Harvard Business Review

How Common Knowledge Shapes Culture and Markets 8 Oct 2025 --- From company culture to the Federal Reserve, public signals can create new realities. Here’s how leaders’ words and actions ripple through organizations—and entire economies. Listen to the full IdeaCast episode here: https://s.hbr.org/42fZ1ll ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic...

The Five T's of Great Coaches - Part 7: Do Coaches Even Matter? 21 Aug 2023 --- Having the most talented team isn’t enough. 00:00 Of course coaches matter. But how? 02:25 Coaches need to to be plumbers and poets. Hosted by Ranjay Gulati, the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author of "Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Per...

How to Quit Your Job: The Harvard Business Review Guide 23 Aug 2021 --- Here’s how to figure out if it’s time to move on to the next phase of your career--and if it is, how to do it right. 00:00 Feel like you might want to quit? 00:17 First, ask yourself these three questions 01:17 Before quitting: can anything be fixed? 01:58 How to tell your manager you quit 02:55 What reason should you give? 03...

Why Some Companies Thrived During the Pandemic | HBR IdeaCast | Podcast 19 Jan 2023 --- Keith Ferrazzi, founder of the consulting firm Ferrazzi Greenlight, led a survey of more than 2,000 executives to study how they reengineered operations during the pandemic. The research identified a kind of extreme adaptability at the team and organizational levels that helped some companies come out on top. F...

Your Company Needs an Eldercare Policy 17 Jun 2025 --- For the first time in U.S. history, more employees are caring for aging loved ones than for preschoolers. It’s a wake-up call: employers need to offer eldercare policies. Read the full article here: https://s.hbr.org/4egCGsI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Your Job Isn't Your Dream Job 3 Sep 2024 --- “Dream jobs” are often idealized, but in reality, finding a job that aligns with your purpose, values, and goals is incredibly difficult. This is especially true during times of uncertainty or crisis — when our priorities inevitably shift. Even so, many of us can be hard on ourselves or get demotivated searching for the perfect role. In these momen...

Tech at Work: The Future of Spatial Computing 14 Jun 2024 --- Companies are getting creative with spatial computing, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR), using these technologies to give consumers “virtual” access to their products. To stay competitive, organizational leaders need to get comfortable exploring these new technologies. To learn more, listen to the latest episode of our n...

Team-Building Ideas for Remote Teams 10 Sep 2024 --- When you manage a group of remote workers who rarely see each other in person, team building can be a challenge. The key is tailoring exercises to fit your group’s size, sensibilities, and circumstances. Here are three remote team-building ideas that you might consider. Read the full article: https://hbr.org/2024/08/17-team-building-activities-f...

How to Fire with Compassion (Quick Study) 2 Mar 2020 --- Firing needs to be handled well: the person you’re firing today could become a key contact or client tomorrow. Firing is never easy, and shouldn’t be. But it is something a manager should strive to handle well. Building great teams requires picking the best talent and also removing talent that isn’t working out. Letting someone go is a painf...

How to Build Your Emotional Agility 28 Sep 2022 --- The prevailing wisdom says that negative thoughts and feelings have no place at the office. But that goes against basic biology. 00:00 The ability to manage one’s thoughts and feelings is essential to business success. 01:40 Step 1: Recognize patterns in your thought. 02:04 Step 2: Label your thoughts and emotions. 03:38 Step 3: Accept your thoug...

Can History’s Innovators Teach Us How to Survive 2020? 21 Oct 2020 --- When we look back at 2020, what will we have learned after a global health crisis, a national reckoning around racism, and a divisive election? In the season's first episode of HBR Now, we speak with Walter Isaacson, a journalist, professor and author who has chronicled some of the great minds in history: Leonardo Da Vinci, Ste...

How We Bridge Digital Divides to Unlock the Power of Emerging Markets 6 Jun 2024 --- Pedro Arnt is CEO of dLocal, a publicly traded payments processor founded in Uruguay in 2017. Today, with an annual run rate of over $20 billion, dLocal connects global enterprise merchants with billions of consumers across 40 markets in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. 00:00 Balancing profit and purpose...

Jimmy Fallon on Leading with Gratitude, Humor, and Heart 20 Oct 2025 --- Great leaders recognize and celebrate the work of everyone on the team. Jimmy Fallon shares the moment he learned the importance of putting in effort—because when people feel seen, they show up differently. Listen to the full IdeaCast episode here: https://s.hbr.org/4o4R2jS ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about you...

Is Consulting The Right Career For You? | Career Crush 23 Nov 2021 --- 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝘼𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮! ✨ https://www.youtube.com/c/HBRAscend ✨ On paper, consulting seems like the perfect gig. But there’s got to be more to it, right? Subscribe to the Ascend newsletter: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters?movetile_hbpascendnl&hideIntromercial=true Kristina Kang, a senior management consultant, shares wha...

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity 22 Oct 2025 --- AI is everywhere, but the ROI isn’t. To avoid “workslop,” leaders need to set quality standards—not just mandates. Read the full article here: https://s.hbr.org/3L0trlS ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rethink Your Resolutions This Year | HBR Ascend 5 Jan 2022 --- 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝘼𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮! ✨ https://www.youtube.com/c/HBRAscend ✨ There’s a lot of advice out there about resolutions. Here are our tactics—backed by research—for actually taking them on. 00:00 Let's do resolutions right 00:56 Create "fresh starts" 01:37 Reframe to make it fun! 02:28 Break goals into micro habits 03:44 Evaluate your...

How and When to Disrupt Your Career, and Yourself (Quick Study) 10 Feb 2020 --- If you’re comfortable but bored at your current position, you’re in the danger zone. Here are some ways to keep growing without leaving your company. Whitney Johnson, an executive coach and author of "Disrupt Yourself", says we give a lot of airtime to building disruptive products and services, to buying and/or investi...

What if helping the environment isn’t profitable for my business? 24 Jan 2020 --- Andrew Winston answers tough business questions about the climate crisis. See all eight questions on our playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzAU8TPKsJuYj9HwKPXjbgBPWqUFRtDIZ Big shifts need to happen in business so the world can avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change. But it can be d...

How I Upcycled Unwanted Foods Into Tasty—and Profitable—Snacks 30 May 2024 --- Betty Lu, a Singapore native, is founder and CEO of Confetti Snacks, which offers consumers tasty, healthy potato-chip alternatives made from up-cycled vegetables and fruits that would otherwise go to waste. The company’s year-over-year growth has averaged over 300% since its founding in 2018. 00:00 What problem are you...

How to Be Present When Connecting Virtually 19 Mar 2020 --- Being present with co-workers virtually is difficult and requires different strategies for each person. (Originally published July 14, 2017) Mark Kaestner, former global director of executive development for The Coca Cola Company, says you need to ask lots of questions. And embrace the uncomfortable pauses: they create the space for colle...

What We Get Wrong About Psychological Safty 21 May 2025 --- Many mistake psychological safety for comfort and niceness. But real safety means creating space for respectful candor—even when the truth is uncomfortable. Read the full article by Amy C. Edmondson and Michaela J. Kerrissey here: https://s.hbr.org/3ZfLBnM ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...

How to Actually Work...When You’re Working from Home 11 Mar 2020 --- Because boundaries are fuzzy, you could either burn out or not get anything done. More people are foregoing a lengthy commute and working from home. But sometimes, like during the coronavirus outbreak we’re experiencing now, you may actually have to work from home. Whether you are a full-time freelancer or the occasional telecomm...

Here’s How Leadership Skills Can Help You Parent Better 2 Apr 2021 --- People know that good leadership includes clarifying your values, talking to stakeholders, and sharing a vision. All of that also makes a great parent, and there's no reason to leave it in the workplace, say Stewart Friedman and Alyssa Westring, co-authors of "Parents Who Lead". 00:00 Nobody wants to see themselves as the paren...

Bozoma Saint John on the New Reality of Leadership 23 Oct 2025 --- Employees and customers expect leaders to take a stand—and own the consequences. Bozoma Saint John says people want to know what their leaders truly believe: “If you believe in something, say it. That’s the job.” Listen to the full IdeaCast episode here: https://s.hbr.org/3L2fgN6 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about y...

A Two-Minute Burnout Checkup 25 Jun 2024 --- Work can be stressful sometimes, but how do we know when that stress is headed towards burnout? Try this two-minute exercise to check in with yourself. — Adapted from “A Two-Minute Burnout Checkup,” by Chris Bailey. #burnout #mentalhealth #workstress Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices