MIT Sloan Management Review
Why the Law Against Business Bribes Is Good for Business
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has served as a global standard against corruption for almost half a century. Suspending its enforcement harms both business and the rule of law.
5 min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
EMPLOYEE ATTITUDES TOWARD FLEXIBLE WORK
FIVE YEARS INTO THE LARGE-SCALE shift to remote working — and with mandates to return to the office proliferating — what are current employees’ attitudes toward flexible work? We conducted a survey of 1,450 professionals across the U.K. and U.S. in 2024 to learn how much workplace flexibility is valued by employees of all ages.
1 min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Maximize the Wisdom of the Crowd for Complex Problems
For crowdsourcing to be effective, participants need guidance matched to the type of problem theyre trying to solve.
7 min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
The Business Cost of the Shrinking STEM Research Pipeline
As immigration barriers mount and global competition for researchers intensifies, U.S. businesses face a critical talent shortage that threatens technological competitiveness. Here's what companies need to do now.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
How Close Is Commercial Quantum Computing?
THE RECENT SPATE OF NEWS IN THE QUANTUM computing space is raising hopes that we're finally on the cusp of broad commercial availability of this game-changing technology.
2 min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Take CEO Succession Planning Off the Back Burner
Boards know they should be doing it. Here's what gets in the way, and how to make it an active practice.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Rethink the Growth Imperative
Questioning the idea that businesses must continually grow can expose new paths to resilience and sustainability.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
GLOBAL STRATEGY: The New Rules of Doing Business With China
By moving beyond a simplistic view of “decoupling,” executives can better understand and strategically respond to Western policies aimed at Chinese companies.
8 min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
People Follow Structure: How Less Hierarchy Changes the Workforce
Shifting to self-managed teams and worker autonomy has been linked to greater engagement and performance. But not every employee likes the change.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Use Design Choices to Prevent Imitation
Adding or removing design elements to your innovations can help protect intellectual property.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
When Launching a Product During a Recession Pays Off
Evidence from the automotive and consumer goods sectors indicates that economic downturns can be a strategic time to bring new offerings to market.
6 min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Create Mental Space to Be a Wiser Leader
Business rewards the busy “doing mode” over the thoughtful “spacious mode,” but spaciousness can enable better collaboration and decisions.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
RESEARCH SNAPSHOT: New Leaders Can Thaw Employee Silence
EMPLOYEE INPUT IS CRITICAL WHEN LEADERS WANT A CLEAR PIC-ture of organizational challenges.
1 min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Building an AI Platform for the Future
Shishir Mehrotra joined Grammarly as CEO fol- lowing its December 2024 acquisition of Coda, the AI productivity platform he founded in 2014. The MIT graduate began his career by cofounding Centrata and subsequently spent several years at Microsoft and then at Google as vice president of product for YouTube. MIT Sloan Management Review spoke with Mehrotra about navigating his unique lead- ership transition, building what he envisions as the AI platform of the future, and management rituals, which he's writing a book about. What follows are edited highlights from that conversation.
2 min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
How Neuroinclusion Builds Organizational Capabilities
Changing processes to be more inclusive of neurodiversity can improve hiring, innovation, and culture.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Will AI Disrupt Your Business? Key Questions to Ask
How AI will affect individual businesses will vary widely. A diagnostic framework can help you identify its potential impacts and navigate disruption strategically.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
FUTURE OF WORK: The Surprising Viability of the Four-Day Workweek
New research shows that organizations adopting shorter workweeks are seeing positive results for both employees and themselves. Here's how companies are successfully implementing this change.
6 min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
How Companies Profit From an International C-Suite
A more multinational top management team can improve business operations and lead to higher profits.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Time Well Spent: A New Way to Value Time Could Transform Your Life
Calculating the subjective value of your time reveals where small changes in your weekly schedule can significantly boost life satisfaction and well-being.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
Fast Company
JUST REWARDS
BILT, THE STARTUP THAT OFFERS LOYALTY PROGRAM POINTS FOR PAYING YOUR RENT, IS BUILDING A $1-BILLION-A-YEAR BUSINESS BY BECOMING THE REWARDS PROGRAM FOR LIFE'S EVERY EXPENSE.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
Fast Company
The Chatbot Cure
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST BECKY KENNEDY HAS BECOME THE PARENTING GURU FOR THE SOCIAL MEDIA ERA. CAN AI TAKE HER TEACHINGS EVEN FURTHER?
6 min |
Summer 2025
Fast Company
STATE THE OF UNIONS
LIZ SHULER, PRESIDENT OF THE AFL-CIO, SAT DOWN WITH FAST COMPANY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF BRENDAN VAUGHAN TO DISCUSS HOW THE LARGEST FEDERATION OF UNIONS IN THE UNITED STATES IS RESPONDING TO AN ADMINISTRATION THAT IS HOSTILE TOWARD LABOR.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
Fast Company
Foundr Mentality
GRINDR CEO GEORGE ARISON IS USING AI TO TRANSFORM THE APP, MAKING AN UNEXPECTED PIVOT INTO TELEMEDICINE, AND TAKING MANAGEMENT INSPIRATION FROM ELON MUSK.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
Fast Company
THE PRICE OF LIFE
GILEAD SCIENCES, THE LEADER IN HIV MEDICATIONS, HAS DEVELOPED A NEW DRUG THAT COULD EFFECTIVELY END THE DISEASE. BUT NOT ALL PATIENTS SEE THE COMPANY AS A HERO.
9 min |
Summer 2025
Fast Company
WORLD CHANGING IDEAS 2025
A PERUVIAN CEMENT COMPANY INVENTS A NEW KIND OF SIDEWALK TO HELP GUIDE THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED. A NEW HEALTHTECH PLATFORM LEVERAGES AI TO ELIMINATE INEFFECTIVE COUNTERFEIT ANTIBIOTICS FROM GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS. AND COSTCO CEO RON VACHRIS TAKES HONORS AS THE INAUGURAL VISIONARY OF THE YEAR. THOSE ARE JUST THREE OF THIS YEAR'S 100 WORLD-CHANGING IDEAS WINNERS.
4 min |
Summer 2025
Fast Company
How 'Business for Good' Went Bad
IT MAY SEEM LIKE THE SECOND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SINGLE-HANDEDLY PULLED THE PLUG ON STAKEHOLDER CAPITALISM, BUT IN REALITY, IT WAS SPUTTERING FOR YEARS.
10+ min |
Summer 2025
Fortune US
WHY SANTANDER BANK CHIEF ANA BOTÍN FEELS FLIKE JEFF BEZOS'
ANA BOTÍN doesn’t have “normal” days. As executive chair of Banco Santander, one of Europe's largest banks by assets, she’s perpetually flying from one part of the world to another.
2 min |
June - July 2025
Fortune US
A SILENCE BROKEN ONLY BY THE WHISPERS OF ELVES
SUNLIGHT SCATTERED on the surrounding snow as we hiked single file, crampons strapped to our boots, up Sólheimajökull, Iceland's southernmost glacier—a 650-foot-thick tongue of solid ice spanning 17 square miles.
4 min |
June - July 2025
Fortune US
CAN ONE FOUNDATION CHANGE LIFE ON EARTH?
IT’s JUST a routine checkup, standard for participants in a clinical trial, but when Alice, a South African shop clerk in her forties, visits the Be Part Yoluntu Centre for research, she wears her best outfit: trousers, a blouse, and short heels.
10+ min |
June - July 2025
Fortune US
A Sure Thing
The PGA TOUR is all in on a new sports betting partnership.
3 min |