Supply Chains & Logistics
Commodities Markets Are Broken. Responsible Supply Chains Can Fix Them.
Transparency about how minerals are sourced advances environmental justice and climate protection.
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Sustainability
Why Businesses Need to Embrace the Bioeconomy
Developing products using materials from biological sources can yield more sustainable business models.
Donna Marshall, Aideen O’Dochartaigh, Andrea Prothero, Orlagh Reynolds, and Enrico Secchi
Corporate Social Responsibility
How Supply Chain Transparency Boosts Business Value
Increasing visibility into supply chain practices takes work but can lead to new market opportunities.
Tim Kraft and Yanchong Zheng
Organizational Structure
How Autonomy Creates Resilience in the Face of Crisis
What managers can learn from the coronavirus outbreak.
Howard Yu and Mark J. Greeven
Financial Management & Risk
The Best of This Week
Black swans, COVID-19’s supply chain impact, a global upskilling push, and human-machine teams.
The MIT SMR Editors
Financial Management & Risk
What Would a Hard Brexit Mean for Global Business?
Strategy experts weigh in on possible impacts of a complete U.K. separation from the European Union.
Climate Change
Blockchain and the Clean, Smart Grid
A blockchain platform for the energy sector could accelerate the transition to renewables.
Andrew Winston
Climate Change
What Makes a Supply Chain Sustainable?
A sustainable supply chain requires more than just following the law, undertaking audits, or increasing transparency.
Cory Searcy
Organizational Transformation
Is Your Company Winning the Race to Digital Transformation?
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.
Theodore Kinni
Supply Chains & Logistics
Second Thoughts on Second Sourcing
Multi-sourcing can lessen the risk of supply chain disruption. But it introduces risks of its own.
Yossi Sheffi
New Product Development
A Lesson in Managing Digital Disruption from Fintech
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.
Theodore Kinni
Organizational Transformation
Mass Customization and the Do-It-Yourself Supply Chain
With the advent of digitization and the App economy, the frontiers of customization are expanding further.
Mohan Subramaniam, Bala Iyer, and Gerald C. Kane
Climate Change
How a Lack of Systemic Thinking Threatens a Sustainable U.S. Energy Policy
Congress’s failure to see the ramifications of its shifting ethanol policies is wreaking havoc on energy supply chains.
Alexis Bateman and Yossi Sheffi
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Tech Savvy: February 26, 2016
This week: using mobile to reduce supply chain risk; reengineering with machines; a data science primer for execs.
Theodore Kinni
Data & Data Culture
Will the Internet of Trees Be the Next Game Changer?
Is the forestry industry ready for an industry-specific Internet of Things?
Eric Hansen and Scott Leavengood (Oregon State University), interviewed by Michael Fitzgerald
Marketing Strategy
How Well Does Your Company Integrate Demand and Supply?
An online questionnaire helps assess how well a company’s supply chain and sales operations are integrated.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Supply Chains & Logistics
Webinar: Flourishing in the Face of Supply Chain Disruption
The webinar speakers discuss how resilient enterprises adapt to turbulence in the supply chain.
Deborah Gallagher
Executing Strategy
Integrating Supply and Demand
Joining the supply and demand sides of an enterprise presents an opportunity for efficiency and value creation.
Wendy L. Tate, Diane Mollenkopf, Theodore Stank and Andrea Lago da Silva
Climate Change
Working Toward Totally Transparent Yogurt
As part of its sustainability strategy, organic yogurt company Stonyfield has made a mission of total transparency in its sourcing.
Wood Turner (Stonyfield), interviewed by Nina Kruschwitz
Climate Change
Choosing the Right Eco-Label for Your Product
With 435 labeling programs globally, companies need to be smart when picking one for their products.
Magali A. Delmas, Nicholas Nairn-Birch and Michaela Balzarova
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