Innovation smackdown: MIT vs. Harvard: "
For any MBA graduate or long-time business practitioner, the Harvard Business Review is often considered the touchstone of business excellence. By comparison, the MIT Sloan Management Review languishes in relative obscurity, eclipsed by its better-known sister publication, the MIT Technology Review. While doing a routine 'business innovation' search on Yahoo!, I noticed that both the Harvard Business Review and the MIT Sloan Management Review were purchasing sponsored search links, so I thought it might be interesting to see how the two publications stack up in terms of business innovation articles, especially since MIT and Harvard are blood rivals capable of some mean-spirited pranks located just across the river from each other in Cambridge. If this were a Friday night WWE Smackdown and these two schools were professional wrestlers, can you imagine the mayhem that would result by putting the Harvard Business Review and the MIT Sloan Management Review in the same ring together?
Somewhat surprisingly, the quality and depth of the business innovation thinking in the MIT publication surpassed that of the Harvard publication...
Business innovation articles in the current issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review: (1) Improving capabilities through industry peer neworks (2) Capturing the real value of innovation tools (3) Creating new markets through service innovation and (4) Reducing the risks of new product development.
Business innovation articles in the current issue of the Harvard Business Review: (1) The Why, What and How of Management Innovation by Gary Hamel and (2) Breakthrough Ideas for 2006.
The winner of this innovation smackdown by an easy margin: The MIT Sloan Management Review.
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(Via Business Innovation 2005.)
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