ess Why Businesses Need to Think Like the Media By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:14:29 -0500 Larry Kramer, founder of MarketWatch, Inc., and author of "C-Scape: Conquer the Forces Changing Business Today." Full Article
ess Build a Better Business Model By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:38:54 -0500 Rita McGrath, Columbia Business School professor and coauthor of "Discovery-Driven Growth." Full Article
ess All Business Is Green Business By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:35:10 -0500 Jib Ellison, founder of Blu Skye and coauthor of the HBR article "The Sustainable Economy." Full Article
ess Business Wasn’t Always the Villain By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:50:33 -0500 Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School historian and editor of "The Story of American Business." Full Article
ess What Successful People Do Differently By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:08:13 -0500 Heidi Grant Halvorson, motivational psychologist and author of "Nine Things Successful People Do Differently." Full Article
ess Business Jargon Is Not a “Value-Add” By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:54:50 -0500 Dan Pallotta, president of Advertising for Humanity and author of "Uncharitable." Full Article
ess The Right Mindset for Success By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:32:59 -0500 Carol Dweck, professor at Stanford University and author of "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success." Full Article
ess Idea Watch: Harnessing Creativity By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:48:55 -0500 Andy O'Connell and Scott Berinato, editors of the Idea Watch section of HBR and The Daily Stat. Full Article
ess Unilever’s CEO on Making Responsible Business Work By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 17 May 2012 15:29:55 -0500 Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever. Full Article
ess Pressed for Time? Give Some of Yours Away By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:54:57 -0500 Cassie Mogilner, assistant professor of marketing at the Wharton School and author of the HBR article "You'll Feel Less Rushed If You Give Time Away." Full Article
ess How Campaign Finance Reform Could Help Business By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:00:00 -0500 Russ Feingold, former US senator from Wisconsin and founder of Progressives United. Full Article
ess Ernest Shackleton’s Lessons for Leaders in Harsh Climates By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:28:14 -0500 Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School historian and editor of "The Story of American Business." Full Article
ess The High Cost of Rudeness at Work By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:51:16 -0500 Christine Porath, associate professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business and coauthor of the HBR article "The Price of Incivility." Full Article
ess Improve Your Business Writing By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:46:27 -0500 Bryan Garner, editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary and author of the "HBR Guide to Better Business Writing." Full Article
ess Yes, Business Relies on Nature By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:01:59 -0500 Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and author of "Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature." Full Article
ess The Booming Business of Craft Cocktails By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:24:32 -0500 Thomas Mooney, co-owner and CEO of House Spirits Distillery. Full Article
ess Reduce Stress with Mindfulness By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 09:00:22 -0500 Maria Gonzalez, author of "Mindful Leadership," explains how to minimize stress -- not just manage it. Contains a brief guided breathing exercise. Full Article
ess The Management Myths Hurting Your Business By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:44:44 -0500 Freek Vermeulen of London Business School explains how best practices become bad practices. Full Article
ess Taking Business Back from Wall Street By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 15 May 2014 16:10:37 -0500 Gautam Mukunda, HBS professor, on the dangers of managing companies for shareholders. Full Article
ess Succeeding Quietly in Our Recognition-Obsessed Culture By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 17:31:09 -0500 David Zweig, author of "Invisibles," on employees who value good work over self-promotion. Full Article
ess Marc Andreessen and Jim Barksdale on How to Make Money By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:29:01 -0500 The tech luminaries on bundling and unbundling in the digital age. Full Article
ess Fixing the College Grad Hiring Process By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:43:25 -0500 Sanjeev Agrawal, Collegefeed cofounder and CEO, explains what recruiters, new graduates, and college career centers need to do differently. Full Article
ess Explaining Silicon Valley’s Success By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 18:22:35 -0500 AnnaLee Saxenian, author of the classic book "Regional Advantage," still thinks the area's future is bright. Full Article
ess Be Less Reactive and More Proactive By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 17:01:24 -0500 Peter Bregman, author of "Four Seconds," on changing the way you lead. Full Article
ess The Creator of WordPress By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:07:36 -0500 Matt Mullenweg, founder and CEO of Automattic, on growth, leadership, and mindfulness. Full Article
ess What Makes Social Entrepreneurs Successful? By hbr.org Published On :: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:38:17 -0500 Sally Osberg, president and CEO of the Skoll Foundation and author of "Getting Beyond Better" with Roger Martin. Full Article
ess Marketing Lessons for Companies Big and Small By hbr.org Published On :: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 11:45:27 -0500 Denise Lee Yohn, author of "Extraordinary Experiences" and "What Great Brands Do," explains what we can learn from retail and restaurant brands Full Article
ess Yo-Yo Ma on Successful Creative Collaboration By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 26 May 2016 18:48:09 -0500 The acclaimed cellist explains how he chooses and works with partners and shares advice on honing one's talent. Full Article
ess Excessive Collaboration By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:15:57 -0500 Rob Cross, professor at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, explains how work became an exhausting marathon of group projects. He's the coauthor of the HBR article "Collaborative Overload." Full Article
ess Handling Stress in the Moment By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:18:21 -0500 HBR contributing editor Amy Gallo discusses the best tactics to recognize, react to, and recover from stressful situations. She's a contributor to the "HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work." Full Article
ess Stopping and Starting With Success By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:07:41 -0500 Jerry Seinfeld shares his insights into innovation, self-criticism, and how to know when to quit. The U.S. comedian conquered 1990s television with his sitcom and is now finding a new audience for his online talk show, "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee." Full Article
ess Business Leadership Under President Trump By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 17:51:59 -0500 Larry Summers, former U.S. treasury secretary, is calling on American business leaders to stand up to President Donald Trump. Summers sharply criticizes the administration’s protectionist agenda, and he says it’s time for executives to call out how those policies undermine the economy and the country's best interests in the long term. Full Article
ess Why You Should Buy a Business (and How to Do It) By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:50:16 -0500 Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff, professors at Harvard Business School, spell out an overlooked career path: buying a business and running it as CEO. Purchasing a small company lets you become your own boss and reap financial rewards without the risks of founding a start-up. Still, there are things you need to know. Ruback and Yudkoff are the authors of the “HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business.” Full Article
ess Nike’s Co-founder on Innovation, Culture, and Succession By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:04:01 -0500 Phil Knight, former chair and CEO of Nike, tells the story of starting the sports apparel and equipment giant after taking an entrepreneurship class at Stanford and teaming up with his former track coach, Bill Bowerman. Together (and with the help of a waffle iron) they changed how running shoes are designed and made. Knight discusses the company's enduring culture of innovation, as well as the succession process that led to former runner and Nike insider Mark Parker becoming CEO. Full Article
ess How AI Is Already Changing Business By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 17:58:12 -0500 Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan School professor, explains how rapid advances in machine learning are presenting new opportunities for businesses. He breaks down how the technology works and what it can and can’t do (yet). He also discusses the potential impact of AI on the economy, how workforces will interact with it in the future, and suggests managers start experimenting now. Brynjolfsson is the co-author, with Andrew McAfee, of the HBR Big Idea article, “The Business of Artificial Intelligence.” They’re also the co-authors of the new book, “Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future. Full Article
ess When Startups Scrapped the Business Plan By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 18:11:48 -0500 Steve Blank, entrepreneurship lecturer at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Columbia, talks about his experience of coming to Silicon Valley and building companies from the ground up. He shares how he learned to apply customer discovery methods to emerging high technology startups. And he explains why he believes most established companies are still failing to apply lean startup methodology in their corporate innovation programs. Blank is the author of the HBR article, "Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything." Full Article
ess How Successful Solopreneurs Make Money By hbr.org Published On :: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 16:45:31 -0500 Dorie Clark, a marketing strategy consultant, answers a burning question: how do people make money off of what they know? She outlines the options for experts who want to monetize their knowledge. Clark explains, using herself and other successful solopreneurs as examples, how to earn revenue from public speaking, podcasting, e-books, and online courses. She also goes over what to charge and when to get an assistant. Clark teaches at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and is the author of the new book “Entrepreneurial You.” Full Article
ess The Hardscrabble Business of Chinese Manufacturing in Africa By hbr.org Published On :: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 15:35:38 -0500 Irene Yuan Sun, a consultant at McKinsey, explains why so many Chinese entrepreneurs are setting up factories in Africa. She describes what it’s like inside these factories, who works there, what they’re making—and how this emerging manufacturing sector is industrializing countries including Lesotho and Nigeria. Sun’s new book is “The Next Factory of the World: How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa.” Full Article
ess Leading with Less Ego By hbr.org Published On :: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:13:36 -0500 Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter, of the global consulting firm Potential Project, make their case for mindfulness, selflessness, and compassion in leadership. Their survey of 30,000 leaders showed those characteristics are foundational — and often missing from leadership development programs. Practicing self-awareness, they say, leads to more focused and more people-focused organizations. They’re the authors of the new book, “The Mind of the Leader: How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results." Full Article
ess Speak Out Successfully By hbr.org Published On :: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:54:43 -0500 James Detert, a professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, studies acts of courage in the workplace. His most surprising finding? Most people describe everyday actions — not big whistleblower scandals — when they cite courageous (or gutless) acts they’ve seen coworkers and leaders take. Detert shares the proven behaviors of employees who succeed at speaking out and suffer fewer negative consequences for it. He’s the author of the HBR article “Cultivating Everyday Courage.” Full Article
ess The Right Way to Solve Complex Business Problems By hbr.org Published On :: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:07:59 -0500 Corey Phelps, a strategy professor at McGill University, says great problem solvers are hard to find. Even seasoned professionals at the highest levels of organizations regularly fail to identify the real problem and instead jump to exploring solutions. Phelps identifies the common traps and outlines a research-proven method to solve problems effectively. He's the coauthor of the book, "Cracked it! How to solve big problems and sell solutions like top strategy consultants." Full Article
ess Why Business Jargon Isn’t All Bad By hbr.org Published On :: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:14:34 -0500 Anne Curzan, English professor at the University of Michigan, studies the evolution of language. While many of us roll our eyes at bizspeak — from synergy to value-add to operationalize — Curzan defends business jargon. She says the words we say around the office speak volumes about our organizations and our working relationships. She shares how to use jargon more deliberately, explains the origin of some annoying or amusing buzzwords, and discusses how English became the global business language and how that could change. Full Article
ess Why U.S. Working Moms Are So Stressed – And What To Do About It By hbr.org Published On :: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:30:30 -0500 Caitlyn Collins, a sociologist at Washington University in St. Louis, conducted interviews with mothers in four countries -- the United States, Italy, Germany, and Sweden -- who have jobs outside the home to better understand the pressures they felt. She found that American moms were by far the most stressed, primarily because of the lack of parental benefits offered by their employers and the government. In Europe, women told Collins they had more help, but at times cultural norms around their personal and professional roles had yet to catch up. Collins thinks companies can work to improve the situation but argues that the real solution is carefully designed government interventions that will help families at all income levels. She’s the author of the book “Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving.” Full Article
ess How to Fix Your Hiring Process By hbr.org Published On :: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:30:03 -0500 Peter Cappelli, professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and director of its Center for Human Resources, says managers at companies large and small are doing hiring all wrong. A confluence of changes, from the onslaught of online tools to a rise in recruitment outsourcing, have promised more efficiency but actually made us less effective at finding the best candidates. Cappelli says there are better, simpler ways to measure whether someone will be a good employee and advises companies to focus more on internal talent. He's the author of the HBR article "Your Approach to Hiring is All Wrong." Full Article
ess Business Lessons from How Marvel Makes Movies By hbr.org Published On :: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 09:30:56 -0500 Spencer Harrison, an associate professor at INSEAD, says that managers in any industry can learn from the success of the Marvel movie franchise. While some sequels lack creativity, Marvel manages to make each of its new releases just different enough, so consumers are not just satisfied but also surprised. Research shows that several strategies drive this success; they include bringing in different types of talent while also maintaining a stable core creative team then working together to challenge the superhero action-film formula. And, Harrison argues, leaders in other industries and functions can easily apply them to their own businesses. He is the co-author of the HBR article "Marvel's Blockbuster Machine." Full Article
ess How to Be Less Distracted at Work — and in Life By hbr.org Published On :: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:30:02 -0500 Nir Eyal, an expert on technology and psychology, says that we all need to learn to be less distracted into activities that don't help us achieve what we want to each day. Unwelcome behaviors can range from social media scrolling and bingeing on YouTube videos to chatting with colleagues or answering non-urgent emails. To break these habits, we start by recognizing that it is often our own emotions, not our devices, that distract us. We must then recognize the difference between traction (values-aligned work or leisure) and distraction (not) and make time in our schedules for more of the former. Eyal also has tips for protecting ourselves from the external distractions that do come at us and tools to force us to focus on bigger-picture goals. He is the author of the book "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life." Full Article
ess A Nobel Prize Winner on Rethinking Poverty (and Business) By hbr.org Published On :: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:15:35 -0500 Esther Duflo, an MIT economist, won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. Duflo’s early life working at a non-governmental organization in Madagascar and volunteering in soup kitchens in her native France inspired her to study economics and research the root causes of poverty. With her fellow Nobel winners Abhijit Banerjee of MIT and Michael Kremer of Harvard, Duflo showed that effective policies often go against conventional wisdom and popular economic models. The only way to find out what works, she argues, is to rigorously test solutions on the ground, and she encourages businesses to do the same. With Banerjee, Duflo also wrote the new book "Good Economics for Hard Times." Full Article
ess The Tipping Point Between Failure and Success By hbr.org Published On :: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 08:30:10 -0500 Dashun Wang, associate professor at Kellogg School of Management, crunched big datasets of entrepreneurs, scientists, and even terrorist organizations to better understand the fine line between failure and success. One surprising finding is that people who experience early failures often become more accomplished than counterparts who achieve early successes. Another insight is that the pace of failure is an indicator of the tipping point between stagnation and eventual success. Wang is a coauthor of the study in the journal Nature: “Quantifying the dynamics of failure across science, startups and security.” Full Article
ess How One CEO Successfully Led a Digital Transformation By hbr.org Published On :: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 09:15:57 -0500 Nancy McKinstry, CEO of Wolters Kluwer, has successfully shifted her company’s business to digital products over 15 years. The Dutch multinational started in the 1830s as a publishing house and now earns more than 90% of its revenue from digital. McKinstry explains how her firm kept investing in product innovation – and how she learned to be patient as consumers slowly adopted new products and services. She also credits the role of increased diversity in her organization. McKinstry is the top woman in HBR’s 2019 list of the world’s best-performing chief executives. Full Article
ess Why Business Leaders Should Solve Problems Beyond Their Companies By hbr.org Published On :: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:15:22 -0500 Rosabeth Moss Kanter, professor at Harvard Business School, believes the world demands a new kind of business leader. She says so-called “advanced leaders” work inside and outside their companies to tackle big issues such as climate change, public health, and social inequality. She gives real-life examples and explains how business leaders can harness their experience, networks, innovative approaches, and the power of their organizations to solve challenging problems. Kanter is the author of the book "Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Small Innovation at a Time." Full Article