Change management. Overwork. AI-related job loss fears. Get advice from MIT SMR experts on these and other top leadership challenges. Explore proven strategies to build human connections and organizational success.
Front-line employees are uniquely aware of the early symptoms of coming change. Management should heed their insights.
Leaders can help employees build the social connections that weakened during the pandemic by addressing three key areas.
Leaders need to recognize workplace hierarchies to create an effective learning environment for employees.
New research on retail profitability, the promise of platform-based business models, and retraining employees to meet revised strategic priorities.
Companies must retrain their employees to fill the roles most closely aligned with their revised strategic directions.
Elizabeth Renieris of the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab discusses how businesses can responsibly govern AI projects.
Negative factors like leadership failure and dissatisfaction aren’t the only reasons for CMO turnover.
Research points to ways companies can help employees of all ages thrive in today’s multigenerational workplace.
Nudges for less-biased hiring, networking to drive inclusion, and defusing opposition to racial equity initiatives.
The pandemic has upended business. Let’s consider how managers should respond.
The Special Report in MIT SMR‘s Summer 2021 issue looks at how businesses can support a more inclusive workplace culture. Also in this issue: ways to communicate — and disagree — using candor and logic, business’s role in national emergencies, how volunteering helps workers’ skills, and changing the rules to suit turbulent times.
PepsiCo’s Colin Lenaghan discusses AI’s role in the company’s pricing strategy and ongoing digital transformation.
Knowing why racial equity initiatives provoke opposition can help you lead employees through change.
Companies have a unique opportunity to rebuild employees’ social connections when they return to in-person work.
Good arguments at the core of great strategy, the risks of concurrent change initiatives, and the courage to be candid.
Creating consistently great business strategies demands systematic constructive debate and logical rigor.
New research points to consistency as a pivotal success factor when companies launch concurrent change initiatives.
A new interview series will offer lessons to help leaders manage their teams, navigate complexity, and adapt to change.
Tassilo Festetics shares how in-house technology innovation is helping AB InBev enhance its products and service.
Help your team become more capable and productive by encouraging key behaviors and mitigating risks.
