Strategy
Featured
Resilience Means Fewer Recoveries, Not Faster Ones
Skillful leaders don’t push their teams to bounce back faster. They create systems where bouncing back isn’t constantly required.
Benjamin Laker and Yelena Kalyuzhnova
Top Strategy from MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East
Executing Strategy
Negotiation Skills: How to Beat Anxiety and Boost Results
Terri R. Kurtzberg and Mary C. Kern
Data, AI, & Machine Learning
The Forces That Shape AI’s Uneven Progress
Will Drover and Laura Huang
More Strategy from MIT Sloan Management Review Middle East
Featured
Cracking the Code: How is the Middle East Shaping Global Business Strategy
To achieve success in the Middle East, companies must understand the region’s distinct socio-economic, cultural, and regulatory environments.
Paromita Gupta
Executing Strategy
Negotiation Skills: How to Beat Anxiety and Boost Results
Strategic opportunities, economic value, and relationships are at risk when people struggle with underconfidence at the bargaining table. Here’s how to improve your own skills and your teammates’.
Terri R. Kurtzberg and Mary C. Kern
Automation
Accelerating Digital Governance for a Citizen-Centric Future
Saudi Arabia’s digital governance story enters a new phase, as citizens demand the speed, personalization, and transparency found in digital companies.
Tasmia Ansari
Data, AI, & 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
MITSloan ME Editorial
Developing Strategy
Inside the Technologies Powering the UAE’s Electric Air-Taxi Ecosystem
Archer Aviation’s decision to launch in Abu Dhabi showcases the city's innovative vision and ambitious goals.
Jennifer George
Leadership
MENA IPO Market Gains Momentum as 11 Offerings Raise $700M in Q3
The Kingdom alone raised $637M, 92.4% of the total figure, while Dar Al Majed Real Estate Company led the region’s largest IPO of the period at $336M.
MITSloan ME Editorial
Culture
How can Middle East Leaders Turn Cultural Diversity into a Competitive Edge?
Multicultural teams can be a major stumbling block or a decisive advantage. By focusing on attitude, cultural intelligence, and inclusive practices, leaders in the region are shaping work environments where diversity drives innovation and profitability.
Paromita Gupta
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
Featured
How the Middle East is Turning Visa Reform Into an Economic Strategy
From Washington to Riyadh to Beijing, a single visa policy shift has sparked a realignment in where the world’s brightest minds build and belong.
Paromita Gupta
Strategy
GITEX 2025: MIT SMR to Unveil Special Issue and On-Site Live Coverage
At GITEX Global 2025, Digital Dubai will showcase AI, smart governance, and innovation shaping a future-ready, citizen-centric digital ecosystem.

