Organizational Behavior
Getting Workplace Safety Right
Companies aiming to be competitive in the long term do not see safety and productivity as trade-offs.
Organizational Structure
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Marketing Strategy
How Well Does Your Company Integrate Demand and Supply?
An online questionnaire helps assess how well a company’s supply chain and sales operations are integrated.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Collaboration
Has Your Office Become a Lonely Place?
When many employees work offsite, a corporate office can become a lonelier and less productive place.
Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Ethics
The 2015 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
This year’s winning article is “Combining Purpose With Profits,” by Julian Birkinshaw, Nicolai J. Foss, and Siegwart Lindenberg.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Analytics & Business Intelligence
The New Data Republic: Not Quite a Democracy
Huge, complex datasets are becoming universal. The skills needed to work with them? Not so much.
Sam Ransbotham
Global Strategy
How Global Is Your C-Suite?
National diversity of top management should be a topic of conversation for boards of directors.
Pankaj Ghemawat and Herman Vantrappen
Organizational Structure
Why Managers Still Matter
Managerial authority is essential when decisions are time-sensitive, knowledge is concentrated and decisions need to be coordinated.
Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein
Organizational Structure
The 2014 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
This year’s winning article is “Making Mergers Work,” by Hamid Bouchikhi and John R. Kimberly.
By MIT Sloan Management Review
Ethics
Combining Purpose With Profits
Several organizing principles can help companies sustain both profitability and a sense of purpose.
Julian Birkinshaw, Nicolai J. Foss and Siegwart Lindenberg
Executing Strategy
From the Editor: Beyond the Organization
Executives are harnessing the energy of people both inside and outside their companies.
By Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Organizational Structure
The 2013 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
This year’s award goes to the authors of “Creating Employee Networks That Deliver Open Innovation.”
By MIT Sloan Management Review
Culture
How Innovative Is Your Company’s Culture?
A new assessment tool can help executives pinpoint a company’s innovation strengths and weaknesses.
Jay Rao and Joseph Weintraub
Global Strategy
Managing the Human Cloud
Tapping a virtual, on-demand workforce requires new management models and skills.
Evgeny Kaganer, Erran Carmel, Rudy Hirschheim and Timothy Olsen
Business Models
Amoeba Management: Lessons From Japan’s Kyocera
Kyocera Corp.’s distinctive management system seeks profitable growth by extreme decentralization.
Ralph W. Adler and Toshiro Hiromoto
Developing Strategy
Are CEOs Getting the Best From Corporate Functions?
At too many large companies, corporate functions like HR and IT don’t get enough strategic direction from the CEO.
Andrew Campbell, Sven Kunisch and Günter Müller-Stewens
Collaboration
Connecting the Dots in the Enterprise
Andrew McAfee’s new book looks at Enterprise 2.0 tools as a way to span organizational networks.
An Interview with Andrew McAfee
Organizational Structure
Set Up Remote Workers to Thrive
Companies need to help telecommuters overcome workplace isolation and limited visibility.