"ProQuest is proud to reestablish a long-term relationship with this important content partner," said Alan Aldworth, president and Chief Operating Officer of ProQuest Company. "The content additions coming to ABI/INFORM and XanEdu products are evidence of our success in enhancing relationships with our content providers and continuously improving products for our customers."

Rod Gauvin, senior vice president of the ProQuest Division of ProQuest Information and Learning, added, "After a brief hiatus, the current full text of MIT Sloan Management Review (SMR) will again be available to ABI/INFORM users beginning November 1, 2004. With its high editorial standards and reputation for establishing thought leadership, SMR is a critical resource for management students and researchers, as well as business executives."

MIT Sloan Management Review is a quarterly, peer-reviewed business journal that bridges the gap between management research and practice, presenting the best in new research to help readers identify and understand significant trends in management. ProQuest already offers extensive historical backfile coverage of MIT Sloan Management Review (and its predecessors Industrial Management Review and Sloan Management Review), from its early beginnings through 2001 in full page image, as well as abstracting and in-depth indexing from 1972 forward. ProQuest customers can sign up for specialized email content notification at: www.proquest.com/proquest/em-notecontent.shtml to receive notice when new content is added.

Consistently ranked in the top ten most-cited journals for general management, MIT Sloan Management Review showcases original research from experts at the world's top business schools, as well as selected works from consulting and industry. Articles cover a range of management disciplines with particular focus on corporate strategy, leadership, and management of technology and innovation. Recent authors include Clayton Christensen, Sumantra Ghoshal, Henry Mintzberg, Francesco Modigliani, C.K. Prahalad, Michael Porter, James Brian Quinn and Lester Thurow.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management has continuously published the journal for over forty years from its offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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