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Wal-Mart Gets a Facelift
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Gone are the mega-retailer's blocky letters, hyphen, and star. Can Wal-Mart remake itself by remaking its logo?
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The Future of Gambling
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WMS Industries is leading the charge in transforming the slot machine business. And it's doing so by design
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What Do Teens Want?
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Using its online community, Habbo, Sulake surveyed some 58,000 teenagers to compile marketing data covering cosmetics to mobile-phone preferences
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Fixing Fishman
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How a routine packaging redesign at the high-end music equipment maker kick-started a companywide turnaround
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Yves and Mitch's Excellent Venture
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Mitch Pergola, the business strategist behind Fuseproject, talks about how design firms can take a page from the venture capital playbook
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C.K. Prahalad: The New Age of Innovation
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A new book from the Bottom of the Pyramid guru lays out the new landscape of business, driven by consumer co-creation and service customization
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Institutional Innovations
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A Silicon Valley nonprofit fostered the development of a radical open-source platform for top-level health research
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Why GE Is Getting Out of the Kitchen
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Stoves, refrigerators, and other appliances used to be the core of General Electric's business. But now the hot growth is elsewhere
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Is U.S. Innovation Headed Offshore?
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Apparently not, even though more research and development is joining manufacturing in the shift toward low-cost nations
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Braving Brazil's 'Airline Graveyard'
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Can JetBlue founder and former CEO David Neeleman find success with his latest venture, a domestic Brazilian airline dubbed Azul?
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Delta-Northwest: Unlikely to Fly
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Even if the historic merger goes through, the newly combined company will face huge difficulties getting off the ground
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How Google Fuels Its Idea Factory
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CEO Eric Schmidt describes the simple principles driving the company's steady stream of innovations
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HP Labs' Latest Experiment: Itself
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As the computer giant cuts its number of major research projects, its labs director explains the attempt to marry the grant-writing focus of a university with the entrepreneurial approach of a venture capital firm
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Life on the Edge: Learning from Facebook
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The social network provides important lessons for executives—and a key forum for innovation and experimentation
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BlackBerry: Innovation Behind the Icon
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Research in Motion founder Mike Lazaridis talks about building a successful R&D culture and a decade of sustainable innovation
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Real World 2.0
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In a new book, Here Comes Everybody, author and academic Clay Shirky argues the future is here; it's time to get on with it
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Innovation Through Acquisition
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Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, talks about the potential pitfalls and rewards of trying to "buy" innovation
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ICON: The People's Plane
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A small Southern California startup is betting that ultralight recreational aircraft like its sleek A5 will revolutionize private aviation
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Facebook's Big Facelift
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Pure Digital Flips the Script
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How the Flip—a bare-bones digital camcorder—grew from a simple idea to a contender among giants like Sony
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Speedo: Innovation in the Aqua Lab
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Swimwear companies have invested millions designing high-performance suits for the upcoming Beijing Olympics. Can design help swimmers finish faster?
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A Cell Phone Made of ...Tapioca?
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Scientists are using biomaterials in consumer electronics
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Is It Worth It?
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"Good design" often comes with a hefty price tag. We pitted four popular, pricey products against their low-cost counterparts—with surprising results
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Walking While You Work
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An exercise machine that allows workers to multitask may be the silliest (or smartest?) invention since the executive toy
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Learning from Tata's Nano
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The innovations of the $2,500 car carry important lessons for Western executives
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A Really Good Collapsible Bike
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Strida 5.0 is the newest iteration in a series of foldable bikes by British designer Mark Sanders. Long available in Europe, the line finally landed in the U.S.
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Apple: More Than a Pretty Face
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Consumer electronics companies need to do more than pare product lines and make cool stuff. What Apple offers is a complete ecosystem
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The Bright Future of LEDs
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How a marketing executive's field research spawned the DOT-it line of portable LED fixtures that are lighting the way to an energy-efficient future
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A New Blueprint for Cisco
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Cordell Ratzlaff wants to expand the tech giant's reach by designing products customers can love
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Danone Innovates to Help Feed the Poor
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Along with Grameen Group and Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, the French food company has created a nutritious and inexpensive yogurt for Bangladesh
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A Ripe Time for Open Innovation
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Recessions present a good opportunity to collaborate with others on finding, developing, and marketing new ideas
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Giving the Poor a Means to Work
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Paul Polak and his company, International Development Enterprises, have helped 17 million people lift themselves out of poverty
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Billion Dollar Innovation
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A Finnish study profiled twelve U.S. companies to give insight on how successfully applied service innovation can bring in the big bucks
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A Rural Health Clinic in a Box
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Indian business Neurosynaptic Communications brings health care to the country's poorer citizens with a portable diagnostic kit
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Designing the 'Care' into Health Care
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Improving the user experience could inspire people to tap into the system more regularly to help stave off more serious illness
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Gunning for Google
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Recent redesigns at Yahoo!, Microsoft Live Search, and Ask.com are providing graphically rich alternatives to the minimalist search giant
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Seek the Magic with Service Prototypes
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To design an offering that customers will love, start with a rough draft—and co-create
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Johnson & Johnson'sBig Design Challenge
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Art Museum as Research Lab
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A new exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art presents fresh talent in data visualization and other design disciplines that could have far-reaching business applications
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A Ferrari for the Skies
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Aerion's engineers have devised a radical new design for a high-flying, luxury supersonic business jet. Now, they just need a partner to make it
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The Touchable Tasting Menu
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An upscale New York restaurant is the first to feature "ubiquitous computing," with an innovative table-top interactive menu
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Richard Sapper: Fifty Years at the Drawing Board
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At 75, design pioneer Richard Sapper continues to push his craft in new directions
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Design: A Strong Showing in Miami
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Galleries from around the globe showcased works and sold many limited-edition pieces at last weekend's Art Basel Miami and Design Miami events
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Peter Senge's Necessary Revolution
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In a new book, the management guru discusses the environmental woes facing business and some steps that may lead to a more sustainable world
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The Strange Case of the Missing Microfiber
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It's green, it's healthful, and it works. So why is this cleaning textile practically shut out of the U.S. market?
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Bringing Green Mainstream
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Cherokee Investment is backing the Mainstream GreenHome, a residential laboratory for green building practices they believe will protect the environment and provide solid returns to investors
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Using Nature as a Design Guide
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Janine Benyus, dean of the burgeoning "biomimicry" design movement, helps companies look to the natural world to help take their business green
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America's Green Economy
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Without a fully funded, federal alternative energy policy, the U.S. risks squandering the potential of a powerful economic engine and will continue to depend on foreign energy resources
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A New Model for Green Design
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A radical document, supported by industry organizations, major designers and leading consultancies, aims to set a new standard for sustainability in design
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Deconstructing the Energy Bill
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The new law backs ethanol and ignores other alternative fuels. Venture capitalist David Berry talks about what it means for energy innovation
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How Green Is That Gizmo?
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Out of more than 1,000 products examined, only one met federal standards
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New Clout for Cradle to Cradle Design
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Three leaders in sustainable-design consulting are collaborating to leverage their expertise, stimulate new products, and boost "cradle to cradle" certification
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A Debate over 'Greenwashing'
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Gianfranco's Zaccai's column praising the Swiffer as ecofriendly sparked outrage in the blogosphere. Here, he answers questions from one skeptic on “profitable sustainability”
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Good Design, Good Business in China
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Preservation, environmental awareness, and community were paramount for winners of this year's BusinessWeek/Architectural Record China Awards
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And the Best Knockoff Is…
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The annual Plagiarius Awards call attention to the most flagrant product imitations and raise awareness about the dangers of piracy
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Red Dot Awards: Inspired Design
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This year the communication design awards went to a series of food packaging, a concept car with a fishy inspiration and a board game as annual report, among other things
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Life-Saving Design
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The Index: Awards gave its People's Choice prize to a device for disposing of used needles. The inventor had a personal stake in the product design
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Leveling the Field in the Weight Room
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Ten weeks of role-playing led to a design to help the wheelchair-bound at the gym. That design earned the IDEA Best in Show award
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Jonathan Ive and Apple Win Again
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It's no surprise Cooper-Hewitt honored the doyen of computer design, but some 2007 National Design Awards did go to lesser-known talents
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Building Better Brands
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Nike, Honda and Skittles were big winners at this year's D&AD awards, which this year had a refreshingly eclectic feel
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