Month: January 2024

Twenty Years of Open Innovation

January 12, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article by Henry Chesbrough for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR * * * Two decades…

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The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 10, 2024

The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age Robert Watson McElvenny and Marc Wortman PublicAffairs (October 2023) Ethical Capitalism and the ROI of Integrity In their informative Introduction,…

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Diversity Nudges: The transformational power of small changes in attracting, recruiting, and onboarding new employees can deliver a diversity dividend

January 9, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article by Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * *   The transformational power of small changes…

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Can Brain Science Help Us Break Bad Habits?

January 8, 2024

Years ago, Warren Buffett suggested that bad habits tend to be too light to notice until they are too heavy to break. I agree. Here is a brief excerpt from a classic New Yorker article by Jerome Groopman that appeared…

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Work Different: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 8, 2024

Work Different: 10 Truths for Winning in the People Age Kate Bravery, Ilya Bonic, and Kai Anderson Wiley (November 2023) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt More than fifty years…

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The Year in Tech 2024: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 5, 2024

The Year in Tech 2024: Thoughts You Need from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2024) How and why integrative technologies will determine performance results, for better or worse.   As I…

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Creativity’s bottom line: How winning companies turn creativity into business value and growth

January 4, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by  Marc Brodherson, Jason Heller, Jesko Perrey, and David Remley for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign…

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Imagine Tech for Good: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 3, 2024

Imagine Tech for Good: Solving the World’s Greatest Challenges Marga Hoek Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group (November 2023) “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”    Albert Einstein Why did Marga Hoek write this book?…

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The Top MIT SMR Articles of 2023

January 2, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article that introduces — and provides links to – the top articles published by the MIT Sloan Management Review in 2023. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please…

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