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Data science success strategies, developing simple “no-code” apps, and independent contractors’ outsider advantage.

No-code software development platforms enable nontechnical teams to create and deploy simple apps quickly.

Six strategies can help guide data science teams toward greater success in cross-unit projects.

The data science management process, job moves for pay equity, and political concerns in M&As.

Organizations should manage data science with an appropriate structure and enterprisewide process.

Addressing social capital in return-to-office plans, deploying AI to manage wealth, and reducing coordination complexity with microservices.

Many organizations have challenges with deploying AI. Wealth management is a clear exception.

To reach Gen Z’s media-savvy digital natives, your marketing strategy needs to change.

Leaders need to recognize workplace hierarchies to create an effective learning environment for employees.

New research on retail profitability, the promise of platform-based business models, and retraining employees to meet revised strategic priorities.

Companies must retrain their employees to fill the roles most closely aligned with their revised strategic directions.

There’s power in integrating subscription-based software, platform marketplaces, and machine learning.

Negative factors like leadership failure and dissatisfaction aren’t the only reasons for CMO turnover.

Digital inclusion to help solve grand challenges, meaningful support for Pride Month, and reimagined workspaces.

To meaningfully support Pride, companies need to focus on employees, customers, and the community.

Research points to ways companies can help employees of all ages thrive in today’s multigenerational workplace.

Reimagined workspaces can enable interactions that foster more meaningful human connections in our work lives.

Nudges for less-biased hiring, networking to drive inclusion, and defusing opposition to racial equity initiatives.

The pandemic has upended business. Let’s consider how managers should respond.

The Special Report in MIT SMR‘s Summer 2021 issue looks at how businesses can support a more inclusive workplace culture. Also in this issue: ways to communicate — and disagree — using candor and logic, business’s role in national emergencies, how volunteering helps workers’ skills, and changing the rules to suit turbulent times.