As we step into 2025, this is the perfect time to fuel your professional growth with fresh ideas and cutting-edge perspectives. From innovation ecosystems and data monetization to entrepreneurship and diversity, these newly released books from MIT Sloan Executive Education faculty offer actionable insights and bold visions for the year ahead. Explore the thought leadership that can help you navigate the challenges and opportunities of the new year—and beyond.
Accelerating Innovation: Competitive Advantage through Ecosystem Engagement by Philip Budden and Fiona Murray is a practical handbook for accelerating innovation, both internally and externally, through engagement with innovation ecosystems. Budden and Murray teach in the new Accelerating Innovation through Ecosystems Sprint and the in-person course Accelerating Corporate Innovation.
Data Is Everybody's Business by Barbara H. Wixom, Cynthia M. Beath, and Leslie Owens identifies three viable ways to convert data into money—improving work with data, wrapping products with data, and selling information offerings—and explain when to pursue each and how to succeed. Wixom teaches in Data Monetization Strategy and Leading the AI-Driven Organization.
Disciplined Entrepreneurship Startup Tactics: 15 Tactics to Turn Your Business Plan into a Business by Paul Cheek delivers an actionable field guide to transforming your one great idea into a functional, funded, and staffed startup. Cheek teaches in Disciplined Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurship Development Program.
From Intention to Impact: A Practical Guide to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Malia C. Lazu shows what organizations, leaders, and people at all levels must do to create more inclusive environments that honor and value diversity. Lazu teaches in the new course Intention to Impact: How to Lead in a Multicultural Economy.
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity, by 2024 Nobel Prize winners Simon Johnson and Daron Acemoglu, is a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the world. Johnson teaches in the Global CEO Program as well as the self-paced online courses Economics for Business and Making AI Work.
The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results by Andrew McAfee shows how the geeks have created a new culture based around four norms: science, ownership, speed, and openness. McAfee teaches in Digital Business Strategy.
Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification by Steven Spear reveals the hidden circuitry that drives organizational excellence. Spear teaches in Creating High Velocity Organizations.
We hope these titles provide you with some valuable insights, and we look forward to seeing you in a course soon.