Analytics & Strategy
The Role of the Board Chair During a Crisis
Surviving a crisis requires a strong working relationship between a company’s board chair and CEO.
Chief Executive Officer
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Leadership Skills
The New Leadership Playbook for the Digital Age
In today’s digital age, leaders need to change their attitudes and beliefs about what leadership looks and feels like if they want to produce behavior change that lasts over time.
Douglas A. Ready, Carol Cohen, David Kiron, and Benjamin Pring
Executing Strategy
How Digital Changes the Role of Leaders
Transformation strategies are bound to flop unless leaders evolve in some pretty dramatic ways.
Paul Michelman
Leading Change
The Best of This Week
Preparing for CEO turnover, demystifying AI, and operating in the age of online outrage.
The MIT SMR Editors
Boards & Corporate Governance
How Companies Can Prepare for Sudden CEO Turnover
A CEO’s sudden departure creates uncertainty — unless the board already knows whom it wants to hire.
Adam Dean
Leadership Skills
The Power of a Clear Leadership Narrative
To find your personal leadership narrative, figure out and share what great leadership means to you.
Douglas A. Ready
Financial Management & Risk
Taking Stock of Corporate Risk-Taking
Boards can counter the risks that stem from executive bias by following three key steps.
Vincent O’Connell, Don O’Sullivan, and Jong-Ho Lee
Analytics & Organizational Culture
AI in the Boardroom: The Next Realm of Corporate Governance
Artificial intelligence helps doctors make better diagnoses. It can do the same for corporate leaders.
Barry Libert, Megan Beck, and Mark Bonchek
Executing Strategy
What CEOs Get Wrong About Vision and How to Get It Right
A vision commonly held throughout the organization must begin with the leader’s image of a credible, optimal future state.
Dan Ciampa
Boards & Corporate Governance
The Downside to Full Board Independence
Accounting scandals led to more independent corporate boards, but this trend has financial costs.
Olubunmi Faleye
Innovation Strategy
When Innovation Meets the Language of the Corner Office
What are the most effective ways to communicate the process and output of innovation to executives?
Dave Rochlin
Boards & Corporate Governance
How Boards Botch CEO Succession
Research finds three key reasons boards fail at CEO succession planning.
Robert Hooijberg and Nancy Lane
Digital Marketing
How CEOs Can Leverage Twitter
By tweeting, CEOs have an opportunity to initiate and influence online conversations.
Claudia Kubowicz Malhotra and Arvind Malhotra
Emerging Markets
How Global Is Your C-Suite?
National diversity of top management should be a topic of conversation for boards of directors.
Pankaj Ghemawat and Herman Vantrappen
Leadership Skills
Staying in the Know
How can executives best distinguish usable information from distracting noise?
Davide Nicolini, Maja Korica, and Keith Ruddle
Business & The Environment
Are Firms and Managers At Risk When Contributing to Climate Change?
At what point do corporate executives become personally liable for their companies’ failure to take action on climate change?
Olivier Jaeggi and Simone Hutter
Executing Strategy
Driving Change Through Corporate Programs
When CEOs use corporate programs to drive strategic renewal, program design is key.
By Michael Boppel, Sven Kunisch, Thomas Keil and Christoph Lechner
Leadership Skills
Why Good Leaders Don’t Need Charisma
To judge by the business media, you’d think top executives have to have charisma. Think again.
Christian Stadler and Davis Dyer
CEOs — Not Just Teens — Can Get in Trouble on Facebook
The SEC’s investigation of a Facebook post by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.
Robert Berkman
Talent Management
When Is an Outsider CEO a Good Choice?
There are circumstances in which outsider CEOs may outperform CEOs who came up through the ranks.
Ayse Karaevli and Edward J. Zajac
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