MIT Sloan Management Review

How to Keep Your Best Executives

The key: Make it easier for them to leave

How to Be a Smart Protégé

Eight tips for setting up a network of mentors

Employer Branding

Companies have long divided consumers into segments. They should do the same with potential—and current—workers.

The Myth of the Lone Star: Why One Top Performer May Not Shine as Brightly as You Hope

Amid mass layoffs and a deteriorating economy, snapping up star talent is getting easier. But before investing in a marquee player at the expense of the rest of your team, consider this: Stars shine brighter when surrounded by other stars.
The idea that you can catapult your firm into the big leagues with one or two [...]

Lessons Learned

The key to effective training isn’t necessarily what happens in the classroom. It’s what you do afterward.

From The Magazine

Fall 2009

Special Report: Sustainability

8 Reasons That Sustainability Will Change Management

Michael S. Hopkins

Transparency, accidental innovation, trust, collaboration — as sustainability affects how the world works, so will it affect how business works in the world.

Intelligence: Management

Debunking Management Myths

Martha E. Mangelsdorf

In this interview, Henry Mintzberg questions some of the conventional wisdom about managerial work.