Research Highlight

Effective governance enables KPIs to evolve, remain aligned with strategic goals, and gain workers’ and managers’ trust.

Teams facing a fundamental change perform better when they focus on reskilling individuals first.

Robust appraisal systems make pay transparency an opportunity to improve performance rather than a compliance burden.

Research finds that managers who want to create better job roles can use an effective new assistant: ChatGPT.

New research identifies three elements that are key to successfully reviving an inactive professional relationship.

Interviews with 100 CMOs reveal common challenges in designing marketing organizations, as well as ways to address them.

Digital collaboration can steer innovators down a disruptive or incremental path, depending on how they use the tools.

When organizations create forward-looking smart KPIs with AI, they see increased strategic alignment.

FedML technology could help smaller companies train their machine learning models on larger, decentralized data sets.

A study finds that U.S. consumers believe businesses could positively impact society but fall short in sustainability.

U.S. employers are lagging at embedding sustainability into their organizations, new research shows.

Researchers describe how having robots work alongside humans can help companies measure performance more accurately.

Research on stock buybacks does not find evidence that the practice results in the economic costs that critics allege.

Researchers are seeing stronger business benefits when KPIs are adjusted with or created by AI tools.

Research reveals the factors managers can change to more equitably position women and people of color for career success.

A research-based framework can help companies select philanthropic projects that align with their business strategies.

Two business strategists explore ChatGPT’s capacity for generating new ideas and strategies — and where it falls short.

Even iconic products need updates to stay relevant, but businesses can retain loyal customers while attracting new ones.

MIT SMR-Deloitte research backs a holistic approach to strategically managing all contributors in a workforce ecosystem.

Researchers discuss the potential benefits of using artificial intelligence to redefine KPIs and strategic measurement.