Ethics
The Price Leaders Pay for Cutting Ethical Corners
When leaders ask employees to cross ethical lines, they risk reducing workers’ long-term performance.
Performance Management
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Performance Management
Why Good Leaders Fail
The risk of sudden leadership failure can be headed off by early detection of challenges and better supports.
Morela Hernandez, Jasmien Khattab, and Charlotte Hoopes
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Why So Many Data Science Projects Fail to Deliver
Organizations that struggle to gain payback from data science efforts can recognize and overcome five common obstacles.
Mayur P. Joshi, Ning Su, Robert D. Austin, and Anand K. Sundaram
Leadership Skills
The Simple Way to Make Giving Feedback Easier
Voicing your good intentions can help soften how others receive negative feedback.
Therese Huston
Talent Management
How Leaders Can Optimize Teams’ Emotional Landscapes
How leaders respond to employees’ emotional states affects both creativity and productivity.
Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, Christina Bradley, and Lindred Greer
Remote Work
Four Principles to Ensure Hybrid Work Is Productive Work
Organizations have become flexible about where and when employees work. But there are trade-offs.
Lynda Gratton
Talent Management
How Job Crafting Can Make Work More Satisfying
Job crafting, a proactive take on job redesign, can help improve employee engagement and satisfaction.
Benjamin Laker, Charmi Patel, Pawan Budhwar, and Ashish Malik
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Why Sports Still Leads the Analytics Revolution
MIT Sloan’s Ben Shields says business can compete better using pro sports’ approach to data analytics.
Paul Michelman
Leadership Skills
The Best of This Week
How businesses can act against racial injustice, and new leadership challenges in a suddenly virtual workplace.
The MIT SMR Editors
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Rethinking Performance Management for Post-Pandemic Success
Recalibrating metrics to assess work-from-home performance is essential to ensuring that remote work actually works.
Michael Schrage
Talent Management
Skills the Innovation Workforce Will Need: A Live Session at Disruption 2020
Tucker Marion and Sebastian Fixson outline four essential skills workers need to master to succeed in digital environments.
Tucker J. Marion, Sebastian K. Fixson, and Paul Michelman
Talent Management
Creating Jobs and Workspaces That Energize People
Jobs and workspaces can be designed to energize people through contact with the natural world.
Anthony C. Klotz
Talent Management
Opportunity Marketplaces
The most effective human capital investment initiatives have a common core: opportunity.
Michael Schrage, Jeff Schwartz, David Kiron, Robin Jones, and Natasha Buckley
Leading Change
Reimagining What It Takes to Lead
A webinar looks at the leadership implications of the changing workplace.
Douglas A. Ready, Carol Cohen, Benjamin Pring, and Allison Ryder
Business Models
Fighting the Gravity of Average Performance
Companies looking to become market leaders face two challenges: getting ahead — and staying there.
Martin Reeves, Kevin Whitaker, and Tom Deegan
Analytics & Business Intelligence
The State of AI: Lessons From the Field
A webinar summarizing lessons learned in AI implementation from the 2019 Winning With AI Report.
Ranjeet Banerjee, Shervin Khodabandeh, Sam Ransbotham, and Allison Ryder
AI & Machine Learning
The Best of This Week
Must-reads for managers: sabotage your company, AI passes eighth grade, and those pesky customers.
The MIT SMR editors
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Behold the Big Man
Defensive analytics are shaping how NBA basketball strategy is evolving.
Ben Shields and Paul Michelman
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Measuring Culture in Leading Companies
Combining cutting-edge AI and MIT expertise, the Culture 500 provides a nuanced picture of corporate culture in the world’s top organizations.
Donald Sull, Charles Sull, and Andrew Chamberlain
AI & Machine Learning
Strategy For and With AI
AI can help you choose, measure, and prioritize the KPIs informing your strategy.