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The U.S.’s approach to its Strategic National Stockpile needs to be overhauled before the next pandemic. Here’s how.

Leadership Collection How can managers establish a framework for productive teamwork — one in which team members can work together with enthusiasm? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines how to build teams that utilize each member’s talents, play to team members’ strengths, and help the company prosper.

Understanding patterns of demand across your customer base can help smooth out costly spikes and slumps.

Companies can use data and collaborative scenario plans to enhance supply chain responsiveness. 

Despite advances in automation, good people and good techniques remain essential to manual work.

Giving customers what they want quickly is a worthy goal. Businesses can’t always afford to do it.

Small-scale piracy sometimes offers surprising benefits for IP rights holders.

How organizations can improve task flow and prevent overload.

Leadership Collection A more inclusive workplace not only boosts morale but often increases performance, too. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines ways that organizations are adapting to workforces that are older, more demographically and geographically diverse, and more varied in their ability to work collectively.

Leadership Collection Leaders have to be strategists, negotiators, and visionaries. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review looks at the particular challenges of keeping an organization’s vision on track across business units when there’s dissent among the ranks and when momentum starts to flag.