MIT Sloan Management Review Podcast

How do the very-in-demand data scientists differ from analysts?

How can your board of directors help you do better?

Could your company use its legal environment to look for strategic opportunities?

Do businesses run better with an egalitarian organization or with top-down management?

Does it feel like your organization is data-inept? You may not be that far behind everyone else.

New research looks at the strategies executives use in capturing new growth opportunities.

In times of great change, how can managers develop and build momentum for innovative strategies?

The obvious risk of pay-as-you-wish pricing is that customers may be tempted to offer unreasonably low payment.

Brands are extremely interested in finding out what people are talking about on Twitter and Facebook. It’s the kind of real-time knowledge that Facebook, for one, has the ability to capture — and share.

New research makes the case that China is becoming the best place to learn how to make ideas commercially viable.

Declaring to your whole company that the project everyone is excited about is in trouble can be demoralizing. But it’s exactly what can turn the problems around.

Superstars get all the attention, but other team members can be the ones who make a group really tick.

The 2014 annual global research study highlights what separates companies that are most sophisticated with using data from the rest.

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

In an interview with MIT Sloan Management Review, B. Bonin Bough, vice president of global media and consumer engagement for Mondelez International, explains how social media is working in partnership with traditional marketing.

Leaders can avoid unhappy project status surprises if they pay attention to five truths about how people generally report project progress.

Most of us have been there — realizing, the moment we click “send,” that our message is going to the wrong person. Now imagine that you’ve sent it to a million strangers.

Maximizing productivity can impact customer satisfaction in good ways and bad ways, so companies should approach productivity the way they do anything else — with an eye toward its upsides and downsides.

Sometimes being different elicits positive reactions, but sometimes it doesn’t. Researchers say that it’s important to calculate how your quirks are being received.

There’s a growing disconnect between the importance of sustainability to many corporate strategies — and its lack of relevance to mainstream investors.