Business Insight - Wall Street Journal / MIT Sloan

A Recipe for Creating New Products

Take two completely separate categories. Combine.

The Future Is Now

In analyzing a company's stock price, executives may be seeing only part of the picture.

The Hand That Feeds You

What makes some collaborations with suppliers succeed — when so many fail?

How To Do Business in Russia

Russia has much to attract foreign investors — a fast rate of growth in gross domestic product, a large population and a substantial expansion in purchasing power. But its unique and sometimes murky business environment has left Russia with a reputation as being a difficult place to set up shop.
How can international companies overcome the [...]

Strategies for Being a Platform Leader

In recent years, many high-tech sectors have become battlegrounds for companies bent on establishing their product as the next industry platform. Whether it’s a smart phone or a videogame console, products that become platforms dominate sales in their niches, give rise to numerous complementary products from third-party developers, and reap enormous profits.
Too many companies, though, [...]

From The Magazine

Fall 2009

Special Report: Sustainability

8 Reasons That Sustainability Will Change Management

Michael S. Hopkins

Transparency, accidental innovation, trust, collaboration — as sustainability affects how the world works, so will it affect how business works in the world.

Intelligence: Management

Debunking Management Myths

Martha E. Mangelsdorf

In this interview, Henry Mintzberg questions some of the conventional wisdom about managerial work.