Business
MIT Sloan Management Review
The Way to Net Zero: Reducing Emissions Takes Teamwork
As chemical sector giants BASF and Henkel pursued transformations to make good on net-zero pledges, they unlocked new strategies by collaborating.
10+ min |
Spring 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
What Leaders Get Wrong About Employee Motivation
Flawed assumptions about what motivates people to work can lead to counterproductive management tactics. Research points to a better way.
9 min |
Spring 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Building One KPI to Rule Them All
Here's how an online travel company set out to develop a complex metric to keep decisions made by the business development team aligned with strategy.
10+ min |
Spring 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
How to Embed Purpose at Every Level
Leaders must find ways to execute on sustainability aspirations throughout the organization, including prioritizing investments and optimizing operating plans.
10+ min |
Spring 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
How Remote Work Changes Design Thinking
Replacing onsite design-thinking sessions with virtual ones fundamentally changes the innovation process and outcomes.
10+ min |
Spring 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Leaders' Critical Role in Building a Learning Culture
By taking a deliberate, thoughtful role in facilitating learning, leaders can propel change and build employees' problem-solving skills.
10+ min |
Spring 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
How Chinese Companies Expand Globally Despite Headwinds
Understanding Chinese companies' place-based strategies for growth can be valuable to companies everywhere.
9 min |
Spring 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
The Case for Lean Cybersecurity Leadership
More complex hierarchies can lead to overconfidence that exacerbates risk.
6 min |
Spring 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
MANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE: Taking Open Source Into the AI Era
Mark Surman is president of Mozilla, where he oversees a portfolio of organizations working to keep the internet open and accessible to all. After joining the organization in 2008, he spent over a decade building out its philanthropic arm. Since 2021, he has led the nonprofit's transformation for the AI era, while maintaining its values of privacy and user empowerment. MIT Sloan Management Review> spoke with Surman about managing a mission-driven technology organization through major transitions. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
2 min |
Spring 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
A New Machine Learning Approach Answers What-If Questions
Causal ML enables managers to explore different options to improve decision-making.
10+ min |
Spring 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Ask Sanyin: How Can We Shift the Return-to-Office Conversation?
It’s been five years since the start of the pandemic, and we’re still debating a return to the office. I know that being together physically is important for communication and connection. How can I bring employees back to the office in a way that responds to their needs rather than being seen as “command and control”?
2 min |
Spring 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Who's Making Your Talent Decisions?
Talent management software promises efficiency and objectivity, but in practice it can limit company-specific talent strategies.
10+ min |
Spring 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
The New Challenges of Brand Management
In the digital age, brand is signaled by marketers, but meaning is cocreated with consumers.
8 min |
Spring 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
The Hidden Battle for IP Protection in Alliances
Predatory partners can extract valuable intellectual property and learn the practices companies use to protect it. Here's why companies need a multilayered defense.
10+ min |
Spring 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Lessons Learned From Outside Innovators
Outsiders can spark new thinking by challenging norms and spotting overlooked opportunities.
10+ min |
Spring 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
Ask Sanyin: How Do You Build for an Unpredictable Future?
While the pandemic was a wild ride of uncertainty for me and many of my peers in leadership, it feels like we never regained our footing.
2 min |
Winter 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
What You Still Can't Say at Work
Most people know what can’t be said in their organization. But leaders can apply these techniques to break through the unwritten rules that make people self-censor.
7 min |
Winter 2025
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 |