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Bigger Than the Grasshopper and the Ant: A Macroeconomic View of Saving for Retirement

Darden Professor Dan Murphy believes that, in a recession, pro-savings policies should in fact be turned upside down — just for a time — to account for the macroeconomic situation.

Use Strategic Buckets: How to Succeed at Innovation

How does a big company make good decisions to launch new products that might fatten up the bottom line and keep it innovative and growing? Find out now.

The Innovation Dream Team: Opposites Succeed

The crux of design thinking is that it embraces both creativity and analytical thinking to solve problems; two sides of the design thinking coin, both are essential to the design thinking process.

Eastern Philosophies, Western Strategies: Strategic Intuition

To thrive in a global economy, managers need to be aware not only of linear analytics and Western economics, but also aspects of Eastern philosophy, like letting go of desire and control — perhaps unexpected lessons at a business school.

Give It a Rest, Part 2: Productivity Lessons From Olympians and Google

There are no shortages of linkages between overwork and both workplace and personal problems. But on-the-job pressure to produce more, and more quickly, may leave people feeling unable to take the time for breaks, either vacations or workday breaks.

How to Use Collaborative Creativity to Solve Problems and Innovate

Darden Professor Jeanne Liedtka offers a framework for how to use the collaborative creativity to solve problems and create business opportunities.

Give It a Rest, Part 1: How to Reduce Fatigue and Raise Productivity

By all appearances, resting seems unproductive. But it turns out that resting may be one of the most productive things we do in any given day.

Optimizing Innovation in the Age of Digital Technologies: Put People Before Machines

How are digital technologies changing the business landscape? Are new business models disrupting our industry? How can we innovate faster and better? These are questions with which business leaders have wrestled since the world has gone digital. And rightly so.

Hits and misses in a bid for big-league money

To keep baseball a game worth playing, yet promote the self-determination of its players, MLB adopts policies intended to balance the competing American institutions of baseball and independence.

5 Reasons Your Next Job Is Agile

Agile is a way of thinking that leads to outcomes like interdisciplinary collaboration and an ability to effectively respond to change, and its principles are relevant to innovative firms everywhere.