Leadership Skills
MIT for Managers: Lessons in Effective Leadership Styles
The MIT Leadership Center’s video series highlights different styles of leadership among senior executives and leaders.
Blog
Latest
Business Models
What is Your Strategy’s Big Idea?
At the core of every great strategy is a novel and distinctive concept.
Social Media
Can Social Media Cultivate Long-Term Loyalty?
If your brand is on Instagram or other social media platforms, your current followers are likely also your future customers.
Why We Need New Measures of the U.S. Economy
How can the digital economy move forward when the GDP underestimates the value of digital goods and services?
Data & Data Culture
Exploring the Ethical Limits of App Design
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.
Data & Data Culture
Stephen Curry, the Golden State Warriors, and the Power of Analytics at Work
A commitment to data-driven decisions is transforming the management of sports. Other industries can — and should — follow suit.
Two Questions for Managers of Learning Machines
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.
Data & Data Culture
Six Lessons From Amsterdam’s Smart City Initiative
Data and analytics promise to improve urban living but require new collaborative skills.
Innovation Strategy
MIT For Managers: 3D Printing the Future
Our biweekly exploration of new business ideas from the corridors of MIT.
AI & Machine Learning
$127 Billion in Drone-Powered Business Applications
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.
Crisis Management
Lessons from Kunduz: Prevent Disaster by Paying Attention to the Little Picture
Organizations that fail to heed their vulnerabilities are more likely encounter catastrophes.
Digital Marketing
Are You Using the Return on Investment Metric Correctly?
To calculate ROI accurately, you need to estimate the fraction of profits attributable to the investment.
AI & Machine Learning
Sales Gets a Machine-Learning Makeover
How human vigor and algorithmic rigor are joining forces in the sales function.
Organizational Transformation
How Blockchains Could Transform Management
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.
New Product Development
R&D, Meet E&S (Experiment & Scale)
Fast, iterative “virtual research centers” are edging out traditional approaches to R&D.
Digital Marketing
How Should You Calculate Customer Lifetime Value?
Should marketers subtract the cost of acquiring a customer before assessing that customer’s lifetime value (CLV)?
Supply Chains & Logistics
Free Webinar: Integrating Sales and Operations
On May 12 at 1 pm ET, a free webinar on how to bridge the divide between sales and operations.
Technology Implementation
MIT for Managers: What Happens When WiFi Finds You
Our biweekly exploration of new business ideas from the corridors of MIT.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Using Predictive Analytics to Enhance Your Company Culture
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.
Digital Marketing
Should You Use the Value of a “Like” as a Metric?
Social media strategy shouldn’t be seen as the driver of value difference between a company’s fans and nonfans.