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As a leader, you need visibility into your team’s work—what’s on track, what’s falling behind, and where support is needed. But too much oversight can breed distrust, especially among experienced team ...

Researchers at Vlerick Business School’s Centre for Financial Leadership and Digital Transformation have worked with CFOs and ...

In April 2025, Harvard Business Review Analytic Services conducted a survey of 236 members of the Harvard Business Review ...

Yesterday we listed five research-backed strategies that can lead to a happier life—even for busy professionals. Here are five more: Act nicely. Agreeableness is consistently found to be highly and ...

Welcome to the HBR Executive Agenda for August 7, 2025. Adi Ignatius is the editor at large at Harvard Business Review and its former editor in chief. Explore HBR HBR Store About HBR Manage My ...

Ambitious entrepreneurs are increasingly turning to AI to drive growth, innovation, and efficiency. They have used AI to compete with major players, showing that small teams can achieve outsized ...

At the executive level, your words carry more weight and come with greater responsibility. That’s why strategic editing is a critical senior leadership skill. It’s knowing what to say (and ...

In today’s volatile environment, leaders face high‑stakes decisions amid economic shocks, ethical dilemmas, and public scrutiny. Strong leadership requires more than expertise—it demands ...

Firms around the world are struggling to adjust their supply chains and operations to the chaotic trade war unleashed by the Trump administration. Some firms have developed a dynamic stress ...

New research finds that, after a fatal school shooting, people shop and dine out less, and they avoid public spaces in the impacted U.S. county. This leads to measurable drops in local spending to ...

Among the many challenges organizations face in implementing AI initiatives, most are related to people and processes. While it’s true that organizations face technical barriers such as poor ...