Ideas Made to Matter

Family-run companies often struggle with modernization. To start, they should create a digital thesis and promote an agile board culture.

Fifty years after founding FedEx, Frederick W. Smith talks about how artificial intelligence and robotics are changing shipping.

From MIT Sloan, how to apply the tools of modern data science, optimization, and machine learning to solve real-world business problems.

Here’s how four chief financial officers track market and product trends, manage investors’ expectations, and make the most of their data.

The 2023 Thinkers50 Radar list honors David Rand, a professor who researches the spread of misinformation online.

CarbonBuilt’s Cindy McLaughlin encourages walking meetings and “anytime vacation” for improved well-being.

Evolution can drive prejudices, MIT Sloan economist Andrew Lo finds. To nurture group wisdom, biases in data sets must be documented and understood.

When it comes to sustainable enterprises, leaders must consider meaningful goals, consumer preferences, and the partnership of management and technology.

Here’s how executives and senior managers can become effective and savvy champions of the data produced by their organizations.

Synthetic data offers the opportunity to test new ideas and develop new products without putting personal or health data at risk.