Business
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 |
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
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
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
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
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
Why AI Will Not Provide Sustainable Competitive Advantage
AI will transform economies and lift markets as a whole, but lasting differentiation will be built on human creativity and passion.
8 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
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: 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
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
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
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
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 |