The chief marketing officer (CMO) role has expanded significantly due to digital technologies, data, and AI, increasing both ...

If you’re trying to lead growth of any kind, from revenue to margin expansion, it’s critical that your sales organization has ...

A new IdeaCast is heading your way. A new sound is in store for the HBR IdeaCast. Every Tuesday, we’ll keep giving you the insights, research, and advice you need to lead, featuring practical ...

A conversation with space experts Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau on the government’s role in fostering competition and innovation. Many industries depend on the government to finance ...

There has been no shortage of questions and predictions about the end of middle management—from the pages of HBR in 2011 to the BBC four years later. Despite this, the proportion of middle ...

Relative valuation—using simple metrics to compare a firm’s value to its peers—is a cornerstone of financial decision-making. If a company earns $2 billion in profit, and if similar firms ...

Building consensus is a good thing—until it stalls decision-making. Being too collaborative can actually hold you back at work, argues leadership coach Rebecca Shambaugh. Instead of showing how ...

In the popular Apple TV+ show Ted Lasso, the titular character plays a relentlessly positive soccer coach whose care and kindness inspires his ragtag team to reach new heights. And, in fact, past ...

If you’ve ever taken a corporate personality or skills assessment, you’ve probably come across the Core Values Finder, a tool for measuring personal values. It is based on one of the most ...

A conversation with researcher Neri Karra Sillaman about creating companies that last. It’s a common story: an immigrant arrives in a new country, sees a need, and works hard to build a ...

Family businesses operate in a space where trust is assumed, roles are inherited, and emotions run deep. That intimacy can be a strength, but without structure, it’s also a vulnerability.

Given how effective AI is at mimicking human writing, it should come as no surprise that CEOs are experimenting with using it to draft personal messages. Harvard Business School research from 2018 ...