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
How Startups Can Turn Failure into Success
AptDeco, a peer-to-peer marketplace for used furniture, launched in New York City in 2014. Despite its complexity and high costs, the company grew quickly. Co-founders Reham Fagiri and Kalam Dennis c…
00:25:58 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
To Set a Great Strategy, Start by Imagining the Future You Want
Some managers develop strategy by focusing on problems in the present, and that’s especially true during a crisis. But Mark Johnson, co-founder of the innovation consulting firm Innosight, argues tha…
00:25:59 |
Wed 18 Sep 2024
3 Signs It’s Time to Transform Your Core Business
Is your company’s existing growth formula finally reaching its limit? Bain & Company partner Chris Zook says you may need to redefine your core business if you want to power new growth. Zook was co-h…
00:18:39 |
Wed 11 Sep 2024
24 Steps to Launch a Start-Up
Many people aspire to entrepreneurship. But Bill Aulet, who has advised founders for decades, warns that it remains a high-risk endeavor. Aulet is a professor of entrepreneurship at the Sloan School …
00:28:46 |
Wed 04 Sep 2024
Brand Strategy Lessons from Super Bowl Ads
The Super Bowl isn’t just American football’s championship game. It’s also one of the world’s biggest stages for brand messaging. In 2024, the average 30-second Super Bowl ad cost $7 million —and tha…
00:32:30 |
Wed 28 Aug 2024
How to Incorporate Influencers into Your Marketing Strategy
Online influencers are an increasingly important way for companies to find new customers and drive sales. But if you’re a marketer hoping to target consumers, it’s important to understand how the soc…
00:32:38 |
Wed 21 Aug 2024
How to Build a Dynamic-Pricing Strategy That Works
More and more companies are turning to pricing algorithms to maximize profits. But many are unaware of a big downside. Marco Bertini, a marketing professor at Esade Business School in Barcelona, says…
00:28:05 |
Wed 14 Aug 2024
How Rakuten’s Shift to English Transformed Its Culture
In 2010, Japan’s largest e-commerce platform Rakuten was rapidly expanding into global markets when CEO Hiroshi Mikitani made a surprising announcement: Rakuten’s internal language would be changing …
00:19:44 |
Wed 07 Aug 2024
How to Scale a Start-Up
Managing rapid growth is a huge challenge for young businesses. Even start-ups with glowing reviews and skyrocketing sales can fail. That’s because new ventures and corporate initiatives alike must s…
00:27:45 |
Wed 31 Jul 2024
Innovating Around an Existing Core Product or Service
What do LEGO, GoPro, and CarMax have in common? Wharton professor David Robertson says they all have a similar strategy for growth that involves building families of complementary innovations around …
00:25:23 |
Wed 24 Jul 2024
When Collaborating with Competitors Makes Sense
It’s an idea that’s a non-starter at many organizations: collaborating with a competitor. But Yale School of Management professor Barry Nalebuff says leaders who refuse to consider teaming up with ot…
00:25:58 |
Wed 17 Jul 2024
How Sodexo’s CEO Manages Global Strategy Across 50 Countries
As the chair and CEO of Sodexo, the France-based food services and facilities management company, Sophie Bellon leads one of the largest employers in the world, with front-line workers in nearly 50 c…
00:31:19 |
Wed 10 Jul 2024
Microsoft: A Case Study in Strategy Transformation
In early 2015, Microsoft’s senior leaders were facing a set of difficult decisions. The firm had been struggling to innovate and grow as fast as its competitors. Now they were considering new opportu…
00:20:22 |
Wed 03 Jul 2024
Should Your Business Sell on Amazon?
It’s a dilemma facing more and more brands: Should your business sell on Amazon? It’s the most visited e-commerce platform in the U.S. and the dominant retailer in 28 other countries. But that reach …
00:50:06 |
Wed 26 Jun 2024
Why Project-Based Work Fails — and How to Get It Right
Companies of every size across the world are basing more of their work around projects, but research shows that nearly two-thirds of those efforts fail. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez has studied projects a…
00:25:34 |
Wed 19 Jun 2024
How Booking.com Sustains a Culture of Innovation
Booking.com was founded by a Dutch university student in 1996. It grew slowly for almost a decade. But by 2011, the company was generating more than a billion dollars in profits annually — making it …
00:27:56 |
Wed 12 Jun 2024
How to Future-Proof Your Strategy
So much has been written about how to future-proof a strategy. But Peter Scoblic says that too many companies still rely on short-sighted strategies that don’t effectively plan for different potentia…
00:27:32 |
Wed 05 Jun 2024
How One Energy CEO Is Leading a Transition Toward Clean Energy
As the CEO of one of the largest energy holding companies in the U.S., Lynn Good is leading Duke Energy’s aggressive transition to renewables and net zero emissions. It’s a complex undertaking that i…
00:32:11 |
Wed 29 May 2024
A Better Framework for Solving Tough Problems
When it comes to solving complicated problems, the default for many organizational leaders is to take their time to work through the issues at hand. Unfortunately, that often leads to patchwork solut…
00:30:07 |
Wed 22 May 2024
Ask These Questions Before Choosing a Manufacturing Location
One of the world’s largest automotive glass producers, Fuyao Glass, must decide where to fulfill its upcoming contracts. One option is their U.S.-based factory, where production rates are lower. The …
00:26:27 |
Wed 15 May 2024
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