Global Strategy

National diversity of top management should be a topic of conversation for boards of directors.

Across a broad swath of industries, multinationals are losing ground in emerging markets to local players.

Companies need to cultivate resilience to unexpected disruptions to complex supply chains.

Visits from corporate headquarters to operations in markets such as China are often seen as unproductive.

MIT Sloan faculty discuss their research on the growth opportunities in Latin America and China.

Unconventional approaches to innovation are speeding up new product development, making R&D faster and cheaper.

An unexpected partnership emerged when Asia Pulp negotiated with Greenpeace.

The process of bringing assembly work back to U.S. factories from abroad is more challenging than the economics would predict.

Using tiers of customer data, Facebook is delivering personalization on an unprecedented scale.

In China, demand for skilled business managers exceeds supply. Can leadership self-development programs address that gap?

In today’s global economy, few large companies can afford to ignore China in their plans for growth.

By planning for disruption from natural disasters, Cisco Systems improved its supply chain resilience.

China is becoming the best place to learn how to make ideas commercially viable.

Companies doing business in China need to manage their intellectual property vulnerabilities proactively.

After a period of remarkable growth, China now faces substantial economic and political challenges.

Chinese companies are reengineering new product development in ways that reduce lead times.

Overinvesting in supply chain protection may be more profitable than not investing enough.

Big data analysis can help geographically distributed companies monitor customer satisfaction.

Knowledge networks are helping members of organizations of all sizes collaborate productively.

DBS Bank is remaking itself from a transaction company to an information company using emerging technologies.