MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR)
MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR) is a collection of teaching materials, including case studies, simulations, deep dives, and industry, business and country overviews that MIT Sloan provides as a free teaching resource open and available to the world. Similar to the course syllabi and materials found on MIT’s OpenCourseWare site, these materials carry a creative commons license allowing them to be downloaded, copied and … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Subjects: Education, MBA Related
Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty
The history of leadership theory started with an emphasis on traits – the notion that it is the make-up of the leader that makes all the difference. This paper brief seeks to provide a framework that allows us to integrate prior leadership theories, while focusing on what leaders actually do. It is a framework that views leadership as a capacity that both individuals and groups … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Deborah Ancona, Peter Senge, Tom Malone, Wanda Orlikowski | Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Subject: Leadership
Tools for inventing organizations: Toward a handbook of organizational processes
The gap between the need to innovate and the tools for doing so leaves us with a problem: How can we move beyond the practices of today to invent the best practices of tomorrow? And where will we keep getting new ideas for organizational processes to adapt to a continually changing world? If we are to understand successful organizational practices, we must be able to … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Sources: Center for Coordination Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
The MIT Process Handbook Project
The goal of the MIT Process Handbook Project is to develop rich online libraries for sharing and managing many kinds of knowledge about business. For example, these libraries can help find interesting case examples, generate innovative ideas about new business possibilities, and develop new computer programs.
Starting in 1991, we have developed one such library. We call it the Process Handbook–an extensive online knowledge base including … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Considerations for Founders: Issues in Structuring Relationships Among Members of the Founder Team
There are so many things which Founders have to worry about and do in launching a new venture- financing, people, customers etc. All of these are important but the reality is that most ventures fail because of people issues and are really a failure of the relationships among the team members. Teams come together around an interesting or exciting idea or opportunity and tend … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Joseph G. Hadzima Jr. | Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Subject: Entrepreneurship
MIT OpenCourseWare » Sloan School of Management
MIT’s OpenCourseWare is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT’s mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century.
MIT OCW:
* Is a publication of MIT course materials
* Does not require any registration
* Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity
* Does not provide access to MIT … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Subjects: Education, MBA Related
Restoring Trust in the Human Resource Management Profession
The human resource management profession faces a crisis of trust and a loss of legitimacy in the eyes of its major stakeholders. The two decade effort to develop a new “strategic human resource management” role in organizations has failed to realize its promised potential of greater status, influence, and achievement. To meet contemporary and future workplace challenges, HRM professionals will need to redefine their role … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Thomas A. Kochan | Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Subject: Human Resources