Management
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How to Become a Critical Reader of Academic Research
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images On July 15, 2021, I received an email from three coauthors of a data-sleuthing website called Data Colada. They informed me that they would soon be publishing compelling evidence that a field experiment in my coauthored 2012 research paper “Signing at the Beginning Makes Ethics Salient and Decreases Dishonest…
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GE HealthCare’s Culture Takes Lessons From the Marines
Aleksandar Savic In January 2023, General Electric spun off GE HealthCare as a publicly traded company, and in 2024, it generated revenue of nearly $20 billion. With more than 50,000 employees, GE HealthCare has built a strong culture — the highest-rated culture among its peer companies, based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees speak particularly positively about…
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The Hidden Costs of Coding With Generative AI
Dan Page/theispot.com Generative AI can be a powerful productivity booster in coding — but only when deployed thoughtfully. Used carelessly, it can cripple scalability, destabilize systems, and leave companies worse off. Generative AI is growing explosively across knowledge work, particularly in software development. OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 focuses heavily on enhancing coding capabilities and is a step…
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Why All Startups Should Tell a Sustainability Story
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images A corporate focus on doing business sustainably is increasingly being linked to the ability to better manage risk, attract talent, and uncover new business opportunities. But for startups not explicitly targeting the sustainability sector, the topic is usually an afterthought — and that can be shortsighted. Startups don’t typically…
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Are Your Ads Truly Paying Off?
It’s a familiar experience for today’s online shoppers: seeing tailored offers and promoted items while you’re filling your cart. A search returns “sponsored” items at the top of the results, and embedded ads suggest additional purchases based on your browsing history. Picking out some pasta? Maybe you’d like to try this sauce. Typically order water…
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Automation, management and the future of work: Insights from LSE’s Department of Management
As a student at LSE, I am fortunate to be immersed in a world-renowned hub of learning, where ideas that shape the world are not only studied but actively debated – often by the very pioneers behind them. This vibrant intellectual community is one of LSE’s greatest strengths, and few experiences showcase it better than…
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Why Managers Struggle to Delegate
Stop trying to delegate tasks. Start delegating problems. That’s the key insight from this conversation between MIT Sloan Management Review’s Elizabeth Heichler and columnist Sanyin Siang about why delegation is so hard for managers. “I personally had a goal to delegate more last year,” Heichler admits. “I think it’s the one thing that I fell…
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Get Work Back on Track With Visual Management
Ken Orvidas/theispot.com Despite corporate investments in digital initiatives, automation, AI tools, and reorgs, many managers struggle with the daily reality that the core work of their organization is both slow and error-prone. While head-spinning changes in the operating context are keeping many senior executives focused on strategies to fend off disruption, their employees and team…
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The Planetary KPIs That Inform Eco-Friendly Strategies
Beth Goody/theispot.com Monitoring the right metrics can help companies closely track changes in their markets and the broader operating environment, enabling them to identify opportunities early and reduce their exposure to material risks. As extreme weather events and other environmental changes accelerate, business leaders must factor these developments into their organizations’ goals and strategies —…
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How RLI’s CEO Builds Agile Culture in a Conservative Industry
Aleksandar Savic RLI could have suffered the fate of Polaroid, Blockbuster, or BlackBerry, slipping into oblivion when market changes eroded demand for their core product. Founded 60 years ago as Replacement Lens Inc., the company insured the cost of replacing lost or damaged contact lenses — then an expensive purchase. As disposable lenses became the…