Performance Management
Break the Link Between Pay and Motivation
An experiment shows that target-independent pay can improve sales force performance, retention, and engagement.
Compensation
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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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