Is your company a sustainability ‘embracer,’ placing sustainability high on their agendas, or a ‘cautious adopter?’ This report details the seven key management practices exhibited by embracers and looks at why they’re the new management model. Includes: Executive summary, the surprising downturn response, who the “embracers” are, and a picture of the management future. Table of contents »

The intensifying data deluge and the new analytical approaches organizations use to exploit that data are changing how managers innovate. In collaboration with the IBM Institute for Business Value, we present insights into how smart managers are capitalizing on all of their information riches. Included: an executive overview, the heart of the findings, the 5 recommendations, techniques to get started, raw survey responses, and more. Table of contents »

What’s the future of supply chain innovation? We hear about sustainability opportunities from Edgar Blanco of MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics, whether to collaborate or compete from MIT’s David Simchi-Levi and Charles Fine, new ways to track and capture savings, how to increase supplier’s innovation-related activities, and more. Table of contents »

How are sustainability issues shaping the opportunities and threats that companies face? Our report includes raw survey results, details on why decisive corporate action is lacking, 5 company transformations (Nike, Wal-Mart, Rio Tinto, General Electric, and Better Place), and how to seize opportunities and mitigate risks. The launch of MIT SMR’s Sustainability Initiative was conducted with knowledge partner The Boston Consulting Group and sponsorship support from SAS. Table of contents »

Design thinking is a path to both breakthrough innovation and high-performance collaboration. Information-visualization guru Edward Tufte explains how companies can best present themselves. John Shook, the first American manager at Toyota in Japan, explains Toyota’s secret. Nancy Duarte and Garr Reynolds detail how thinking like a designer helps you persuade more effectively. And a team of professors explain “web site morphing” and the upside of connecting with people in the cognitive styles they prefer. Table of contents »

“Green” consumers constitute a market worth winning. Our special report includes analysis from the Boston Consulting Group on how capturing customers is about information more than price, the importance of the four Ps (planning, processes, products, and promotion), an executive roundtable (with Jeffrey Hollender of Seventh Generation, Sheila Bowman of Seafood Watch, Bob Langert of McDonald’s Corp., and others), and strategies for “capturing the green advantage” in a downturn. Table of contents »