Innovation
Data & Data Culture AI and the COVID-19 Vaccine: Moderna’s Dave Johnson
Moderna’s chief data and AI officer explains how AI helped the pharma company develop a COVID-19 vaccine in record time.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
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Analytics & Business Intelligence
No Need for AI Unicorns: PepsiCo’s Colin Lenaghan
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
Technology Innovation Strategy
How a Startup Mindset Brews Innovation at a Global Scale
Tassilo Festetics, interviewed by Chris Clearfield
Developing Strategy
Most Businesses Should Neither ‘Pivot’ nor ‘Double Down’
B. Tom Hunsaker and Jonathan Knowles
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Collaboration
Games, Teams, and Moonshots: Google Cloud’s Will Grannis
Will Grannis of Google Cloud explains the organization’s collaborative approach to AI and machine learning innovation.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
Culture
On Ideals and Innovation
The U.S. must examine its cultural ideals, in the context of its economic rivalry with China and within its own borders.
Elizabeth Heichler
Innovation Strategy
When a Leader Like Bezos Steps Down, Can Innovation Keep Up?
Sustaining innovation when a visionary founder steps down requires that all employees be given the license to innovate.
Hal Gregersen
Innovation Strategy
How Temporary Assignments Boost Innovation
Front-line manufacturing workers contribute more valuable ideas after they’re briefly assigned to other company sites.
Philipp B. Cornelius et al.
Innovation Strategy
A Framework for Innovation in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
A framework to help leaders understand how they weathered COVID-19 and to keep leveraging their new innovation skills.
Johnathan Cromwell and Blade Kotelly
Innovation Strategy
How Culture Gives the US an Innovation Edge Over China
Societies shaped by individualism may have an edge when it comes to growth through innovation.
Carl Benedikt Frey
IT Governance & Leadership
Should the U.S. Government Slow Its Roll in Technology Regulation?
An expert on tech industry regulation argues that the Biden administration should step back and let innovation flourish.
Paul Michelman
Innovation Strategy
The Unconventional Innovator Who Created Wikipedia
Wikipedia’s creation required the determined efforts of an unconventional, original thinker.
Cyril Bouquet et al.
Technology Innovation Strategy
How Machine Discovery Can Accelerate Solutions to Society’s Big Problems
New technologies can help solve critical global problems in energy, medicine, and urban planning.
Mark Purdy and Max Klymenko
Disruption
The Top MIT SMR Articles of 2020
The most popular articles of 2020 gave companies and leaders insights on navigating disruption, uncertainty, and change.