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.
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Leadership Skills
Leading in Government Demands the Stewardship of Public Trust
Maintaining public trust — a critical leadership responsibility — can be daunting when trust has suffered grievous harm.
Leadership Skills
The Simple Way to Make Giving Feedback Easier
Voicing your good intentions can help soften how others receive negative feedback.
Talent Management
How Leaders Can Optimize Teams’ Emotional Landscapes
How leaders respond to employees’ emotional states affects both creativity and productivity.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Leading With Decision-Driven Data Analytics
Data-driven decision-making anchors on available data, which can lead decision makers to focus on the wrong question.
Diversity & Inclusion
Three Elements of Successful Corporate Social Justice Initiatives
The highlight of the 2019-20 NBA season was a player-led response to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Innovation Strategy
What a Crisis Teaches Us About Innovation
The drive to develop new ideas and foster change during an emergency can be cultivated even without a crisis.
Leading Change
Out of the Crisis, Into the Unknown
In this webinar, MIT SMR author Eric J. McNulty shares practical tips for leaders leading through the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Developing Strategy
The Hidden Values Driving Strategy
Leaders’ subconscious values influence how they make decisions and achieve their goals.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Leadership Skills
Do Founder CEOs Tune Out Their Teams?
New research explores whether founder CEOs incorporate or ignore advice from their leadership teams.
Innovation Strategy
History’s Lessons on Competitive Innovation
Rapid exploration and experimentation often outperform a more deliberative approach to problem-solving.
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.
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.