Disruption
Our Guide to the Summer 2023 Issue
The summer 2023 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review examines risk, disruption, AI, finance strategy, and equity.
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Disruption
How Professional Services Firms Dodged Disruption
Professional services firms with longevity hold lessons for others working to survive disruptions in turbulent markets.
Sustainability
We Should Bring Moore’s Law to Climate Action
Exponential growth has been key to technology’s progress. The same is needed for climate action.
Innovation Strategy
Making Investments in AI: Samsung’s Hina Dixit
On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, venture capitalist Hina Dixit shares her criteria for investing in AI startups.
Innovation Strategy
Three Lessons From Chatting About Strategy With ChatGPT
Two business strategists explore ChatGPT’s capacity for generating new ideas and strategies — and where it falls short.
Technology Innovation Strategy
The Incumbent’s Deep Tech Strategy Playbook
The authors created a three-step framework aimed at helping leaders at incumbent companies identify and execute their deep-tech engagement strategies.
Innovation Strategy
Balancing Valued Tradition With Innovation
Even iconic products need updates to stay relevant, but businesses can retain loyal customers while attracting new ones.
Developing Strategy
How to Make Sense of Irrational Competitors
Business leaders who write competitors’ actions off as irrational risk getting blind-sided.
Innovation Strategy
Mix Creativity With the Right Mindset to Serve Up Innovation
Research finds fear of failure could keep an innovator from launching a new creative endeavor after an early success.
Innovation Strategy
The Missing Discipline Behind Failure to Scale
Many companies master new business ideation and incubation, but few follow a rigorous scaling path.
Leading Change
Into the Fray
MIT Sloan Management Review’s spring 2023 issue examines organizational structure, innovation, and employee well-being.
Disruption
Beware the Pitfalls of Agility
Agility can lead to negative outcomes if leaders don’t recognize the pitfalls in its processes.
New Product Development
Out of the Lab and Into a Product: Microsoft’s Eric Boyd
On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Microsoft’s Eric Boyd discusses Azure and democratizing artificial intelligence.
Innovation Strategy
Mining Underground Innovation
Many R&D employees pursue underground side projects. Surfacing such innovations can reap benefits for their employers.
AI & Machine Learning
Helping Doctors Make Better Decisions With Data: UC Berkeley’s Ziad Obermeyer
UC Berkeley’s Ziad Obermeyer discusses how machine learning and AI are being used for medical research and diagnoses.
Innovation Strategy
Level Up to Strategic Data Sharing
Based on their research, the authors share four key ways companies can advance their strategic data-sharing initiatives.
Culture
Why Innovation Depends on Intellectual Honesty
Psychological safety isn’t enough for innovation. Managers need to create conditions for healthy debate.
Collaboration
Turn Your Teams Inside Out
Externally focused x-teams can drive innovation, performance, and distributed leadership but require a shift in mindset.
Technology Innovation Strategy
It’s Time to Take Another Look at Blockchain
Large incumbent companies should begin adopting blockchain before it gets used against them.
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Reassuring Students About Education’s Value in Uncertain Times
Learn how to reassure students about the value of higher-ed investments even in uncertain times.