Marc Ethier of Poets & Quants looks at the closure of the MIT Sloan Management Review after 67 years.
Ethier writes, “MIT Sloan said it will continue producing management-oriented content, but through different channels.
“‘The school will continue to deliver thoughtful, engaging content that draws even more heavily on the important work of our MIT Sloan faculty,’ Locke wrote, ‘showcasing a variety of platforms including digital newsletters, short-form video, social-first content, and podcasts.’
“The move reflects a broader transformation underway across business education, where schools increasingly prioritize direct-to-audience digital content over traditional editorial publishing models.
“For decades, MIT Sloan Management Review occupied a distinctive position in management media, translating academic research into practitioner-oriented insight on leadership, technology, innovation, organizational change, and strategy.
“Founded in 1959, the magazine became one of the few publications capable of bridging the worlds of scholarly management research and executive readership at scale. Alongside Harvard Business Review, it helped define the genre of research-driven business journalism aimed at working managers rather than academics alone.”
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