Leadership

New research offers insights into factors that can affect the decision-making process.

As business moves to a real-time, data-driven focus, the search for talent has undergone a quantum shift.

The Winter 2015 issue of MIT SMR highlights decision making — and acknowledging that you don’t have all the answers.

Six scholarly articles offer intriguing insights into factors that can affect the decision-making process.

Simulations can help shrink the gap between what analysts try to explain and what decision makers understand.

All of our wonderful mobile devices don’t always make us good at managing what we do with them.

Simple as it sounds, regular sleep is the best antidote for a fatigued or stressed-out workforce.

The overconfidence of presumed expertise is counterproductive. Instead, data trumps intuition.

As sensors and computer-mediated transactions become universal, Google’s Hal Varian warns that organizations need to prepare for a flood of data.

Emma Stewart, Autodesk’s head of sustainability, describes how social intelligence helps CSR advocates promote a culture of sustainability.

HR departments are usually overlooked in developing sustainability programs — yet their input is crucial for success.

Visits from corporate headquarters to operations in markets such as China are often seen as unproductive.

A company that wants to successfully use analytics needs to make sure its data scientists are fully integrated into business units.

Autodesk’s Emma Stewart says that social intelligence helps promote CSR and a culture of sustainability.

Hot shots get all the attention, but other team members can be the ones who make a group really tick.

In turbulent markets, managers can build momentum for innovative strategies by rethinking the past, reconsidering present concerns – and reimagining the future.

Managerial authority is essential when decisions are time-sensitive, knowledge is concentrated and decisions need to be coordinated.

Team-based contests that draw on creativity and collaboration skills can build motivation in employees.

This year’s winning article is “Making Mergers Work,” by Hamid Bouchikhi and John R. Kimberly.

The process of bringing assembly work back to U.S. factories from abroad is more challenging than the economics would predict.