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Focus on Green Business

Eye On: Open Source

User-generated content, crowdsourcing and open innovation are powerful forces that have sparked a revolution across industries. This special report gauges the latest thinking in how to manage them successfully4/1/10

Eye on Architecture 2010

This Bloomberg/BusinessWeek special report takes the temperature of the global architecture industry in 20103/1/10

Value of Design

Innovation can steer a company's strategy, even in tough times2/1/10

Growth Through Innovation

Innovation can steer a company's strategy, even in tough times10/14/09

Design Thinking

How best to educate the design thinkers and innovators of the future? BusinessWeek's list features promising programs from design and business schools from around the world 9/30/09

Design Awards 2009

Check out the winners of this year's International Design Excellence Awards 7/29/09

Innovation in a Recession

How companies are finding creative ways to come up with new products and services faster and more efficiently—with fewer resources 7/22/09

Automated Innovation 2.0

Automated innovation—relying on computers to roll out new products—flopped at first. Now it's come back as a cost-cutting tool for hard times 6/8/09

The Global Economy's Latest Weapon: The Mega Research Park

Around the world, nations are plowing big money into science parks to attract the sharpest minds. On-site housing and good restaurants help 6/1/09

The Most Innovative Companies

BusinessWeek's list of the World's Most Innovative Companies shows not all are reining in R&D 4/09/09

Smart Technology

Smart technology that makes infrastructure safer and more efficient is ready just in time for a flood of government spending 02/19/09

World Economic Forum Davos 2009

Read BusinessWeek's insightful annual coverage of the world's most important annual meeting of business and political leaders, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, starting January 27, 2009 1/23/09

Sustainable Design

Get the latest sustainable design news. Read the Special Report about the Obama energy plan and Energy Secretary (and Nobel Prize winner) Steven Chu's impact on business 01/21/09

Inside Innovation

Our look at the some of the world's most inventive projects and products and tactics for spurring innovation and creativity 11/20/08

Voices of Innovation

This year's Voices of Innovation nominees challenge the status quo and represent the true optimistic spirit of innovation 10/20/08

Chicago Innovation Awards

From tiny startup PrepMe to giant Abbott Labs, the 10 winners of the annual Chicago Innovation Awards are hot 10/16/08

Inside Innovation

"Innovation economics" shows how smart ideas can turn into jobs and growth—and keep the U.S. competitive 09/11/08

Business & The Beijing Olympics

Our look at the business of the Olympic Games 08/07/08

2008 IDEA Design Awards

Europeans, Asians, and Latin Americans took more International Design Excellence Awards than ever. And students made a strong showing 07/17/08

Web Design

As the Web becomes an even more ubiquitous business tool, we take a look at the growing importance of web design—and its growth as an industry in its own right 06/23/08

Inside Innovation

A closer look at innovative companies and ideas 06/05/08

European Innovation

Only 10 European outfits made a recent BusinessWeek ranking of innovative companies from around the globe. Still, Europe is going strong in several segments 5/1/08

Inside Innovation

Smart ideas for tough times: The 50 companies that make up our annual ranking nurture cultures that value creative people in good times and bad 04/17/08

The Power of Play

The gaming industry is in mid-revolution as a new generation of designers begins transforming games from mere toys into socially rich entertainment 03/24/08

Green Design

As the green bandwagon continues to roll, are businesses in danger of suffering from green fatigue? 02/09/08

World Economic Forum, Davos 2008

A look at this year's forum 01/25/08

The Opposable Mind

A look at the theory of "the opposable mind," the ability to assess and balance conflicting ideas, business models, or strategies to come up with a new way of doing things 01/22/08

The Best Product Design of 2006

Design teams from Asia nabbed a quarter of this year's gold awards, up from 8 percent in 2005. What's more, the bar of excellence is moving ever higher 06/29/2006

Innovation Champions

It's a conversation. It's a community. It's about one of the key business challenges of our era. It's IN: Inside Innovation, our new supplement devoted to helping companies use "design thinking" 06/19/2006

The World's Most Innovative Companies

Their creativity goes beyond products to rewiring themselves. BusinessWeek and the Boston Consulting Group rank the best 04/24/2006

Get Creative!

How to build innovative companies 08/31/05

FashionWeek Autumn 2005

Europe's most fashionable lounge bars, Dunhill's four new designers, vintage watches, the finest grappa, the newest, smallest digital cameras, Ireland's most notable golfing links holidays, plus breaking the wind-powered speed records in an extraordinary craft and how blueprints are taking precedence over scripts in cover star Brad Pitt's busy life

The Best Product Designs of 2005

Many of the winning entries from this year's competition for Industrial Design Excellence Awards spring from a close observation of the customer 07/04/05

Outsourcing Innovation

Big-name companies such as Dell, Motorola, and Philips are farming out their R&D; to giant but little-known Asian developers. It's fast, efficient, and yes, it's cheaper. But the economic implications are enormous. Are these companies going too far? 03/21/05

BusinessWeek/ Architectural Record Awards 2004

In one of the toughest contests of its kind, we scrutinize both design and function: The focus is on solving client problems and achieving business goals. Here, the winners -- and some finalists, too

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