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How I Created a Successful Brand That Makes People Feel Something 23 May 2024 --- Thirty-three days after signing his first NBA contract in 2009, Lanny Smith suffered a career-ending knee injury. After his injury, he transitioned to entrepreneurship, and in 2020 launched athleisure brand Actively Black with the intention of driving a meaningful impact in the Black community. In addition to impress...

Building Successful Hybrid Teams (Back to Work, Better) | HBR IdeaCast 12 Apr 2023 --- Tsedal Neeley, professor at Harvard Business School, has been studying remote work and global teams for years. In episode 732 early in the pandemic, she shared how managers could lead their teams while many team members worked from home. Now, as more people return to more in-person work, she’s back on the show t...

How Does Netflix Approach Corporate Diversity? 9 Dec 2020 --- We speak with Netflix VP of Inclusion Strategy Vernā Myers, whose company is on a mission to entertain the world. Myers explains how to create and sustain a diverse and innovative work force, and talks about the challenges she has faced trying to push for equity at Netflix. ---------------------------------------------------------------...

The Evolving Role of the CFO 24 Oct 2025 --- Today’s CFO has to do more than manage the bottom line. They must champion innovation—and prevent costly tech distractions. In our latest Executive Agenda, Levi Strauss & Co.’s CFO Harmit Singh and HBS professor Mihir Desai reveal how the role is changing. Subscribe to HBR Executive to learn more: https://s.hbr.org/4kbybkB ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​...

7 Key Tensions Every Leader Must Balance 14 Jun 2024 --- In decades past, executives were usually taught to practice command-and-control leadership. Today they’re often advised to be more nimble, more adaptive, and less controlling. The truth is that most executives need to be able to move back and forth between those two leadership styles. IMD leadership professor and social psychologist Jennifer...

We Need to Revamp Econ 101: It May Limit Your Business Thinking 4 Apr 2024 --- Treating economics like a natural science can limit its scope and give corporations permission to look the other way on harms they may be causing. The New Yorker's Nick Romeo reports on the case for bringing the humanities–including ethics and philosophy–back into the curriculum. Romeo is the author of The Alternative:...

How Do I Make a Good First Impression in a Job Interview? | New Here | S1E9 20 Dec 2023 --- So, you’re ready to find your next job. What’s your interview strategy? This week on New Here, we learn why making a good first impression in a job interview is so important to your success – and how to do it. Career coach and TikTok creator Sho Dewan helps host Elainy Mata understand how many recruiters th...

Leaders, Reduce Team Stress by Making One Simple Change 20 Aug 2025 --- Leaders: Do your teams know when you expect a reply? Here’s why it matters—and how to set the norm. 🎧 Listen to the full IdeaCast episode here: https://s.hbr.org/4oOv8Cq ​ ​ ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Do I Recover from a Big Mistake at Work? | S1E4 | New Here 15 Nov 2023 --- How Do I Recover from a Big Mistake at Work? So, you messed up at work. How do you move forward? This week we’re talking about how to handle your first big mistake in a new job. We’ll learn how to own what happened, regain trust, and move forward. For radio journalist Priska Neely, making a mistake in a news report or b...

How to Negotiate Your Starting Salary 25 Jan 2024 --- Your starting salary calibrates all your future raises and bonuses. So don't just accept the first offer. Produced by Andy Robinson, Kelsey Alpaio Video by Andy Robinson and Elainy Mata Editing by Andy Robinson Animation and Design by Alex Belser and Karen Player 00:00 Let's learn about salary negotiation 01:25 The labor market today 02:14 How...

The Value of Healthy Conflict at Work 24 Jul 2025 --- Creating space for healthy debate isn’t about avoiding conflict—it’s about fostering psychological safety, candor, and a culture where people can challenge ideas and spark innovation. 🎧 Listen to the full IdeaCast episode here: https://s.hbr.org/450yJUL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to Cope With a Mid-Career Crisis | HBR IdeaCast | Podcast 3 Jan 2023 --- Kieran Setiya, a philosophy professor at MIT, says many people experience a mid-career crisis. Some have regrets about paths not taken or serious professional missteps; others feel a sense of boredom or futility in their ongoing streams of work. The answer isn’t always to find a new job or lobby for a promotion. Motivated...

Should You Sell Your Startup, or Find a New CEO? (Case Study) 29 Jan 2020 --- Should a small company founder facing stalling growth sell to a competitor or hire a new CEO? In this HBR fictionalized case study, 2 Proud Pups is Elena's all-natural dog care product business. She launched it to create products that weren't full of chemicals that irritated her dogs. She invested her own savings, and gr...

A Tip for Managers During the Holidays 20 Dec 2024 --- How can you keep people's spirits and productivity up during the holidays? Read the full article by Jennifer Moss here: https://s.hbr.org/3DyXXPM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Real Meeting Happens Before the Meeting 1 Apr 2025 --- For aspiring leaders, meetings aren’t where decisions are made—they’re where decisions get confirmed. The real influence happens earlier. Career adviser and author of "The Unspoken Rules", Gorick Ng, unpacks the “meeting before the meeting” and how experienced leaders quietly shape agendas, build alignment, and move initiatives forward. Re...

4 Tips for New Grads Struggling to Find a Job 28 Jan 2025 --- If you’re a new grad without a job lined up, you may be feeling anxious about the current market. But don’t beat yourself up: It’s tough out there! Here are four tips to help you reframe your job search. Read the full article by Rachel DuRose here: https://s.hbr.org/4azQZXk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why U.S. Working Moms Are So Stressed (Quick Study) 18 Dec 2019 --- Government intervention is needed, but managers can take these steps right now. 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...

Why People Resist Retirement 6 Sep 2024 --- Research suggests making the decision to retire means grappling with three psychological issues. 1) First, identity issues can loom large for any deeply engaged professional. Even a small step away from a career can make a person wonder who they are without it. 2) Second, many older professionals resist leaving meaningful work. 3) Finally, the third is t...

How to Network on Instagram (It's More Than Just the DMs!) 9 Feb 2024 --- LinkedIn isn't the only way to make professional connections. Have you ever written a "professional" DM? It's basically a message you send to someone in hopes that they'll be willing to connect and help you with some aspect of your career. That could be landing a job, collaborating on a project, or even just giving you sound...

How to Throw a Virtual Work Party That Doesn’t Stink | Christine vs. Work 15 Dec 2020 --- 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝘼𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮! ✨ https://www.youtube.com/c/HBRAscend ✨ Is there a way to make a virtual social event at work not stink? With so many offices working remotely this year, no doubt you’ve been invited to a virtual happy hour, birthday celebration, or event that in the end just felt like another mee...

How Fast Should Your Company Really Grow? 18 Dec 2024 --- How fast should your company grow? While rapid expansion and rising profits may sound appealing to most organizations, Harvard Business School professor Gary P. Pisano challenges leaders to think more strategically about this question. Growing too quickly can lead to unfixable growing pains. To grow consistently and sustainably, Pisano says...

Walls and Moats Won't Save You. Innovation Will. 20 Oct 2025 --- The walls of Constantinople stood for a thousand years—until gunpowder changed everything. This isn’t just about history; it’s a metaphor for every leader relying on legacy strengths in a time of disruption. Are you mistaking past resilience for future security? Scott D. Anthony, professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, shar...

Here's a Type-A Trap to Avoid 30 Oct 2024 --- Hey Type As! Here’s a trap you need to avoid. Executive coach Muriel Wilkins is here with advice and strategies that can help — delivered in one minute or less. Wilkins is the host of HBR’s Coaching Real Leaders, available wherever you get your podcasts. You can also listen here: https://s.hbr.org/4fqGyGU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

Jim Fielding, Ex-Head of Disney Stores, on the Struggles of Making It as a Queer Executive 18 Aug 2023 --- What does it feel like to live inauthentically at work? For his first professional job in the 1980s, in the fashion industry, Jim Fielding led what he calls a “double life.” With close friends and confidants, he was open about his relationship with another man. But at work, when discussing hi...

The Case for Putting Down Your Phone 17 Sep 2025 --- Put down your phone and let your mind wander. Here’s how, and why, you should embrace boredom. For more insights, explore Arthur's (@drarthurbrooks ) new book, "The Happiness Files": https://s.hbr.org/45yh8ne You can also sign up to receive Arthur’s new six-week newsletter, “The Leader’s Happiness Reset" here: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters ​...