Analytics & Strategy
The Best of This Week
Today’s direct-to-consumer disrupters, the reality of running an AI business, and managing digital natives.
Startups
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Analytics & Strategy
To Disrupt or Not to Disrupt?
Disruption should not be the do-or-die strategy for startups, but a considered choice.
Joshua Gans
Digital Business
The Best of This Week
Slack makes us miserable, automated vehicles’ future, and a CEO letter confronts climate change.
The MIT SMR Editors
Business Models
The Detroit Hustle
In a city that’s experienced tough economic times, entrepreneurism is blooming.
Morela Hernandez and Courtney L. McCluney
Innovation Strategy
Why Large Companies Struggle With Lean
Large companies have found that applying the principles of lean is more complicated than expected.
Steve Blank, interviewed by Frieda Klotz
Innovation Strategy
Partner With Entrepreneurs Inside and Out
Partnering with both intrapreneurs and external startups enables companies to accelerate innovation.
Shameen Prashantham
Financial Management & Risk
Making Corporate Venture Capital Work
The worlds of venture capitalism and corporate investing are not always easy to combine.
Patrick Flesner, Michael Wade, and Nikolaus Obwegeser
Managing Your Career
Pathways to Progress for Women Entrepreneurs
Women face similar challenges in entrepreneurship as in management.
Whitney Sales
Developing Strategy
Act Like a Startup
A number of characteristics typically associated with startups are important to digital success.
Jeanne Ross
Emerging Markets
Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating
Knowledge embedded in today’s production and design tools is a powerful force that is leveling the global technology playing field.
Willy Shih
Developing Strategy
What You Need to Know Before Starting a Platform Business
There’s probably never been a better time for platform businesses. But they aren’t easy to launch.
Richard Schmalensee and David S. Evans, interviewed by Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Business Model Innovation
The Next Wave of Business Models in Asia
Many Asian startups are competing on business model innovation and new technology rather than cost.
Asher Devang, Christian Kruse, Andy Parker, and Pontus Siren
Emerging Markets
Engaging With Startups in Emerging Markets
Partnering with emerging-market startups is easier if four key factors can be addressed.
Shameen Prashantham and George S. Yip
Delta’s Digital Black Swan
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology: how to avoid digital black swans; partnering with early-stage startups; the trouble with wearables.
Theodore Kinni
Business Model Innovation
How to Win With a Multisided Platform Business Model
What does it take to set up a platform where many constituencies can do business?
Leslie Brokaw
Business Model Innovation
A Business Plan? Or a Journey to Plan B?
From Apple to Twitter, some of the most successful businesses are not what their inventors originally envisioned.
John Mullins and Randy Komisar
Executing Strategy
The importance of tolerating failure
A new working paper explores the relationship between tolerance for failure and innovation.
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