Collaboration
Picking the Right Approach to Digital Collaboration
Digital collaboration tools don’t just facilitate knowledge sharing — they reveal who knows what.
Workplace, Teams, & Culture
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Managing Your Career
Leadership’s Digital Transformation
Digital transformation efforts are most effective when leadership priorities reflect an organization’s cultural values.
Michael Schrage, Benjamin Pring, David Kiron, and Desmond Dickerson
Leadership Skills
Getting Representative Sponsorship Right in Your Organization
How to identify high-potential employees within your organization using an inclusive approach.
Curtis L. Odom and Charn P. McAllister
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.
Amit Mukherjee and Paul Michelman
Leadership Skills
The Simple Way to Make Giving Feedback Easier
Voicing your good intentions can help soften how others receive negative feedback.
Therese Huston
Platforms & Ecosystems
The Future of Work Is Through Workforce Ecosystems
Workforce ecosystems can help leaders better manage changes driven by technological, social, and economic forces.
Elizabeth J. Altman, David Kiron, Jeff Schwartz, and Robin Jones
Talent Management
The Best of This Week
Redefining work without jobs, optimizing emotional landscapes, and fitting in while standing out.
The MIT SMR Editors
Marketing Strategy
Advocating With Authenticity — Brands Getting It Right
Latia Curry outlines the steps a brand should take to communicate their values to customers.
Latia Curry and Elizabeth Heichler
Managing Your Career
Standing Out While Fitting In
Finding the right person-organization fit fulfills a desire to belong, but a perfect cultural match is hard to come by.
Kathleen M. O’Connor and Randall S. Peterson
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
Leading Change
Nine Leadership Lessons 2020 Gave Us
Advice on how leaders can support their teams in times of uncertainty and change.
Ally MacDonald
Diversity & Inclusion
Five Strategies to Retain Women in Tech
The most important factor in attracting and retaining women in the tech sector is having an inclusive workplace culture.
Kathryn Ross
Corporate Social Responsibility
A ‘Whole Company’ Approach for Justice and Equity
Siloed corporate social responsibility responses are insufficient to tackle structural inequities.
Emma-Louise Aveling, Jane Roberts, Lauren A. Taylor, Amy C. Edmondson, and Sara J. Singer
Disruption
The Top MIT SMR Articles of 2020
The most popular articles of 2020 gave companies and leaders insights on navigating disruption, uncertainty, and change.
Ally MacDonald
Innovation Strategy
How Leading Companies Are Innovating Remotely
New research reveals steps that can help remote teams boost innovation and create customer value.
Ben Laker, Charmi Patel, Pawan Budhwar, and Ashish Malik
Remote Work
Optimizing Productivity in a Time of Hybrid Work
In this webinar, Lynda Gratton outlines four principles to increase productivity in hybrid-work environments.
Lynda Gratton and Paul Michelman
Collaboration
Who’s on Your Team?
Last year’s challenges underscore that humans work best if they work as a team for a common purpose.
Elizabeth Heichler
Collaboration
Our Guide to the Winter 2021 Issue
MIT SMR’s winter issue looks at why teams work (or don’t), plus innovation, supply chains, and data for AI.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Remote Work
Virtual Collaboration Won’t Be the Death of Creativity
Collaborating remotely can improve creativity in ways that many teams didn’t realize pre-pandemic.
Leigh Thompson
Collaboration
Are Your Team Members Lonely?
Loneliness can be triggered by team design, even when people work face-to-face.