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MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW (March 11, 2025): The spring 2025 issue focuses on innovation, developing KPIs, building a learning culture collaborating on climate initiatives, and more.
Outsiders can spark new thinking by challenging norms and spotting overlooked opportunities.
Replacing onsite design-thinking sessions with virtual ones fundamentally changes the innovation process and outcomes.
Causal ML enables managers to explore different options to improve decision-making.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW (January 31, 2025): The latest issue features How AI Can Transform Your Organization: Streamline operations, spur innovation, and win over skeptical employees.
MIT Sloan Management Review (December 4, 2024): Looking beyond AI, many of our top 10 stories involve tough culture and people management challenges, like dealing with the informal meetings that happen after formal meetings (No. 2) and getting people to stop self-censoring with company leaders (No. 5). These two stories, by Phillip G. Clampitt and Jim Detert, respectively, truly struck a nerve with readers. At a time of radical change, communication and trust have never been more important.
Midlevel leaders are critical to fostering an organizational culture that’s healthy and vibrant.
In this brief video, learn what the latest research and current examples say about return-to-office mandates — and what leaders can do instead to boost productivity and retain talent.
Get beyond job candidates’ pat answers to hiring managers’ standard queries by recasting questions to elicit thoughtful responses.
To get the most from hybrid work, leaders should prepare for trade-offs, make expectations clear, and think harder about how productivity is measured.
Managers must make deliberate choices to support older workers’ use of complex technologies.
Most people know what can’t be said in their organization. But leaders can apply these techniques to break through the unwritten rules that make people self-censor.
Your organization’s highest-performing employees want executives to focus on outcomes and accountability, not office badge swipes.
This artificial intelligence and business strategy report looks at how organizations are using AI to evolve their key performance indicators to better align with their strategies and deliver on enterprise goals.
Leaders must encourage respectful debate during meetings and use related strategies to avoid toxic post-meeting dynamics.
These developing issues should be on every leader’s radar screen, data executives say.
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