Guides

Discover how to overcome challenges and identify opportunities by assembling the right talent, upskilling your leadership skills, and reshaping organizational strategy. The AI & ML collection helps leaders think strategically about artificial intelligence and make the kinds of decisions that will best leverage the associated new technologies.

In this new executive guide, you'll learn how to build a successful data approach, embrace a culture of experimentation, and identify which data systems in your company need improvement. The Data Strategy collection helps leaders think strategically about data and analytics and make the kinds of decisions that will best leverage the associated new technologies.

What does the ascendance of a new generation of straight-to-consumer disrupters tell us about how innovation is evolving? What are the sources of disruption that every company must monitor? Is disruption always the right strategy — or not? And why have companies not gotten better at solving the innovator’s dilemma two decades after Christensen first helped us understand how disruption occurs?

The answers to these questions and more lie in this exclusive collection.

In this collection of six of the most popular MIT Sloan Management Review articles on implementing strategy, renowned researchers and academic voices examine the critical choices managers make in companies every day. From insights on goal setting and communicating strategic priorities effectively, to M&A approaches, these articles will help leaders sharpen their strategic thinking to face new challenges.

Manage the multi-dimensional challenges of remote work with an understanding of the subtle issues of engagement, psychological well-being, morale, and alignment.

Practical guidance to support an anxious and uncertain workforce, manage multiple crises, and guide the organization through economic turmoil, all while isolated from teams and workplaces.

Advice for leaders on maintaining communications, coordinating work, supporting employees, engaging virtual teams, and managing the life-work balance during remote work transitions.

We live in a VUCA--volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity—world. As the ground shifts rapidly under their feet, leaders must maintain their vision, manage change, and anticipate a completely new kind of workforce. This MIT SMR guide offers insights on the changing nature of work, culture, collaboration, and leadership in this transforming environment.

From supply chains to user ratings, this guide, a compilation of insights from MIT SMR, offers advice for each step of the customer journey. As customers grow more discerning and have more information at their fingertips, leaders need a guide to help them attract, satisfy, retain, and even win back the powerful consumer.

Researchers have established that diverse teams tend to have better outcomes. Yet it can be difficult to build a diverse team and also to help a culturally diverse group coalesce around a goal. This guide, a compilation of insights from MIT SMR, offers a cross-section of viewpoints on what it means to build and lead a productive, heterogenous group of contributors.