LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's deputy chief medical officer said on Saturday he was confident the coronavirus "R" number, a measure of the rate of contagion, was below 1 across the United Kingdom. "I am confident that our R is less than 1 overall," Jonathan Van-Tam said at the government's daily news briefing

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Gardiner Morse, HBR senior editor. Also: Tammy Erickson on her HBR article "Managing Middlescence."

David Garvin, Harvard Business School professor. Also: Judith Ross on retaining your top performers during times of change.

Paul Hemp, HBR senior editor and author of the article "Are You Ready for E-tailing 2.0?"

Alice Eagly, professor of social psychology at Northwestern University and coauthor of "Through the Labyrinth."

Stewart Friedman, Wharton School professor and author of "Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life."

Josh Bernoff, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research and coauthor of "Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies."

Bill Taylor, cofounder of Fast Company magazine.

Featuring the ideas of Vineet Nayar, Jeff Stibel, and Stewart Friedman.

Bronwyn Fryer, HBR senior editor and author of the case study "The Layoff."

Paul Levy, president and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Dick Beatty, professor of human resource management at Rutgers University and coauthor of "The Differentiated Workforce."

Bob Sutton, professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University and author of the HBR article "How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy."

Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School historian and editor of "The Story of American Business."

Umair Haque, director of the Havas Media Lab.

Herminia Ibarra, professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD and coauthor of the HBR article "The Best-Performing CEOs in the World."

Tom Davenport, Babson College professor and coauthor of "Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results."

Cathleen Benko, vice chairman and chief talent officer for Deloitte LLP and coauthor of "The Corporate Lattice."

Jeff Cruikshank, coauthor of "The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing (but True!) Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century."

Leslie Gaines-Ross, chief reputation strategist at Weber Shandwick and author of the HBR article "Reputation Warfare."

Shawn Achor, CEO of Aspirant and author of "The Happiness Advantage."

Rita McGrath, Columbia Business School professor and coauthor of "Discovery-Driven Growth."

Mihir Desai, Harvard Business School professor and author of the HBR article "The Incentive Bubble."

Michael Schrage, research fellow at MIT Sloan School's Center for Digital Business and author of the HBR Single "Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?"

Don Thompson, economist and author of "Oracles: How Prediction Markets Turn Employees into Visionaries."

Maxwell Wessel, fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation and coauthor of the HBR article "Surviving Disruption."

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead."

Joseph Badaracco, Harvard Business School professor.

Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell, authors of the HBR article "Dysfunction in the Boardroom."

Ram Charan, coauthor of "Boards that Lead," talks about what he's learned in three decades of helping executives make tough decisions.

Francesca Gino and Adam Grant, of Harvard Business School and Wharton, respectively, discuss their research on gratitude and generosity.

The former Secretary of Defense talks with HBR editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius about his new book, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War."

Featuring Jeff Bezos, Howard Schultz, Francis Ford Coppola, Maya Angelou, Nancy Koehn, Rob Goffee, Gareth Jones, Cathy Davidson, and Mark Blyth.

Greg McKeown, author of "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less," on the importance of being "absurdly selective" in how we use our time.

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.

Walter Frick, HBR editor, explains why we valorize tech heroes from the past, but scoff at today's entrepreneurs.

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.

Steve J. Martin, coauthor of "The Small Big: Small Changes That Spark Big Influence," on the little things that persuade.

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.

Tsedal Neeley, Harvard Business School professor, explains how globally distributed teams can collaborate better together.

Jeff Weiss, author of the "HBR Guide to Negotiating" and partner at Vantage Partners, explains how to prepare to be persuasive.

Peter Bregman, author of "Four Seconds," on changing the way you lead.

Erin Reid of Boston University on why men (but not women) feign long working hours.

Alexandra Samuel, online engagement expert and author of "Work Smarter with Social Media," on the tools you should use--and the ones you could be ignoring.

Peter Cappelli, author of the HBR article, "Why We Love to Hate HR...and What HR Can Do About It," on perhaps the least popular function in business.