Workplace, Teams, & Culture

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

A country’s mix of occupations, technology backbone, and demographics impacts its conditions for remote work.

The COVID-19 pandemic underscores why disaster preparedness is vital for supply chain resilience.

A five-year study tests a new solution to employee overload and burnout.

Foster a creative culture by embracing the curious, the uncertain, and the unknown.

A new approach to assessing IT teams can nurture engineering talent, boost productivity, and reduce costs.

Establishing effective teams depends on mutually-reinforcing functional and cultural change processes.

Solving complex problems with crowdsourcing means tailoring the crowd to the problem’s scope.

There are specific ways for women to be more successful in pitch situations.

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.