HBR On Strategy
Business strategy isn’t just a plan, it’s a framework for success.
Whether you’re building, innovating, or executing, HBR On Strategy is your destination for insights and inspiration from the world’s top experts on business strategy and innovation.
Every Wednesday, the editors at the Harvard Business Review hand-picked case studies and conversations from across HBR podcasts, videos, articles, and beyond to help you unlock new ways of doing business.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 117
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Using New Tech to Compete in an Old Industry
The insurance industry is centuries old and has historically been dominated by a few large incumbents. To buy insurance, customers usually go through a broker or an agent. But the industry is experie…
00:27:06 |
Wed 12 Feb 2025
The Key to Sustaining an Enduring Competitive Advantage
It’s a holy grail for many businesses — the search for sustainable competitive advantage. But Chris Zook points out that it’s elusive for most companies. He notes that less than one in ten achieve pr…
00:18:55 |
Wed 05 Feb 2025
A Restaurant Innovator’s Recipe for Strategic Growth
For a long time in the restaurant industry, there were two types of dining experiences: fast food or table service. But Ron Shaich, founder and former chairman and CEO of Panera Bread, managed to cre…
00:31:51 |
Wed 29 Jan 2025
A Middle Manager’s Guide to Executing Strategy
Imagine this scenario: Your company’s executive team has just announced their new master plan for growing the business. Now it’s your job, as a mid-level manager, to put it into practice. So where do…
00:46:35 |
Wed 22 Jan 2025
Competitive Strategy Lessons from the LIV Golf and PGA Tour Merger
In June 2022, the first ever LIV Golf event teed off outside of London. Offering players larger prizes and more flexibility, LIV Golf aimed to disrupt the sport. In response, the PGA Tour suspended a…
00:27:57 |
Wed 15 Jan 2025
Strategies for Managing Talent Amid Uncertainty and Competition
In the last half century, relationships between employers and their employees have evolved away from being rooted in long-term loyalty to a new paradigm of short-term alliances driven by uncertainty …
00:21:20 |
Wed 08 Jan 2025
How McKinsey Resisted Disruption
The consulting firm McKinsey has helped its clients navigate disruption in a wide range of industries. But what can we learn from how McKinsey itself responded to disruption in the management consult…
00:29:02 |
Wed 01 Jan 2025
What It Takes to Thrive During a Crisis
Why did some companies thrive during the Covid-19 pandemic while others struggled? Keith Ferrazzi, founder of the consulting firm Ferrazzi Greenlight, surveyed more than 2,000 executives to learn how…
00:23:43 |
Wed 25 Dec 2024
How Glossier Maintained Brand Integrity While Scaling
Glossier launched in 2014 as an e-commerce, direct-to-consumer makeup and skincare brand aimed at millennial women. From the start, Glossier’s founder Emily Weiss built a strong digital community aro…
00:28:59 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
How to Build Long-Term Social Value
What does it take to succeed as a business while doing well by your employees? Harvard Business School professor emeritus Mike Beer has studied companies who invest in building long-term social value…
00:16:09 |
Wed 11 Dec 2024
Strategies for Competing with a Tech-Driven Insurgent
Looking at business news over the past decade (including a few HBR articles), you might assume that just about every traditional company has fallen — or will soon fall — to competitors from the tech …
00:30:16 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
Scaling a Startup in Emerging Markets
If you’re a fast-growing company in an emerging economy, you need a strategy for competing in your home market in the short term. But you also need a longer-term strategy that will help you grow beyo…
00:15:58 |
Wed 27 Nov 2024
Khan Academy: A Case Study in Scaling a Start-Up
Khan Academy, the online global education nonprofit, launched in 2006 when founder Sal Khan created a few videos to help his cousin with her math homework. After a decade of growth brought Khan Acade…
00:31:25 |
Wed 20 Nov 2024
How to Navigate a Leadership Transition
Leadership transitions are challenging for both organizations and the leaders who must directly navigate them. But Michael Watkins says they’re also a time of incredible opportunity — especially for …
00:11:11 |
Wed 13 Nov 2024
How Globalization Has Changed Strategic Planning
In 1992, Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. signed NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the global business landscape began transforming. NYU-Stern professor Pankaj Ghemawat studies how comp…
00:28:28 |
Wed 06 Nov 2024
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Disruptive innovation has proven to be such a powerful idea that the word “innovation” is often equated with the broader idea of market disruption. But that’s not always the case. INSEAD strategy pro…
00:23:53 |
Wed 30 Oct 2024
How a Coal Polluter’s New Strategy for Sustainability Transformed Its Business
Enel, Italy’s state-owned power company founded in 1962, was one of Europe’s largest coal users and polluters. Now it is recognized as a leader in renewable energy and has integrated sustainability i…
00:21:38 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
Don’t Just Create Value. Capture It.
Creating value is table stakes for any business. But is your organization also capturing the value you create? IMD professor Stefan Michel says that many businesses don’t actually know how. He studie…
00:13:26 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
Lessons in Climate Change Strategy from the U.S. Navy
Climate change is causing severe weather, dangerously elevated temperatures, and water shortages around the world. Meanwhile, firms are struggling to reduce their carbon emissions while adapting thei…
00:23:21 |
Wed 09 Oct 2024
How to Get Forecasting Right
Do you know the difference between accurate forecasting and effective forecasting? Technology forecaster Paul Saffo says accurate forecasting is nearly impossible to do. But if you aim for effective …
00:15:40 |
Wed 02 Oct 2024
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