Social Responsibility
Culture
Beyond Resilience: Why Optimism Is Becoming the Middle East's Workforce Strategy
As global workplaces grapple with uncertainty and disengagement, employees across the Gulf are finding confidence in stability, opportunity, and long-term growth.
Paromita Gupta
Top Social Responsibility from MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East
AI and Machine Learning
The Hidden Cost of Using AI at Work: It Might Be Making You Boring
MITSloan ME Editorial
Data, AI, & Machine Learning
China's Moonshot Debuts Kimi K3, a 2.8T-Parameter Open AI Model
MITSloan ME Editorial
AI and Machine Learning
29 Countries Agree to Establish World AI Cooperation Organization
MITSloan ME Editorial
Data, AI, & Machine Learning
What CEOs Need to Know About Sovereign AI
Mauro Macchi, Ajoy Menon, Mauro Capo, and Surya Mukherjee
More Social Responsibility from MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East
Data, AI, & Machine Learning
UAE AI Minister Pushes for Guardrails to Keep AI From Becoming 'Tyrannical'
Omar Al Olama called for stronger global governance and equitable access to AI, warning against the concentration of technological power.
MITSloan ME Editorial
Data & Data Culture
Khazna’s DXB8 Becomes World’s First Zero-Waste-Certified Data Center
An international certificate, followed by a 12-month audit, confirms that 99.55% of its waste is diverted away from landfills.
MITSloan ME Editorial
AI and Machine Learning
How the Current Conflict Is Accelerating AI-Powered Information Warfare
A growing number of companies are now selling what researchers call “disinformation-as-a-service.”
Tasmia Ansari
Automation
UAE, Starlink Team Up to Boost Remote Digital Learning
The partnership seeks to address a persistent bottleneck in global education access: reliable broadband.
Tasmia Ansari
Corporate Social Responsibility
The Case for Quiet Corporate Activism
Leaders concerned that they will be penalized for championing sustainability and diversity can still sustain their commitments.
Julia Binder and Heather Cairns-Lee
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.
Jegoo Lee
Climate Change
The Time for Leadership Courage Is Right Now
A handful of high-profile companies have explicitly backtracked on previous sustainability commitments in the wake of the new administration’s hostility and some — most notably some big law firms — have fully capitulated. But the vast majority have just gone silent.
Andrew Winston
Climate Change
Rethinking Growth in a Finite World
To feed our growing economy, humans consume more than 100 billion tons of natural resources per year, or roughly 11 tons of natural resources for every person on Earth. That includes more than 42 billion tons of nonmetallic minerals, 23 billion tons of biomass, 15 billion tons of fossil fuels, and 10 billion tons of metal ores.
Andrew J. Hoffman
Climate Change
Inside BASF and Henkel’s Journey to Tackle Industrial Emissions
While the large differences in the two companies’ CO2 emissions are partly the result of the size difference between them, those gaps are mostly due to where they sit on the value chain: BASF manufactures a broad range of chemical products, including basic chemicals, while Henkel purchases chemical raw materials to incorporate into its final products.
Martin Glaum, Alexander Gerybadze, Thomas Müller-Kirschbaum, and Ralph Schweens
Social Responsibility
Make a Stronger Business Case for Sustainability
When greener products and processes add costs, managers can shift other levers to maintain profitability.
