Data & Data Culture
How Time-to-Insight Is Driving Big Data Business Investment
A poll of Fortune 1000 executives shows that obtaining insights rapidly is the true value of Big Data.
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Climate Change
Finishing School for Social Intrapreneurs
The Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program develops business leaders for a sustainable society.
Gregory Unruh
Project Management
From the Editor: Expecting the Unexpected in Project Management
The Spring 2015 issue of MIT SMR highlights project management — and the importance of expecting the unexpected.
Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Project Management
How Executive Sponsors Influence Project Success
The role of project sponsors is often overlooked, but actively engaged executives are crucial to a project’s success.
Timothy J. Kloppenborg and Debbie Tesch
Project Management
What Successful Project Managers Do
Successful project managers often combine elements of traditional and agile approaches to project management.
Alexander Laufer, Edward J. Hoffman, Jeffrey S. Russell and W. Scott Cameron
Analytics & Business Intelligence
How to Hire Data-Driven Leaders
As business moves to a real-time, data-driven focus, the search for talent has undergone a quantum shift.
Tuck Rickards (Russell Reynolds), interviewed by Michael Fitzgerald
Climate Change
The Sustainability Insurgency: Missives from the Front Lines, Part 2
Emma Stewart, Autodesk’s head of sustainability, describes how social intelligence helps CSR advocates promote a culture of sustainability.
Gregory Unruh
Climate Change
The Sustainability Insurgency: Missives from the Front Lines, Part 1
Autodesk’s Emma Stewart says that social intelligence helps promote CSR and a culture of sustainability.
Gregory Unruh
Analytics & Business Intelligence
The Digital C-Suite
The CIO Council makes the case that greater collaboration among top executives is required if companies are to reap technology’s benefits.
Michael Fitzgerald
Technology Implementation
Eight Steps to Digital Transformation
An inside view on how companies can use technology to transform their businesses.
Michael Fitzgerald
Data & Data Culture
Do You Need a Data Dictator?
Keeping track of data and creating value from it may require more than technology.
Jeanne Ross (MIT Sloan), interviewed by David Kiron and Renee Boucher Ferguson
Climate Change
How an “Abundance Mentality” and a CEO’s Fierce Resolve Kickstarted CSR at Campbell Soup
Former Campbell Soup CEO says leading sustainability efforts is critical to success.
Douglas R. Conant (former CEO, Campbell Soup Company), interviewed by Nina Kruschwitz
Leadership Skills
The Curse of Your Qualities
The authors of “How to Become a Better Leader” explore how leaders can recognize and manage their psychological inclinations.
Leslie Brokaw
Leadership Skills
How to Become a Better Leader
To grow as an executive, you need to recognize and manage your strongest tendencies.
Ginka Toegel and Jean-Louis Barsoux
Collaboration
The Power of Being Part of Something Bigger
Leaders in many jobs try to make participants feel like they’re part of something bigger than themselves. Research says that’s it’s easy to create this feeling.
Project Management
The Project Leader’s Branding Tool Kit (5 Point Chart)
Charts explain how to brand a project to internal audiences to get it funded and create engagement.
Climate Change
Duke Energy’s Plan To Take Over Your Kitchen — and Take Down Your Energy Use
Jim Rogers (Duke Energy), interviewed by Michael S. Hopkins
