Marketing
Data, AI, & Machine Learning
AI Makes Software Cheaper to Build, Not to Own
Coding agents are shifting the build-or-buy decision for Indian companies, but writing software faster does not remove the cost or responsibility of running it.
Shivani Tiwari
Top Marketing from MIT Sloan Management Review India
Data, AI, & Machine Learning
Working Through Leave Conceals the Real Cost of Delivery
Vidyashree Srinivas
Data, AI, & Machine Learning
Faster AI Hiring Still Needs Accountable Human Judgment
Vidyashree Srinivas
Featured
What Kind of Chief Purpose Officer Does Your Company Need?
Albena Björck and Nicole Steller
Featured
How Leadership Anxiety Derails Transformation
Declan Fitzsimons, Gianpiero Petriglieri, and Jennifer Petriglieri
More Marketing from MIT Sloan Management Review India
Data, AI, & Machine Learning
OpenAI Opens ChatGPT Advertising to Businesses Across India
OpenAI’s self-service advertising platform gives Indian marketers a new channel built around conversational context, but its effectiveness, cost and impact on brand trust remain unproven.
MIT SMR Editors
Collaboration
Why Enterprise AI Needs Forward Deployed Engineers
After helping migrate more than 20 million mobile subscribers and deploying large squads of AI engineers to a major new enterprise AI venture in Japan, Prodapt is expanding its model of pairing forward deployed engineers with reusable AI tools worldwide.
MIT SMR India Partner Content Team
AI and Machine Learning
Gain Consumer Insight With Generative AI
Large language models are compressing research timelines with synthetic consumers, AI-moderated interviews, and qualitative research at scale.
Neeraj Arora, Ishita Chakraborty, Yohei Nishimura
Customers
Where India’s Privacy Push Stalls Inside Enterprises
A new MIT Sloan Management Review India–IDfy study finds that large enterprises have privacy frameworks in place, but struggle to enforce them consistently across systems and teams.
MIT SMR Editors
Customers
Supreme Court Raises Red Flags Over Meta, WhatsApp Data Practices
The Supreme Court takes up challenges to an antitrust penalty as judges question consent, market power and the commercial use of user data
MIT SMR Editors
Automation
MIT Sloan Management Review India, IDfy to Release Study on Data Privacy
The joint study examines how Indian enterprises are translating the Digital Personal Data Protection Act into operational controls, risk frameworks, and strategic decision-making.
MIT SMR Editors
Digital Marketing
India Ad Market Poised to Grow 9.2% in 2025, Driven by AI, Retail Media
WPP lifts India’s ad growth outlook as retail media scales rapidly and AI-led buying reshapes digital spending priorities.
MIT SMR Editors
Customers
How Grocery Retail Innovations Change Customer Behavior
Research into new in-store amenities, digital shopping formats, and partnerships reveals their unexpected costs and benefits.
Stanley Frederick W.T. Lim
Leadership
Mastercard Taps Accenture’s Jill Kramer as Global CMO
Jill Kramer will take over from longtime marketing head Raja Rajamannar, as Mastercard sharpens focus on data-driven media and personalization.
MIT SMR Editors
AI and Machine Learning
Why AI Can’t Replace Emotion in Marketing, for Now
While AI can predict behavior and personalize at scale, true loyalty still depends on human empathy and emotional understanding, said marketing leaders at the Bengaluru edition of the Strategy Shift Forum


