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MIT SMR’s expert contributors weigh in on the skills and strategies managers should embrace in the year ahead.

These five articles from the MIT SMR library offer leadership insights to take into the new year.

The year’s top articles offer insights on driving cultural change, combating burnout and fatigue, and managing teams.

Recruiting and retaining talent in a turbulent market, boosting profits and customer loyalty with charitable giving, and harnessing customers’ “brand admiration.”

As brands compete for holiday shoppers, they would do well to learn this lesson: Donations can boost sales and profits.

Forces that have been in play since before the pandemic began can help explain today’s turbulence in the workforce.

Companies earn customers’ respect and loyalty when their brands enable, entice, and enrich them.

Rethinking assumptions about customer wants, improving the R&D process for new projects, and addressing data challenges.

A new tool for designing an analytics architecture can help marketers improve customer experience outcomes.

The winter 2022 issue of MIT SMR provides a collection of articles to help leaders overcome the obstacles that can get in the way of innovation.

MIT SMR‘s winter 2022 issue looks at innovation processes in product development and how networks affect culture and diversity.

Driving culture change with organizational network analysis, responding strategically to cyberattacks, and building human rights strategies.

The pandemic spurred a social reset, and companies must respond to customers’ and employees’ changed expectations.

Smaller, often more private and interactive online communities and platforms are reinventing the way brands and consumers connect.

Several principles can be applied to create reciprocal loyalty and benefits between organizations and gig workers.

Space missions’ remote-work lessons, fast fashion’s untenable business model, and sustainable work’s progressive roots.

New research highlights that sustainable management is a fundamental business practice, not just a modern trend.

MIT SMR’s upcoming Executive Guide will discuss how companies can adapt to meet customers’ shifting expectations.

Reimagining dense office spaces, evolving brand relationships, and accelerating ideation with prototyping tools.

Coworking benefits for remote teams, sharing value for ecosystem success, and becoming a better workplace ally.