Sustainability
COVID-19, Climate, and the Clean Economy: Gigatrends Changing the World
It’s time to rethink resilience, in the context of sustainability and the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Corporate Social Responsibility
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Organizational Behavior
The Best of This Week
Supporting working parents, fighting Zoom fatigue, and redesigning work.
The MIT SMR Editors
Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Responsibility in the Digital Era
It’s time to merge sustainability and digitization, too often treated as separate concerns.
Michael Wade
Corporate Social Responsibility
Leading With Your Head and Your Heart
CEOs who manage crises using intuition, logic, and emotion are the best role models.
Navi Radjou and Prasad Kaipa
Corporate Social Responsibility
A Crisis of Ethics in Technology Innovation
Executives face a new ethical paradigm as technology reshapes value chains across industries.
Max Wessel and Nicole Helmer
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
Corporate Social Responsibility
A Manifesto for the Middle
We need a new story about what businesses and government can achieve.
R. Edward Freeman and Joseph Burton
AI & Machine Learning
The Best of This Week
A human-AI workforce, today’s tech bubble, dealing with deregulation, a misplaced focus on metrics.
The MIT SMR Editors
AI & Machine Learning
The Best of This Week
How companies are making AI pay; tread cautiously in a transparent world; CIOs step up their game.
The MIT SMR Editors
Corporate Social Responsibility
Can We End the Crisis of Agency?
In the face of feeling powerless, doing small things can make a huge difference.
Paul Michelman
Analytics & Business Intelligence
What Does an AI Ethicist Do?
Tim O’Brien explains his role as Microsoft’s first full-time manager for AI policy and ethics.
Thomas H. Davenport
AI & Machine Learning
AI Can Help Us Live More Deliberately
Cognitive speed bumps in AI design can prompt users to engage in reflective thought.
Julian Friedland
Climate Change
Can Industry Self-Regulation Impact Climate Change?
The MIT SMR Strategy Forum examines whether industry self-regulation can mitigate climate change.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Every Leader’s Guide to the Ethics of AI
Until regulations catch up, AI-oriented companies must establish their own ethical frameworks.
Thomas H. Davenport and Vivek Katyal
Climate Change
Driving Sustainability-Oriented Innovation
Organizations can innovate to address environmental and social problems — but they need to build the right culture.
Thijs H.J. Geradts and Nancy M.P. Bocken
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.
Climate Change
Critical Questions Live: Is It Up to Business to Save the Planet?
As government fails to act on climate change, experts debate whether business should take the lead.
Yossi Sheffi, Andrew Winston, and Paul Michelman
Climate Change
Finding Good News for Human Rights After Khashoggi
Jamal Khashoggi’s murder demands moral courage and a principled response from business leaders.
N. Craig Smith and Markus Scholz
Climate Change
Is It up to Business to Save the Planet?
MIT SMR holds a live forum to debate the role of business in solving climate change.
Paul Michelman
Corporate Social Responsibility
Coming to Grips With Dangerous Algorithms
With a new scrutiny around technology user data and privacy, we must not forget about the potential dangers of the technology itself.