Organizational Culture

Employees are demanding that companies engage in social issues. Leaders need to be ready to respond.

The year’s top articles offer insights on driving cultural change, combating burnout and fatigue, and managing teams.

The winter 2022 issue of MIT SMR provides a collection of articles to help leaders overcome the obstacles that can get in the way of innovation.

MIT SMR‘s winter 2022 issue looks at innovation processes in product development and how networks affect culture and diversity.

Driving culture change with organizational network analysis, responding strategically to cyberattacks, and building human rights strategies.

Use network analysis to identify barriers to cultural change and spread new organizational values in targeted ways.

Leaders can take steps to shift their product development teams toward a mindset of designing for cybersecurity.

Robert Chesnut, Airbnb’s first chief ethics officer, shares his experience shaping ethical technology policies.

To be a technology leader, a CTO needs both tech and business knowledge, explains Two Sigma’s Camille Fournier.

The specific cultural factors that predict whether employees are happy (and will stay) aren’t what you might think.

Businesses that don’t understand the connection between business transformation and culture change risk obsolescence.

Organizations are trying to bridge their need for connectivity with people’s hunger for flexibility.

New research highlights nine key factors impeding organizations’ ability to advance their data science progress.

New value creation with strategic data assets, in-store shopping to build customer loyalty, and habits to enable enduring culture change.

Culture change starts with new actions, not with business leaders identifying or articulating a desired culture.

The data science management process, job moves for pay equity, and political concerns in M&As.

When managing a merger, pay attention to political disparities.

Organizations should manage data science with an appropriate structure and enterprisewide process.

Reimagined workspaces can enable interactions that foster more meaningful human connections in our work lives.

Nudges for less-biased hiring, networking to drive inclusion, and defusing opposition to racial equity initiatives.