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The Top 10 MIT SMR India Articles of 2025
Start the year ahead better informed. Catch up on MIT Sloan Management Review India’s most-read stories of 2025 on AI, leadership, policy, and the choices reshaping organizations.
MIT SMR Editors
Top Workplace, Teams, & Culture from MIT Sloan Management Review India
Collaboration
Resilience Means Fewer Recoveries, Not Faster Ones
Benjamin Laker and Yelena Kalyuzhnova
Executing Strategy
Negotiation Skills: How to Beat Anxiety and Boost Results
Terri R. Kurtzberg and Mary C. Kern
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AI and Machine Learning
AI Saves Workers Up to an Hour a Day, OpenAI Report Finds
From engineers to finance teams, enterprise adoption is shifting from small pilots to embedded daily use, with measurable gains in speed, conversions and operating costs, the study found
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Featured
To Reform Meritocracy, Put Character at the Center
Organizations that aspire to hire and advance employees based on merit should consider character, not just skills or performance.
Thomas A. Cole
AI and Machine Learning
Agentic AI Adoption Is Outpacing Corporate Redesign, MIT SMR–BCG Study Finds
Firms are embracing agentic AI at a pace that far exceeds their ability to redesign workflows, governance and talent structures, leaving leadership teams racing to adapt management models built for an earlier era, the global study found
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Crisis Management
The Leadership Test No One Wants: Delivering Bad News Well
Good communication in tough times requires grappling with where responsibility for the problem lies and whether the situation is salvageable.
Nancy Duarte
Collaboration
Unlock Creativity Through Analogical Thinking
Spotting structural similarities between unrelated concepts can help leaders break out of mental ruts and spark innovation.
Richard L. Gruner
Culture
Hybrid Work Is Not the Problem — Poor Leadership Is
Learn from companies that are succeeding with hybrid work models — by building teams that are rewarded for performance, not appearances.
Brian Elliott, Nicholas (Nick) Bloom, and Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury
Collaboration
Culture Risks Stalk Indian Workplaces, Gallup Study Finds
A survey of 275 senior HR leaders finds ethics, inclusion and purpose firmly rooted in Indian workplaces, yet frequent feedback, agile leadership and quicker decisions remain elusive.
MIT SMR Editors
AI and Machine Learning
Amazon Explores Robotics Path That May Sideline 600,000 Jobs
Amazon is eyeing a future where more than 600 ,000 US roles may never be hired as its robotics arm seeks to automate about 75 % of its operations by 2033
MIT SMR Editors
AI and Machine Learning
What’s Your Edge? Rethinking Expertise in the Age of AI
As AI democratizes access to information, leaders should revisit ideas about hierarchy and roles — and focus on their team’s judgment and synthesis skills.
Ravikiran Kalluri
Featured
From Employee-Owners to Environmental Champions
When employees become owners, companies achieve measurably stronger environmental performance. Here’s how this ownership model drives sustainability excellence.