Climate Change
The Surprising Secret of Business Resilience
Interdependencies are key to resilient businesses.
Risk Management
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AI & Machine Learning
Want to Improve Your Portfolio? Call a Scientist
While the financial services industry is increasingly turning to data and analytics, educating its non-quant managers is proving to be a challenge.
Developing Strategy
Finding a Lower-Risk Path to High-Impact Innovations
High-impact innovations have built-in uncertainty — but careful strategizing can reduce the risk.
Financial Management & Risk
How Transparency Changes Business
The Winter 2016 issue of MIT SMR explores how transparency effects the power structure.
Supply Chains & Logistics
Flourishing in the Face of Supply Chain Disruption
In a webinar, researchers from The Ohio State University show how resilient enterprises adapt to supply chain turbulence.
Climate Change
The Insurance Industry Wants a World That Is Sustainable and Insurable
A United Nations initiative is helping the insurance industry address environmental risks.
Developing Strategy
From the Editor: Disruption Everywhere?
The Fall 2015 issue of MIT SMR highlights two themes: developing tomorrow’s leaders, and disruption.
Data & Data Culture
Preparing for Disruptions Through Early Detection
Leading companies are using an array of detection and response techniques to become more resilient.
Financial Management & Risk
The Power of Resilience in a Time of Uncertainty
In an archived webinar, MIT’s Yossi Sheffi offers insights on preparing for and coping with disruption.
Climate Change
Sustainability Reporting As a Tool for Better Risk Management
Sustainability reporting isn’t about being eco-friendly — it’s about managing business risks.
Climate Change
Closing the Trade Finance Sustainability Gap
Many companies have worked to make supply chains more environmentally sustainable. But there’s work yet to be done in the finance sector.
Project Management
What Successful Project Managers Do
Successful project managers often combine elements of traditional and agile approaches to project management.
Project Management
Reducing Unwelcome Surprises in Project Management
A project’s “unknown unknowns” can be reduced through both product design approaches and behavioral approaches.
Sustainability
Joining Forces: Collaboration and Leadership for Sustainability
The 2014 Sustainability Report by MIT Sloan Management Review, BCG and the United Nations Global Compact highlights new global collaborations.
Financial Management & Risk
From Risk to Resilience: Learning to Deal With Disruption
Companies need to cultivate resilience to unexpected disruptions to complex supply chains.
Climate Change
For BASF, Sustainability Is a Catalyst
A focus on environment helped BASF to transform both its product lines and its culture.
Climate Change
Are Firms and Managers At Risk When Contributing to Climate Change?
At what point do corporate executives become personally liable for their companies’ failure to take action on climate change?
Financial Management & Risk
Creating More Resilient Supply Chains
By planning for disruption from natural disasters, Cisco Systems improved its supply chain resilience.
Climate Change
The Risks and Responsibilities of Tech Innovation
New tech can create new hazards for users — and for companies. Here’s how to limit the risk.
Financial Management & Risk
Reducing the Risk of Supply Chain Disruptions
Overinvesting in supply chain protection may be more profitable than not investing enough.