Customers
Leading in a Time of Increased Expectations
Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good reflects on guiding her company in an industry in transformation.
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Leadership Skills
What the Military Can Teach Organizations About Agility
The U.S. military is experimenting with ways to make faster — and smarter — decisions.
Leadership Skills
Your Project Is Vulnerable. Do You Know the Warning Signs?
If you’re running a big project, watch out for these signs that stakeholders have doubts about it.
Developing Strategy
Don’t Get Caught in the Middle
Our digital world is rendering traditional intermediaries obsolete. Make sure you are not one of them.
Boards & Corporate Governance
Restoring Trust After a Scandal
After an ethics scandal, one company took an unusual step: Shifting its focus toward sustainability.
AI & Machine Learning
AI in the Boardroom: The Next Realm of Corporate Governance
Artificial intelligence helps doctors make better diagnoses. It can do the same for corporate leaders.
Collaboration
Putting an End to Leaders’ Self-Serving Behavior
Organizations need decision makers with central (and internalized) moral identities.
Disruption
Why Entrepreneurs Should Care Less About Disrupting and More About Creating
Featured excerpt from WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us by Tim O’Reilly.
Culture
Neutralize Internal Politics in Digital Initiatives
A proactive approach can defuse the internal politics that often derail digital maturation.
Business Models
Don’t Confuse Digital With Digitization
Digitization alone doesn’t make your company “digital” — but these five guiding principles can help.
Developing Strategy
Turning Strategy Into Results
How can leaders translate strategic complexity into simple and flexible guidelines that get results?
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Leading Analytics Teams in Changing Times
Getting business value from data depends on developing effective analytics teams — leaders included.
Innovation Strategy
The Case Against Agility
Ideas that have anchored technological decision-making have become unsuitable for the emerging world.
Leadership Skills
A Tribute to Our Readers
As a thank-you to our loyal readers, all MIT SMR content is open access on September 26 and 27.
Developing Strategy
Which Rules Are Worth Breaking?
Disrupting the status quo is often valuable, but taken too far, it can lead to ethical crises.
AI & Machine Learning
Five Management Strategies for Getting the Most From AI
A global survey finds that AI is delivering value to companies that use it across operations.
Disruption
Digital Disruption Is a People Problem
People, organizations, and policy respond to technological advances at different rates.
Moving Beyond the Silicon Valley State of Mind
Featured excerpt from Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm.
Managing Your Career
Who’s Building the Infrastructure for Lifelong Learning?
With people living longer than ever, there must be a way to promote regular education.
Leadership Skills
How to Become a Game-Changing Leader
To successfully lead big change initiatives, executives must master a wide range of leadership skills.