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How to Win With a Multisided Platform Business Model
What does it take to set up a platform where many constituencies can do business?
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Climate Change
Mobilizing the Insurgency
Installment #3 of the CSR Insurgency series examines how CSR managers can mobilize a sustainability insurgency.
Climate Change
The Trouble with Supply Chains
Auditing the supply chain is the biggest obstacle to putting sustainability principles into practice. Will the influx of big data initiatives change that?
New MIT Sloan Management Review App
The new MIT SMR app offers additional features and responsive design for mobile devices.
In Sports, It’s Quants Versus Managers
Where the “gut” instinct of sports managers once ruled, analytic insights are fast becoming standard.
Managing Your Career
Own Your Time, Boost Your Productivity
MIT Sloan’s Robert Pozen offers strategies to make work time more productive.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Harnessing Quant Power
A recent book by Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim advises companies on how to capture the power of big data.
Climate Change
The CSR Director’s Office as Insurgency HQ
The next generation of CSR managers needs to consider how to recruit allies in support of sustainability efforts.
Climate Change
Human Rights: The Next Frontier
One of the most important developments in sustainability is the recent focus on human rights.
Social Media
How to Avoid a Social Media Fiasco
A panel at the 2014 South by Southwest festival highlighted five ways to avoid a social media crisis.
Crisis Management
Leadership Lessons from the Boston Marathon Attack
The Boston Marathon bombing offers six lessons for crisis managers on using social media for communication.
Marketing Strategy
Ethnography in Action at Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo Bank used ethnography to better understand how customers use its products.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Rent The Runway: Organizing Around Analytics
Customer experience is what sets Rent The Runway apart. And it’s driven by data and analytics.
Data & Data Culture
ComScore: The Art and Science of Big Data, From the Inside
A recent report by MIT CISR details how comScore organizes internally to create value from big data.
Marketing Strategy
The Big Upside of Customer Participation
Encouraging customers to provide feedback directly to a company engages them in valuable ways.
Climate Change
Is Hostility to Blame for Sustainability’s Leadership Gap?
Apple’s shareholders applaud CEO Tim Cook’s stand on climate change despite attacks from opponents. Will other executives follow suit?
Climate Change
Recapturing Monozukuri in Toyota’s Manufacturing Ethos
Toyota returned to its focus on sustainable production practices after recall setbacks.
Climate Change
Leading the Sustainability Insurgency
CSR executives are in the vanguard of a sustainability revolution.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Better Decisions with Smarter Data
To make better data-based decisions managers need smart data — and big data training.
Financial Management & Risk
The Science of Managing Black Swans
By exploiting organizational data, managers can derail some risky blind spots.