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 ...

Many high-performing professional services firms—from big law to accounting to consultancies—are characterized by the extreme ...

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In most large organizations, a typical CEO’s or senior executive’s calendar is clogged with 1:1 meetings. These are usually ...

The tech giants Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Google (now Alphabet), Microsoft, and Netflix are all so successful—and generate so much cash—that they seem virtually unstoppable. Yet ...

Joy, along with achievement and meaningfulness, is one of the three keys to a satisfying life. Yet it’s the missing piece for many ambitious individuals, the authors found after examining data ...

As civil strife grows around the world, clashes are on the rise in the workplace too. Incivility on the job is getting worse, and each day it costs companies billions in lost productivity and ...

Why do investors respond favorably to some CEO presentations but not to others? In an analysis of 654 presentations on acquisitions, two professors found one factor that stood out: whether a ...