The Winter 2015 issue of MIT SMR highlights decision making — and acknowledging that you don’t have all the answers.

Six scholarly articles offer intriguing insights into factors that can affect the decision-making process.

Asking the right questions can help you broaden your perspective — and make smarter decisions.

The ideal window of opportunity to enter a new industry starts when a dominant category label is introduced.

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

Simulations can help shrink the gap between what analysts try to explain and what decision makers understand.

All of our wonderful mobile devices don’t always make us good at managing what we do with them.

Simple as it sounds, regular sleep is the best antidote for a fatigued or stressed-out workforce.

New strategies are helping companies embrace “collaborative consumption” and the “sharing economy.”

The overconfidence of presumed expertise is counterproductive. Instead, data trumps intuition.

Smartphone apps that provide consumers with helpful information can improve users’ trust in a brand.

Businesses have the potential to be rule makers as well as players in establishing environmental regulations.

There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for social media marketing. Instead, companies need to tailor campaigns to fit their products.

Mitel’s social media policy encourages employees to use their “best judgment” in posting. Does it work?

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

New research shows that mobile advertising targeted to consumers based on their locations can be effective.