Skills & Learning
New Frontiers in Re-skilling and Upskilling
Companies are experimenting in how to help employees learn the skills to stay competitive.
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Developing Strategy
Why Hypotheses Beat Goals
Companies should focus organizational energy on hypothesis testing rather than on goal setting.
Jeanne Ross
Boards & Corporate Governance
It Pays to Have a Digitally Savvy Board
Having board members with digital business experience is a new financial performance differentiator.
Peter Weill, Thomas Apel, Stephanie L. Woerner, and Jennifer S. Banner
Leading Change
Five Insights From Davos on the Future of Work
At the 2019 gathering of the World Economic Forum, re-skilling and flexible work took center stage.
Lynda Gratton
AI & Machine Learning
Preparing for the Coming Skill Shifts
One key strategy for AI success: retraining employees to have the skills your company will need.
Jacques Bughin
Innovation Strategy
Governments as Facilitators of Value Creation
Free markets and free minds require access to new ideas, innovation, and infrastructure.
R. Edward Freeman and Joseph Burton
Managing Your Career
The Challenge of Scaling Soft Skills
Empathy and creative thinking are valuable skills in the workplace, but they’re hard to teach.
Lynda Gratton
Managing Your Career
The Time for Retraining Is Now
The employment landscape is rapidly changing, demanding that employees build new skill sets.
R. Edward Freeman and James R. Freeland
Managing Your Career
The Long Journey to Understanding Intangible Assets
The “intangible assets” people bring to their jobs are valuable — but challenging to quantify.
Lynda Gratton
AI & Machine Learning
Five Management Strategies for Getting the Most From AI
A global survey finds that AI is delivering value to companies that use it across operations.
Jacques Bughin and Eric Hazan
Managing Your Career
Who’s Building the Infrastructure for Lifelong Learning?
With people living longer than ever, there must be a way to promote regular education.
Lynda Gratton
AI & Machine Learning
Accelerate Access to Data and Analytics With AI
AI offers a potential solution to the problem of training employees how to find and use data.
Sam Ransbotham
AI & Machine Learning
Video: Preparing for the Changes AI Will Bring to Tomorrow’s Jobs
A panel at the 2017 MIT CIO Symposium discusses how artificial intelligence will transform how we work.
Allison Ryder
Organizational Behavior
The Enduring Work of David A. Garvin
Garvin’s 1998 article, “The Processes of Organization and Management,” remains one of the most popular articles ever published in MIT Sloan Management Review.
Paul Michelman
Business Models
Free Webinar: Building a Business Creation Engine
Free on-demand webinar with MIT SMR authors of “The Hard Truth About Business Model Innovation.”
Deborah Gallagher
Business Models
The Hard Truth About Business Model Innovation
Successful business model innovation requires an understanding of how business models evolve.
Clayton M. Christensen, Thomas Bartman, and Derek van Bever
Executing Strategy
How to Manage Alliances Strategically
A strategic framework that eliminates faulty assumptions can help make alliances successful.
Ha Hoang and Frank T. Rothaermel
Executing Strategy
Why Learning Is Central to Sustained Innovation
Operational excellence requires cultivating an expectation for continuous improvement in all employees.
Michael Ballé, James Morgan, and Durward K. Sobek II
Executing Strategy
Aligning Corporate Learning With Strategy
Corporate learning programs should focus on the CEO’s strategic agenda rather than how learning is delivered.
Shlomo Ben-Hur, Bernard Jaworski, and David Gray
Culture
The Art of Making Change Initiatives Stick
The seeds of effective change must be planted by embedding procedural and behavioral changes in an organization long before the initiative is launched.