What Does it Take to Redesign an Industry? Havard Business Review, March 2013
"In a time when so many institutions of the industrial economy ... are challenged by a connected world," the author writes, "the industry is the proper unit of analysis." By way of example, he describes how an unusual group of thinkers met in Madrid to reconceive how innovative medicines might be made available despite the "patent cliff" in pharmaceuticals.
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Runaway Capitalism Havard Business Review, January 2012
When the wrong measures of success drive decisions, strengths can mutate into serious liabilities. Just look at the peacock. Capitalism, as it is practiced in rich countries, has taken two brilliant ideas too far. The first is return on equity (ROE), one way of measuring value creation that has managed to eclipse many other, and broader, ones. The second is competition, which has come to be seen as an end to itself rather than as a tool for promoting growth and innovation.
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Leadership in the Age of Transparency Havard Business Review, April 2010
Companies have long prospered by ignoring what economists call "externalities". Now they must learn to embrace them.
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Other recently published work:
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STANDING ON THE SUN: How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere |
IT'S ALIVE: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business |
FUTURE WEALTH |
BLUR: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy |
Articles
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Meyer, Christopher, “What Does it Take to Redesign an Industry?,” Harvard Business Review, March 2013.
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Meyer, Christopher and Kirby, Julia, “Runaway Capitalism,” Harvard Business Review, January 2012.
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Meyer, Christopher and Kirby, Julia, “Leadership in the Age of Transparency,” Harvard Business Review, April 2010.
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Meyer, Christopher, “The Year of Marketing Dangerously,” Harvard Business Review, October 2008.
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Meyer, Christopher, “The Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business: Creating an Adaptive Health Care System,” The Bridge, Spring 2008.
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Meyer, Christopher and Chu, Joan, “A Turning Point,” The Journal of Life Sciences, October 2007.
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Meyer, Christopher, “The HBS List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007: The Best Networks are Really WorkNets” Harvard Business Review, February 2007.
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Meyer, Christopher, “Breakthrough Ideas for 2004: Biological Block” Harvard Business Review, February 2004.
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Anthes, Gary (Interview): “Rushing Toward Chaos,” Computerworld, February 9th, 2004. Reprinted in Computerworld Brazil, April 2004.
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Meyer, Christopher, “The New Facts of Life,” Wired February 2004.
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Meyer, Christopher, “Data Donors” in “Idea Fest: 23 Bright Ideas for a Stellar 2003,” Fast Company, January 2003,
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Meyer, Christopher, “The Accelerating Enterprise,” CIO Insight, November 2002, Number 20.
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Meyer, Christopher, “Survival Under Stress,” MIT Sloan Management Review, Fall 2002.
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Meyer, Christopher and Ruggles, Rudy, “Search Parties,” Harvard Business Review, August 2002.
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Meyer, Christopher, “While Customers Wait, Add Value,” Harvard Business Review, July/ August 2001.
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Bonabeau, Eric and Meyer, Christopher, “Swarm Intelligence: A Whole New Way to Think About Business,” Harvard Business Review, May 2001.
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Davis, Stan and Meyer, Christopher, “Playing it Safe is Over,” UK & USA, October-November 2000.
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Davis, Stan and Meyer, Christopher, “What Will Replace the Tech Economy,” Time, May 22, 2000.
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Meyer, Christopher, “The Pursuit of Health, Wealth, and Risk,” Journal of Business Strategy, March/April 2000.
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Davis, Stan and Meyer, Christopher, “The Role of Knowledge in the Connected Economy,” in The Knowledge Advantage, Capstone, 2000.
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Meyer, Christopher, “Ahead of the Game,” Worldlink, January/February 2000.
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Davis Stan, and Meyer Christopher, “Inventing the Digital Future,” U.S. News & World Report, January 2000.
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Macready, William G. and Meyer, Christopher, “Adaptive Operations: Creating Business Processes That Evolve” in "The Biology of Business: Decoding the Natural Laws of Enterprise," Jossey-Bass, 1999.
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Meyer Christopher, “The See-Through Economy,” Business 2.0, July 1999.
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Meyer, Christopher, “What’s the Matter,” Business 2.0, April 1999.
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Davis, Stan and Meyer, Christopher, “The Future of Wealth,” Worldlink, January/February 1999.
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Meyer, Christopher, “An Introduction to Complexity and Business,” Complexity Magazine, Volume 3, No. 4, 1998.
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Meyer, Christopher, “An Economy Turned on its Head: Why You Must be ‘Knowledge-Based’ to Compete in Today’s World (And What That Means)” in Strategy and Leadership, November-December 1997.
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Meyer Christopher, “Chaos and the IS Executive,” Computerworld Leadership Series, May 1996.
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Meyer Christopher and Power, W. David, “The Business Revolution,” Selected Readings on Strategy, Technology and American Industry, Digital Equipment Corporation and Harvard Business School Publishing Division, 1987.
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Meyer, Christopher and Power, W. David, “Enterprise Integration—The Storm Before the Calm,” Digital Equipment Corporation and Harvard Business School Publishing Division, 1986.
Perspectives on Business Innovation: Center for Business Innovation Journal
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Meyer, Christopher, “Exchanges, Efficient Markets, and the Net,” Perspectives on Business Innovation: Reinventing the Marketplace, Issue 6, February 2001.
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Meyer, Christopher, “If it’s an Information Revolution, Where are the Peasants?,” Perspectives on Business Innovation: The Connected Economy, Issue 5, May 2000.
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Love, Randy, and Meyer, Christopher, “Meet the Connected Economy’s New Corporate Species: The Dot Company,” Perspectives on Business Innovation: The Connected Economy, Issue 5, May 2000.
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Meyer, Christopher, “Have You Ever Seen a Machine Grow?,” Perspectives on Business Innovation: Growing the Adaptive Enterprise, Issue 4, November 1999.
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Meyer, Christopher, “Telecommunications, E-Commerce, and Everything,” Perspectives on Business Innovation: Electronic Commerce, Issue 3, May 1999.
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Meyer, Christopher, “Welcome to the Conversation,” Perspectives on Business Innovation: Measuring Business Performance, Issue 2, November 1998.
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Meyer, Christopher, “The Connected Economy: Beyond the Information Age,” Perspectives on Business Innovation: Managing Organizational Knowledge, Issue 1, November 1997.
Contributions
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Godin, Seth, “Re-Capitalism,” What Matters Now, Triiibes Press, 2009.
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Farson, Richard, “The Need for Human Capital,” Making the Invisible Visible: Essays by the Fellows of the International Leadership Forum, Greenway Communications, 2009.
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IIT Institute of Design, “Ninety Questions & Answers from Thirteen Design Thinkers,” Fall 2008, p. 44.
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Goldman, Ron and Gabriel, Richard P., "Innovation Happens Elsewhere," Elsevier, 2005. Forward, p. xv-xviii.
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Godin, Seth, "The Big Moo Portfolio," 2005. Too Rich, Too Thin, Too Efficient, p. 52-56.
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Meyer, Christopher, “It’s Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business,” Seeking Responses in Times of Uncertainty, Proceedings of the 33rd ISCSymposium at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, December, 2003.
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Meyer, Christopher, contributor to “Once Around the Sun,” Consulting Magazine, September 2002.
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Meyer, Christopher, contributor to The New York Times, "The Military and the Deficit," The New York Times, 12 March 2011.
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Godin, Seth, What Matters Now, Triiibes Press, 2009. “Re-Capitalism.”
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Meyer, Christopher, “The HBS List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007: The Best Networks are Really WorkNets” Harvard Business Review, February 2007.
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Meyer, Christopher, “The New Facts of Life,” WIRED, February 2004.
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Davis, Stan and Meyer, Christopher, Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy, Perseus Books, April 1998.



