Social Responsibility
How the Middle East is Emerging as a Data Center Powerhouse Amid Booming AI Demand
While the region’s strategic location, access to power, and strong connectivity support its rise into a data center hub, experts discuss the need for public and private sector collaboration to ensure its development and a sustainable future.
Hannah Jo Uy
Top Social Responsibility from MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East
Social Responsibility
Make a Stronger Business Case for Sustainability
Karel Cool, Atalay Atasu, and Nathan Furr
Climate Change
How the 2024 Paris Olympics Fast-Tracked Decarbonization
Atalay Atasu and Luk N. Van Wassenhove
Social Responsibility
Find a Circular Strategy to Fit Your Business Model
Samsurin Welch and Khaled Soufani
More Social Responsibility from MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East
Data & Data Culture
How the Middle East is Emerging as a Data Center Powerhouse Amid Booming AI Demand
While the region’s strategic location, access to power, and strong connectivity support its rise into a data center hub, experts discuss the need for public and private sector collaboration to ensure its development and a sustainable future.
Hannah Jo Uy
Strategy
Don’t Bet Against the Move to Clean Energy
The energy transition may face some bumps in the road, but taking a wait-and-see approach brings its own risks.
Steven Goldbach, Geoff Tuff, and Derek Pankratz
Social Responsibility
Make a Stronger Business Case for Sustainability
When greener products and processes add costs, managers can shift other levers to maintain profitability.
Karel Cool, Atalay Atasu, and Nathan Furr
AI and Machine Learning
Will AI Help or Hurt Sustainability? Yes
AI has the potential to help address societal problems like climate change, but challenges like high energy consumption threaten to negate its benefits.
Andrew Winston
Climate Change
How the 2024 Paris Olympics Fast-Tracked Decarbonization
Paris pledged to radically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions compared with recent Olympic Games. Here’s what the team learned on the fly.
Atalay Atasu and Luk N. Van Wassenhove
Social Responsibility
Find a Circular Strategy to Fit Your Business Model
Products and services that maximize use and reuse of materials and other resources can be both growth opportunities and sustainability measures.
Samsurin Welch and Khaled Soufani
Climate Change
Why We Need to, Have to, Want to Act on Climate
Need to explain the “why” of climate change action? Here’s a three-part framing to convince businesses and their leaders to respond.
Andrew Winston
Corporate Social Responsibility
Why It’s Good for Business When Customers Share Your Values
In competitive markets, shared values positively influence customer choice and increase loyalty.
Daniel Aronson
Social Responsibility
Doubling Down on Impact Reporting
New EU reporting mandates will affect businesses well beyond Europe’s borders and require them to report on material impacts far beyond their own walls.
Brian Tomlinson and Lucy Godshall
Data, AI, & Machine Learning
AI is a Powerful Assistant, and the Potential is Limitless: M42’s Amy Clare Lehoczky
When individuals trust that a company is using their data responsibly, they are willing to share more data, enabling the company to increase its customer engagement.