Developing Strategy
Four Questions for Appraising Your Alliances
A new year is dawning. Do you know the state of your company’s alliances?
Supply Chains & Logistics
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Analytics & Business Intelligence
Machine Learning and Data Analytics in the Pandemic Era
In this webinar, Jeffrey D. Camm and Thomas H. Davenport explain how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the practice of data analytics.
Jeffrey D. Camm, Thomas H. Davenport, and Elizabeth Heichler
Collaboration
Our Guide to the Winter 2021 Issue
MIT SMR’s winter issue looks at why teams work (or don’t), plus innovation, supply chains, and data for AI.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Technology Innovation Strategy
The Promise of Self-Sufficient Production
The pandemic has demonstrated the potential of self-sufficient production. Is this the future?
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Alan Gershenfeld, and Neil Gershenfeld
Supply Chains & Logistics
Reshaping Supply Chains for a Post-Pandemic World
Learn how to navigate post-pandemic supply chains in this recent webinar with MIT professor Yossi Sheffi.
Yossi Sheffi and Paul Michelman
Supply Chains & Logistics
Accelerating Supply Chain Scenario Planning
Companies can use data and collaborative scenario plans to enhance supply chain responsiveness.
Nitin Joglekar and Shardul Phadnis
Data & Data Culture
This Crazy Wave We’re Riding: Walmart’s Prakhar Mehrotra on the Ups and Downs of AI
Walmart’s Prakhar Mehrotra discusses leading AI teams and workstreams in this episode of the Me, Myself, and AI podcast.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
Crisis Management
Responding to Crises With Speed and Agility
The pandemic has shown how both speed and agility can help drive global business during a crisis.
Bernadine J. Dykes, Margaret Hughes-Morgan, Kalin D. Kolev, and Walter J. Ferrier
Supply Chains & Logistics
Data, Not Digitalization, Transforms the Post-Pandemic Supply Chain
Digitalization can’t deliver agility or reliability unless you first determine data access, quality, and lineage.
Michael Schrage
Developing Strategy
The Best of This Week
Pivoting in the pandemic, assessing supplier diversity initiatives, and creating a framework for discussing race.
The MIT SMR Editors
Supply Chains & Logistics
Maximizing the Benefits of B2B Supplier Diversification
Often dismissed as a “feel good” option, B2B supplier diversity initiatives can reap financial rewards.
Simha Mummalaneni and Jonathan Z. Zhang
Developing Strategy
The Best of This Week
Identifying postcrisis opportunities, marketing to nonbinary genders, and prioritizing during supply chain disruption.
The MIT SMR Editors
Supply Chains & Logistics
Who Gets What When Supply Chains Are Disrupted?
Past disruptions reveal how both ends of the supply chain can best handle product shortages.
Yossi Sheffi
Sustainability
COVID-19, Climate, and the Clean Economy: Gigatrends Changing the World
It’s time to rethink resilience, in the context of sustainability and the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Andrew Winston and Paul Michelman
Operations
Your Business Is Too Complex to Be Digital
To compete digitally, leaders must attack the complexity that comes from layers of legacy systems.
Jeanne Ross
Innovation Strategy
The Best of This Week
Adjusting business strategies and plotting comebacks in the face of uncertainty.
The MIT SMR Editors
Global Strategy
Monitoring the COVID-19 Crisis From Space
What leaders can learn from near-real-time disaster monitoring data.
Michael Hudecheck, Charlotta Sirén, Dietmar Grichnik, and Joakim Wincent
Supply Chains & Logistics
Three Scenarios to Guide Your Global Supply Chain Recovery
The business climate remains unpredictable, but supply chain leaders should plot their comebacks.
David Simchi-Levi
Financial Management & Risk
Help Yourself to Research and Ideas You Can Use
The MIT SMR site is open to all through March 26 so readers can learn about crisis management.
Elizabeth Heichler
Supply Chains & Logistics
Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?
The COVID-19 pandemic underscores why disaster preparedness is vital for supply chain resilience.