I've been watching the HBR blogs - they are relatively young.
And they have been trying to find their way for the most part. They
have been getting progressively better, and I think that today they
finally found one example of a home run for them.
It's the mini case-study with discussion. This is business
school blog-style. Post an interesting case and discuss.
http://makeyourcase.harvardbusiness.org/2008/10/who-gets-to-innovate.html
I think they need to up the discussion ante. The voting is good,
but it's not nearly interactive enough. I won't go into a missing items on this, but
I think the discussion is critical.
That said, I think congratulations are in order. Finding your
blog-way is hard and HBR I think has had a solid breakthrough. I
hope to enjoy many more HBR posts as the quality continues trending
opposite the Dow.