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The editors of MIT Sloan Management Review are pleased to announce the winner of this year's Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, awarded to the author of the most outstanding SMR article on planned change and organizational development published from fall 2009 to summer 2010.

Consumers generate massive amounts of product innovation — which has significant implications for new product development.

Even good ideas can fail if the pilot lacks credibility, replicability and feasibility.

There's a problem with most major environmental rankings of businesses: Too often, the ratings fail to incorporate advocacy activities that influence environmental regulation.

It takes a special breed of project manager to execute business analytics projects.

Companies that pursue a number of improvement initiatives at once risk creating information overload for employees.

According to von Hippel, users are often the first source of new products.

Lessons for managers who are listening to social media.

Managers must figure out when it's best to pursue strategies of position, leverage or opportunity.

Companies experienced in analytics use are increasingly gaining competitive advantage.