Talent Management
Do You Know Who Your Best Interviewers Are?
Identifying your best interviewers can substantially reduce hiring expenses and increase the quality of hires.
Employee Recruitment and Retention
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IT Governance & Leadership
The Best of This Week
Rooting out AI bias, assessing new tech investments, and customers’ pandemic-affected preferences.
The MIT SMR Editors
Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity in AI: The Invisible Men and Women
Protocols that are used to root out bias in AI tools can— and must — be turned on the industry itself.
Ayanna Howard and Charles Isbell
Leading Change
Confronting the Uncomfortable Reality of Workplace Discrimination
Organizational leaders can begin to address racial discrimination in the workplace by taking strategic actions.
Derek R. Avery and Enrica N. Ruggs
Talent Management
Build a Diverse Team to Solve the AI Riddle
Computer scientists typically lead AI development, but teams with diverse expertise can build better systems.
Joseph Byrum
Content Sponsored by AWS
Transform Your Workforce With Skills for Machine Learning
Many businesses overlook a solution to the machine learning talent shortage: upskilling employees.
MIT SMR Connections
Talent Management
Betting Big on Employee Development
Amazon’s recent decision to invest heavily in upskilling may have benefits beyond attracting talent.
Ardine Williams, interviewed by MIT SMR
Innovation Strategy
Education, Disrupted
Companies can no longer wait for traditional education to supply the skills needed for the future.
Michael B. Horn
Leading Change
Building Effective Corporate Engagement on LGBTQ Rights
Companies that advocate for rights issues can improve performance and impact public opinion.
Debbie Haski-Leventhal and Daniel Korschun
Leading Change
The Plight of the Graying Tech Worker
Tech CEOs claim few job losses when hiring from the H-1B visa pool. That’s not the whole story.
William R. Kerr
Talent Management
Career Management Isn’t Just the Employee’s Job
Organizations can use analytics to help employees chart a path for growth and advancement.
Matthew Bidwell and Federica De Stefano
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Can We Really Test People for Potential?
People are complex. We need a more nuanced approach to predicting job performance.
Reb Rebele
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.
Content Sponsored by Tata Consultancy Services
Transforming to Compete With Data: Strategies to Win in the New Staffing Industry Landscape
An industry executive and a scholar offer perspectives on new competition in the staffing business.
Nagaraj Ijari and Geoffrey Parker
Leading Change
The 2018 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
The winner of the 2018 Beckhard Prize is “The Corporate Implications of Longer Lives,” by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Managing Your Career
The Time for Retraining Is Now
The employment landscape is rapidly changing, demanding that employees build new skill sets.
R. Edward Freeman and James R. Freeland
Managing Your Career
How Leaders Face the Future of Work
Leaders need to take active roles in preparing their employees for the new world of work.
Lynda Gratton
Managing Your Career
The Long Journey to Understanding Intangible Assets
The “intangible assets” people bring to their jobs are valuable — but challenging to quantify.
Lynda Gratton
Organizational Structure
The Four Ways to Manage Digital Talent and Why Two of Them Don’t Work
With digital skills in short supply, companies must rethink the ways they engage with key talent.
Kristine Dery and Ina Sebastian
Talent Management
I Come to Praise the Annual Performance Conversation, Not Further Bury It
The choice between frequent performance coaching and annual reviews need not be a choice at all.