Commentaries

Keeping Innovative Projects Aligned with Strategy

July 25, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ard-Pieter de Man, Anna Plotnikova, and Ludwig Hoeksema for the MIT Sloan Management Review here. Illustration Credit:  Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images * * * Innovative companies have no shortage…

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Make a Stronger Business Case for Sustainability

July 24, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Karel Cool, Atalay Atasu, and Nathan Furr for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please…

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The MIT Sloan Management Review: The Six Most Popular Stories of 2024 — So Far

July 23, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Laurianne McLaughlin for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Catch…

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The Florentine, Niccolò Machiavelli

July 22, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Claudia Roth Pierpont for The New Yorker (September 8, 2008). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information please click here.…

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Will AI Help or Hurt Sustainability? Yes

July 21, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andrew Winston for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT…

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Gems from Young Frankenstein

July 19, 2024

Young Frankenstein is my favorite Mel Brooks film. Other favorites include (in alpha order) The Ladykillers, A Night at the Opera, Monty Python and the Holy Grail,and Some Like It Hot as well as Brooks’s The Producers and Blazing Saddles.…

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How to Build Healthy Habits

July 18, 2024

Warren Buffett once compared bad habits with chains that are “too light to notice until they are too heavy to break.” Here is an excerpt from one in a series of articles hat have become most popular among readers of…

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“Leading Change”: John Kotter’s Classic Article from HBR

July 17, 2024

Here is a brief excerpt from a classic article written by John A. Kotter and published in Harvard Business Review (March 1995). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please…

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A winning operating model for digital strategy

July 16, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Jacques Bughin, Tanguy Catlin, and Laura LaBerge for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company  (January 23, 2019). To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about…

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Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things

July 15, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih for Harvard Business Review (2008) and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of…

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