Global Operations

Adjusting business strategies and plotting comebacks in the face of uncertainty.

What leaders can learn from near-real-time disaster monitoring data.

The business climate remains unpredictable, but supply chain leaders should plot their comebacks.

Effective leadership can make crises manageable instead of overwhelming.

The MIT SMR site is open to all through March 26 so readers can learn about crisis management.

What managers can learn from the coronavirus outbreak.

The COVID-19 pandemic underscores why disaster preparedness is vital for supply chain resilience.

The kinds of challenges we face with the coronavirus point to permanent changes we must make.

Managers can learn a lot from how organizations in China have been coping with the COVID-19 crisis.

AI and automation are changing labor markets worldwide, but developing nations will be hit hardest.

Many companies are putting themselves through military-inspired games to beef up their cyber resilience.

Create harmony between agile and your team’s culture.

Five steps to make sure your data and analytics efforts pay off in the long term.

There are four key leadership attributes for leading across networks (and silos and borders).

Leaders in a digital world have to navigate more complexity than ever before.

Leading teams with complicated hierarchies of power demands both curiosity and humility.

Chinese companies are increasingly investing overseas — and bring a different negotiating style.

Some multinationals have a winning India strategy that involves both local and global value chains.

Western multinationals looking for East Asian leaders may need to explore their cultural biases.

For many companies, the headaches of being global are intensifying, The Economist says. In most sectors domestic peer companies are growing faster than multinationals.