Talent Management

When many employees work offsite, a corporate office can become a lonelier and less productive place.

Coworking spaces can open the door to serendipitous encounters that inspire different ways of thinking.

Organizations need to help executives look beyond individual units toward the broader enterprise.

New business executives face a choice: What kind of companies do they want to lead?

Talented young professionals exhibit a new approach to both their careers and organizational loyalty.

Most employees want to work for digitally savvy companies — and many are unhappy with their company’s digital maturity.

Corporate learning programs should focus on the CEO’s strategic agenda rather than how learning is delivered.

The process of managing a data science research effort can seem quite messy, in contrast to data’s aura of reason.

Research suggests that high levels of employee engagement are associated with higher rates of profitability growth.

It’s not enough to offer great pay and benefits anymore. Employees want their workplace to reflect and support who they are.

Being fresh for the work day requires prioritizing sleep — which organizations can do a better job encouraging.

Humanyze helps interpret social data so that businesses can identify the best collaborative practices of the most effective people.

The Spring 2015 issue of MIT SMR highlights project management — and the importance of expecting the unexpected.

The role of project sponsors is often overlooked, but actively engaged executives are crucial to a project’s success.

Employees can be inspired to perform better if their creativity is challenged through teamwork.

It’s smart to be on good terms with former employees. Recent research highlights the upside to following competitors’ former employees, too.

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.

Visits from corporate headquarters to operations in markets such as China are often seen as unproductive.

A company that wants to successfully use analytics needs to make sure its data scientists are fully integrated into business units.