AI & Machine Learning
Companies Brace for Decade of Disruption From AI
AI is expected to be the single most disruptive new capability for companies in the next decade.
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Business Models
Free Webinar: Building a Business Creation Engine
Free on-demand webinar with MIT SMR authors of “The Hard Truth About Business Model Innovation.”
Leadership Skills
Why the Human Voice Is the Year’s Most Important Technology
The shrinking role of big screens heralds a change in how we communicate with devices and each other.
Automation
Automating Supply Chain Resilience Should Be High on Your Digital Agenda
Advanced risk identification tools require companies to take a new approach to supply chain resilience.
Automation
When the Luddites Fought Back
Automation and robotics could have far-reaching effects on labor — ones we’ve seen before.
Organizational Behavior
An Easy Way to Encourage Employees to Follow Company Rules
People are more likely to follow rules if there’s more variety in the order in which they do tasks.
Organizational Behavior
Why Bad Management Practices Persist
Companies should recognize and change conditions that cause bad management practices to persist.
Leadership Skills
From the Archives: Establish a Personal Advisory Board
A new year’s resolution for 2017: Build a personal advisory board that meets your current needs.
Culture
End Your Business Journey, Please
Looking at your business as a “journey” could limit your vision in ways you don’t realize.
Leading Change
Unexpected Benefits of Digital Transformation
Digital tools can be used in surprising ways to add value to an organization.
Leadership Skills
A Leader’s List for 2017
These dozen commitments guide how I’ll make decisions, engage with others, and focus on what matters.
Climate Change
Does Your Supply Chain Risk Management Strategy Hold Water?
Water’s low cost in many countries is not yet promoting responsible management within many companies.
Leadership Skills
The 20 Most Popular MIT Sloan Management Review Articles of 2016
Along with an interest in analytics, AI, and IoT, our readers focused on finding meaning in work.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
The Smart Way to Deal With Messy Data
Providing up-front structure for data may reduce the need to process it — and limit distortions.
Digital Marketing
How We Sell Our Attention
Internet-enabled mobile devices have fundamentally changed marketing — and personal privacy.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
‘Moneyball’ for Professors?
There’s a boom in using analytics for human resource decisions. Tenure decisions should be next.
Climate Change
Sustainability Reporting: One Size Fits Nobody
Investors prefer reporting that allows easy comparisons of companies’ progress on sustainability.
Culture
How to Be a Strategic Leader
Strategic leadership is key to long-term success and can be learned, says Stanford’s Jesper Sørensen.
From the Archives: Managing in a Time of Uncertainty
Strategic planning is key to succeeding in a time of uncertainty and political change.
Talent Management
Your Digital Talent Needs May Not Be What You Think They Are
Companies should ignore common myths about digital talent and identify which employee skills matter.