# How Apple Is Organized for Innovation: Leadership at Scale

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Published: 2026-05-18T15:30:00+00:00
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How Apple Is Organized for Innovation: Leadership at Scale 27 Jan 2021 --- As Apple has grown, its functional structure and leadership model have had to evolve. (Part 3 of 3) This is part 3 of 3 Part 1--The Functional Organization: https://youtu.be/5hENFA3CJUY Part 2--The Leadership Model: https://youtu.be/d5enAGG51PQ Deciding how to organize areas of expertise to best enable collaboration and rapid decision-making has been an important responsibility of the CEO. The adjustments Tim Cook has implemented in recent years include dividing the hardware function into hardware engineering and hardware technologies; adding artificial intelligence and machine learning as a functional area; and moving human interface out of software to merge it with industrial design, creating an integrated design function. Based on the HBR article, “How Apple Is Organized for Innovation" by Joel M. Podolny and Morten T. Hansen: https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-organized-for-innovation --------------------------------------------------------------------- At Harvard Business Review, we believe in management. If the world’s organizations and institutions were run more effectively, if our leaders made better decisions, if people worked more productively, we believe that all of us — employees, bosses, customers, our families, and the people our businesses affect — would be better off. So we try to arm our readers with ideas that help them become smarter, more creative, and more courageous in their work. We enlist the foremost experts in a wide range of topics, including career planning, strategy, leadership, work-life balance, negotiations, innovation, and managing teams. Harvard Business Review empowers professionals around the world to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively…

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