Business
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 |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
When Generative AI Meets Product Development
From ideation to user testing, large language models are allowing companies to explore more ideas and iterate faster.
6 min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
Beating 'Not Invented Here' Syndrome
Resistance to external ideas hinders innovation. The right incentives can open minds.
6 min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
The Chevron Doctrine Is Dead. What Are the Implications for Business?
A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling gives companies more opportunities to challenge regulations, but they may face more regulatory uncertainty as well.
5 min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
Tackling Challenges With Data Governance
Akira Bell is senior vice president and CIO at Mathematica, a research and data analytics consultancy. Bell was a finalist for this year's MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award in recognition of her work at Mathematica to spearhead the launch of the data collaboration platform Mquiry, a turnkey system for onboarding and working with clients' data securely. MIT Sloan Management Review spoke with Bell to understand her role and how leaders should be thinking about their data. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
2 min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
Don't Round the Discount!
What appeals to you more: a pair of jeans on sale for 8% off, or the same pair listed for 7.7% off? Any rational shopper will know that the 8% discount will save them more money and is the more attractive deal.
1 min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
Generative Al's Impact on Work
Since the public rollout of ChatGPT nearly two years ago, the transformative potential of generative AI has been widely discussed. But so far, actual transformation has been slow and uneven.
1 min |
Fall 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
How Long for AI to Pay Off?
SPECULATION ABOUNDS CONCERNING AI’S ULTIMATE IMPACT ON ORGANIzations and marketing, but it’s tough to discern where companies are achieving results.
1 min |
Summer 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
Serve More Customers With Inclusive Product Design
Use these questions to empower teams to design products for more diverse populations.
7 min |
Summer 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
A Tale of Two Hot Sauces: Spicing Up Diversification
The contrasting paths of two hot sauce manufacturers show that managing exposure on multiple fronts is essential.
4 min |
Summer 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
How Generative AI Can Support Advanced Analytics Practice
Large language models can enhance data and analytics work by helping humans prepare data, improve models, and understand results.
10 min |
Summer 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
To Navigate Conflict, Prioritize Dignity
Four interrelated practices can bolster dignity, leading to more constructive problem-solving and collaboration.
5 min |
Summer 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
How AI Skews Our Sense of Responsibility
Research shows how using an Al-augmented system may affect humans' perception of their own agency and responsibility.
5 min |
Summer 2024
MIT Sloan Management Review
Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers
Your organization's highest-performing employees want executives to focus on outcomes and accountability, not office badge swipes.
8 min |