Julian Adams tried but didn’t succeed at retirement after a productive career as a medical chemist with several U.S. Food and Drug Administration approvals of cancer-related treatments, including cell therapy for bone marrow transplantation. Soon after, his participation in a Stand Up To Cancer advisory group led to his appointment as the nonprofit’s president and…
Nathalie Lees The Research The authors analyzed changes in the presence of nonnative C-level executives in Fortune Global 500 companies from 2013 to 2021. They found that businesses in the Global 500 in both 2013 and 2021 that had a higher percentage of international top management team members relative to the home-country average had higher…
What’s your measure of a good day? For many of us, it’s all about productivity — how much we manage to get done. We idealize efficiency as a virtue that, if mastered, will free us from the great trap of “never enough time.” But it often seems that by consuming books, lectures, and articles on…
Create Mental Space to Be a Wiser Leader Megan Reitz and John Higgins Key Insight: The pressure to do more, faster, can impede insight and decision-making. Embracing a more expansive form of attention can help change that. Top Takeaways: The fast pace of business can make leaders almost exclusively task-focused as they narrow their attention…
Nathalie Lees In the face of alarming political polarization, environmental degradation, pressure to acquire the latest emerging technology, and unrelenting, divergent stakeholder expectations, these times call for leaders to engage in collective, thoughtful, and wise decision-making. But at a moment when leaders might see an opportunity to galvanize their teams to be at their most…
It’s graduation season, and nepotism is in the air. It’s a critical time for business-owning families considering the merit of offering jobs to their new grads. Many families may hesitate because hiring them at this career stage might be based more on genes and their name than specific skills or qualifications. In other words, it’s…
Peter Hansen/Getty Images 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. Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google have unveiled chips billed as major advances, while scientific journals have reported some impressive results relevant to commercial…
Photo courtesy of Grammarly Shishir Mehrotra joined Grammarly as CEO following 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 chief product officer/chief technology officer for YouTube. MIT Sloan…
visualspace/Getty Images 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…
Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of business and technology leadership in real time. Given that fact, what leadership skills are most important right now? We asked AI experts and business and technology leaders at the 2025 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium to weigh in on the most important traits for AI leadership. You might expect…