Workplace, Teams, & Culture

For multinational companies, language barriers are a key obstacle to social business. Can a multilingual approach work?

Employees can be inspired to perform better if their creativity is challenged through teamwork.

Making it safe to be honest about when projects are getting off track can promote cooperative behavior.

An authors’ briefing and Q&A on the findings from MIT Sloan Management Review’s Winter 2015 global sustainability study.

The 2014 Sustainability Report by MIT Sloan Management Review, BCG and the United Nations Global Compact highlights new global collaborations.

All of our wonderful mobile devices don’t always make us good at managing what we do with them.

Simple as it sounds, regular sleep is the best antidote for a fatigued or stressed-out workforce.

Emma Stewart, Autodesk’s head of sustainability, describes how social intelligence helps CSR advocates promote a culture of sustainability.

An experiment in social networks shows that key knowledge can be transferred without employees realizing it.

Companies are having a tough time finding the data scientists they need — but that doesn’t mean those projects need to halt altogether.

A focus on environment helped BASF to transform both its product lines and its culture.

Autodesk’s Emma Stewart says that social intelligence helps promote CSR and a culture of sustainability.

Declaring that a project everyone is excited about is in trouble can be demoralizing. But it’s exactly what can turn things around.

Hot shots get all the attention, but other team members can be the ones who make a group really tick.

As part of its sustainability strategy, organic yogurt company Stonyfield has made a mission of total transparency in its sourcing.

Team-based contests that draw on creativity and collaboration skills can build motivation in employees.

Full implementation of internal social media could raise productivity by 25%. So what’s the hold up?

A social business tool is helping U.S. government agencies crowdsource collaboration.

Leaders can avoid unhappy project status surprises if they understand how — and why — people avoid sharing bad news.

Companies that reach social business maturity are finding that their leadership practices are changing along the way.