MIT Sloan Management Review

How to Back the Right Technology

When trying to decide where to place their bets, companies often make three fundamental mistakes

Staring You in the Face

The path to new products might start with the customer data you've already collected. You just don't realize it.

Oops!

Accidents lead to innovations. So, how do you create more accidents?

Shape of Things To Come

How Apple's trademark for its iPod protects its brand—and offers lessons for other companies on how to leverage their intellectual property

Thinking Strategically About Technology Licensing

Companies are discovering that internally produced technologies can yield huge profits when licensed to third parties. What many of these companies still lack, however, is the ability to make licensing decisions an integral part of planning and strategy.

Technology licensing often occurs almost as an afterthought, when a company realizes that it won’t benefit as much [...]

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.