Michael Hopkins

Editor-in-Chief
MIT Sloan Management Review
Michael S. Hopkins is Editor-in-Chief of the MIT Sloan Management Review, the leading print and web publication that brings ideas from the world of thinkers (scholars, researchers, management theoreticians) to the executives and managers who use those ideas to build businesses.

Since joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Review in 2007, Hopkins has especially focused the publication on inquiries into collaborative innovation and the management implications of sustainability - two key drivers of organization model transformation and new practices in strategy and leadership.

Hopkins's early career in media included the Wall Street Journal and Inc. Magazine, where he served as Executive Editor from 1991-2003 and then worked as its columnist and writer covering management, culture, and ideas.

Later Hopkins led a collaboration between the Monitor Group and The Financial Times to create FutureMonitor.com-a website and self-organizing online community of thought leaders worldwide. FutureMonitor-a wisdom-of-crowds experiment-aimed to identify what business will need to know next: the trends in management, science, technology and culture that would most affect business decisions in the near future. Also with the Monitor Group, Hopkins developed the Strategic Leadership Agenda, a program for which he conceived and conducted numerous video interviews of Global Fortune 50 and leading non-profit CEOs/COOs around the world, seeking to understand evolving trends and changing management challenges.

Hopkins has written widely, and his feature work has been anthologized in the book series, The Best Business Stories of the Year (Vintage). In 2004-2005 he toured the U.S. to give a seminar series on The Care and Feeding of the 21st Century CEO, an exploration of sustainable leadership behaviors and the organizational innovation practices they support.

Hopkins graduated from Amherst College, Amherst, MA, and studied at the University of Cambridge.