Business Insight - Wall Street Journal / MIT Sloan

Putting Ideas to Work

Knowledge management can make a difference—but it needs to be more pragmatic

Beyond Buying

A rapidly changing marketplace is forcing suppliers and their clients to work more closely than ever before. And it’s forcing supply-chain managers to do their jobs in a whole new way.

Traditionally, these managers have been little more than purchasing officers. They dealt with a relatively small group of familiar suppliers, and had few overall goals [...]

How to Tap IT’s Hidden Potential

Too often, there's a wall between a company's information-technology department and everything else. That wall has to go.

Protecting Your Intellectual Property in China

China is working hard to repair its reputation as a place where theft of intellectual property is rampant.

But don’t be lulled into thinking everything is OK. The truth is that counterfeiting and piracy remain common.

Yet companies typically fall short of doing everything they can to protect their intellectual property in China. What steps should they [...]

What To Do About Online Attacks

Step No. 1: Stop ignoring them

The HR Department: Give It More Respect

Imagine a company in which the human-resources department has great talent and technology and advises top executives on business strategy and organizational effectiveness. It has a say in big decisions and is a critical career stopping point for anyone who aspires to senior management.

Sound like a foreign concept?

That’s what an HR department should look like [...]

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.