MIT Sloan Management Review

Strategy

Do You Have A “Plan B”?

Many companies have trouble making the transition from a failing business model to one that works. Often, one culprit is an inability to experiment.

How to Make Sense of Weak Signals

There’s no sense in denying it: interpreting weak signals into useful decision making takes time and focus. These three stages can help you see the periphery—and act on it—much more clearly.

The Risk of Not Investing in a Recession

The challenge for managers during a downturn is to find the balance between pursuing too many unprofitable investment opportunities and passing up too many potentially profitable ones.

How to Rethink Your Business During Uncertainty

Recessions are a good time to disengage from businesses and practices that are weak and under pressure—but the volatile environment demands that managers let go of old approaches.

Nature’s Rules

How they can help you succeed in adversity...and how they can steer you wrong.

What Is Your Management Model?

This could be the second most important question you ever ask about your business. Here”s how to answer it.

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.