Matt Harrison Clough In collaborative organizations, where teams are matrixed, workers are multi-allocated, and the work itself is often fluid, exploratory, or evolving, managers face a major challenge: Cooperation is often messy and opaque, and it rarely follows a linear path. Today’s joint work products and multiproject environments don’t have the simple measurability of, say,…
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images To compete and survive, companies need to adopt innovative ways of working, but new options seem to be emerging more frequently than ever before. Fortunately, not all innovative practices need to be invented anew. Many — such as lean management, digitization, and agile approaches — have already been conceptualized…
According to a recent Slack survey, nearly half of employees are unwilling to tell their managers that they’re using generative AI because they fear being seen as incompetent or lazy. This is a typical outcome in a traditional command-and-control structure, where fear becomes the primary motivator. When leadership takes a trust-based approach, on the other…
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images Time invested in the hiring process can win your organization a top performer who ultimately helps it grow — or, just as easily, a poor fit who doesn’t stay long, leading to additional strains on resources. Employers today are, as ever, under pressure to fill open roles quickly, but…
The conventional wisdom in the U.S. is that Democrats generally stand behind science, whereas Republicans tend to be more skeptical of science, says Alexander Furnas, a research assistant professor at the Kellogg Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI). Indeed, recent research has shown that trust in scientists and major scientific organizations is significantly…
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images For more than four months, six unusual passengers rode New York City subway trains. Their mission: prevent subway disasters. From early morning through late nights, these passengers tirelessly monitored every journey, capturing audio and vibration data across the city’s vast rail network. These diligent inspectors weren’t human — they…
Managing your personal finances may feel like a trivial chore, the money version of brushing your teeth or changing your bedsheets. But whether you’re juggling expenses, saving for college and retirement, or optimizing your investments and tax burden, the actions you take can have a big impact—even beyond your own bottom line. Here are findings…
For the fourth year in a row, MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have assembled an international panel of AI experts that includes academics and practitioners to help us understand how responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) is being implemented across organizations worldwide. In spring 2025, we also fielded a global executive survey yielding…
Thomas Wolf is the cofounder and chief science officer of open-source AI platform Hugging Face, which provides access to thousands of pretrained AI models that can be downloaded and run locally. With over 10 million users, getting started on the site can be a daunting task. Thomas explains how the company aims to improve its…
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images Think back to when you first faced a new career hurdle: Maybe you were promoted to a team-leader role and everyone looked to you for direction, or your responsibilities grew to include presenting to your company’s board of directors; or when you found yourself being introduced to your new…