Outrage is no longer an occasional crisis—it’s a constant. In this HBR Executive Masterclass, Oxford professor Karthik Ramanna explains why traditional crisis management fails in today’s polarized ...

Companies want to rapidly digitize procurement by exploiting emerging technologies like AI. However, traditional IT ...

It used to be that legislative agendas and macro policy issues like trade policies or environmental initiatives were ...

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Alex Rivera settled into his office chair and stared at the pages containing charts and projections that were spread across his desk. Three years into his role as CEO of SolidTech Innovations, he ...

The past few years have been exhausting for many Western organizations. Civil strife seems to be widespread, with clashes over racial, gender, and income inequality; rising authoritarianism ...

In 2022 one of us (Bob) was going through the onerous process of moving from one house to another when he stumbled upon an old sketch in his files. It depicted a prototype for a thumbs-up like ...

A growing body of evidence shows that hybrid or remote work arrangements lead to lower overall performance. Many firms, however, don’t have the option to bring employees back on-site, for a ...

While change has always been difficult, we have now entered an area in which it is continuous rather than episodic. Employees are tired and morale, productivity, and innovation all suffer as a ...

New research points to some surprising answers. by Ethan Bernstein, Michael B. Horn and Bob Moesta The so-called war for talent is still raging. But in that fight employers continue to rely on the ...

June 18, 2025 Most businesses are built on a linear model: take, make, and discard. But that norm is reaching its limits, and leaders are under pressure to find smarter, more sustainable ways to ...

June 24, 2025 Whether you’re a manager trying to move your organization in a new direction, an entrepreneur seeking to fix a consumer pain point, or a non-profit leader working to improve ...