Analytics & Business Intelligence
Fashion Forecasting: Arti Zeighami on Implementing AI at H&M Group
The fashion retailer’s chief data and analytics officer uses agile pilots to assess and scale technology initiatives.
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Technology Innovation Strategy
Better Together: Mattias Ulbrich on Combining Coffee, Business, and Technology at Porsche
Porsche is accelerating innovation by emphasizing the need for collaboration between humans and AI technology.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
Leadership Skills
The Best of This Week
Finding your best interviewers, key competencies for IT professionals, and how founder CEOs take advice (or don’t).
The MIT SMR Editors
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.
Lalith Munasinghe and Kate Gautier
Innovation Strategy
‘The First Day Is the Worst Day’: DHL’s Gina Chung on How AI Improves Over Time
AI is a powerful tool for innovation when leaders communicate its benefits.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
Leadership Skills
Do Founder CEOs Tune Out Their Teams?
New research explores whether founder CEOs incorporate or ignore advice from their leadership teams.
Christopher Bingham, Bradley Hendricks, and Travis Howell
Innovation Strategy
History’s Lessons on Competitive Innovation
Rapid exploration and experimentation often outperform a more deliberative approach to problem-solving.
Steven Spear and Patrick Stoy
Leadership Skills
Make Your Data Insights Visually Consumable
Without visual annotations, charts and graphs are missed opportunities to feed your audience insights from your data.
Nancy Duarte
Skills & Learning
Video Insights from MIT SMR Authors
These mini-lessons are bite-sized insights from MIT SMR authors in four areas: decision-making, leadership, data and analytics, and digital transformation.
Leadership Skills
Leadership Today and Tomorrow
Digitalization has transformed business. These essential resources will help you understand what that means for leaders.
Crisis Management
The Two Roles Leaders Must Play in a Crisis
Disaster managers must be sufficiently flexible to meet stakeholder expectations, depending on the situation.
Sameh Abadir
Organizational Behavior
Sustaining Culture When Everyone’s Remote
In this webinar, Jennifer Howard-Grenville shares research on organizational culture and remote working.
Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Paul Michelman
Organizational Behavior
The Best of This Week
Returning “boomerang” CEOs, job crafting, and working with robots.
The MIT SMR Editors
Leadership Skills
Boomerang CEOs: What Happens When the CEO Comes Back?
A comparative investigation of boomerang and non-boomerang CEOs reveals some nonobvious insights and critical implications for leaders.
Christopher Bingham, Bradley Hendricks, Travis Howell, and Kalin Kolev
Leading Change
BRAVE Conversations About Race
Enrica N. Ruggs and Derek R. Avery explore how to begin discussions of racial equality in the workplace.
Enrica N. Ruggs, Derek R. Avery, and Paul Michelman
Leading Change
Seize the Moment
The COVID-19 pandemic has permanently changed social norms. Although there will be enormous challenges ahead, these changes nonetheless offer business leaders an opportunity to create a future that’s different from — and better than — the prepandemic “business as usual.”
Elizabeth Heichler
Leadership Skills
The Overlooked Key to Leading Through Chaos
Sensemaking can be overlooked as a key leadership skill but is critical for navigating complexity.
Deborah Ancona, Michele Williams, and Gisela Gerlach
Leadership Skills
Summer Reading List From MIT SMR
It’s time for a reading list that helps you to reflect on what first-rate leadership really means to you.
Deb Gallagher
Leadership Skills
Motivating Your Team With Empathy and Story
Nancy Duarte describes the power of story to engage and unite teams.
Nancy Duarte and Paul Michelman
Leadership Skills
Leading Remotely Requires New Communication Strategies
The pandemic challenges managers to find a more productive way to meet with employees.