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 - Christopher MeyerRunaway 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 by Christopher MeyerLeadership 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:



Books

STANDING ON THE SUN: How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere
HBR Press, January 2012

IT'S ALIVE: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business
Crown Business, May 2003

FUTURE WEALTH
HBR Press, April 2000

BLUR: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy
Perseus Books, April 1998

 


Articles


Perspectives on Business Innovation: Center for Business Innovation Journal


Contributions

  • Godin, Seth, “Re-Capitalism,” What Matters Now, Triiibes Press, 2009.

  • Farson, Richard, “The Need for Human Capital,” Making the Invisible Visible: Essays by the Fellows of the International Leadership Forum, Greenway Communications, 2009.

  • IIT Institute of Design, “Ninety Questions & Answers from Thirteen Design Thinkers,” Fall 2008, p. 44.

  • Goldman, Ron and Gabriel, Richard P., "Innovation Happens Elsewhere," Elsevier, 2005. Forward, p. xv-xviii.

  • Godin, Seth, "The Big Moo Portfolio," 2005. Too Rich, Too Thin, Too Efficient, p. 52-56.

  • 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.

  • Meyer, Christopher, contributor to “Once Around the Sun,” Consulting Magazine, September 2002.

  • Meyer, Christopher, contributor to The New York Times, "The Military and the Deficit," The New York Times, 12 March 2011.