Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images There’s a quiet crisis in strategy today. Most executives assume that if they scan hard enough, analyze deeply enough, or plan thoroughly enough, a path forward will reveal itself. But that’s an illusion left over from a more stable era. I’ve spent years working with Fortune 100 leaders, founders,…
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images In my work at MIT Sloan School of Management, I have taught the basics of how large language models (LLMs) work to many executives during the past two years. Some people posit that business leaders neither want to nor need to know how LLMs and the generative AI tools…
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…