Morten T. Hansen

How Apple Is Organized for Innovation

November 18, 2020

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Joel M. Podolny and Morten T. Hansen for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information,…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Collaboration

June 5, 2016

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Collaboration Harvard Business Review Editors and various contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2013) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Ancient African proverb This is one…

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The Top 50 Management Thinkers (2015)

February 5, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article by Jeff Schmitt for Poets & Quants. To read the complete article, check out others, and sign up for a free newsletter, please click here. * * * It wasn’t the “Thrilla in…

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3 Ways to Get People to Change

February 28, 2013

  Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. *     *     * You can change strategy, products, and processes all you want, but…

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Morten T. Hansen on “Ten Ways to Get People to Change”

November 5, 2012

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Morten T. Hansen for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email…

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Collective, Collaborative Innovation: Do’s and Don’ts

August 25, 2012

According to Frans Johansson, “When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary new ideas. The name I have give this phenomenon, the Medici Effect, comes from a remarkable burst of creativity in fifteenth-century Italy.”…

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Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen: An interview by Bob Morris

November 16, 2011

Jim Collins is a student and teacher of enduring great companies — how they grow, how they attain superior performance, and how good companies can become great companies.  Having invested nearly a quarter of a century of research into the…

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Great by Choice: A book review by Bob Morris

October 12, 2011

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Companies Thrive Despite Them All Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen Harper Business/A HarperCollins Imprint (2011) Additional and even more valuable revelations about “the principles that distinguish great organizations from…

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Collaboration: A book review by Bob Morris

June 29, 2011

Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results Morten T. Hansen Harvard Business School Press (2009) Hansen provides a brilliant explanation of how “disciplined collaboration” can help to enable leaders to avoid or free themselves from…

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Morten T. Hansen: An interview by Bob Morris

June 29, 2011

Hansen is a professor at University of California, Berkeley, and at INSEAD, France. He was previously a professor at Harvard Business School for a number of years. Prior to joining Harvard University, Hansen obtained his Ph.D. from the business school…

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