Delegation is not an uncommon challenge. Many leaders know that they should be delegating some of their tasks, but often ...

The collective impacts of job-cutting amid economic downturns can cause lasting damage to workers and labor markets. Sign up for HBR Executive Agenda - for insights you need to steer your business now ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has upended many traditional business practices. When it comes to recruiting, the crisis has not so much disrupted as accelerated shifts in the talent landscape that were ...

Social media was supposed to usher in a golden age of branding. But things didn’t turn out that way. Marketers originally thought that Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter would let them bypass ...

Reprint: R1409B Though corporate profits are high, and the stock market is booming, most Americans are not sharing in the economic recovery. While the top 0.1% of income recipients reap almost all ...

Reprint: R0711C Many executives are surprised when previously successful leadership approaches fail in new situations, but different contexts call for different kinds of responses. Before ...

As consumer demand for sustainable products grows, more and more sellers have begun adding labels to their products to indicate various kinds of sustainability certifications. These labels such as ...

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 ...

In this week’s edition of the HBR Executive Agenda, editor-at-large Adi Ignatius reports on the global economic impacts of conflict between Israel, the U.S. and Iran. To understand what ...

Reprint: R1309C Even when CEOs make gender diversity a priority—by setting aspirational goals for the proportion of women in leadership roles, insisting on diverse slates of candidates for ...

Motivating yourself is one of the main things that sets high achievers apart, and it’s hard. How do you keep pushing onward when your heart isn’t in it? In her research, Fishbach has ...

Power clearly isn’t what it used to be. We see Goliaths being toppled by Davids all around us, from the networked drivers of Uber to the crowdfunded creatives of Kickstarter. But it’s ...