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Organizations that aspire to hire and advance employees based on merit should consider character, not just skills or performance.
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To Reform Meritocracy, Put Character at the Center
Organizations that aspire to implement true meritocracy must go beyond performance and skills in defining it.
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5 days ago
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Just as Louis Leakey advocated for Jane Goodall and other women scientists, today’s leaders can create lasting impact through authentic sponsorship and inclusion.
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What Jane Goodall's Career Teaches Us About Allyship and Sponsorship
Leaders can apply five time-tested lessons to help elevate people whose talents might otherwise go unrecognized.
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8 days ago
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Leaders concerned that they will be penalized for championing sustainability and diversity can still sustain their commitments.
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The Case for Quiet Corporate Activism
Leaders can sustain social and environmental commitments amid a hostile political climate by communicating thoughtfully.
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12 days ago
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The GENIUS Act opens up a new frontier and strategic choices for leaders.
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What Stablecoin Regulation Means for Business
By regulating stablecoins, the GENIUS Act creates new payment options that could upend traditional business models.
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13 days ago
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Some revenue management systems based on algorithms may lead to unintended collusion and antitrust violations.
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The Perils of Algorithmic Pricing
Hotels and landlords can mitigate legal risks by choosing decentralized revenue management systems that use public data.
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14 days ago
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Leaders who are pushing for four or five days in the office are fixated on the wrong problem. Hybrid work is not a policy challenge — it’s a leadership capability challenge. Read the full article >>
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Our new research with Boston Consulting Group reveals that nearly 80% of AI experts agree that responsible AI governance requires questioning the necessity of overly humanlike agentic AI systems. Read the full expert analysis ➡
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19 days ago
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When we experience angry behavior at work — often from people who rank above us in the hierarchy — it typically stems from fear. Read the full article >>
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20 days ago
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Many organizations intend to check their AI systems for fairness, accountability, and transparency but struggle to implement responsible AI processes due to structural and cultural obstacles or a lack of commitment.
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21 days ago
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Vanguard Group, one of the largest asset management companies in the world, is using artificial intelligence for personalizing client services, creating efficiencies, avoiding costs, and providing better investing advice at low cost.
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22 days ago
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Design is losing its luster as a strategic discipline that is key to innovation and creating new value, and it is increasingly being targeted in cost-cutting initiatives. Read the full article >>
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25 days ago
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A cross-national study found that 80% of employees struggle to concentrate during political crises and social disruption. Read the full article >> hhttps://mitsmr.com/43wYAU8
26 days ago
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Although some corporate and governmental commitments to sustainability efforts have waned in the current political climate, particularly in the U.S., the 2025 Climate Week event in New York offered evidence that the work hasn’t stopped. Read the full article >>
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27 days ago
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When AI tools have many of the answers, what’s the value of expensive experts? It’s their ability to ask better questions and recognize gray areas, which shifts their value from content to context. Read the full article >>
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28 days ago
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The eight dimensions of design thinking capture essential differences in how managers and designers perform their work and make decisions.
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Companies are pouring money and effort into AI while overlooking a simple truth about adoption and governance: The real work happens at the team level.
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Learn four key principles from it that can help leaders deal with work crises better. One lesson: It’s possible to maintain positive team energy while creating a sense of urgency.
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Handle the Corporate Heat Like an Actual Firefighter | Melissa Swift
Leaders can apply four key principles from FDNY firefighters to contend with “fires” in the business world.
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Support employees dealing with destabilizing change by giving them more control and autonomy.
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Why Agency Helps Employees Cope With Change
Employees who are anxious about change can regain their footing by being given a measure of control over how they work.
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about 1 month ago
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Are you confident about how to navigate the what, where, when, and why of generative AI? MIT SMR expert authors offer some much-needed clarity for leaders.
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Cut Through GenAI Confusion: Eight Definitive Reads
MIT SMR's expert authors detail how to think about using generative AI efficiently, responsibly, and skeptically.
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Leaders must consider how novelty fits with other elements, such as efficiency, customer lock-in, and partnerships. Learn the essentials from businesses that stressed system design, not just sizzle.
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Business Model Innovation: Seven Essentials
Learn business model innovation lessons from companies that took a systems approach to building high-performing models.
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about 1 month ago
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Our natural response to inappropriate comments is fight or flight. Responding more effectively takes practice.
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about 2 months ago
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In this video interview, Lauren Dreyer explains how she increased her team’s productivity by 60% — by letting go of control and embracing shared decision-making.
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about 2 months ago
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Many leaders of growing organizations bemoan employee resistance to change. But the reason most change efforts fail is that leaders suffer from the hero complex.
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Change Management: How to Avoid the Hero Trap
When leading change, seeking overinflated credit and taking extreme ownership can cause trouble.
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about 2 months ago
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From chemical engineer to YouTube's trust & safety team, Angela Nakalembe shares how AI has become the first line of defense against harmful content, making moderation faster and more humane. New episode is live! 🎧
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about 2 months ago
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The solution to burnout isn’t rest or a couple of days off. Instead, people need different workplace conditions — and a new approach to personal growth.
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The Burnout Age: Real Pain Requires Real Solutions | Brian Elliott
Organizations need to stop treating burnout — a kind of third-degree burn — with simplistic, first-degree salves.
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about 2 months ago
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Here are 10 of the most frequently asked questions about LLMs, along with answers that clarify aspects of GenAI that are often poorly understood. Read the full article >>
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about 2 months ago
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In this excerpt from Emilio J. Castilla’s new book, The Meritocracy Paradox, he discusses a strategic talent analytics approach that can help organizations identify and eliminate bias and inefficiencies in hiring, promotion, and rewards decisions.
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about 2 months ago
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Team visits to companies that have successfully developed innovative processes can help organizations accelerate and ease their own innovation processes. Read the full article >>
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about 2 months ago
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Leadership that leans on intimidation might impress Wall Street, but data shows that it’s destroying companies from within. In this video, MIT SMR columnist Brian Elliott examines why command-and-control tactics fail at AI adoption, RTO mandates, and talent retention.
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Fear-Based CEOs Versus Trust-Based Leaders: Who Actually Wins?
In this video, Brian Elliott reveals why a tough-talk leadership style is less effective than one built on trust.
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2 months ago
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Experts debate whether implementing agentic AI demands new management approaches. >>
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Agentic AI at Scale: Redefining Management for a Superhuman Workforce
Experts debate if implementing agentic AI demands new management approaches.
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2 months ago
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It’s time for leaders to name, normalize, and manage employees’ experience of feeling like pretenders.
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2 months ago
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Sustained performance requires a company purpose that is validated in the market.
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Strategic Alignment Reconciles Purpose and Profitability
Pursuing profit alone won’t lead to long-term business success. Corporate goals must be both financial and values-based.
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2 months ago
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How can you drive more value from analytics? Consider the framework an analytics leader used to build narrative into the stack — and turn it into strategic speed.
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How One Google Team Built Storytelling Into Analytics
Analytics must reflect how decisions are actually made, factoring in ambiguity, practical limits, and trade-offs.
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3 months ago
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When conventional advertising can’t cut through the clutter, marketers must get out of their comfort zones.
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Three Ways Brands Can Combat Information Overload and Skepticism
Brand builders can reach skeptical audiences with relevant taglines, compelling content, and creative engagement tactics.
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3 months ago
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A set of critical environmental measures will help business leaders identify where they can take action to mitigate risks and protect human health and safety.
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The Planetary KPIs That Inform Eco-Friendly Strategies
A set of measures for evaluating environmental health can help businesses focus their sustainability efforts.
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3 months ago
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The modern warehouse represents the frontier of human-robot collaboration.
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AI Can Improve How Humans and Robots Work
Robots and humans are essential partners in most warehouse settings. AI can help them work together more effectively.
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4 months ago
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Stephen Wolfram’s philosophical insights on computation offer actionable principles for designing intelligence environments that achieve lasting value from AI.
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Stop Deploying AI. Start Designing Intelligence
The next frontier for AI leaders is learning to design AI-powered intelligence environments.
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4 months ago
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Enthusiasm plateaus. Training gaps. AI shaming. Pharma giant Novo Nordisk faced and beat all these challenges while growing generative AI tool usage.
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How to Scale GenAI in the Workplace
Novo Nordisk’s GenAI deployment — one of the largest to date — offers lessons for leaders on scaling their own AI efforts.
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4 months ago
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At chaotic times like these, leaders must fight paralysis and bad decisions — by carefully building an expansive scenario map.
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Scenario Planning Amid Radical Uncertainty
In today’s political climate, change can happen faster than leaders expect. Use scenario planning to manage uncertainty.
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While robot-adopting companies may shed some management and middle-skilled jobs, research shows that robots will increase employee head counts overall.
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Why Robots Will Displace Managers — and Create Other Jobs
A robot-driven shift in performance measurement and evolving skill needs are reshaping the workforce, research finds.
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5 months ago
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Do you want to stand up to disrespectful behavior? Leaders should choose a few phrases to use reliably and skillfully — and then practice speaking them, especially under stress.
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Find Your Phrase in Important Moments | Jim Detert and Aba Blankson
Our natural response to inappropriate comments is fight or flight. Responding more effectively takes practice.
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The private equity firm is working hard to bring the powers of artificial intelligence to the companies it has invested in.
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Building AI Capabilities Into Portfolio Companies at Apollo | Thomas H. Davenport and Randy Bean
The private equity firm is applying disciplined AI-use strategies to make its portfolio companies more competitive.
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5 months ago
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Leaders need to stop obsessing about in-office time and start focusing on the six enablers that change how people work.
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RTO Mandates Won’t Fix a Broken Culture | Brian Elliott
Leaders need to stop obsessing about in-office time and start focusing on the six enablers that change how people work.
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5 months ago
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A more multinational top management team can improve business operations and lead to higher profits.
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How Companies Profit From an International C-Suite
Businesses with more international C-suite executives than industry peers consistently outperform them.
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5 months ago
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While it may feel like command-and-control leadership is back in style, the truth is that emotionally intelligent leaders achieve more.
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Five Leadership Lessons for ‘Tough’ CEOs | Brian Elliott and Sophie Wade
A tough-leader persona isn’t effective for achieving long-term business results. That demands human-centered leadership.
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Experts debate if human oversight can replace the need for the explainability of AI systems.
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AI Explainability: How to Avoid Rubber-Stamping Recommendations
Experts debate if human oversight can replace the need for the explainability of AI systems.
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5 months ago
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Boards know they should be doing it. Here’s what gets in the way, and how to make it an active practice.
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Take CEO Succession Planning Off the Back Burner
Most boards neglect engaging in timely planning for CEO transitions. Here’s how to make it a priority.
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5 months ago
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Our Summer issue is out! Our summer issue features a special report on strategic thinking and long-term planning amid the challenges of disruption.
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Read the summer issue of MIT SMR
The summer 2025 issue includes articles that examine how business and society measure success.
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5 months ago
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In challenging times, employees need reassurance that their concerns are valid — and that they can persevere by working together as a team.
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Ask Sanyin: What Does Vulnerability Really Mean for Leaders?
Acknowledging your team’s anxieties and sharing your own can help build connection and optimism amid uncertainty.
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5 months ago
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During turbulent times, managers can take steps to help their direct reports feel more empowered, even when their control is limited.
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How to Support Your Team When Uncertainty Is High
Seven ways managers can support their teams amid instability to help workers maintain a sense of control and motivation.
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5 months ago
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