Editor’s note: Catherine Havasi is CEO and co-founder of Luminoso, an artificial intelligence-based text analytics company in Cambridge. Luminoso was founded on nearly a decade of research at the MIT ...

Many theories and tools abound to aid leaders in decision-making. This is because we often find ourselves caught between two perceived poles: following gut instincts or adopting a data-driven approach ...

My research project (Seeing What Others Don’t, 2013) examined 120 examples of insight to try to find some common themes. The one unifying theme was that insights involved a shift in core beliefs.

MANILA, Philippines — If you’ve spent time in strategy postmortems or even in high-stakes “war” rooms, you’ve probably heard the same lines. “We had all the data, but no real insight.” “The logic felt ...