Maximize the Wisdom of the Crowd for Complex Problems

For crowdsourcing to be effective, participants need guidance matched to the type of problem theyre trying to solve.

Take CEO Succession Planning Off the Back Burner

Boards know they should be doing it. Here's what gets in the way, and how to make it an active practice.

GLOBAL STRATEGY: The New Rules of Doing Business With China

By moving beyond a simplistic view of “decoupling,” executives can better understand and strategically respond to Western policies aimed at Chinese companies.

The Business Cost of the Shrinking STEM Research Pipeline

As immigration barriers mount and global competition for researchers intensifies, U.S. businesses face a critical talent shortage that threatens technological competitiveness. Here's what companies need to do now.

People Follow Structure: How Less Hierarchy Changes the Workforce

Shifting to self-managed teams and worker autonomy has been linked to greater engagement and performance. But not every employee likes the change.

Rethink the Growth Imperative

Questioning the idea that businesses must continually grow can expose new paths to resilience and sustainability.

Why the Law Against Business Bribes Is Good for Business

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has served as a global standard against corruption for almost half a century. Suspending its enforcement harms both business and the rule of law.

EMPLOYEE ATTITUDES TOWARD FLEXIBLE WORK

FIVE YEARS INTO THE LARGE-SCALE shift to remote working — and with mandates to return to the office proliferating — what are current employees’ attitudes toward flexible work? We conducted a survey of 1,450 professionals across the U.K. and U.S. in 2024 to learn how much workplace flexibility is valued by employees of all ages.

How Close Is Commercial Quantum Computing?

THE RECENT SPATE OF NEWS IN THE QUANTUM computing space is raising hopes that we're finally on the cusp of broad commercial availability of this game-changing technology.

Use Design Choices to Prevent Imitation

Adding or removing design elements to your innovations can help protect intellectual property.

FUTURE OF WORK: The Surprising Viability of the Four-Day Workweek

New research shows that organizations adopting shorter workweeks are seeing positive results for both employees and themselves. Here's how companies are successfully implementing this change.

RESEARCH SNAPSHOT: New Leaders Can Thaw Employee Silence

EMPLOYEE INPUT IS CRITICAL WHEN LEADERS WANT A CLEAR PIC-ture of organizational challenges.

How Companies Profit From an International C-Suite

A more multinational top management team can improve business operations and lead to higher profits.

Will AI Disrupt Your Business? Key Questions to Ask

How AI will affect individual businesses will vary widely. A diagnostic framework can help you identify its potential impacts and navigate disruption strategically.

Building an AI Platform for the Future

Shishir Mehrotra joined Grammarly as CEO fol- lowing its December 2024 acquisition of Coda, the AI productivity platform he founded in 2014. The MIT graduate began his career by cofounding Centrata and subsequently spent several years at Microsoft and then at Google as vice president of product for YouTube. MIT Sloan Management Review spoke with Mehrotra about navigating his unique lead- ership transition, building what he envisions as the AI platform of the future, and management rituals, which he's writing a book about. What follows are edited highlights from that conversation.

How Neuroinclusion Builds Organizational Capabilities

Changing processes to be more inclusive of neurodiversity can improve hiring, innovation, and culture.

When Launching a Product During a Recession Pays Off

Evidence from the automotive and consumer goods sectors indicates that economic downturns can be a strategic time to bring new offerings to market.

Create Mental Space to Be a Wiser Leader

Business rewards the busy “doing mode” over the thoughtful “spacious mode,” but spaciousness can enable better collaboration and decisions.

Time Well Spent: A New Way to Value Time Could Transform Your Life

Calculating the subjective value of your time reveals where small changes in your weekly schedule can significantly boost life satisfaction and well-being.

Ina Garten on Calvin Tomkins's “Good Cooking”

By 1974, when Calvin Tomkins wrote his definitive Profile of Julia Child, she had published both volumes of the wildly successful “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” and was twelve years into her television show, “The French Chef,” on public television in Boston.

VISITING DIGNITARY OLD HAUNTS

When Stephen Colbert landed in New Zealand in 2019, his ride from the airport was Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister.

ACTION!

Inside the world of intimacy coördinators.

TOXIC

What the pop culture of the two-thousands did to millennial women.

GOINGS ON JUNE II - 17, 2025

What we're watching, listening to, and doing this week.

WITHOUT BORDERS

A Palestinian doctor in Israel treats people on both sides of the conflict.

BODIES, BODIES, BODIES

The British artist Jenny Saville has dedicated her career to painting human flesh.

The Queen of Bad Influences

Throughout her childhood, Constance called the gorse that grew on the hillsides above her house \"honey-bottle,\" and gathered fistfuls of it despite the spines, so that her hands would smell of it, a smell that seemed to combine oatmeal and hot metal and sun.

ENDANGERED SPECIES: MEAT HOOKS

You pronounce John T. Jobbagy's last name with the accent on the first syllable: “Joe-bagee.”

TRAILBLAZER DEPT.SPACE ODYSSEY

The other day, amid throngs of schoolkids, a septuagenarian woman with a puff of gray hair, in a black turtleneck and pearl earrings, stepped into the Rose Center for Earth and Space.

MATCH ME IF YOU CAN

“Materialists.”