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How to Achieve Resilient Growth Throughout the Business Cycle
By W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne The world has recently enjoyed the longest business cycle since the…
Use data to revolutionize project planning
By Yael Grushka-Cockayne The California bullet train. Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter program. Berlin’s Brandenburg Airport. Inaccurate forecasts…
How the Economy Differs for Workers, Consumers and Savers
By James Manyika & Michael Spence While the economic gains for many people in advanced economies are significant…
Every Leader Needs to Navigate These 7 Tensions
By Jennifer Jordan, Michael Wade & Elizabeth Teracino In recent years, articles have claimed that old-style command-and-control leadership…
The mystery of the $2,000 Ikea shopping bag
By Silvia Bellezza & Jonah Berger Why does the luxury brand Balenciaga sell a $2,000 purse modeled after…
How sales teams can thrive in a digital world
By Andris A. Zoltners, Prabhakant Sinha & Sally E. Lorimer Since the dawn of the Internet era, experts…
Stop calling it ‘innovation’
By Nadya Zhexembayeva Let me start with the obvious: “Innovation” is a buzzword. In fact, it’s been a…
Data-driven cultures start at the top
By Sheri L. Feinzig & Nigel Guenole We’re in the middle of an analytics revolution. The change is…
How to negotiate with a procurement team
By Tom Kinnaird & Hal Movius Imagine the feeling: After months of courting a new client, who has…
Present your data like a pro
By Joel Schwartzberg With so many ways to spin and distort information these days, a presentation needs to…
Can Facebook’s Oversight Board Win People’s Trust?
By Mark Latonero Facebook is a step away from creating its global Oversight Board for content moderation. While…
What makes a family business last?
By John A. Davis The performance edge family businesses have over their nonfamily business counterparts has been explained…
Constraints don’t have to be constraining
By Laura Huang There’s an exercise I used to do with students in my entrepreneurship course: I would…
What will it take to stop coronavirus?
By Ranu S. Dhillon & Devabhaktuni Srikrishna A new respiratory coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, is rapidly spreading throughout China, where…
How global leaders should think about solving our biggest problems
By Mark R. Kramer, Marc W. Pfitzer & Helge Mahne The idea that global companies can take a…
To be a great leader, you need the right mindset
By Ryan Gottfredson & Chris Reina The Brandon Hall Group, a human capital research and analyst firm, surveyed…
What top consulting firms get wrong about hiring
By Atta Tarki & Tino Sanandaji Each year, around 185,000 MBA students graduate in the United States Many…
The 5 kinds of blockchain projects
By David Furlonger & Christophe Uzureau Despite widespread experimentation, blockchain is still young and evolving. Today’s experiments often…
How corporate cultures differ around the world
By J. Yo-Jud Cheng & Boris Groysberg When we launched an online assessment to allow Harvard Business Review…
Don’t mistake execution for strategy
By Graham Kenny A business involved in conducting clinical trials for medical and pharmaceutical companies recently sent me…
Why likable leaders seem more effective
By Charn McAllister, Sherry Moss & Mark J. Martinko A recent trend in leadership research is to define…
Principles for Improving Health Care Around the World
By Dave A. Chokshi Growing evidence demonstrates that social determinants of health, such as housing and education, are…
Amazon’s Priorities, Based on Jeff Bezos’s Letters to Shareholders
By Tricia Gregg & Boris Groysberg Warren Buffett’s annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders has been required reading…
How to break up with your bad habits
By Judson Brewer Breaking habits is hard. Put simply, reward-based learning involves a trigger (for example, the feeling…
Are businesses ready for deglobalization?
By Dambisa Moyo As we enter a new decade, characterized by rising economic complexity and geopolitical divisions—US-China tensions,…
The AI roles some companies forget to fill
By Megan Beck, Thomas H. Davenport & Barry Libert Artificial intelligence is almost everywhere in the news today,…
The two big reasons that digital transformations fail
By Mike Sutcliff, Raghav Narsalay & Aarohi Sen Plenty of cash is flowing into digital initiatives at large,…
Create rules that are unique to your company
By Bill Taylor Ben Horowitz, the high-profile venture capitalist behind some of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing start-ups, is out…
Developing a Talent Pipeline for Your Digital Transformation
By Jeff Kavanaugh & Ravi Kumar S. Companies in every industry are digitalizing their operations, and many are…
Adapting your leadership strategy as your start-up grows
By Ron Ashkenas Pivoting from an initial product design or business model has become a given in the…
Why investors react negatively to companies that put women on their boards
By Isabelle Solal & Kaisa Snellman Despite persistent efforts to tackle underrepresentation of women on corporate boards, most…
Superstar firms are running away with the global economy
By Matej Bajgar, Sara Calligaris, Chiara Criscuolo, Luca Marcolin & Jonathan Timmis Imagine a dynamic economy. Businesses compete for…
3 ways to motivate your sales team—without stressing them out
By Scott Edinger It’s widely accepted that if you are in sales, you will have a quota. Achieve…
How marketers can overcome short-termism
By Christine Moorman & Lauren Kirby Marketing is all about strategy—or is it? To find out, the August 2019…
The delicate balance of making an ecosystem strategy work
By Michael G. Jacobides Business ecosystems are becoming all the rage. To execute an ecosystem strategy, you must…
Why employees need both recognition and appreciation
By Mike Robbins Recognition and appreciation. For leaders who want their teams to thrive and organizations that want…
How to Engage Physicians in Innovative Health-Care Efforts
By Michael Hodgkins, Meg Barron & Stacy Lloyd Because the digital health ecosystem is growing and evolving so…
Does your artificial intelligence have users’ best interests at heart?
By Mike Walsh Ethical decisions are rarely easy. Nowadays, even less so. Smart machines, cheap computation and vast…
Midsize Companies Are Growing, but Struggling to Earn Profits
By Vijay Govindarajan, Anup Srivastava & Luminita Enache According to our research, a midsize firm today is approximately…
Attractive people get unfair advantages at work. Can artificial intelligence help?
By Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Broadly speaking, beauty bias concerns the favorable treatment that individuals receive when they are deemed…
3 Ways Health-Care Leaders Can Encourage Experimentation
By David A. Asch, Kevin B. Mahoney & Roy Rosin Successful health-care innovation follows the pattern of successful…
Remote monitoring can reduce hospital visits for cancer patients
By Bobby Daly, Abigail Baldwin-Medsker & Wendy Perchick • Until the 1990s, patients with cancer requiring chemotherapy typically…
Two big reasons that digital transformations fail
By Mike Sutcliff, Raghav Narsalay & Aarohi Sen Plenty of cash is flowing into digital initiatives at large,…
What small businesses know about corporate responsibility
By Robert Cresanti An increasing number of large firms are taking action on big issues, from education to…
We need artificial intelligence that is explainable, auditable and transparent
By Greg Satell & Josh Sutton Algorithms can determine what college we attend, whether we get hired, whether…
3 myths about China’s intellectual-property regime
By Dan Prud’homme Is China’s intellectual-property regime really all that bad? It has become generally accepted that the…
What the lean start-up method gets right and wrong
By Ethan Mollick When someone learns I am an entrepreneurship professor, they tend to either ask me to…
Americans are having fewer kids. What will that mean for higher education?
By Nathan Grawe Demographic change is a constant force. College campuses are often at the forefront of the…
Corporate Action on Climate Change Has to Include Lobbying
By Andrew Winston The climate crisis is upon us, and there’s no time to wait for voluntary corporate…
How virtual reality can help train surgeons
By Gideon Blumstein Our current system of training and assessing surgeons has lagged behind the pace of innovation,…
Facebook’s Oversight Board is not enough
By Dipayan Ghosh Following Mark Zuckerberg’s stated commitment to improving his company’s public accountability measures nearly a year…
Why skills training can’t replace higher education
By George D. Kuh Much of the current posturing by policy-makers and pundits about the failure of US…
Why Companies Do ‘Innovation Theater’ Instead of actual Innovation
By Steve Blank Disruption today is more than just changes in technology, or channel, or competitors—it’s all of…
Integrating the science of how we learn into education technology
By Stephen M. Kosslyn For well over 100 years, researchers have labored to understand how humans learn and…
Universities should be preparing students for the gig economy
By Diane Mulcahy This year’s news that the majority of Google’s work force is made up of independent…
Establish expertise inside your company
By Dorie Clark In a competitive marketplace, developing a reputation as an expert is one of the best…
Retraining workers is a corporate social responsibility
By Adam Medros It’s no secret that the age of automation is not just on its way; it’s…
Technology is blurring the line between field sales and inside sales
By Andris A. Zoltners, PK Sinha & Sally E. Lorimer Field sales and inside sales have traditionally had…
How to improve your company’s net promoter score
By Thales S. Teixeira & Renato Mendes There is a surefire way to increase your company’s net promoter…
Use your travel time productively
By Dorie Clark I’m writing this article on a flight to Raleigh-Durham; I began it last week on…
Monetizing a business ecosystem
By Peter Williamson & Arnoud de Meyer More companies are starting to recognize that developing a vibrant ecosystem…
Will We Realize Blockchain’s Promise of Decentralization?
By Hanna Halaburda & Christoph Mueller-Bloch Since its inception, blockchain has promised to make “trusted third parties” redundant.…
For returning professionals, there’s power in the cohort
By Carol Fishman Cohen Andrea Chermayeff wishes she’d kept a diary during the fall of 2013. That was…
Why asking for advice is more effective than asking for feedback
By Jaewon Yoon, Hayley Blunden, Ariella Kristal & Ashley Whillans You just gave a great first pitch to…
Yes, employers do value liberal arts degrees
By Lynn Pasquerella It’s no secret that American higher education is under siege, with public confidence in the…
Automation Isn’t About to Make Truckers Obsolete
By Maury Gittleman & Kristen Monaco Hardly a day goes by without someone suggesting that technologies like artificial…
Quantifying the cost of Brexit uncertainty
By Walter Frick More than three years after the referendum, businesses still don’t know what the outcome of…
Why consolidating brands can be a strategic mistake
By Graham Kenny For two decades, a well-known professional service firm in Australia had offered management consulting and…
Companies led by inventors produce better innovations
By emdad Islam & Jason Zein What makes a company innovative? In the words of Steve Jobs: “It’s…
The strategy behind TikTok’s rise
By Rebecca Fannin In just two years, TikTok has emerged to rival companies like Netflix, YouTube, Snapchat and…
What C-level executives really think about CMOs
Diana O’Brien, Jennifer Veenstra & Tim Murphy Chief marketing officers (CMO) are under enormous pressure. They’re expected to…
Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company
Monika Lessl, Henning Trill & Julian Birkinshaw Bayer’s mission is “Science for a Better Life.” To achieve that…
What companies can do to help employees address mental-health issues
People are increasingly waking up to the magnitude of the mental-health issue and its importance in the world…
Digital growth depends more on business models than technology
By Mark W. Johnson Every successful company, whether it knows it or not, owes its success to its…
What businesses should know about Brazil’s new president
On October 28, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil’s Social Liberal Party defeated Fernando Haddad of the Worker’s Party in…
The Growing Business of Helping Customers Slow Down
WE are living in an age of acceleration. How are people coping? Increasingly, by seeking out opportunities to slow…
The coalitions that could hold the EU together
THAT the EU remains largely intact is due in no small part to Germany. It has, to a…
Is employee engagement just a reflection of personality?
By Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Lewis Garrad & Didier Elzinga Most people would like to have a job, a boss…
What a Toys ’R’ Us comeback could look like
For the reborn company to have a chance, it must turn 180 degrees and embrace a parent- and kid-centric strategy.
Remote workers are more disengaged and more likely to quit
Employees around the world yearn for freedom and flexibility. The most common form of flexibility that companies offer…
Will Wall Street be able to earn the trust of younger investors?
Our data shows that the consumer that is “extremely interested” in alternative investments is very young and has a high income, with an average age of 35 and average annual income over $130,000.
If Your Innovation Effort Isn’t Working, Look at Who’s on the Team
By Nathan Furr, Kyle Nel & Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy An all-star team is making headway with a new…
Convincing CEOs to make harassment prevention a priority
Employees who are harassed, as well as those who work with harassed employees, suffer adverse physical and mental-health consequences, resulting in absenteeism and higher medical costs.
To give a great presentation, distill your message to just 15 words
Fearless public speaking is about more than combating nerves. It’s about knowing the technique, the art and the…
The economics of discrimination in 1930s Germany
By Kilian Huber, Volker Lindenthal & Fabian Waldinger Large-scale, government-directed discrimination against a group of people is extremely…
Women act more ethically than men when representing themselves—but not when representing others
Research tells us a lot about why people behave unethically. Many studies, however, look only at the unethical…
Auditing algorithms for bias
By Rumman Chowdhury & Narendra Mulani In 1971 the philosopher John Rawls proposed a thought experiment to understand…
The 6 Fundamental Skills Every Leader Should Practice
By Ron Ashkenas & Brook Manville There’s an old story about a tourist who asks a New Yorker…
How peer coaching can make work less lonely
By Norian Caporale-Berkowitz & Stewart D. Friedman Workplace loneliness causes burnout, affects job satisfaction and lowers both performance…
The art of the elevator pitch
When asked what their movie is about, successful screenwriters have a ready answer that is clear, concise and…
Career hot streaks can happen at any age
By Dashun Wang In science, 1905 is known as the annus mirabilis, or “miracle year,” the period when…
Great employees want to learn. Great managers know how to teach.
By Daniel Dobrygowski As workers get more used to a fluid workplace, where longevity in one firm isn’t…
6 ways to build a customer-centric culture
By Denise Lee Yohn Why do so many companies struggle to get customer-centricity right? The most common, and…
4 ways busy people sabotage themselves
YOU’VE left an important task undone for weeks. It’s hanging over you, causing daily anxiety. And yet instead…
People who graduate during recessions earn less money—but they’re happier
WHEN the graduating classes of 2009, 2010 and 2011 hit the job market, their employment prospects were depressingly bleak.…
The best-performing emerging economies emphasize competition
DEVELOPMENT economists over the ages have puzzled over why some emerging economies perform much better than others over the…
Research: Women and men are equally bad at multitasking
WHILE women’s supposed superiority at multitasking has garnered headlines, the scientific findings regarding sex differences in multitasking abilities are…
You have to stop canceling and rescheduling things. Really.
By Whitney Johnson Why do any of us say we will do things and then fail to do…
Disruptive start-ups get funding more easily, but less of it
By Timo van Balen & Murat Tarakci In the start-up world, the disrupter is the cool kid on…
Is office politics a white man’s game?
By Michelle King, David Denyer & Emma Parry Love it or hate it, office politics is an inevitable…