Ideas Made to Matter Risk Management

These 2 things matter when bouncing back from natural disasters 

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Use a “country-led approach.” But solicit knowledge transfers from outside actors.

Jan 9, 2018
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Ideas Made to Matter Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing, explained

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How it works, its biggest advantages, and which industries it could disrupt.

Dec 7, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Design

Design thinking, explained

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Solve any business problem with this approach.

Sep 14, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

Hospital quality scores really do reflect patient outcomes

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Research from MIT Sloan professor links quality to lower readmissions, mortality rates.

Mar 27, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Operations Management

Four steps to improve workplace safety and operations

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How a Boston surgeon reduced operating room injuries — and saved money along the way.

Feb 10, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Data

The simple lessons you can still learn from sports analytics

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MIT Sloan’s Ben Shields explains how franchises use data to make personnel, business decisions.

Feb 9, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Supply Chain

Studying supply chains to predict food safety failures

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An MIT research team examines practices in China for tell-tale signs of dangerous bacteria and additives.

Dec 28, 2016
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Ideas Made to Matter Operations Management

In Nobel Prize lecture, lessons for managing employee incentives 

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MIT’s newest Nobel laureate, Bengt Holmström, discusses challenges and opportunities offered by contract theory.

Dec 9, 2016
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Ideas Made to Matter Organizational Culture

Professor Emeritus Jay W. Forrester, digital computing and system dynamics pioneer, dies at 98

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The inventor of an early form of RAM had an outsized influence on organizational dynamics, supply chains, and sustainability.

Nov 18, 2016
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Ideas Made to Matter Leadership

Red Hat CEO: Leaders must create context for success

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Cultivate passion and endorse creative abrasion, Jim Whitehurst says.

Nov 2, 2016
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