Business
MIT Sloan Management Review
Formalize Escalation Procedures to Improve Decision-Making
Conflict is inevitable. A systematic approach to escalation helps organizations manage disagreements efficiently and make better decisions.
10+ min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
A New Method for Assessing Circular Business Cases
Conventional business analysis overlooks the costs and new revenue sources found in circular approaches.
10+ min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Building Innovation Teams Across National Borders
Restrictive immigration policies are forcing multinational enterprises to rethink their R&D strategies. Here are four approaches to maintain innovation excellence with geographically dispersed teams.
10+ min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Strategic Alignment Reconciles Purpose and Profitability
Sustained performance requires a company purpose that is validated in the market.
10 min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
The Hidden Costs of Coding With Generative Al
Generative Al can boost coding productivity, but careless deployment creates technical debt that cripples scalability and destabilizes systems.
6 min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Aligning Strategy and Skills
\"DO WE HAVE THE PEOPLE WE need to successfully execute our strategic plan?” That’s a perennial middle-of-the-night worry for business leaders.
1 min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Should You Recruit New People, or Upskill Your Workforce?
I worry that we don't have the skills in-house that we need to seize future opportunities.
2 min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
The High Cost of Executives' Intellectual Property Blind Spots
Strategic business decisions often involve intellectual property, but senior managers' understanding of salient issues is often limited.
10 min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
How the EU's Taxonomy Combats Greenwashing
The European Union's criteria for identifying green activities can be a better guide than standard ESG measures.
7 min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
A Data-Driven Approach to Advancing Meritocracy
Instead of simply relying on best practices, employers should adopt a talent management strategy that addresses bias and inequity while ensuring efficient, fair, and merit-based decisions.
10+ min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
MANAGING HYBRID INNOVATION
HYBRID WORK ARRANGEMENTS OFFER flexibility, cost savings, and a more diverse workforce, but studies reveal that virtual collaboration creates distinct challenges for innovation.
1 min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Get Work Back on Track With Visual Management
The key to fixing snarled knowledge-work processes is to make invisible work visible.
10+ min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
How to Foster Talent Management Champions
Many managers pay insufficient attention to talent strategy. Five interventions can help deepen their commitment to identifying and developing key capabilities.
10 min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
AI Can Improve How Humans and Robots Work
The modern warehouse represents the frontier of human-robot collaboration.
10 min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
The B2B Opportunity in Corporate Sustainability
Major brands need help meeting their sustainability commitments. Here's how B2B suppliers can turn this challenge into a growth opportunity.
7 min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
The Missing Link Between Purpose and Performance
Team leaders hold the key to translating corporate purpose into employee commitment through regular dialogue, balanced relationships, and worker autonomy.
8 min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Why Mindful Leaders Are Better at Managing Change
Managers with greater self-awareness and emotional control are better able to lead their teams through the ambiguity of a shift in direction.
7 min |
Fall 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Why Stressed Candidates Make Better Cross-Cultural Hires
WHEN INTERVIEWING JOB CANDIDATES, YOU MAY LOOK FOR EVIDENCE that they stay calm under pressure, and interpret signs that they are easily stressed as red flags.
1 min |
Fall 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
RESEARCH SNAPSHOT: New Leaders Can Thaw Employee Silence
EMPLOYEE INPUT IS CRITICAL WHEN LEADERS WANT A CLEAR PIC-ture of organizational challenges.
1 min |