Halliburton reports reduced North America drilling demand, warns of tariffs
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Corporate Sustainability Is in Crisis. What Should Companies Do Now?
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| Corporate environmental publicity and green innovation: are words consistent with actions? Nature Magazine - |
What Salespeople Need from Leaders—at Each Stage of Their Careers
Leading a high-performing sales team requires a personalized talent management approach. Salespeople’s needs evolve throughout their careers, and while sales managers often focus on competencies, motivation, and results, they often overlook career stage …
Don’t Be Distracted by the Trade War. Here’s What Should Inform Your China Strategy Instead.
While U.S.–China trade tensions have drawn intense attention, business leaders who focus too narrowly on tariffs risk missing a deeper, longer-term shift. China’s economic strategy—centered on reducing dependence on foreign firms, building domestic domin…
To Make Your DEI Efforts More Effective, Challenge Outdated Models
The reality of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) today is complex. Research and practical experience reveal that some initiatives have successfully raised awareness of individual biases and systemic barriers, while others have fallen short and in so…
Setting a Pricing Strategy Amid Ever-Changing Tariffs
It’s risky to rely on raising prices or absorbing costs to generate enough extra profit to cover new tariffs. To succeed during these turbulent times, managers need to broaden their thinking on pricing and roll out new strategies. Regardless of whether t…
Your Boss Thrives on Chaos. Here’s How to Protect Your Energy.
Some leaders don’t just respond to crises—they thrive in chaos, rushing in to save the day, often from problems they unknowingly created. Meet the “firefighter”—the boss who runs on urgency, constantly pulling their teams into high-stakes battles, reward…
Research: How to Advertise to Distracted Consumers
Advertisers frequently serve mobile pop-up ads customized in real time to users’ activity, physical environment or context. These may include location-based ads keyed to a consumer’s GPS data, as well as techniques such as cross-device ad targeting and p…
How VCs Can Create a Winning Investment Thesis
Venture capital isn’t about playing the odds—it’s about rewriting them. What does it take to identify startups poised to become market leaders? It often comes down to an investment thesis. This four-step approach, developed through investments in over 40…
How to Tell Your Boss They’re Wrong—Tactfully
You’re in a one-on-one with your boss, and they’re outlining a plan that sounds great in theory—but you know it’s going to create chaos in practice. Or maybe you’re in a team meeting, and everyone else is nodding along to an idea that you’re certain will…
How the Construction Sector Is Using AI to Cut Waste and Fraud
Artificial Intelligence plays an increasing role in improving efficiency, transparency, and combating corruption in construction procurement. The global construction industry faces challenges like inefficiencies, delays, and corruption, and AI is being a…
When Outside Experts Diagnose Your Problem—and Sell the Solution
Over the past few decades, the professional world has grown more specialized, leading to complex managerial decisions that can leave even the most capable executives feeling overwhelmed. Faced with such uncertainty, we turn to experts. The trouble starts…
Research: How Tencent Built Trust with Users During a Moment of Upheaval
Trust is fundamental to the success of online platform businesses, especially during crises. When China reopened from its zero-Covid policy in late 2022, Tencent launched a mutual aid platform within WeChat to facilitate the exchange of surplus medicatio…
How to Hold General-Purpose AI Producers Accountable
For the fourth year in a row, MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have assembled an international panel of AI experts that includes academics and practitioners to help us understand how responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) …
Speed, Ease, and Expertise With AI: Lenovo’s Linda Yao
Linda Yao, chief operating officer and head of strategy for Lenovo’s Strategy, Solutions, and Services Group and vice president of hybrid cloud and AI solutions, joins the Me, Myself, and AI podcast to explain the organization’s transition from technolog…
Overcoming AI Hallucinations: Truist’s Chandra Kapireddy
On today’s episode, Chandra Kapireddy, head of generative AI, machine learning, and analytics at Truist, delves into the evolving landscape of AI with a particular focus on how GenAI tools reshape the way Truist and similar organizations must navigate mo…
TurboTax Meets Turbo Innovation: AI at Intuit
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images Tax season is upon us, and it’s an appropriate moment to discuss the use of artificial intelligence at Intuit, the company behind the bestselling tax software in the U.S. and Canada. That would be TurboT…
How to Structure a B2B Marketplace Venture
Business-to-business marketplaces, like their consumer-facing cousins, help streamline purchasing by giving buyers and suppliers an online platform for conducting transactions. Once a company decides that it wants to create a marketplace to make transact…
Will AI Disrupt Your Business? Key Questions to Ask
MIT SMR | Getty Images As artificial intelligence changes the business world, executives’ biggest concern is disruption. They worry that their companies will go the way of Blockbuster or AOL if their leaders aren’t quick enough to respond to emergin…
Why You Can’t Hire for Skills Without a Skills-Based Culture
Andrew Baker/Ikon Images Skills-based hiring has, in some ways, become a victim of its own success. The approach was touted as a solution to what employers perceived as endemic talent shortages, expanding the aperture for businesses that were hungry for …
Making Data Indispensable: Frameworks for Effective Data Leadership
Data is everywhere — and ever more important. Still, many organizations struggle to translate data into business value. Effective data leadership can bridge this gap, turning data from a costly overhead into an indispensable driver of business success. P…
How to Supercharge Your Crisis Training
John Holcroft/Ikon Images Crises now hit organizations hard, fast, and in ways that few leaders see coming. When cybersecurity company CrowdStrike released a faulty update to its software in 2024, it triggered a massive global outage that crashed 8.5 mil…
Maximize the Wisdom of the Crowd for Complex Problems
Gary Waters/Ikon Images Crowdsourcing is a powerful tool for innovation. All kinds of industries have embraced this approach to collaborative problem-solving to tap into a much wider pool of experiences and perspectives than a few experts could provide. …
Investigating the intersection of ESG investing, green recovery, and SME development in the OECD
Green growth in the mirror of history
This study shows the global patterns of coupling and decoupling between economic growth and emissions in 1820-2022. Green growth has not been exclusive to the West nor is it recent. Recessions played a larger role in CO2 reductions than periods of green …
Bridging or widening? The impact of the Broadband China policy on urban-rural income inequality
Music in cultural tourism: insights from a dual approach of scoping review and bibliometric analysis
Job seekers have more suitable job opportunities in decarbonization in the Global North than in the Global South
79% of job opportunities that match the skills and preferences of job seekers in the Global North are aligned with a transition to a low-carbon economy, while only 10% of them are available in the Global South, according to model simulations under future…
AI integration in financial services: a systematic review of trends and regulatory challenges
From opportunity to inequality: how the rural digital economy shapes intra-rural income distribution
An open retail boundary dataset for South Korea using open data and computer vision technique
The role of green commodities in the sports industry imports: shaping green growth in high-income countries
Does natural resource rent and financial inclusion curb carbon emissions? Empirical evidence from E7 and G7 economies
Long-term reduced agricultural nonpoint source pollution driven by rural population aging
Trade credit and sustainable profitability in small and medium-sized enterprises
Distributional equality in Ethereum? On-chain analysis of Ether supply distribution and supply dynamics
Revolutionizing finance with conversational AI: a focus on ChatGPT implementation and challenges
Shared hazards, unequal outcomes: income-driven inequities in disaster risk
Shades of blue: the regional structure of the ocean economy in Brazil
Smarter is greener: can intelligent manufacturing improve enterprises’ ESG performance?
Nationwide demonstration of improved COVID-19 vaccination uptake through behavioural reminders
Two nationwide randomized controlled trials in England with over 4 million participants found that text messages highlighting that people had reached the ‘top of the queue’ increased COVID-19 vaccination rates.
