Organizational Behavior
Competition From the Inside Out
Consider these six guiding principles for how companies can harness internal competition as a force for good.
Collaboration
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Remote Work
Redesigning the Post-Pandemic Workplace
Leaders must plan now for a workplace forever changed by COVID-19.
Gerald C. Kane, Rich Nanda, Anh Phillips, and Jonathan Copulsky
Leadership Skills
The Future of Team Leadership Is Multimodal
Leaders will need to play multiple roles as they adapt to managing a hybrid in-person/virtual post-pandemic workforce.
Robert Hooijberg and Michael Watkins
Leadership Skills
The Best of This Week
Digital collaboration tools, new brand strategies, and our 2021 Future of Leadership report.
The MIT SMR Editors
Collaboration
Picking the Right Approach to Digital Collaboration
Digital collaboration tools don’t just facilitate knowledge sharing — they reveal who knows what.
Paul Leonardi
Leadership Skills
Fostering Creativity, Collaboration, and Inclusivity
Amit Mukherjee debunks common leadership myths as he explains how leaders should be working in today’s digital world.
Amit Mukherjee and Paul Michelman
Platforms & Ecosystems
The Future of Work Is Through Workforce Ecosystems
Workforce ecosystems can help leaders better manage changes driven by technological, social, and economic forces.
Elizabeth J. Altman, David Kiron, Jeff Schwartz, and Robin Jones
Remote Work
Optimizing Productivity in a Time of Hybrid Work
In this webinar, Lynda Gratton outlines four principles to increase productivity in hybrid-work environments.
Lynda Gratton and Paul Michelman
Collaboration
Who’s on Your Team?
Last year’s challenges underscore that humans work best if they work as a team for a common purpose.
Elizabeth Heichler
Collaboration
Our Guide to the Winter 2021 Issue
MIT SMR’s winter issue looks at why teams work (or don’t), plus innovation, supply chains, and data for AI.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Remote Work
Virtual Collaboration Won’t Be the Death of Creativity
Collaborating remotely can improve creativity in ways that many teams didn’t realize pre-pandemic.
Leigh Thompson
Collaboration
Are Your Team Members Lonely?
Loneliness can be triggered by team design, even when people work face-to-face.
Constance N. Hadley and Mark Mortensen
Collaboration
When Collaboration Fails and How to Fix It
Before leaders can mitigate the consequences of poor collaboration, they must pinpoint the causes.
Rob Cross and Inga Carboni
Content sponsored by ADP
HR and IT: Forging New Partnerships in an Era of Transformation
ADP executive Shimon Senderowitz discusses how and why traditional HR-IT relationships are changing.
Anne Stuart, MIT SMR Connections
Talent Management
When Employees Speak Up, Companies Win
When employees share ideas and opinions about topics outside the scope of their jobs, they and their companies benefit.
Ethan Burris, Elizabeth McCune, and Dawn Klinghoffer
Customers
How to Speak to Customers to Build Trust
Linguistic considerations are important when planning customer communications.
Grant Packard, Sarah G. Moore, Brent McFerran, and Ally MacDonald
Content Sponsored by ADP
HR and IT: Forging New Partnerships to Drive Digital Transformation
HR and IT must collaborate, starting at the executive level, to improve employee experiences.
A webinar with Jay Caldwell, Shimon Senderowitz, Aaron Smith, and Abbie Lundberg
Organizational Behavior
The 2020 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
The winner of the 2020 Beckhard Prize is “Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration,” by Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Technology Innovation Strategy
Getting Smarter About Smart Buildings
By better integrating human and device intelligence, we can foster collective intelligence.
Ethan Bernstein
IT Governance & Leadership
Why You — Yes, You — Need Enterprise Architecture
It’s time to rethink how work gets done in your company by reconsidering its enterprise architecture.