Talent Management
Why Pay Transparency Regulations Are a Strategic Management Opportunity
Robust appraisal systems make pay transparency an opportunity to improve performance rather than a compliance burden.
Compensation
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Talent Management
Will Salary Transparency Laws Change Employee Compensation?
Strategy experts weigh in on how salary transparency laws could change compensation overall.
MIT SMR Strategy Forum
Organizational Behavior
Let’s Call Quiet Quitting What It Often Is: Calibrated Contributing
Employees who do their work without going above and beyond are often simply behaving rationally in response to unfair circumstances.
Jim Detert
Corporate Social Responsibility
Rethinking Executive Incentives Can Boost ESG Performance
A new mechanism — parity pills — aims to address pay inequities between high-level execs and rank-and-file workers.
Martin Skladany
Talent Management
A Change in Perspective
MIT SMR’s summer 2022 issue addresses the challenges of C-suite turnover, end users’ AI anxiety, and employee motivation.
Elizabeth Heichler
Executing Strategy
Is Starbucks’s Wage Increase a Shortsighted Strategy? What Experts Say
Strategy experts weigh in on the long-term effects of Starbucks’s wage increase for nonunionized employees.
MIT SMR Strategy Forum
Performance Management
Break the Link Between Pay and Motivation
An experiment shows that target-independent pay can improve sales force performance, retention, and engagement.
Jonas Solbach, Klaus Möller, and Franz Wirnsperger
Talent Management
Creating Good Jobs
MIT Sloan’s Zeynep Ton explores why there are so many bad jobs and what organizations can — and should — do about it.
MIT SMR Editors
Data & Data Culture
The Best of This Week
The data science management process, job moves for pay equity, and political concerns in M&As.
The MIT SMR Editors
Diversity & Inclusion
Job-Hopping Toward Equity
Female executives can command bigger pay increases than men by switching jobs.
Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy, and Eric Lin
Diversity & Inclusion
Do Men Know More About Salaries?
New research explores gender differences in acquiring information about salaries.
Zoë Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Leading Change
How to Lead the Charge With Gender Balance
Research abounds on the complex challenges women face in the modern corporate landscape.
Ally MacDonald
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Why F1 Mathematicians Should Be Paid More Than Drivers
Are data analysts who develop strategy truly paid what they’re worth?
Ben Shields, Paul Michelman, and James Allen
Corporate Social Responsibility
Amazon Raised Its Minimum Wage — Will Its Rivals Do the Same?
The MIT SMR Strategy Forum examines whether Amazon’s new $15 per hour minimum wage for workers will force rivals to follow suit.
Financial Management & Risk
Taking Stock of Corporate Risk-Taking
Boards can counter the risks that stem from executive bias by following three key steps.
Vincent O’Connell, Don O’Sullivan, and Jong-Ho Lee
Boards & Corporate Governance
Are Nonfinancial Metrics Good Leading Indicators of Future Financial Performance?
Do nonfinancial metrics accurately reflect performance? That depends on what you measure — and how.
Vincent O’Connell and Don O’Sullivan
Climate Change
Why Corporate Social Responsibility Isn’t a Piece of Cake
Responsible corporate behavior isn’t simply “doing well by doing good.” Six structural changes need to be considered.
José Carlos Marques and Henry Mintzberg
Boards & Corporate Governance
The Dangers of Too Much Governance
Overreacting to corporate scandal will hobble risk taking, innovation and growth
Bengt Holmstrom and Steven N. Kaplan
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