Collaboration

Managers must thoughtfully navigate parental leave conversations to retain working parents and support their teammates.

Apply the objectives and key results model to align individual- and team-level goals with broader organizational aims.

Managers who seem to be delivering others’ messages rather than acting autonomously can lose credibility and authority.

Managers and their direct reports can use these strategies to take their one-on-one meetings to the next level.

Open innovation requires moving knowledge across divides. Organizational silos are the biggest barriers to success.

Employees in connector roles can bridge the gaps between departments that often thwart data science project success.

The fall 2023 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review examines innovation systems and strategies for business leaders.

Digital collaboration can steer innovators down a disruptive or incremental path, depending on how they use the tools.

FedML technology could help smaller companies train their machine learning models on larger, decentralized data sets.

The authors offer 11 strategies for leading more effective hybrid teams based on a recent survey of marketing leaders.

Research finds that cultivating self-compassion at work may be key to boosting helping behaviors among employees.

Solving big, systemic problems will require organizations to come together to develop strategies as a group.

The skill of perspective taking can help build teams’ psychological safety for creative, collaborative problem-solving.

The 2023 MIT SMR-Deloitte Future of the Workforce global survey finds top workforce managers excel at eight activities.

MIT SMR’s top articles of 2022 focused on employee engagement, toxic culture, and transformative leadership.

This issue of MIT SMR focuses on creating and managing successful, engaged teams in a pandemic-changed world.

Leaders are meeting employee demands for more flexible work arrangements amid culture and innovation concerns.

Externally focused x-teams can drive innovation, performance, and distributed leadership but require a shift in mindset.

Decisions that have moral consequences often require sustained and systematic consideration.

Two executives discuss why it’s time for organizations to get back to the basics in cybersecurity.