About Us

A media company based at the MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT Sloan Management Review’s mission is to lead the conversation among research scholars, business executives and other thought leaders about advances in management practice that are transforming how people lead and innovate. Our flagship product is a journal that makes the best new management research and ideas accessible to business executives. MIT SMR captures for thoughtful managers the creativity, excitement and opportunity generated by rapid organizational, technological and societal change.

We source content for our readers primarily in two ways:

Independent research and ideas from global thought leaders. Since 1959, MIT SMR has been a forum for business-management innovators from around the world to present their ideas and research. Authors have included Peter Senge, Lester Thurow, James Brian Quinn, Gary Hamel, Clayton Christensen, C.K. Prahalad, Thomas Davenport, Christopher Bartlett, Sumantra Ghoshal, John Quelch, Henry Mintzberg, Max Bazerman and Ed Lawler. We work closely with authors to ensure that their articles provide interpretation and analysis for practicing managers: thought-provoking strategies that offer real-world management solutions.

MIT SMR-generated research and ideas (Innovation Hubs). The MIT SMR innovation hubs are dedicated, collaborative spaces on MIT SMR’s web site and in its magazine for capturing the best thinking, reporting and scholarly research on the management implications of one significant transformation in the business environment. We conduct interviews and original research to explore these implications. The hubs illuminate major changes in the competitive landscape that managers are hungry to understand and that are the chief drivers of management practice innovation as enterprises respond to novel opportunities and threats.

We distribute our content on the web, in print and on mobile and portable platforms, as well as via licensees and libraries around the world.

Innovation Hub 1: Sustainability & Innovation
An exploration into how sustainability pressures are transforming the ways we all work, live and compete. S&I’s research, reporting and community help mangers to understand better the new forces that will affect their organizations, to navigate through the overwhelming mass of information about sustainability and to fend off threats and capitalize on opportunities that sustainability issues present.

Innovation Hub 2: The New Intelligent Enterprise
The intensifying “data deluge,” and the new analytical approaches that help organizations exploit that data, will fundamentally change how managers make decisions and innovate. TNIE explores the challenges of the data-driven world, and defines the new organizational capabilities this environment will demand.

Innovation Hub 3: Social Business
Achieving the promise of social media is a complicated process, requiring specific skills, capabilities and, more importantly, a new mindset toward managerial control of information, people and ideas. MIT SMR helps managers at all levels understand the promises, pitfalls and emerging best practices for leading in this new era of the socially networked organization.