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How to Manage Your Stress When the Sky Is Falling
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleGo back to the basics. -
If You Were a Stock, Would You Bet On Yourself?
Managing yourself Digital ArticleThis simple question can reframe how you sell yourself — and selling yourself is the only way to be successful in today’s economy. -
You Might Not Be Hearing Your Team's Best Ideas
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleEven the loudest voices leave things unsaid. -
Authenticity: Is It Real or Is It Marketing? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMarty Echt, the new head of marketing at Hunsk Engines, is determined to bring the motorcycle maker back to its roots. He says it's not enough to project... -
The Hidden Business Cost of Mental Illness
Leadership Digital ArticleIt’s hard to focus on your work when your child is hallucinating. One of the least discussed yet quite salient issues for American business in this year of health care reform is an important yet hidden cost associated with mental illness: the drain on productive work endured by family members struggling to support loved ones […] -
Why Are We So Emotional about Money?
Finance & Accounting InterviewOur relationship with money is just as personal as any other big relationship in our lives. -
How to Respond to "Take It or Leave It"
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleYou really do have a choice. -
Handwritten Notes Are a Rare Commodity. They’re Also More Important Than Ever.
Business communication Digital ArticleThey cost something, mean something, and have permanence. -
Stop Basing Pay on Performance Reviews
Communication Digital ArticleSevering the link to compensation is the key to honest feedback. -
Management's Little Black Dress: Essential Practices for Leaders
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSince Coco Chanel unveiled her iconic black dress in Paris in 1926, that little black dress has become a clothing essential in every woman's wardrobe.... -
Firing Back: How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters
Business communication Magazine ArticleThe leader’s fall from “Who’s Who” to “Who’s that?” is full of stigma and shame. But the story doesn’t have to end there. -
Visualizations That Really Work
Communication Magazine ArticleNot long ago, the ability to create smart data visualizations (or dataviz) was a nice-to-have skill for design- and data-minded managers. But now it's... -
How to Manage a Multi-Generational Team
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTo realize the benefits of a generationally diverse workforce, we need to learn how to appreciate our unique preferences, habits, and behaviors. -
How to Recover Your Core Rhythm
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleI spent much of last week on the road. Eager to get back home when my work was done, I took the red-eye flight from San Francisco to New York at 10 pm.... -
Productivity Skills to Help You Gain Time Back
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTime is your most valuable resource. Spend it carefully. -
Be Strategic About Your Time
Time management Digital ArticleIn the frantic buzz of most managerial lives, I see people running from meeting to meeting, consulting their BlackBerrys as though in prayer, desperately working into the night to cope with a deluge of emails and otherwise being busy, busy, busy. The dilemma of all this activity, however, is that it is for the most […] -
A Matchmaker's Advice on How to Make a Great First Impression at Work
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Don’t Leave Your Personal Life at Home
Work-life balance Digital ArticleYou’re not paying attention to your family, your community, your private self? All you have time for is your career? You’re making a big mistake. How things are going at home, in your community, and in your interior life all influence whether you perform well at work. Over 20 years of research and practice on […] -
Why I’m Glad I Got Fired
Managing yourself Digital ArticleThis post is part of HBR’s special issue on failure. I came to be an expert on collaboration because Carol Bartz both hired me and fired me — within 18 months. Here’s what happened. A friend of mine, Godfrey Sullivan, asked me to consider running the operations for the Americas unit at Autodesk. Only sheer […] -
5 Ways to Demonstrate Your Value - Remotely
Communication Digital ArticleShare your wins.
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Dwyane Wade
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In July 2016, while on his annual China tour to help promote the sportswear brand Li-Ning, basketball superstar Dwyane Wade and his long-time business... -
Iceland's Landsbanki Islands hf: Where to From Here?
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The CEO of a failed bank in Iceland must address what went wrong and how he should go about restoring trust in the bank by customers, debt holders, fellow... -
You at Work: Managing a Hybrid Team
29.95View Details With the proliferation of hybrid work, many of us are now working alongside employees who are based in the office as well as those working remotely. We... -
Whose Life is This? A Creativity Exercise
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The purpose of this technical note is to introduce a creativity exercise based on photo stimuli to business-school faculty and to discuss how it can be... -
You at Work: Dealing with Setbacks
29.95View Details Even the most successful professionals encounter hurdles at some point in their careers. While you can't avoid setbacks, you can recover from them and... -
First National City Bank Operating Group (C)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Provides a short summary of John Reed's succession at City Bank from Executive Vice President in 1976 to CEO in 1984. -
Overcoming Overwork (HBR Women at Work Series)
Management Book24.95View Details Overworked? Overwhelmed? Protect yourself from burnout. The amount of work placed on women is often insurmountable. Along with doing what's required for... -
Next-Level Negotiating (HBR Women at Work Series)
Communication Book24.95View Details Build trust--and create more value. Whether you're negotiating a salary, a deal with a supplier, or your workload, thoughtful preparation increases your... -
Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details This supplemental case follows up on the Netflix Prize Contest described in Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A). In the A case, Netflix CEO Reed... -
Network Assessment Exercise: Abridged MBA Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Designed to help students identify patterns in their approaches to developing networks of relationships. A "network" refers to the set of relationships... -
Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley (D)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (C) case. -
Hamilton Won More Than Twitter
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The case is set in summer 2016, centered on the writer and performing star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, whose Broadway show Hamilton had grossed almost $75 million... -
HP-Cisco Alliance (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In 2002, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems strove to develop their long-standing partnership into a strategic alliance with increasing impact. Critical... -
Uber: #WhatDoYouDo?
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details This public-sourced case is based on a 2017 blog post by a former Uber employee, Susan Fowler, in which she was brutally honest about the sexual harassment,... -
I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique
28.00View Details For readers of "Sapiens" and "Homo Deus" and viewers of "The Social Dilemma," psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic tackles one of the biggest questions... -
You at Work: Doing Your Best Work Remotely
29.95View Details The option to work remotely - whether at home, at co-working spaces, while travelling, or elsewhere--has gone mainstream. Remote work allows companies... -
Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works
32.00View Details Who drives transformation in society? How do they do it? In this compelling book, strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO... -
Nine Things Successful People Do Differently
14.99View Details Are you at the top of your game--or still trying to get there? Take your cues from the short, powerful "9 Things Successful People Do Differently," where... -
PremiumSoft: Managing Creative People
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details PremiumSoft had been a competitive player in the SQL software market for 10 years. Like many software companies, PremiumSoft's business model required... -
THE STAKES OF ENGAGEMENT - Confidential Instructions for Jacques Parker
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Two-party, multi-issue, scoreable negotiation regarding a prenuptial agreement, calling for a balance of substantive and relationship concerns. Marlene...
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How to Manage Your Stress When the Sky Is Falling
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleGo back to the basics. -
If You Were a Stock, Would You Bet On Yourself?
Managing yourself Digital ArticleThis simple question can reframe how you sell yourself — and selling yourself is the only way to be successful in today’s economy. -
You Might Not Be Hearing Your Team's Best Ideas
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleEven the loudest voices leave things unsaid. -
Authenticity: Is It Real or Is It Marketing? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMarty Echt, the new head of marketing at Hunsk Engines, is determined to bring the motorcycle maker back to its roots. He says it's not enough to project... -
The Hidden Business Cost of Mental Illness
Leadership Digital ArticleIt’s hard to focus on your work when your child is hallucinating. One of the least discussed yet quite salient issues for American business in this year of health care reform is an important yet hidden cost associated with mental illness: the drain on productive work endured by family members struggling to support loved ones […] -
Why Are We So Emotional about Money?
Finance & Accounting InterviewOur relationship with money is just as personal as any other big relationship in our lives. -
How to Respond to "Take It or Leave It"
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleYou really do have a choice. -
Handwritten Notes Are a Rare Commodity. They’re Also More Important Than Ever.
Business communication Digital ArticleThey cost something, mean something, and have permanence. -
Stop Basing Pay on Performance Reviews
Communication Digital ArticleSevering the link to compensation is the key to honest feedback. -
Management's Little Black Dress: Essential Practices for Leaders
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSince Coco Chanel unveiled her iconic black dress in Paris in 1926, that little black dress has become a clothing essential in every woman's wardrobe....