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- MIT Sloan School of Management
- May 10, 2010
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50 Memorial Drive Cambridge,
MA 02142-1347,
United States of America
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The MIT Sloan School of Management, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of the world's leading business schools — conducting cutting-edge research and providing management education to top students from more than 60 countries.
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MIT Sloan Publications
Recent books, published papers, and working papers from faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management
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X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed | |
| The X-Team is much more than just the latest B-school theory -- it's a well-established, but often hidden, reality that's now being highlighted by this new book. Challenging the traditional notions of what makes a successful team, the authors' years of research support a new way of doing things. This new kind of team, dubbed X-Teams, has team spirit, but the team also projects upwards and outwards. The group establishes cooperative relationships, seeks out key information from other teams and outside sources, evangelizes the team's mission to key stakeholders, and actively pursues support from management. The poorest-performing teams, on the other hand, focused inward. The book explains that X-teams not only are able to adapt in ways that traditional teams aren't, but that they actually improve an organization's ability to produce creative ideas and execute them -- increasing the entrepreneurial and innovative capacity within the firm. | ||
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Productivity Effects of Information Diffusion in Networks | |
| We examine the drivers of diffusion of information through organizations and the effects on performance. In particular, we ask: What predicts the likelihood of an individual becoming aware of a strategic piece of information, or becoming aware of it sooner? Do different types of information exhibit different diffusion patterns, and do different characteristics of social structure, relationships and individuals in turn affect access to different kinds of information? Does better access to information predict an individual's ability to complete projects or generate revenue? | ||
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions | |
| Irrational behavior is a part of human nature, but as MIT professor Ariely has discovered in 20 years of researching behavioral economics, people tend to behave irrationally in a predictable fashion. Drawing on psychology and economics, behavioral economics can show us why cautious people make poor decisions about sex when aroused, why patients get greater relief from a more expensive drug over its cheaper counterpart and why honest people may steal office supplies or communal food, but not money. | ||
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Videos from the MIT Sloan School of Management
Videos from the MIT Sloan School of Management
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Warning: Physics Envy May be Hazardous to Your Wealth | |
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Andrew Lo addresses the problem of finding the right level of abstraction with which to think about economic phenomena. He compares economics to physics, with some surprising results. |
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Rusnano: Fostering Nanotechnology Innovation in Russia | |
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In both lecture format and conversation with Sloan Senior Lecturer Noubar Afeyan, Rusnano CEO Anatoly Chubais presents an ambitious plan to create Russia's Nanotechnology Center--a $10 billion, entrepreneurial ecosystem that incorporates education, research and business incubation. |
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From Relief to Reconstruction -- Practical and Policy Challenges | |
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As the United Nations and worldwide NGOs face the challenges of providing basic services to the survivors of the January 2010 Haitian earthquake, Oxfam's Raymond Offenheiser scrutinizes what will ultimately be "crucial to the outcome, in the Haitian context, of a successful recovery and rehabilitation by the Haitian people and for the Haitian nation--distributed leadership." |
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