Leadership Skills
From the Editor: In Praise of Humility
The Winter 2015 issue of MIT SMR highlights decision making — and acknowledging that you don’t have all the answers.
Decision-Making
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Leadership Skills
Why You Decide the Way You Do
Six scholarly articles offer intriguing insights into factors that can affect the decision-making process.
Developing Strategy
The Power of Asking Pivotal Questions
Asking the right questions can help you broaden your perspective — and make smarter decisions.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Using Simulated Experience to Make Sense of Big Data
Simulations can help shrink the gap between what analysts try to explain and what decision makers understand.
Organizational Structure
Why Managers Still Matter
Managerial authority is essential when decisions are time-sensitive, knowledge is concentrated and decisions need to be coordinated.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Elevating Data, Analytics to the C-Suite
The implications of a chief analytics officer for strategy and for long-term planning.
Developing Strategy
From the Editor: Decision Making in the Digital Age
We live in an age of data abundance, but that doesn’t make decision-making less challenging.
Collaboration
Social Business: Flat or Hierarchical? A Surprising Answer
“Loosely coupled” organizations are models for managing a social media-driven business environment.
Social Media
Chief Marketing Officers See True Value in Social Media
A survey of 100 CMOs says that more than 89% are influenced by social data when making decisions.
Crisis Management
How to Lead During a Crisis: Lessons From the Rescue of the Chilean Miners
A look at key leadership decisions made during the 2010 mine cave-in crisis.
Quality & Service
What Really Happened to Toyota?
This article assesses root causes of the highly publicized recalls of Toyota vehicles in the U.S.
Innovation Strategy
Is Your Company Choosing the Best Innovation Ideas?
Generating good innovation proposals from within the ranks of the organization is only the beginning. The more difficult part is creating a selection process that identifies which ideas to implement.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
How Fast and Flexible Do You Want Your Information, Really?
We should aim not for faster information but faster decision making — not the same things.