Free Reading Spree to Kick Off Spring
MIT SMR site content is freely available all day March 5 and 6.
Editor’s note: The free access period on our site has ended. Sign up for MIT SMR newsletters and be the first to hear about our next open access event.
We’re gearing up to release our Spring 2019 issue, which features an exciting lineup of big ideas from key management thinkers. To celebrate its publication in advance, we’re dropping our paywall on March 5 and 6 so that all of our content will be freely available to visitors online.
The open site is one way to thank our readers and our authors. By periodically providing free access to leading-edge insights and research, we can help spread the ideas far and wide — which means more managers can use them to run their organizations and teams more effectively.
Below, we offer some suggestions on where to start — some from the new issue, some from our rich archives. We hope you enjoy the spree, and we’d love your feedback.
The Top MIT SMR Articles of 2018
With Goals, FAST Beats SMART
By Donald Sull and Charles Sull
The Challenge of Scaling Soft Skills
By Lynda Gratton
The Truth About Corporate Transformation
By Martin Reeves, Lars Fæste, Kevin Whitaker, and Fabien Hassan
The End of Scale
By Hemant Taneja with Kevin Maney
How Big Data and AI Are Driving Business Innovation in 2018
By Randy Bean
People Analytics — A New Series
The Surprising Value of Obvious Insights
By Adam Grant
Can We Really Test People for Potential?
By Reb Rebele
Self-Reports Spur Self-Reflection
By Angela Duckworth
Career Management Isn’t Just the Employee’s Job
By Matthew Bidwell and Federica De Stefano
How You Can Have More Impact as a People Analyst
By Cade Massey
The Future of Work
Performance Management’s Digital Shift
By Michael Schrage, David Kiron, Bryan Hancock, and Raffaele Breschi
What to Do When Industry Disruption Threatens Your Career
By Boris Groysberg, Whitney Johnson, and Eric Lin
Reframing the Future of Work
By Jeff Schwartz, John Hagel III, Maggie Wooll, and Kelly Monahan
Five Insights From Davos on the Future of Work
By Lynda Gratton
How Human-Computer ‘Superminds’ Are Redefining the Future of Work
By Thomas W. Malone
Five Ways to Improve Communication in Virtual Teams
By N. Sharon Hill and Kathryn M. Bartol
New Paths for Innovation and Strategy
Nondisruptive Creation: Rethinking Innovation and Growth
By W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
A Structured Approach to Strategic Decisions
By Daniel Kahneman, Dan Lovallo, and Olivier Sibony
Navigating a New Industrial Infrastructure
By Jason Killmeyer and Brenna Sniderman
Designing Work That Works
A New Approach to Designing Work
By Nelson P. Repenning, Don Kieffer, and James Repenning
Saving Money Through Structured Problem-Solving
By Nelson P. Repenning, Don Kieffer, and Michael Morales
The Most Underrated Skill in Management
By Nelson P. Repenning, Don Kieffer, and Todd Astor
Breaking Logjams in Knowledge Work
By Sheila Dodge, Don Kieffer, and Nelson P. Repenning