4 strategies for sustainable business | MIT Sloan

Major business school tries to force private businesses to have outside political and ideological activists or international organisations to run your company!

What kind of a business school is this? Bizarre!

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1. Listen, internally and externally (includes BLM)
2. Deploy overlapping timelines (to eliminate plastic)

3. Develop a mix of metrics (is your supply chain partner a member of the U.N. Global Compact)

4. Connect sustainability with diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice

"Climate change is necessarily a justice issue": Jason Jay Co-director, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative

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4 strategies for sustainable business | MIT Sloan Companies are under pressure from multiple stakeholders to adopt sustainable business practices. Here are four foundational tenets to guide your strategy.

MIT Sloan School of Management: Should we allow criticism while brainstorming?

I have been convinced for many years that business schools tend to sell a lot of hot air and banalities! They repackage and regurgitate a lot of ancient common sense and wisdom! They also produce quite a few harmful dogmas and short lived fashions of the day! Here is some recent evidence for that!

"Some years ago,Jared Curhan, the Gordon Kaufman Professor and an associate professor of work and organization studies at MIT Sloan, picked up a copy of The New Yorker and began reading an article about creativity. It took only a few paragraphs before he drew back in a mix of surprise and disbelief. The journalist was describing several new scientific studies that argued criticism might be a boon to creativity. How could that be? ...
“For many decades, the ground rule has been to prohibit negative feedback while generating creative options,” Curhan, who is the faculty director of MIT's Behavioral Research Lab, said. “This is ingrained in the way the work gets done.” ...

devised two experiments to explore these questions. They ultimately found that when the setting is cooperative, criticism can boost creativity, whereas in competitive or adversarial settings, criticism should be prohibited. ..."

Should we allow criticism while brainstorming? | MIT Sloan In cooperative settings, criticism can boost creativity in brainstorming and negotiation.