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.
Research offers insights into when trying to reach consensus is the right course, and when it isn’t.
How well do people factor past performance into their expectations for the future? Not very, according to studies.
Employees can be inspired to perform better if their creativity is challenged through teamwork.
A willingness to ask for advice on difficult problems can increase your perceived competence.
Making it safe to be honest about when projects are getting off track can promote cooperative behavior.
For many decisions, letting your mind wander to a choice that you feel drawn to — rather than weighing all the options — is ample.
It’s smart to be on good terms with former employees. Recent research highlights the upside to following competitors’ former employees, too.
By 2020, most new data will be generated not by people but by sensors and embedded, intelligent devices.
New research offers insights into factors that can affect the decision-making process.
As business moves to a real-time, data-driven focus, the search for talent has undergone a quantum shift.
The Winter 2015 issue of MIT SMR highlights decision making — and acknowledging that you don’t have all the answers.
Six scholarly articles offer intriguing insights into factors that can affect the decision-making process.
Simulations can help shrink the gap between what analysts try to explain and what decision makers understand.
All of our wonderful mobile devices don’t always make us good at managing what we do with them.
Simple as it sounds, regular sleep is the best antidote for a fatigued or stressed-out workforce.
The overconfidence of presumed expertise is counterproductive. Instead, data trumps intuition.
As sensors and computer-mediated transactions become universal, Google’s Hal Varian warns that organizations need to prepare for a flood of data.
Emma Stewart, Autodesk’s head of sustainability, describes how social intelligence helps CSR advocates promote a culture of sustainability.
HR departments are usually overlooked in developing sustainability programs — yet their input is crucial for success.
Visits from corporate headquarters to operations in markets such as China are often seen as unproductive.
