How to Manage Virtual Teams |
| By Frank Siebdrat, Martin Hoegl and Holger Ernst |
Teams are the typical building blocks of an organization. Dispersed teams can actually outperform groups that are all in one place. To succeed, however, virtual collaboration must be managed in specific ways. Businesses will have to emphasize teamwork even more than before, a global culture is more important than ever, and don't expect face-to-face meetings to disappear. |
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| Problem Solving By Design |
| By Michael S. Hopkins |
| Teams are the typical building blocks of an organization. Dispersed teams can actually outperform groups that are all in one place. To succeed, however, virtual collaboration must be managed in specific ways. Businesses will have to emphasize teamwork even more than before, a global culture is more important than ever, and don't expect face-to-face meetings to disappear. |
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| How Executives Can Make Bad Decisions |
Social networks provide greater access to information, which improves people’s judgment and decision making, right? Not always, according to some recent research. |
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| What Lead Directors Do |
| By Joseph J. Penbera |
| New research offers insights into an increasingly important boardroom role. |
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| A Systematic Approach to Innovation |
| In an interesting book, two Wharton professors analyze the innovation process. |
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| Finding New Uses For Information |
| By Hongwei Zhu and Stuart E. Madnick |
| On the Web, innovative data reuse yields opportunities — and legal questions. |
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| Creating a Better Environment for Finance |
| By Dror Etzion |
| The bleak labor market facing finance professionals may create an unexpected opportunity — for environmental sustainability efforts. |
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| Designing Waits That Work |
| By Donald A. Norman |
| Designers at restaurants, theme parks and elsewhere have investigated how to make waiting in line more pleasant. What they have learned has profound implications for all managers. |
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| Toyota’s Secret: The A3 Report |
| By John Shook |
| How Toyota solves problems, creates plans, and gets new things done while developing an organization of thinking problem-solvers. |
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| How Facts Change Everything (If You Let Them) |
| By Edward R. Tufte, as told to Jimmy Guterman |
| Information-visualization guru and famed PowerPoint debunker Edward Tufte explains how businesses would think better, make better decisions and present themselves more powerfully if only they would learn to talk — both internally and externally — in facts. |
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| How to Become a Better Manager … By Thinking Like a Designer |
| Interview by Jimmy Guterman |
| Presentation experts Nancy Duarte and Garr Reynolds help world-renowned executives, politicians and thought leaders deliver stronger presentations. Here they reveal how to influence and persuade in a different way, regardless of whether you ever have to communicate via PowerPoint. |
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| Morph the Web To Build Empathy, Trust and Sales |
| By Glen L. Urban, John R. Hauser, Guilherme Liberali, Michael Braun and Fareena Sultan |
| We’ve long been able to personalize what information the Internet tells us — but now comes “Web site morphing,” and an Internet that personalizes how we like to be told. For companies, it means that communicating — and selling — will never be the same. |
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| How to Manage Virtual Teams |
| By Frank Siebdrat, Martin Hoegl and Holger Ernst |
| Dispersed teams can actually outperform groups that are colocated. To succeed, however, virtual collaboration must be managed in specific ways. |
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| How to Manage Outside Innovation |
| By Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani |
| Should external innovators be organized in collaborative communities or competitive markets? The answer depends on three crucial issues. |
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| Innovation From the Inside Out |
| By Erik Simanis and Stuart Hart |
| Nurturing a new and lasting idea doesn’t result from analyzing market data. Aspiring creators must act on what nonprofits already know: you get the best answers by burying yourself in the questions. |
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| What the ‘Green’ Consumer Wants |
| Interview by Michael S. Hopkins |
| Has demand for ‘green’ products and services been affected by the downturn? And what factors affect consumer decisions to buy — or not buy — green in the first place? |
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| Usability for Evil |
| By Chris Nodder |
| How do some companies get their customers to do something that’s useful for the company but not really for the customer? |
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| Are Your Subordinates Setting You Up to Fail? |
| By Jean-François Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux |
| Subordinates sometimes make it extremely difficult for their bosses to be good leaders. Executives who fail to understand the forces at play may find their careers in jeopardy. |
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| The Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize |
| The editors of the MIT Sloan Management Review are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, awarded to the authors of the most outstanding SMR article on planned change and organizational development published from Fall 2007 to Fall 2008. |
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