Sustainability
The Progressive Roots of Management Science
New research highlights that sustainable management is a fundamental business practice, not just a modern trend.
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Analytics & Business Intelligence
Developing an Appetite for AI: ExxonMobil’s Sarah Karthigan
ExxonMobil’s Sarah Karthigan discusses leading AI projects that focus on self-healing strategies for IT operations.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
Organizational Behavior
The Best of This Week
Jobs in the post-pandemic era, the effects of relaxed hybrid rules, and the real causes of the supply chain crisis.
The MIT SMR Editors
Content Provided By EY
3 Priorities for Accelerating Your Operating Model Transformation
Based on a global CPG survey, this article discusses priorities for operating model transformation.
EY
Supply Chains & Logistics
What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Never-Ending COVID-19 Supply Chain Crisis
Just-in-time inventory management isn’t the source of the pandemic’s supply chain issues and product shortages.
Yossi Sheffi
Content Sponsored by PTC
A Digital Thread: Capitalize on Your Data’s Value
Develop a “digital thread” that connects people, products, and processes internally and externally.
Catherine Kniker, Raghav Narsalay, and Wade Roush
Developing Strategy
Has COVID-19 Permanently Changed Business Strategy? What Experts Say
Strategy experts weigh in on what COVID-19 means for business strategy.
MIT SMR Strategy Forum
Content Provided By EY
Is Your Company’s Operating Model Trailblazing — or Trail-Gazing?
Based on a global survey, this article discusses operating-model trends at consumer-product companies.
EY
Supply Chains & Logistics
Four Myths About Unauthorized Subcontracting
New research has identified the factors in supply chains that drive suppliers to divert orders to subcontractors.
Felipe Caro, Leonard Lane, and Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca
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
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Online Shoppers Don’t Always Care About Faster Delivery
Retailers should analyze customers’ preferences before deciding how to optimize their delivery networks.
Pedro Amorim and Nicole DeHoratius
Content sponsored by Tata Consultancy Services
Destination: Digital
Executives from TCS and Honeywell share their insights on digital transformation in manufacturing.
Sheila Jordan and Subhash Sakorikar
Leading Change
How to Reduce the Risk of Colliding Change Initiatives
New research points to consistency as a pivotal success factor when companies launch concurrent change initiatives.
Quy Nguyen Huy, Rouven Kanitz, Julia Backmann, and Martin Hoegl
Technology Innovation Strategy
How a Startup Mindset Brews Innovation at a Global Scale
Tassilo Festetics shares how in-house technology innovation is helping AB InBev enhance its products and service.
Tassilo Festetics, interviewed by Chris Clearfield
Supply Chains & Logistics
Rethinking Industry’s Role in a National Emergency
The U.S.’s approach to its Strategic National Stockpile needs to be overhauled before the next pandemic. Here’s how.
ManMohan S. Sodhi and Christopher S. Tang
Supply Chains & Logistics
The Right Way to Mix and Match Your Customers
Understanding patterns of demand across your customer base can help smooth out costly spikes and slumps.
William Schmidt, Nikolay Osadchiy, and Jing Wu
Global Strategy
How COVID-19 Will Change the Geography of Competition
Three trends are reshaping global strategy and operations for the world’s largest companies.
Niccolò Pisani
Supply Chains & Logistics
Achieving Supply Chain Transparency
Karen Zheng, an associate professor of operations at the MIT Sloan School of Management, outlines how some companies have made their supply chain operations more transparent.
Karen Zheng and Paul Michelman
Developing Strategy
Four Questions for Appraising Your Alliances
A new year is dawning. Do you know the state of your company’s alliances?
Theodore Kinni
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.