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MIT SMR’s spring 2025 issue offers advice for leaders on managing amid uncertainty and balancing oversight with autonomy.

This issue of MIT SMR offers insights on innovation, business strategy, employee motivation, partnerships, and more.

Strategic alliances can lead to intellectual property loss, but multilayered defenses can protect companies’ innovations.

Teams can structure design-thinking processes to benefit from the strengths of both in-person and virtual collaboration.

Outsiders can spark change by seeing what others miss, offering fresh ideas that need support to thrive.

In a time of political disruption, leaders must learn to recognize, manage, and respond to the resulting business risks.

Recent research provides insights into how companies’ technology portfolios affect their approach to M&As.

Mark Surman discusses Mozilla’s mission-driven approach to privacy and its response to users’ changing technology needs.

Gain better strategic foresight and turn future possibilities into actionable insights with horizon scanning.

Achieving reductions in industrial greenhouse gas emissions requires close attention to partners in the value chain.