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Accelerating the evolution of management

About MLAB

The world's first Management Lab is a unique initiative with an equally unique and powerful perspective. Co-founded by professor Gary Hamel, “the world’s leading expert on business strategy” (Fortune) and Julian Birkinshaw, Professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School, the Lab is a pioneering attempt to create a setting in which progressive companies and world-renowned management scholars work together to co-create “tomorrow’s best practices” today. The goal: to dramatically accelerate the evolution of management processes and practices that will define competitive success in the 21st century.

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Watch Gary Hamel speak at the McKinsey awards about “Building a company fit for a human being”. For more, you can also visit Gary’s blog at Harvard Business school’s website.

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What is management innovation?

Management innovation is a company's ability to effect fundamental changes in its own internal way of working. It is a largely unexplored source of competitive advantage and thus at the root of research work of the Management Lab.

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The Management Innovation Lab stands out as a very interesting experiment, in a new kind of research, based on putting the company in the lab and gathering empirical data. To work with companies to try and experiment in new ways of using management, and then to measure the results, is intrinsically innovative. It is an innovation in itself, an innovation in management methods.

Dr David Potter, Founder of Psion

News & Events

26 September 2008

Representatives from the Management Lab will be hosting a workshop on Management Innovation.



28 May 2008

MLab’s inaugural conference on management innovation will bring together a group of radical thinkers and doers to define the “Grand Challenges” for 21st century management, and imagine possible solutions to them.



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