Chinese companies are increasingly investing overseas — and bring a different negotiating style.
Exploring the Digital Future of Management
Identifying the optimal prices for products was once a time-consuming process. That’s changing.
It pays to ask yourself whether your job is common and repetitive enough to be done by a machine.
University of Chicago’s Berkeley Dietvorst explains why we can’t let go of human judgment — to our own detriment.
Digitization demands an unprecedented focus on cooperation and collaboration.
Featured excerpt from Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm.
People, organizations, and policy respond to technological advances at different rates.
We searched the MIT SMR archives to find 12 essential innovation insights.
Improving a company’s measurement of innovation requires a holistic view of its innovation process.
Innovation success is the result of a deliberate search using key information signals.
Design thinking needs better alignment with the dynamics of established businesses.
With tough new EU regulations on data security coming in 2018, global companies will soon be faced with a choice: Protect consumers’ data and reap the rewards of having access to it, or face the competitive consequences of consumer distrust. But companies caught unprepared for the change may lose the privilege of keeping consumers’ data altogether.
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Companies with rigorous compliance programs hope such programs will curtail employee wrongdoing. But to prevent employee misconduct, companies also need to understand how employees reach unethical decisions — and what affects their decision-making processes.
A new study suggests that a surprisingly simple technique can improve employees’ compliance with organizational rules. The secret? Creating more variety in the order in which employees perform tasks — even without changing the tasks.
To fully benefit from supply chain analytics, companies need to be able to act on insights quickly.
Some companies are using assessment tools to help identify employees with leadership potential.
The 2017 Data & Analytics Report by MIT Sloan Management Review finds that companies that embraced analytics have begun to find new ways to derive strategic benefit from analytics.
The information economy is giving way to an economy focused on analytics-based data products.
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Research reveals five lessons that can help executives manage big, complex projects more effectively.
Projects can lose momentum if stakeholders grow skeptical. Here’s how to avert a ‘cycle of doubt.’
Making the right decision about which projects to pursue should be easy. But it often isn’t.
The Artificial Intelligence & Business Strategy initiative explores the growing use of artificial intelligence in the business landscape. The exploration looks specifically at how AI is affecting the development and execution of strategy in organizations.
Explore perspectives on:
• Using AI as a strategic tool
• The disruptive potential of cognitive technology
• How AI is changing business
Current trends in both human longevity and technological innovation raise the possibility of people living until 100 and working until they are 80. It’s clear that much will have to change — both in how people understand and anticipate the evolving nature of work, and how they then respond. Providing access to lifelong learning demands a complex system involving stakeholders in education, government, and the corporate world.