Willy Shih asks if it's time to rethink globalized supply chains?

The COVID-19 pandemic underscores why disaster preparedness is vital for supply chain resilience. | Continue reading


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The Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains [pdf]

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Articles for Managing with Resilience in a Time of Uncertainty

Advice on supply chain resilience, leading remote teams, and risk management amid COVID-19 concerns. | Continue reading


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How Leaders Delude Themselves About Disruption

We’ve known for decades what causes disruption. So why are companies still so vulnerable? | Continue reading


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Companies Can Respond to the Coronavirus

Managers can learn a lot from how organizations in China have been coping with the COVID-19 crisis. | Continue reading


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Leading Through Covid-19

The coronavirus pandemic highlights the skills business leaders need for navigating global crises. | Continue reading


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Nancy Duarte's four storytelling techniques that will bring your data to life

Leaders can have more influence if they emphasize the people behind the numbers. | Continue reading


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Invest in people to best manage through disruption

The most effective response to disruption is a long-view focus on employee development. | Continue reading


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Four Skills Tomorrow’s Innovation Workforce Will Need

To innovate and survive, organizations must develop core business skills in their digital talent. | Continue reading


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How Vigilant Companies Gain an Edge in Turbulent Times (2019)

A systematic approach to identifying potential threats can help companies respond to disruption. | Continue reading


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The Pros and Cons of ‘Growth’

Our economy cannot use resources at the pace it has if we want to keep the planet livable. | Continue reading


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Education, Disrupted

Companies can no longer wait for traditional education to supply the skills needed for the future. | Continue reading


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The Detroit Hustle

In a city that’s experienced tough economic times, entrepreneurism is blooming. | Continue reading


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Digital Twins Are Reinventing Innovation

From faster drug trials to fully “conscious” cities, digital replicas are changing innovation. | Continue reading


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Why 'Autos Plus Tech' Is the Best Path for Automated Vehicles

Auto companies or tech companies can’t develop winning mobility offerings on their own. | Continue reading


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Women Can Improve Their Venture Pitch Outcomes

There are specific ways for women to be more successful in pitch situations. | Continue reading


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Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it

Learning at work is work, and we can make it easier. | Continue reading


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Enough with the Top-Down Strategizing

To plan for change that will stick, leaders must first understand how employees adopt digital tools. | Continue reading


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What Makes Dual-Career Couples Work (Or Not)

Learn what makes dual-career couples work and get your own conversation-starter kit. | Continue reading


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A Noble Purpose Alone Won’t Transform Your Company

Leadership behaviors that build trust, purpose, and energy bolster collaboration and engagement. | Continue reading


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Read Free – The Five Bestselling MIT SMR Articles of 2019

Getting ahead of industry disruption, successful frameworks for strategic decision-making, and creating value through customer experience. | Continue reading


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Measuring Emotions in the Digital Age

Facial recognition tech can identify and analyze key emotional states — but must be used with care. | Continue reading


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It’s time to dispel the myth that innovation must be disruptive

It’s time to embrace the idea that companies can create without destroying. | Continue reading


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Blockchain isn’t as unbreakable as you think

Blockchain is vulnerable in some ways that conventional systems are — and in ways all its own. | Continue reading


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Learning from Automation Anxiety of the Past

History shows we should focus more on policy than technology challenges when confronting automation. | Continue reading


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Employee Emotions Aren’t Noise – They’re Data

Emotions provide insight into what motivates people and how to improve performance. | Continue reading


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Leadership Mindsets for the New Economy

Successful companies are passionate about fostering a community of leaders with new mindsets. | Continue reading


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Should businesses stop flying to fight climate change?

Flying makes up 3% of emissions. Is it justifiable if you’re battling the other 97%? | Continue reading


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Tech CEOs are redefining the top job

Pioneering leaders roll up their sleeves, create, and stay relevant. | Continue reading


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Whitney Johnson on Leading Remotely

Make the most of your distributed workforce. | Continue reading


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Take a Wrecking Ball to Your Company’s Iconic Practices

As organizations face disruptive threats, their cultural values can thwart needed change. | Continue reading


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Leaders Don’t Hide Behind Data by Seth Godin

With data, you can measure and improve performance, but that won’t facilitate breakthroughs. | Continue reading


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Five Rules for Leading in a Digital World

Times of rapid change call for a new leadership model. | Continue reading


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Don’t Let Metrics Critics Undermine Your Business

The true underperformers in this digital disruption era are not measures but their managers. | Continue reading


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Creating the Symbiotic AI Workforce of the Future

The most effective use of AI: Symbiotic systems enabling humans and AI to work to their strengths. | Continue reading


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The Benefits of Framing Culture as a Management System

Companies that take culture seriously perform better than those that ignore it. | Continue reading


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Choose Charts Everyone Understands

A classic bar, line, or pie chart is often the best choice for communicating information. | Continue reading


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Navigating the Contested Rise of Fintech

Fintech adoption carries threats as well as opportunities. Managers’ decisions must evaluate both. | Continue reading


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Digital Transformation Should Start with Customers

Major makeovers should benefit — and be noticed by — those who buy a company’s products and services. | Continue reading


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MIT SMR is unlocked today through Thursday

We’ve unlocked our site and curated reading lists to help you solve your key business problems. | Continue reading


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Unleashing the Power of Blockchain in the Enterprise

If companies want to compete with blockchain, they must first cooperate to develop standards. | Continue reading


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How to Survive Digital Disruption

How you manage your culture — not your tech — during a transition to digital is the key to success. | Continue reading


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The Right Way to Regulate the Tech Industry

Some want big tech companies broken up. Others call for stiffer industry oversight. Who’s right? | Continue reading


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Can We End the Crisis of Agency?

In the face of feeling powerless, doing small things can make a huge difference. | Continue reading


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Collaborate Smarter, Not Harder

Through analytics, companies can reduce the costs of collaboration — and reap its rewards. | Continue reading


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It’s Time to Tackle Your Team’s Undiscussables

Taboo or undiscussable topics can make it impossible for teams to function. But they can fix that. | Continue reading


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Three People-Centered Design Principles for Deep Learning

To avoid bias, people-centered design principles must be the foundation of deep-learning algorithms. | Continue reading


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Timeless shortcuts to inefficiency, courtesy of a pre-CIA field manual

Timeless shortcuts to inefficiency, courtesy of a pre-CIA field manual for destroying enemy organizations from the inside. | Continue reading


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