CyberSecurity Board Basics: Prep, Watch, React & Report

David A. Katz and Laura A. McIntosh, Directors & Boards, August 17, 2017 Recent global cyberattacks have rudely reminded corporate America that cybersecurity risk management must be at the top of the board of directors’ corporate governance agenda. Companies...

Women in the Fortune 500: 64 CEOs in half a century

Julia Carpenter, CNN Money, August 7, 2017 Just this June, Fortune Magazine announced a new milestone in its list of Fortune 500 female CEOs. The number of women CEOs listed had reached an all–time high: 32 in a single year. The percentage was still small — just...

‘Digital Transformation’ Is a Misnomer

Gerald C. Kane, MIT Sloan Management Review, August 7, 2017 Digital transformation is not about technology. A key misconception about digital transformation is that it is something that companies choose to do with technology or is primarily about their...

The Neuroscience of Strategic Leadership

Jeffrey Schwartz, Josie Thomson, and Art Kleiner, Strategy+Business, Summer 2017 Neuroscientists and psychologists are beginning to learn what happens at moments of choice inside the human mind and the brain. If you understand these dynamics and how they affect you...

How AI Is Already Changing Business

Sarah Green Carmichael, Harvard Business Review’s HBR IdeaCast, July 20, 2017 Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan School professor, explains how rapid advances in machine learning are presenting new opportunities for businesses. He breaks down how the...