Data & Data Culture
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Data-driven culture, ethics and compliance standards for pandemic aid, and effective global operations.
Leadership
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Leading Change
Decentralizing Your Operating and Talent Models the Right Way
To operate their companies effectively worldwide, leaders need to rethink how work gets done, and where.
Crisis Management
Disrupted and Stronger: Looking In and Looking Out
Managers can reenergize their businesses by leading with authenticity and grace during moments of crisis.
Ethics
Ethics or Compliance in a Crisis?
Companies offering aid in a crisis must clarify the ethical and legal ramifications of their actions.
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HR and IT: Forging New Partnerships to Drive Digital Transformation
HR and IT must collaborate, starting at the executive level, to improve employee experiences.
Skills & Learning
Video Insights from MIT SMR Authors
These mini-lessons are bite-sized insights from MIT SMR authors in four areas: decision-making, leadership, data and analytics, and digital transformation.
IT Governance & Leadership
Evaluating New Technology? You’re More Biased Than You May Realize
Leaders’ implicit biases toward new technology can cause them to make poor investment decisions.
Leadership Skills
Leadership Today and Tomorrow
Digitalization has transformed business. These essential resources will help you understand what that means for leaders.
Crisis Management
The Two Roles Leaders Must Play in a Crisis
Disaster managers must be sufficiently flexible to meet stakeholder expectations, depending on the situation.
Organizational Behavior
Sustaining Culture When Everyone’s Remote
In this webinar, Jennifer Howard-Grenville shares research on organizational culture and remote working.
Organizational Behavior
The Best of This Week
Returning “boomerang” CEOs, job crafting, and working with robots.
Leadership Skills
Boomerang CEOs: What Happens When the CEO Comes Back?
A comparative investigation of boomerang and non-boomerang CEOs reveals some nonobvious insights and critical implications for leaders.
Talent Management
How Job Crafting Can Make Work More Satisfying
Job crafting, a proactive take on job redesign, can help improve employee engagement and satisfaction.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Cooperative Advantage: Rethinking the Company’s Purpose
Companies can better support individual and community well-being through a people-centered approach to profitability.
Social Media
Inside the Hype Machine
MIT Sloan’s Sinan Aral discusses social media as a marketing tool that can have a positive impact — if used ethically.
Developing Strategy
The Best of This Week
Navigating chaos with sensemaking, elevating cybersecurity strategically, and disrupting yourself.
Leading Change
BRAVE Conversations About Race
Enrica N. Ruggs and Derek R. Avery explore how to begin discussions of racial equality in the workplace.
Leading Change
Our Guide to the Fall 2020 Issue
The Fall 2020 issue of MIT SMR offers leaders new strategies for an uncertain business environment.
Leading Change
Seize the Moment
The COVID-19 pandemic has permanently changed social norms. Although there will be enormous challenges ahead, these changes nonetheless offer business leaders an opportunity to create a future that’s different from — and better than — the prepandemic “business as usual.”
Organizational Behavior
The 2020 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
The winner of the 2020 Beckhard Prize is “Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration,” by Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer.