Leadership Skills
Is Your Company Ready to Operate as a Market?
Traditional hierarchies are giving way to market forms of organizing that will recast the role of management.
Leading Change
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Analytics & Business Intelligence
Achieving Meritocracy in the Workplace
New research shows bias exists even in merit-based systems — but a data-centric approach can help.
Collaboration
The New Rules For Crisis Management
The rise of stakeholder-controlled media outlets complicates corporate crisis management strategies.
Boards & Corporate Governance
In Boardrooms, the Same Is a Shame
To limit risk, boards should take a tough, honest look at why the C–suite has so little diversity.
Developing Strategy
How Scenario Planning Influences Strategic Decisions
New research finds scenario-based decision making helps increase executives’ strategic flexibility.
Business Models
The Real Lessons From Kodak’s Decline
The key lessons from Kodak’s failure to adapt to digital disruption aren’t what you think they are.
Business Models
Managing Tensions Between New and Existing Business Models
Staying competitive may mean exploring new business models — but watch out for internal tensions.
Climate Change
Equipping the Sustainability Insurgency
A peer-to-peer network developed jointly by HP Canada and WWF offers tools and guidance for sustainability insurgents.
Developing Strategy
Keep Calm and Manage Disruption
Businesses are averting disruption by beating their new competition, joining them, or waiting them out.
Data & Data Culture
How Time-to-Insight Is Driving Big Data Business Investment
A poll of Fortune 1000 executives shows that obtaining insights rapidly is the true value of Big Data.
Developing Strategy
Leading in the Age of Super-Transparency
How can companies adapt themselves to the demands of super-transparency?
Collaboration
Has Your Office Become a Lonely Place?
When many employees work offsite, a corporate office can become a lonelier and less productive place.
Executing Strategy
Aligning Corporate Learning With Strategy
Corporate learning programs should focus on the CEO’s strategic agenda rather than how learning is delivered.
Leading Change
From the Editor: Reflections on Change and Continuity
The Summer 2015 issue of MIT SMR highlights how digital business plays out in strategy, innovation and business transformation.
Climate Change
The Sustainability Insurgency: Missives from the Front Lines, Part 2
Emma Stewart, Autodesk’s head of sustainability, describes how social intelligence helps CSR advocates promote a culture of sustainability.
Climate Change
The Sustainability Insurgency: Missives from the Front Lines, Part 1
Autodesk’s Emma Stewart says that social intelligence helps promote CSR and a culture of sustainability.
Developing Strategy
Beyond Forecasting: Creating New Strategic Narratives
In turbulent markets, managers can build momentum for innovative strategies by rethinking the past, reconsidering present concerns – and reimagining the future.
Global Strategy
What It Takes to Reshore Manufacturing Successfully
The process of bringing assembly work back to U.S. factories from abroad is more challenging than the economics would predict.
Culture
What to Expect From a Corporate Lean Program
“Lean” programs can be powerful tools for improving performance – if managers know what to expect.
Crisis Management
Leadership Lessons from the Boston Marathon Attack
The Boston Marathon bombing offers six lessons for crisis managers on using social media for communication.