Workplace, Teams, & Culture

Conventional ways of making strategy are inadequate amid uncertainty and complexity. Today, it requires moral purpose.

Businesses that don’t understand the connection between business transformation and culture change risk obsolescence.

Organizations are trying to bridge their need for connectivity with people’s hunger for flexibility.

New research exposes the conflicts working parents may face when weighing concerns about work and career geography.

Top MIT SMR article topics include work and strategy redesign, and developing leadership skills for the hybrid future.

Culture change starts with new actions, not with business leaders identifying or articulating a desired culture.

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

The data science management process, job moves for pay equity, and political concerns in M&As.

In this webinar, speakers discuss the benefits and pitfalls of monitoring in-person and remote workers.

When managing a merger, pay attention to political disparities.

Female executives can command bigger pay increases than men by switching jobs.

Moderna’s chief data and AI officer explains how AI helped the pharma company develop a COVID-19 vaccine in record time.

Addressing social capital in return-to-office plans, deploying AI to manage wealth, and reducing coordination complexity with microservices.

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.

Mapping employees’ working relationships can help guide leaders’ decisions about post-pandemic work models.

Monolithic, highly interdependent organizations can become modular ones by embracing microservices.

Companies must retrain their employees to fill the roles most closely aligned with their revised strategic directions.

Digital inclusion to help solve grand challenges, meaningful support for Pride Month, and reimagined workspaces.

To meaningfully support Pride, companies need to focus on employees, customers, and the community.