Richard Waters writes for The Los Angeles Times about Professor Michael Cusumano’s new book “Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons From Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs. “The authors attribute the outsized success of the three pioneers of the personal computing age, as well as their sometimes damaging inflexibility, to the driving passions that shaped them.”
Richard Moran writes for The Huffington Post about an MIT study that examines why Silicon Valley is home to so many tech companies. "The entire ecosystem is nurturing and helping companies within Silicon Valley realize their promise on a more guaranteed basis than anywhere else in the state," says Professor Scott Stern.
Nidhi Subbaraman writes for BetaBoston about MIT’s new cybersecurity initiatives designed to “tackle tech security problems both big and small.” The new efforts are aimed at addressing cybersecurity’s technical, policy and business challenges.
MIT is launching three cybersecurity efforts, including one aimed at managing cybersecurity within critical infrastructure, reports Rachael King for The Wall Street Journal. “We’re hoping to develop a number of new approaches and techniques that measure security culture in organizations,” says Prof. Stuart Madnick.
Slate reporter Alison Griswold writes about a new MIT study examining what makes certain startups successful. “We’re trying to measure things that companies do naturally when they have the ambition and potential to grow,” says Prof. Scott Stern.
MIT researchers have developed a method to identify entrepreneurial “hotspots,” reports Lisa Krieger for San Jose Mercury News. Researchers found that areas like Silicon Valley can help companies “realize their promise on a more guaranteed basis," explains Prof. Scott Stern.
Financial Times reporter Rebecca Knight writes about the Sloan School of Management’s Global Executive Academy, which offers non-English speaking managers a U.S. business education. “We started the GEA to give people who don’t speak English access to Ivy League-level executive education,” says Laura Ziukaite-Hansen. “It’s exciting but it still feels experimental.”
Writing for USA Today, John Waggoner writes about MIT Professor Eric So’s tip for predicting whether a company’s earnings will be good or bad. According to So, if a company moves the date of its earnings report up they have good news and if the date is moved back they are typically reporting bad news.
Professor Zeynep Tone writes for Forbes about his research that indicates companies that pay their employees higher wages tend to outperform their competitors. “[T]hese companies consider their workforce not as a cost to be minimized but as a strategic asset,” writes Tone.
“Now professor of management and global economics at MIT Sloan, Ms Forbes was the youngest-ever person appointed to the White House's Council of Economic Advisors, where she served President George W Bush from 2003 to 2005,” reports The BBC on Professor Kristin Forbes’ appointment to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee.
Professor Kristin Forbes has been appointed to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy committee writes Jason Douglas for The Wall Street Journal. “She will make an exceptionally strong addition to the MPC," said Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne in a statement.
“A series of three studies reveals that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitches is identical,” writes Carmen Nobel of Forbes on the findings of a new paper co-authored by Professor Fiona Murray.