Corporate Social Responsibility
We Must Keep Globalization in Its Place: The Marketplace
Globalization’s power to improve the world is undermined by its incursions into the public arena.
Global Strategy
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Supply Chains & Logistics
Will Restricted U.S. Immigration Drive Business Operations Abroad?
The MIT SMR Strategy Forum examines whether restrictions on skilled immigration in the United States will cause business to shift operations overseas.
Collaboration
Consider Culture When Implementing Agile Practices
Create harmony between agile and your team’s culture.
Data & Data Culture
Using Data Science to Avoid Global Pricing Chaos
Five steps to make sure your data and analytics efforts pay off in the long term.
Financial Management & Risk
Who Suffers Most in a Trade War — Businesses or Consumers?
The MIT SMR Strategy Forum examines how a trade war will affect the economy.
AI & Machine Learning
Global Competition With AI in Business: How China Differs
AI’s largest and most enduring contributions will be in non-technology sectors, and many of them will come from China.
Global Strategy
Lessons From China’s Digital Battleground
This online exclusive article discusses why the dramatic rise of China’s digital leaders has put the squeeze on Western internet giants.
Global Strategy
The Changing Face of Innovation in China
Foreign companies must retool their R&D strategies to keep pace with newly innovative Chinese enterprises.
Collaboration
The Ability to Navigate the In-Between Spaces
There are four key leadership attributes for leading across networks (and silos and borders).
Developing Strategy
How to Compete Against the New Breed of National Champions
Competing against state-subsidized competitors in global markets requires a new set of tactics.
Global Strategy
Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating
Knowledge embedded in today’s production and design tools is a powerful force that is leveling the global technology playing field.
Developing Strategy
Tangled Webs and Executive Naïveté
Leaders in a digital world have to navigate more complexity than ever before.
Collaboration
The Unique Challenges of Cross-Boundary Collaboration
Leading teams with complicated hierarchies of power demands both curiosity and humility.
Global Strategy
Negotiating With Chinese Investors
Chinese companies are increasingly investing overseas — and bring a different negotiating style.
Global Strategy
The Five Steps All Leaders Must Take in the Age of Uncertainty
Leaders must move beyond managing their own firms to become active influencers within broader systems.
Global Strategy
Leading to Become Obsolete
Haier CEO Zhang Ruimin is transforming a manufacturing giant into a platform for entrepreneurship.
Collaboration
Mastering the Make-in-India Challenge
Some multinationals have a winning India strategy that involves both local and global value chains.
Global Strategy
Rethinking the East Asian Leadership Gap
Western multinationals looking for East Asian leaders may need to explore their cultural biases.
Culture
Why China Is the World’s Innovation Role Model
China continues to be the best place to go to learn how to make ideas commercially viable.
Collaboration
The Need for Culture Neutrality
As firms work with increasingly diverse arrays of people, they need to adopt leadership standards that cross geographies.