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Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
What I Learned from Warren Buffett
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleBill Gates and Warren Buffett are by far the two most successful and admired businessmen in the United States. They share a unique friendship, a love... -
Ferguson's Formula
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen Alex Ferguson took over as manager of the English football team Manchester United, the club was in dire straits: It hadn't won a league title in... -
Skills of an Effective Administrator (HBR Classic)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleEffective administration depends upon three basic personal skills which, for analytical purposes, can be classified as technical, human, and conceptual.... -
Leadership Lessons of Mount Everest
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe Himalayas are one of nature's most demanding classrooms, but they can teach us important principles about taking charge of our followers--and our... -
Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleConscience explains why most business men and women keep their word and deal fairly with one another. There is no evidence that honesty pays, despite... -
Rethinking Efficiency
Organizational Development Digital ArticleBusiness thinkers have long viewed the elimination of waste as management's holy grail. But what if the negative effects from the pursuit of efficiency... -
Desperately Seeking Synergy
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleManagers can separate the real opportunities for synergy from the mirages, say Michael Goold and Andrew Campbell of the Ashridge Strategic Management... -
Life's Work: John Cleese
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe comic icon shares his thoughts on creativity, corporate humor, and how the team behind Monty Python made decisions. -
Living in the Futures
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIn 1965, a time when quantitative, computer-driven planning was very much in vogue, Royal Dutch Shell started experimenting with a different way of looking... -
Beware the Next Big Thing
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleInnovative management ideas that bubble up in other companies pose a perennial quandary for leaders: Should you attempt to borrow new ideas, and if so,... -
Looking Ahead: Implications of the Present
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleOn its 75th anniversary, HBR asked five of the business world's most insightful thinkers to comment on the challenges taking shape for executives as they... -
Find Your Purpose in Your Most Challenging Experiences, Portuguese Version
What are those challenging moments that have tested you, but also reveal who you are? You may discover your sense of purpose by revisiting your past. -
Should Employers Fire Employees Who Attend White Supremacist Rallies?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThere are both legal and moral questions to consider. -
Making Purpose Real, French Version
Leadership & Managing People Digital Article"Despite its sudden elevation in corporate life, purpose remains a confusing topic," the authors write. A primary cause of this confusion, they say, is... -
What's a Business For?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn the wake of the recent corporate scandals, it's time to reconsider the assumptions underlying American-style stock-market capitalism. That heady doctrine--in... -
The Management Century
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn 1886, addressing the nascent American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Henry R. Towne proposed that "the management of works" be considered a modern... -
Essentials of Being a Great Boss, French Version
To excel as a manager, you need to master three imperatives: managing yourself (by earning others' trust), managing your network (by building a diverse... -
On the Edge: An Interview with Akamai's George Conrades
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAkamai Technologies is attracting investors, employees, partners, and customers like a supercharged magnet. The Cambridge, Massachusetts, company is transforming...
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How the Geeks Rewrote the Rules of Management
Business and society Digital ArticleGeeks are “obsessive mavericks”, and every company can benefit from their leadership style. -
Jim Fielding, Ex-Head of Disney Stores, on the Struggles of Making It as a Queer Executive
Business and society Digital ArticleWorking–and living–inauthentically can cause stress, mental illness, or worse. -
Why Managers Should Think More Like Hackers
Management philosophy Digital ArticleIt can help you work around obstacles, find opportunities across silos, and more. -
Lincoln Center CEO Henry Timms on New Models for Effective Leadership
Business and society Digital Article“New power” is about circulating new ideas for anyone and everyone to interpret and build on – rather than being controlled by a centralized organization. -
The Myth of the Brilliant, Charismatic Leader
Leadership qualities Digital ArticleResearch shows that good management is more profitable than a cult of personality. -
What Great Remote Managers Do Differently
Collaboration and teams Digital ArticleRemote work brought a subtle but important shift in how employees expect their managers to work with them. -
Improving the Practice of Management — Then and Now
Leadership Big IdeaAs HBR turns 100, we look back on our original mission, how we’ve changed, and what the future holds. -
100 Years of HBR
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHBR turns 100 this year, and to mark the anniversary, we're taking both a look back--and a look forward. In the essay, "Improving the Practice of Management--Then... -
What Is the Purpose of Your Purpose?
Business and society SpotlightYour why may not be what you think it is. -
Making Purpose Real
Leadership & Managing People Digital Article"Despite its sudden elevation in corporate life, purpose remains a confusing topic," the authors write. A primary cause of this confusion, they say, is... -
Delta CEO Ed Bastian on Leading an Airline Through Two Years of Pandemic Disruptions
Business and society Digital ArticleThe airline had to adapt to a seemingly endless series of dire, pandemic-related challenges. -
You're Not Paid Based on Your Performance
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhat actually determines compensation on a systemic level? And what should? -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
How Apple Is Organized for Innovation: The Functional Organization
When Steve Jobs arrived back at Apple in 1997, he laid off general managers of all business units and combined disparate functional departments into one... -
Reimagining the Urban Office
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleA new kind of workspace could help employees thrive. -
To Build a Strong Culture, Create Rules That Are Unique to Your Company
Organizational Development Digital ArticleDistinctive cultures produce distinctive products. -
Put Purpose at the Core of Your Strategy
Society and business relations Magazine ArticleIt’s how successful companies redefine their businesses. -
How to Make Even the Most Mundane Tasks More Motivating
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleConnect them to a broader goal. -
How One Health System Overcame Resistance to a Surgical Checklist
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA case study for effecting change in a change-averse industry. -
Want Fewer Employees to Quit? Listen to Them
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA new study confirms an old idea.
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Leader(ship) Development
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Designed for use in the first year of an MBA program, can be included within a core course on leadership or used more broadly to orient students to their... -
Dementia Discovery Fund
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details After the British government searched for a venture capital organization to create a new dementia fund, it selected SV Health, a UK- and US-based healthcare... -
Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management
29.95View Details A Harvard Business Review Book. This book brings together all of Rosabeth Moss Kanter's Harvard Business Review articles and many of the editorial columns... -
Changing the Culture at British Airways, Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In just 10 years, 1980-1990, British Airways turned around both its declining image and financial situation. Focusing on the paramount importance of customer... -
Student Success at Georgia State University (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that... -
Mrs. Fields Cookies, Spanish Version
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Mrs. Fields Cookies is a small company selling freshly baked goods through privately owned specialty stores (each store sells only Mrs. Fields products).... -
Lincoln Electric: Venturing Abroad, Japanese Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Lincoln Electric, a 100-year-old manufacturer of welding equipment and consumables based in Cleveland, Ohio, motivates its U.S. employees through a culture... -
Johnson & Johnson (A), Japanese Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes the Johnson & Johnson culture and the corporate systems, structures, and procedures which reflect and promote it. The principal teaching objectives... -
Hewlett-Packard: Creating, Running, and Growing an Enduring Company
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Traces the development of Hewlett-Packard Co. from a small start-up company in 1938 to a world-class manufacturer of electronic instruments and computer... -
Governance and Talent Management in a Professional Services Firm
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The Academy for Professional Development (APD) was launched in 1993, shortly after Perestroika and the turbulent time of Soviet disintegration. With the... -
Human Resources at the AES Corp.: The Case of the Missing Department
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details AES develops and operates electric power plants all over the world, and by late 1996, has approximately 20,000 employees. But, the corporation has no... -
Gucci Group: Freedom within the Framework
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Gucci Group's CEO had to decide if his decentralized management style was the most effective philosophy in an economic downturn. The sharing of customer... -
Profit with Gratitude: Building the Foundations of a Grateful Organization
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Infusing a culture of gratitude into an organization can enhance employee engagement and effectiveness. This note makes the case that focusing on this... -
SK Group: Social Progress Credits
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details SK Group was one of the largest companies South Korea. A family-run conglomerate consisting of around 120 subsidiaries and employing more than 100,000,... -
Climeworks (A): A Visionary Business to Help Stop Climate Change
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher founded Zurich-based start-up Climeworks in 2009 based on technology they had developed, which they claimed would... -
Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details This (B) case expands upon the journey of Career Karma's three founders by presenting a fictionalized Investor Meeting scenario. -
Brush with AIDS (B), Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Ethics Without the Sermon (Harvard Business Review Classics)
9.99View Details Corporate values and corporate operations have always been dynamically intertwined, but today more than ever the trend toward focusing on the social impact... -
Strategic Thinking, French Version
Strategy & Execution ToolTo help position you, your team, and your company for long-term success, you need to think strategically. Discover how to add value by thinking big, challenging... -
The Theory of the Business (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Peter F. Drucker argues that what underlies the current malaise of so many large and successful organizations worldwide is that their theory of the business...
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Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
What I Learned from Warren Buffett
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleBill Gates and Warren Buffett are by far the two most successful and admired businessmen in the United States. They share a unique friendship, a love... -
Ferguson's Formula
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen Alex Ferguson took over as manager of the English football team Manchester United, the club was in dire straits: It hadn't won a league title in... -
Skills of an Effective Administrator (HBR Classic)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleEffective administration depends upon three basic personal skills which, for analytical purposes, can be classified as technical, human, and conceptual.... -
Leadership Lessons of Mount Everest
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe Himalayas are one of nature's most demanding classrooms, but they can teach us important principles about taking charge of our followers--and our... -
Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleConscience explains why most business men and women keep their word and deal fairly with one another. There is no evidence that honesty pays, despite... -
Leader(ship) Development
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Designed for use in the first year of an MBA program, can be included within a core course on leadership or used more broadly to orient students to their... -
Dementia Discovery Fund
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details After the British government searched for a venture capital organization to create a new dementia fund, it selected SV Health, a UK- and US-based healthcare... -
Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management
29.95View Details A Harvard Business Review Book. This book brings together all of Rosabeth Moss Kanter's Harvard Business Review articles and many of the editorial columns... -
Changing the Culture at British Airways, Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In just 10 years, 1980-1990, British Airways turned around both its declining image and financial situation. Focusing on the paramount importance of customer...