Introducing 4 Business Ideas That Changed the World

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I recall that it was just terrifying to be an incumbent company at that point. You know, maybe I do get paid that I get an extra beer on the weekend, but what does that mean if I'm so exhausted, so soul broken by this kind of work?

Harvard Business review launched in 1922. Over 100 years, we've introduced and spread many consequential ideas. We're taking this anniversary to ask, how have these ideas changed our lives and where are they taking us in the future?

There was a time, like in American business, where entrepreneurship meant you couldn't get a real job, right? I mean, it was not the kind of glam, cool thing, you know, the guy you wanted to be was the guy in the gray flannel suit.

You know, we come up with a new flavor for yogurt and people say, oh my God, the market for yogurt has been disrupted. I'm Kurt Nickish. Each Thursday in October, join us right here in the HBR IdeaCast feed for a bonus series, four business ideas that Changed the World. Each week, a different HBR editor will talk to world class scholars and experts on the most influential business and management ideas of HBR's first hundred years. Disruptive innovation, Scientific management, Shareholder value, emotional intelligence.

Even 20 years ago, there was this view that emotions were intangible, ephemeral, difficult to measure.

I started to embrace emotional intelligence. I practiced it daily. That was ultimately the big game changer for me.

We'll tackle the benefits and unintended consequences of these ideas in an effort to understand our work life, how far it's come, and how far it still has to go.

The question remains, as it did a century ago, who benefits from increased productivity?

And don't worry, IdeaCast fans will continue dropping regular Tuesday episodes too. So join us for four Business Ideas that Changed the World, a special series of the HBR IdeaCast each Thursday in October. I can't wait for you to hear it.