HBR IdeaCast Introducing 4 Business Ideas That Changed the World
Sep 29, 2022
Dive into the transformative concepts that have reshaped business and management. Discover how disruptive innovation redefined industries and explore the impact of emotional intelligence on workplace dynamics. Learn about scientific management and shareholder value, and their profound influence on employees’ everyday lives. This exploration reveals how these ideas not only propelled organizational change but continue to shape our future work environments.
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Influential Business Ideas
- Business and management ideas significantly shape organizations and work life.
- Harvard Business Review reflects on influential ideas over its 100-year history.
HBR IdeaCast Series Focus
- The HBR IdeaCast series explores how ideas like disruptive innovation, scientific management, shareholder value, and emotional intelligence have changed work.
- The series examines their benefits and unintended consequences to understand how far work life has come.
Changing Perceptions of Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurship was once viewed negatively in American business, as if it meant someone couldn't get a "real job."
- The ideal was the "man in the gray flannel suit," not the entrepreneur.