Jeffrey Hollender, a founder of Seventh Generation, spoke at the MIT Sloan School of Management today. We caught him at a lunch time talk billed as “creating a game plan for transition to a sustainable economy.” Read more »
Jimmy Guterman - Improvisations - 11/17/09
Next week we'll be interviewing Michael Watkins about his new book, Your Next Move, which considers how best to handle all sorts of career transitions: promotions, international moves, and more. What do you want to know? Read more »
Jimmy Guterman - Improvisations - 11/6/09
Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff gave a fascinating guest lecture at MIT earlier this week — looking at commonalities in a number of financial crises. Rogoff recently coauthored This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly. Read more »
Martha E. Mangelsdorf - Improvisations - 11/5/09
Twitter Lists are an efficient way to find voices that you don’t know, but should..You may not want to subscribe to a list of 500 people, but take a quick look and you may turn up a handful of interesting, thoughtful people you do think are worth following. Read more »
Sean M. Brown - Improvisations - 11/2/09
Smart managers are wary of epiphanies. But at the Pop!Tech conference in Camden, Maine, author Michael Pollan may have made it impossible to think the same way again about sustainability. Read more »
Jimmy Guterman - Improvisations - 11/2/09
Our Improvisations blog debuts something new: selected reading suggestions from our editors. Here’s what’s on our minds, our screens, and our night tables this weekend. we read so you don't have to. Read more »
Jimmy Guterman - Improvisations - 11/1/09
Why do established corporations’ new ventures often fail? In Business Insight, our collaboration with The Wall Street Journal, Rita Gunther McGrath knows why -- and has tips for making sure your company's attempts succeed. Read more »
Martha E. Mangelsdorf - Improvisations - 10/26/09
Two of us grabbed good seats at yesterday’s MIT Sloan campus-event headliner: a downwind reflection on fallout from the financial crisis. Featured attraction: a high-level round of bank bashing, with a high-level banker on hand to help do it. Read more »
Michael S. Hopkins - Improvisations - 9/25/09
A tech research firm CEO recently tweeted that the Kindle: “is indispensible. This Amazon toast was perfectly cooked.” I wish I had the version he seems to have Read more »
Jimmy Guterman - Improvisations - 9/24/09
Dispersed teams can actually outperform groups that are colocated. To succeed, however, virtual collaboration must be managed in specific ways. For one thing, pay attention to the social skills and self-sufficiency of team members. Read more »
Frank Siebdrat, Martin Hoegl, and Holger Ernst - The Magazine - 7/1/09
Thanks to technology, change has never been so easy—or so cheap. Innovation initiatives that used to take months and megabucks to coordinate and launch can often be started in seconds for cents. Read more »
Erik Brynjolfsson and Michael Schrage - Wall Street Journal/MIT
Sloan - 8/17/09
MIT Sloan's Eric von Hippel has long argued that users play a larger role in product development than is commonly believed. Now, in a new working paper, he and Pedro Oliveira look at customers’ role in innovating banking. Read more »
Martha E. Mangelsdorf - Improvisations - 9/15/09
Great designers understand the role subtraction plays in elegant solutions. Everything elegant is simple; not everything simple is elegant. The author of In Pursuit of Elegance explores what managers can learn from this organizing principle. Read more »
Matthew E. May - Special Report - 7/27/09
Social networks provide greater access to information, which improves people’s judgment and decision making, right? Not always, according to some recent research. Sometimes, social networks can impair your judgment. Read more »
Alden M. Hayashi - The Magazine - 7/1/09
Conventional wisdom has it that new and better technologies replace old ones. But is that always the case? New research suggests it's much more complicated. There are new markets for old technologies. Read more »
Martha E. Mangelsdorf - Improvisations - 9/9/09
MIT's John R. Ehrenfeld, the author of Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture, no newcomer to the topic, argues that the current craze for going green is all wrong. Read more »
Interview by Michael S. Hopkins - Interview Series - 7/14/09
How one very smart piece of paper helps the Japanese automobile manufacturer solves problems, creates plans, and gets new things done while developing a rich organization of thinking problem-solvers. Read more »
John Shook - The Magazine - 7/1/09
As part of our special report on the economic downturn, our editors and experts share insights on how to survive—and thrive—in the current unsettling business environment, along with links to more resources on the web. Read more »
Martha E. Mangelsdorf - Special Report - 3/27/09
Yossi Sheffi, director of MIT’s Engineering Systems Division and Center for Transportation and Logistics explores how the economic crisis pushes back matters of environmental sustainability. He also shows how it doesn’t. Read more »
Interview by Michael S. Hopkins - Interview Series - 5/21/09
