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
Consumers Are Gaining the Right to Repair Are You Ready?
Manufacturers must begin to design for repairability and prepare for a more competitive services aftermarket.
4 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
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
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
RESEARCH SNAPSHOT: The Link Between Worker Ownership and Workplace Safety
WHAT DOES EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP IN A COMPANY HAVE TO DO WITH workplace safety? A lot, according to a new study published in the journal Management Science.
1 min |
Spring 2025
MIT Sloan Management Review
THREE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT: M&As AND TECHNOLOGY
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS ARE A KEY growth strategy for companies - and we may see an uptick in such activity, given expectations of less-stringent antitrust regulation from the new U.S. administration.
1 min |
Spring 2025
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
Four Leadership Loads That Keep Getting Heavier
You dreamed of being an inspiring leader, but you're fighting fires every day instead. Here are no-nonsense tips for managing the stress of leading in “interesting” times.
5 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
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
Break Down Silos for Visibility Into Enterprise Risk
Companies today must manage an increasingly complex array of risks, including cybersecurity threats, the impact of geopolitical tensions and major weather events on supply chains, and economic volatility — among others. Many businesses are challenged to marshal sufficient resources, personnel, and advanced technology to fully understand potential threats. But few recognize that their efforts are also hindered by the silos within their risk management functions that leave their teams with visibility into only select pieces of the overall threat matrix.
6 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 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
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
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
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 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
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
Successful Farming
Vertical Tillage Climbs in Popularity
Options are available at a variety of price points, and supply is stable.
3 min |
March 2025
Successful Farming
What Do We Owe Our Children?
Kids who think the farm will fund their retirement may be disappointed.
3 min |
March 2025
Successful Farming
Practices of Profitable Producers
Managing the details efficiently leads to profitability.
4 min |
March 2025
Successful Farming
Protect Stored Grain
Grain bin monitoring can help ensure the quality of your crop.
2 min |
March 2025
Successful Farming
Tillage Inspection Checklist
Follow these tips to effectively prepare your tillage implements to work their best this spring.
5 min |
March 2025
Successful Farming
CLEARING THE CURRENT
Midwestern states have made progress in reducing runoff, but increased rainfall has made the task more difficult.
7 min |
March 2025
Successful Farming
Off to a Good Start
Dairy calf and heifer experts give insights to their roles, and how they help farmers raise healthy heifer calves.
4 min |
March 2025
Successful Farming
Autonomy 2.0
John Deere reveals its next-generation autonomous system for tractors.
4 min |
March 2025
Successful Farming
Planting Season Tire Inspection
Check those tires before it's too late.
3 min |
March 2025
Successful Farming
When Do You Feed Your Crops?
Adjust fertilizer applications for better nutrient uptake.
2 min |