Management Approach

Managerial authority and hierarchy should be redesigned for business today, but they won’t disappear.

Managers can help employees turn fears into fleeting thoughts as opposed to permanent restraints.

Senior leaders and HR teams can take three key actions to help develop more effective managers in their organizations.

Organizational experts offer leaders advice on how to make meaningful changes to increase employee engagement.

A new book about former GE CEO Jack Welch blames him for shareholder capitalism, but there were other factors at play.

MIT SMR’s fall 2022 issue includes articles on board refreshment, collaborative relationships, and management skills.

This issue of MIT SMR focuses on customer relationships and their connection to innovation and value.

Leaders must answer eight questions to successfully tackle innovation’s toughest trade-offs.

Leaders must answer eight questions to successfully tackle innovation’s toughest trade-offs.

A panel of AI experts weighs in on whether responsible AI should be at the top of leaders’ management agendas.

For a post-pandemic future, leaders must rethink their assumptions about what customers really want.

The practices of astronauts offer a model for successfully adapting to remote and hybrid work.

Jobs in the post-pandemic era, the effects of relaxed hybrid rules, and the real causes of the supply chain crisis.

The post-pandemic era requires a leadership mindset change about jobs and managerial expectations.

In the context of remote work, leaders must reconsider conventional delegation methods.

Contractors hired to tackle core management tasks often succeed because of their outsider status.

Knowing why racial equity initiatives provoke opposition can help you lead employees through change.

When leaders ask employees to cross ethical lines, they risk reducing workers’ long-term performance.

Leading into the future is not for the meek. Nor is it for the arrogant, the bull-headed, or the blindly self-righteous.

Digital technologies have given rise to these new leadership imperatives.