Workplace, Teams, & Culture

Addressing social capital in return-to-office plans, deploying AI to manage wealth, and reducing coordination complexity with microservices.

Leaders can help employees build the social connections that weakened during the pandemic by addressing three key areas.

Leaders need to recognize workplace hierarchies to create an effective learning environment for employees.

Mapping employees’ working relationships can help guide leaders’ decisions about post-pandemic work models.

Monolithic, highly interdependent organizations can become modular ones by embracing microservices.

Companies must retrain their employees to fill the roles most closely aligned with their revised strategic directions.

Digital inclusion to help solve grand challenges, meaningful support for Pride Month, and reimagined workspaces.

To meaningfully support Pride, companies need to focus on employees, customers, and the community.

Research points to ways companies can help employees of all ages thrive in today’s multigenerational workplace.

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

A global study of online hackathons offers best practices for designing virtual ideation sessions.

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

The pandemic has upended business. Let’s consider how managers should respond.

The Special Report in MIT SMR‘s Summer 2021 issue looks at how businesses can support a more inclusive workplace culture. Also in this issue: ways to communicate — and disagree — using candor and logic, business’s role in national emergencies, how volunteering helps workers’ skills, and changing the rules to suit turbulent times.

Evaluators can be nudged to make less biased decisions in hiring and other contexts.

Early analysis suggests that three networking behaviors can drive inclusion in organizations.

PepsiCo’s Colin Lenaghan discusses AI’s role in the company’s pricing strategy and ongoing digital transformation.

Companies have a unique opportunity to rebuild employees’ social connections when they return to in-person work.

Good arguments at the core of great strategy, the risks of concurrent change initiatives, and the courage to be candid.

Help your team become more capable and productive by encouraging key behaviors and mitigating risks.