Project Management
What Successful Project Managers Do
Successful project managers often combine elements of traditional and agile approaches to project management.
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Project Management
Reducing Unwelcome Surprises in Project Management
A project’s “unknown unknowns” can be reduced through both product design approaches and behavioral approaches.
Sustainability
Joining Forces: Collaboration and Leadership for Sustainability
The 2014 Sustainability Report by MIT Sloan Management Review, BCG and the United Nations Global Compact highlights new global collaborations.
Financial Management & Risk
From Risk to Resilience: Learning to Deal With Disruption
Companies need to cultivate resilience to unexpected disruptions to complex supply chains.
Climate Change
For BASF, Sustainability Is a Catalyst
A focus on environment helped BASF to transform both its product lines and its culture.
Climate Change
Are Firms and Managers At Risk When Contributing to Climate Change?
At what point do corporate executives become personally liable for their companies’ failure to take action on climate change?
Financial Management & Risk
Creating More Resilient Supply Chains
By planning for disruption from natural disasters, Cisco Systems improved its supply chain resilience.
Climate Change
The Risks and Responsibilities of Tech Innovation
New tech can create new hazards for users — and for companies. Here’s how to limit the risk.
Financial Management & Risk
Reducing the Risk of Supply Chain Disruptions
Overinvesting in supply chain protection may be more profitable than not investing enough.
Boards & Corporate Governance
Bringing Opportunity Oversight Onto the Board’s Agenda
Boards need to monitor not only a company’s risks but also its ability to generate opportunities.
Global Strategy
Managing the Human Cloud
Tapping a virtual, on-demand workforce requires new management models and skills.
Risky (Social) Business
A study by the Altimeter Group helps companies identify, manage and prevent the risks that come with embracing social media.
Financial Management & Risk
Risky Business: How Data Analytics Can Help
Behavioral analytics, Bayesian engineering and big data help companies mitigate business risk.
Financial Management & Risk
Gaining a New Understanding of Risk
In these days of uncertain markets, how do you manage risk prudently – yet still grow your company?
Crisis Management
How to Lead During a Crisis: Lessons From the Rescue of the Chilean Miners
A look at key leadership decisions made during the 2010 mine cave-in crisis.
Quality & Service
What Really Happened to Toyota?
This article assesses root causes of the highly publicized recalls of Toyota vehicles in the U.S.
Innovation Strategy
Is Your Company Choosing the Best Innovation Ideas?
Generating good innovation proposals from within the ranks of the organization is only the beginning. The more difficult part is creating a selection process that identifies which ideas to implement.
Financial Management & Risk
Overheard at MIT: Why Economics Isn’t Like Physics
MIT Sloan’s Andrew Lo on the importance of analyzing the uncertainty levels of a business.
Financial Management & Risk
How to Manage Risk (After Risk Management Has Failed)
The authors make the case that a shift in risk management approaches is needed.