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SPECIAL REPORTS

The Business of Sustainability

Will sustainability change the competitive landscape and reshape the opportunities and threats that companies face? If so, how? How worried are executives and other stakeholders about the impact of sustainability efforts on the corporate bottom line? What—if anything—are companies doing now to capitalize on sustainability-driven changes? Read more »
Also in the new Business Insight: learn lessons from the developing world, what managers really do, how to be a smart protégé, and much more.
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The Special Reports from MIT Sloan Management Review address pressing managerial and leadership issues in depth.

The Business of Sustainability

Findings From the First Annual Survey and Interview Project

How will sustainability reshape the opportunities and threats that companies face? Learn why decisive and effective corporate action is lacking, how to seize opportunities and mitigate risks, and five examples of companies doing it right. Read more »

Design Thinking

Hard Skills from a Soft Science

Design thinking has emerged as the premier organizational path not only to breakthrough innovation but, surprisingly, to high-performance collaboration, as well. It’s not about the pretty. It’s about the productive. Read more »

The Downturn Manifesto

A Manager’s Guide to Surviving—and Thriving—in Recessionary Times

These are not easy times to be a business leader—not when the global economy may shrink in 2009 for the first time since World War II. Both dangers and bargains abound for businesses; savvy companies can emerge from a downturn stronger. Read more »

Capturing The Green Advantage

What Green Consumers Want and How to Deliver It

Companies and consumers finally understand green as something more than a fad. We present the best ideas for building green products that capture consumers and green practices that sustain businesses. What are the best practices? Read more »

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.