IT Governance & Leadership
The Best of This Week
Rooting out AI bias, assessing new tech investments, and customers’ pandemic-affected preferences.
Workplace, Teams, & Culture
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Content Sponsored by ADP
HR and IT: Forging New Partnerships to Drive Digital Transformation
HR and IT must collaborate, starting at the executive level, to improve employee experiences.
A webinar with Jay Caldwell, Shimon Senderowitz, Aaron Smith, and Abbie Lundberg
Skills & Learning
MIT SMR 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.
Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity in AI: The Invisible Men and Women
Protocols that are used to root out bias in AI tools can— and must — be turned on the industry itself.
Ayanna Howard and Charles Isbell
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
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.
Ben Laker, Charmi Patel, Pawan Budhwar, and Ashish Malik
Corporate Social Responsibility
Cooperative Advantage: Rethinking the Company’s Purpose
Companies can better support individual and community well-being through a people-centered approach to profitability.
Leon C. Prieto and Simone T.A. Phipps
Organizational Behavior
The 2020 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
The winner of the 2020 Beckhard Prize is “Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration,” by Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Business Models
The Best of This Week
Winning back the gig economy, competing with revenue models, and managing teams in uncertain times.
The MIT SMR Editors
Platforms & Ecosystems
Reclaiming the Gig Economy
The “sharing economy” has fallen short of its promise to workers. A new book proposes a better way.
Juliet Schor, interviewed by Tam Harbert
Organizational Behavior
The Pandemic’s Lessons for Managing Uncertainty
Four team management practices have been key to navigating the initial pivot to virtual workplaces.
Lynda Gratton
Technology Innovation Strategy
Getting Smarter About Smart Buildings
By better integrating human and device intelligence, we can foster collective intelligence.
Ethan Bernstein
IT Governance & Leadership
Why You — Yes, You — Need Enterprise Architecture
It’s time to rethink how work gets done in your company by reconsidering its enterprise architecture.
Jeanne Ross and Cynthia Beath
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
Developing Strategy
How to Not Waste a Crisis: Mindfully Manage ‘In-Betweenness’
Strategically guarding against panic, passivity, and impulsivity can help companies cope with uncertainty.
Shameen Prashantham
Leadership Skills
Leading Remotely Requires New Communication Strategies
The pandemic challenges managers to find a more productive way to meet with employees.
Adam Roseman
Content Sponsored by HARMAN
Strengthening Online Learning and Readying for the Return to In-Real-Life Learning
Universities worldwide scramble to create new learning environments in response to COVID-19.
A webinar with Sanjay Sarma, Prakash Tripathi, and Abbie Lundberg
Leadership Skills
The Best of This Week
Strategizing for change, leading with agility, and developing AI strategy.
The MIT SMR Editors
Leadership Skills
Being the Agile Boss
Leading through difficult times requires agility to leverage the turbulence around you.