MIT Sloan Management Review

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Game Changers

MIT Sloan Management Review

What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Never-Ending COVID-19 Supply Chain Crisis • Spoiler alert: Just-in-time inventory management was never the problem.

The Real Deal About Synthetic Data • It’s often difficult to access the real-world data needed to train AI models or gain insights, but new techniques for generating look-alike data sets can help.

Why ‘Explicit Uncertainty’ Matters for the Future of Ethical Technology • What if algorithms were built around users’ objectives rather than the company’s end goals?

When We Don’t Own the Things We Use, Will We Still Love Them? • New patterns of consumption will change brands’ customer relationships.

How Maker Tools Can Accelerate Ideation • Forget traditional brainstorming — tools used for rapid prototyping can speed product development when used for idea generation.

INNOVATIN MANAGEMENT • Improving Outcomes From Ideation Through Implementation

How Collaboration Needs Change From Mind to Marketplace • Identify and pursue truly novel concepts by helping the innovators in your organization collaborate in the right ways at the right times.

Better Ways to Green-Light New Projects • Organizations can make better choices about which R&D projects gain funding by managing bias and involving more people.

Break Out to Open Innovation • Working with an open corporate accelerator program allows Mercedes to more quickly incorporate new technologies from startups.

Setting the Rules of the Road • Put the right rules in place to orchestrate a platform that creates value for all participants — and helps manage risk.

Use Networks to Drive Culture Change • Surveying employees about their values has its limits. You’ll gain more insight into organizational culture — and find targeted ways to change it — by also analyzing patterns of collaboration.

Mapping Exclusion in the Organization • Organizational network analysis can reveal ways to bolster inclusivity.

Does Your Business Need a Human Rights Strategy? • Companies must be prepared to meet their moral and business obligations when operations bump up against labor abuses — or worse.

Design for Cybersecurity From the Start • To avoid hidden vulnerabilities, security must be baked into the development process, not bolted on.

Why Leaders Resist Empowering Virtual Teams • Many remote leaders who feel constrained, drained, and isolated are just getting in their own way.

Sharing Value for Ecosystem Success • Winning platforms require that both leaders and followers work to further the other’s interests.

EXECUTIVE BRIEFINGS • WINTER 2022 • VOLUME 63 • NUMBER 2

The Progressive Roots of Management Science