Skills & Learning
The Best of This Week
Post-pandemic work arrangements, linking inclusion and organizational learning, and smarter pricing.
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Customers
Why Pricing Decisions Need More Than Management Intuition
Leaders can make smarter customer strategy decisions in turbulent times through sound economic and strategic thinking.
Daniel Deneffe and Herman Vantrappen
Skills & Learning
Executing the CEO’s Agenda Through Targeted Learning
Targeted learning can resolve execution problems and social challenges, and drive strategic change.
James Fulton and Todd M. Warner
Platforms & Ecosystems
The Best of This Week
Incremental platform scaling, ecosystem development for sustainable success, and competition in platform-based markets.
The MIT SMR Editors
Platforms & Ecosystems
Our Guide to the Spring 2021 Issue
In our new spring issue: platform-based ecosystems, blockchain, data failures, and misbehaving leaders.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Platforms & Ecosystems
Platform Scaling, Fast and Slow
Conventional thinking says platforms must scale fast, but that can be unwise in the face of regulatory risk.
Max Büge and Pinar Ozcan
Platforms & Ecosystems
How Healthy Is Your Business Ecosystem?
Use these metrics and red-flag indicators to boost your chances of business ecosystem success.
Ulrich Pidun, Martin Reeves, and Edzard Wesselink
Platforms & Ecosystems
Competing on Platforms
Doing business on giant internet platforms demands that companies rethink their competitive strategy.
Donato Cutolo, Andrew Hargadon, and Martin Kenney
Business Models
New Strategies for the Platform Economy
How do smaller companies find competitive advantage and limit risk in a platform-based economy?
Leadership Skills
Does Your C-Suite Have Enough Digital Smarts?
Digitally savvy executive teams deliver huge premiums in growth and valuation to their companies.
Peter Weill, Stephanie L. Woerner, and Aman M. Shah
Skills & Learning
The Future of Digital Work Depends On More Than Tech Skills
Africa needs more trainees with both tech and employability skills to support its booming digital economy.
Remi Abere and Panos Constantinides
Boards & Corporate Governance
The Best of This Week
An innovation framework for COVID-19, circular business models, and the advantages of a diverse board.
The MIT SMR Editors
Sustainability
The Four Fatal Mistakes Holding Back Circular Business Models
Incumbent manufacturing companies face four key challenges as they shift to circular business models.
Johan Frishammar and Vinit Parida
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
Boards & Corporate Governance
Reconfigure Your Board to Boost Cooperative Advantage
Companies can gain cooperative advantage by appointing community development and sustainability advocates to their boards.
Leon C. Prieto and Simone T.A. Phipps
Content sponsored by Tata Consultancy Services
Creating Collaborative Ecosystems to Transform Customer Experience
Two thought leaders discuss building strong banking, financial services, and insurance ecosystems.
Renée Richardson Gosline and K. Krithivasan
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
Business Models
The Key to Growing Human-Centered Businesses
There are key steps company leaders can take to instill and manage a human-centered culture.
Ashley Bittner and Brigette Lau
Technology Innovation Strategy
What We’ve Learned So Far About Blockchain for Business
First-generation blockchain applications are delivering value by removing friction in shared ecosystems.
Mary Lacity and Remko Van Hoek
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.