Business
MIT Sloan Management Review
Make Character Count in Hiring and Promoting
Most managers focus on competencies when evaluating candidates but it’s character that will transform the DNA of the organization. Here’s how to assess it.
10+ min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Why Influence Is a Two-Way Street
Managers achieve better outcomes when they prioritize collaborative decision-making over powers of persuasion.
10 min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Know Your Data to Harness Federated Machine Learning
A collaborative approach to training AI models can yield better results, but it requires finding partners with data that complements your own.
9 min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
How Integrating DEI Into Strategy Lifts Performance
Incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion practices into core business planning can provide a competitive edge.
9 min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
The Myth of the Sustainable Consumer
Companies that understand the different kinds of consumers for sustainable products can market to them more effectively.
10+ min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
A Practical Guide to Gaining Value From LLMs
Getting a return from generative AI investments requires a systematic approach to analyzing appropriate use cases.
10+ min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Improve Workflows by Managing Bottlenecks
Understand whether process or resource constraints are stalling work.
10+ min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Craft Schedules That Work for Everyone
Business leaders can improve retention and business performance with schedules that make sense for workers’ lives.
10+ min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Design Work to Prevent Burnout
A new model for improving work design supports change that increases employee engagement and reduces stress.
10+ min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Leveraging Growth with Business Strategy Formula
In the past few years, the world has become a much more turbulent place as a result of the spread of pandemics, the outbreak of wars, geopolitical upheavals, collapse of the traditional order and the rise of AI.
10+ min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
When Qualified Women Resist the Leader Label
Many women are less likely than men to see themselves as leaders despite their demonstrated abilities.
8 min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Does GenAl Impose a Creativity Tax?
LLMs can boost worker productivity, but outputs may reflect less human creativity and originality.
6 min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
A Better Way to Avoid Project Delays
Many organizations estimate project timelines inaccurately. Working from past project examples, however, can improve on-time completion.
5 min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
How to Build Diverse Leadership Teams by Enlisting Stakeholders
Make allies of people inside and outside your organization who are invested in strengthening talent pipelines.
8 min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Cutting LastMile Delivery Costs
New tactics can boost profitability and satisfaction with subscription services.
7 min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Engaging Employees in Growth and Innovation
Bob Stiller founded Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in Waterbury, Vermont, in 1981, serving as CEO and president until 2007 and chairman until 2012.
2 min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Avoiding Harm in Technology Innovation
To capitalize on emerging technologies while mitigating unanticipated consequences, innovation managers need to establish a systematic review process.
10+ min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
Make a Stronger Business Case for Sustainability
When greener products and processes add costs, managers can shift other levers to maintain profitability.
9 min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
How to Turn Professional Services Into Products
Product-based business models can help services firms achieve greater scale and profitability. But the transformation can be challenging.
10 min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
Do You Really Need a Chief AI Officer?
The right answer depends on the strategic importance and maturity of AI in your company.
10+ min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
Where To Next? Opportunity on the Edge
Doing business in regions considered less stable or developed can pay off for companies. But they must invest in working with local communities.
10 min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
Make Smarter Investments in Resilient Supply Chains
Many companies invest in resilience only after a disruption. Applying the concept of real options can help decision makers fortify supply chain capabilities no matter the crisis.
10+ min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
The Three Traps That Stymie Reinvention
Organizational identity, architecture, and collaboration can be either assets or liabilities to pursuing growth in new sectors.
10+ min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
What Makes Companies Do the Right Thing?
Vaccine makers varied widely in their engagement with global public health efforts to broaden access to COVID-19 immunizations. Ethically motivated leadership was a dominant factor.
10+ min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
Build the Right C-Suite Team for Your Strategy
CEOs can foster a more effective leadership team by understanding when to tap senior executives' competitive instincts and when to encourage collaboration.
10+ min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
A Better Way to Unlock Innovation and Drive Change
A strengths-based approach to building teams can win employee commitment to change and foster an inclusive, agile culture.
10+ min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
The Four Guardrails That Enable Agility
Large organizations can move as fast as startups if leaders empower employees to act autonomously via well-defined constraints.
10+ min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
How Workplace Safety Improves Performance
OSHA's longest-serving administrator identifies safety approaches that work and those that don't.
8 min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
Why You Should Tap Innovation at Deep-Tech Startups
Businesses across all sectors, not just research-intensive industries, can benefit from innovations at science-heavy startups.
5 min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
Managing the Human Risks of Biometric Applications
The intimate surveillance afforded by biometric technologies requires managers to consider negative impacts on privacy and human dignity.
7 min |