisided...

To survive over the long haul, a company must reinvent itself periodically, jumping from the flattening end of one business performance curve to the rising...

Lumiscape, a manufacturer of high-tech streetlights, has recently decided to switch from a direct sale business model to a subscription service, in which...

Marriott, GE, and other traditional companies are finding opportunities to join the so-called collaborative economy--the space best known for start-ups...

Now that providing services is more lucrative than making products, the old foundations for success in manufacturing are crumbling. Smart manufacturers are creating new business models to capture profits at the customer’s end of the value chain.

They need an ecosystem-level view.

Many Western multinationals expect to find most of their future growth in emerging economies. But they have frequently struggled to exploit the opportunity,...

Innovation comes from rethinking, not incremental improvements.

Formulate a hypothesis and rigorously test your ideas.

And how courageous leaders are overcoming them

It’s true for both startups like Slack and mature companies like Domino’s.

The pandemic has led to radical - and rapid - shifts in consumer behavior.

With the right compensation scheme, you might help turn less-skilled team members into solid performers.

The causes are usually internal.

There's nothing revolutionary about being a middleman.

A guide to making health care more accessible, affordable, and effective.

Just before he stepped down as CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs tried to buy Dropbox for Apple. But he and Dropbox founder, Drew Houston, had a dispute about...

If you want people to listen, do away with finger-pointing and focus on shared values and goals.

Turn the emotional relationships your company has with its followers into revenue.