Diversity & Inclusion
The Best of This Week
Nudges for less-biased hiring, networking to drive inclusion, and defusing opposition to racial equity initiatives.
Leadership
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Collaboration
Agents of Change
The pandemic has upended business. Let’s consider how managers should respond.
Organizational Behavior
Our Guide to the Summer 2021 Issue
The Special Report in MIT SMR‘s Summer 2021 issue looks at how businesses can support a more inclusive workplace culture. Also in this issue: ways to communicate — and disagree — using candor and logic, business’s role in national emergencies, how volunteering helps workers’ skills, and changing the rules to suit turbulent times.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
No Need for AI Unicorns: PepsiCo’s Colin Lenaghan
PepsiCo’s Colin Lenaghan discusses AI’s role in the company’s pricing strategy and ongoing digital transformation.
Equality
Fighting Backlash to Racial Equity Efforts
Knowing why racial equity initiatives provoke opposition can help you lead employees through change.
Culture
Reimagining the Office for Immensely Human Interactions
Companies have a unique opportunity to rebuild employees’ social connections when they return to in-person work.
Leading Change
The Best of This Week
Good arguments at the core of great strategy, the risks of concurrent change initiatives, and the courage to be candid.
Developing Strategy
Why Good Arguments Make Better Strategy
Creating consistently great business strategies demands systematic constructive debate and logical rigor.
Leading Change
How to Reduce the Risk of Colliding Change Initiatives
New research points to consistency as a pivotal success factor when companies launch concurrent change initiatives.
Leading Change
Leadership at a Time When Every Company Is a Tech Company
A new interview series will offer lessons to help leaders manage their teams, navigate complexity, and adapt to change.
Technology Innovation Strategy
How a Startup Mindset Brews Innovation at a Global Scale
Tassilo Festetics shares how in-house technology innovation is helping AB InBev enhance its products and service.
Culture
The Courage to Be Candid
Help your team become more capable and productive by encouraging key behaviors and mitigating risks.
Remote Work
The Best of This Week
Practical strategies for hybrid work, linking good intentions to intentional actions, and Daniel Kahneman on “noise.”
Supply Chains & Logistics
Rethinking Industry’s Role in a National Emergency
The U.S.’s approach to its Strategic National Stockpile needs to be overhauled before the next pandemic. Here’s how.
Skills & Learning
How to Address Worker Skill Gaps in the Return to Work
As hiring begins to accelerate, companies may need to retrain workers whose skills stagnated while they were unemployed.
Platforms & Ecosystems
Interactive: The Workforce Ecosystem Perspective
Use this dashboard to benchmark your organization’s readiness to adopt a workforce ecosystem approach.
Technology Implementation
Taming AI’s Can/Should Problem
Identifying the potential public harm of new AI tools should be part of prelaunch due diligence.
Skills & Learning
What Happens if ‘Absorbing by Observation’ Disappears?
New hires are at risk of losing the subtly communicated knowledge shared through in-person work.
Leading Change
The Best of This Week
Adapting roles amid organizational change, “invisible” leadership transitions, and new digital olfaction technologies.
Managing Your Career
How to Manage ‘Invisible Transitions’ in Leadership
Four steps to help leaders transition into a substantial new role without a change in title or authority.