MIT Sloan Management Review

We should give our information delete dates, says Mayer-Schönberger.

Should information be finite? Should it cease to exist after a certain point?

On the face of it, an expiration date on information sounds like a wild idea.

Here's an intriguing finding from a new working paper:  Companies that use modern management best practices tend to also use less energy. A team of researchers from Stanford, the London School of Economics and Cambridge University studied a sample of mid-sized manufacturing companies in the U.K.Â

Right now, it's hard to escape being inundated with new headlines about the financial crisis. But amid the din of ever-changing news soundbites, it's not easy to make sense of the bigger picture.