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Research: The Hidden Penalty of Using AI at Work 22 Sep 2025 --- A new study reveals a hidden cost of AI at work: engineers judged identical code far more harshly when they thought AI helped write it. Learn how companies can prevent this hidden “competence penalty” and make AI adoption fair for everyone. Read the full article here: https://s.hbr.org/4pyDv55 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Lear...

The Explainer: Don’t Just Sell Stuff — Satisfy Needs 24 Jul 2019 --- Theodore Levitt's classic theory says that an industry is a customer-satisfying process, not a goods-producing process. An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill. Given the customer’s needs, the industry develops backwards, first concerning itself with the phy...

Has Your Team Lost Trust in You? 16 Dec 2024 --- Has your work team lost trust in you? 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 megaphone.fm...

How Humor Makes Leaders More Effective 19 Sep 2025 --- Leaders don’t need to be stand-up comics—but creating space for laughter makes teams more creative, productive, and collaborative. Listen to the full IdeaCast episode here: https://s.hbr.org/3Vejkvv ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Real Talk: Black Women on Balancing Pressure, Fatigue, and New Opportunities in Uncertain Times 1 Nov 2021 --- Black women are often "the onlys" in their organizations, putting tremendous pressure on them in uncertain times, but also offering unique opportunities. The pandemic and social unrest over the past 18 months have taken a disproportionate toll on Black women. As organizations begin to hav...

What Happens When Your Career Becomes Your Whole Identity 7 Apr 2022 --- Hating your job is one thing – but what happens if you identify so closely with it that hating your job means hating yourself? 00:00 Many people with high-pressure jobs find themselves unhappy with their careers 00:38 Here are several reasons high-pressure jobs lead to this feeling 02:00 Losing your career can feel like losin...

What It’s Like to Be a Social Justice Lawyer | Career Crush 5 Aug 2021 --- 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝘼𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮! ✨ https://www.youtube.com/c/HBRAscend ✨ Subscribe to our Ascend newsletter! https://hbr.org/email-newsletters?movetile_hbpascendnl&hideIntromercial=true Read the full interview here: https://hbr.org/2021/08/career-crush-social-justice-lawyer I can attend protests and sign petitions all day long,...

The Psychology Behind Why (Some) People Love Horror 30 Oct 2024 --- Why do some people love scary movies, Steven King novels, and haunted houses? Two of our authors wanted to investigate the booming global horror industry. Here’s what they learned through their research. Happy Halloween! 🎃 Read the full article here: https://s.hbr.org/4e26uHz — #happyhalloween #horror #funfacts Learn more about y...

The Explainer: What Is Design Thinking? 24 Jul 2019 --- Popularized by David M. Kelley and Tim Brown of IDEO and Roger Martin of the Rotman School, design thinking has three major stages. As the complexity of the design process increases, a new hurdle arises: the acceptance of what we might call “the designed artifact” — whether product, user experience, strategy, or complex system — by stakeholde...

Understanding the Venture Capital Gender Gap | HBR IdeaCast 5 Apr 2023 --- Jenny Lefcourt, partner at Freestyle VC and cofounder of All Raise, says that even as a serial entrepreneur herself, she long underestimated how little venture capital funding goes to female startup founders compared to the money men get. She believes unconscious biases, an industry built on intuition, and historical dynami...

3 Questions to Answer in an Apology 22 Jul 2019 --- Trust is not as fragile as people think — it can be rebuilt. And that process starts with a good apology. A strong apology can make or break a company when it’s facing a reputational crisis, according to Sandra J. Sucher, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Shalene Gupta, a research associate at Harvard Business School. When crafting a pu...

How to Make It as a Power Couple (Quick Study) 9 Oct 2019 --- Three challenges every successful couple must overcome. Because their working lives and personal lives are deeply intertwined, dual-career couples face unique challenges. Three transition points typically occur during their working and love lives. During these transitions, some couples craft a way to thrive in love and work, while other...

How Salary Transparency Can Help You (and Your Workplace) 26 Oct 2023 --- How much money do you make? Did that question make you nervous? Uncomfortable? Or, maybe, excited? Historically speaking, talking about your salary (especially at work) was off limits. But things are changing — “salary transparency” is becoming the new norm, and for good reason. When people are aware of how much those around...

6 Ways to Look More Confident During a Presentation 13 Jun 2022 --- Research says using these 6 persuasive body-language positions during a talk can lead to success. CHAPTERS 00:00 Your ideas are important–but so is your body language. 00:47 Position 1: The box 01:10 Position 2: Holding the ball 01:25 Position 3: Pyramid hands 01:52 Position 4: Wide stance 02:05 Position 5: Palms up 02:22 Position...

How to Work with an Insecure Boss: The Harvard Business Review Guide 24 Mar 2022 --- Of all the bad bosses out there, one of the most common–and most painful to work for–is the one who’s plagued by doubt. Here’s how to deal with them. 00:00 If you’ve ever doubted yourself because your boss doesn’t have faith in you, shoots down your ideas without explanation, or blames you for their lack of succes...

Should Your Company License Content to AI? 23 Sep 2025 --- The AI data-licensing market is exploding—from $75M to nearly $20B in just two years. Could your company’s own data be the next big opportunity? To learn more, subscribe to HBR Executive: https://s.hbr.org/4kbybkB ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Explainer: Blue Ocean Strategy 16 Jul 2019 --- When you break the bounds of existing industries, competition becomes irrelevant. The business universe consists of two distinct kinds of space, which we think of as red and blue oceans. Red oceans represent all the industries in existence today—the known market space. In red oceans, industry boundaries are defined and accepted, and the competitiv...

From 'Epic Disruptions': 5 Lessons in Innovation from Julia Child 24 Sep 2025 --- Innovation takes grit and disciplined experimentation. Julia Child’s quest for the perfect baguette shows how breakthroughs happen—and offers lessons for every leader. Learn more in Scott D. Anthony’s 'Epic Disruptions': https://s.hbr.org/41UgHmi ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about your ad choices....

How to Turn Your Inner Critic into Your Ally 31 Jul 2025 --- Your inner critic doesn’t need to be silenced—it needs better leadership. Read the full article by Ron Carucci here: https://s.hbr.org/46GaHkt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why “Wisdom Work” Is the New “Knowledge Work” 30 Aug 2024 --- The workforce is getting older, but the number of younger workers in positions of senior management is growing. These two developments might appear to spell trouble, but in fact they represent an important opportunity: If companies can figure out how to enable the intergenerational transfer of the wisdom that comes with age and experien...

How Chinese Companies Scale Personalization with AI 26 Aug 2025 --- Chinese firms are using AI to hyperpersonalize at scale. But adoption comes with risks—Amit Joshi says leaders should test these tools carefully and combine them with others to drive growth. Listen to the full IdeaCast episode here: https://s.hbr.org/4fYbeRh ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...

The Friend Who Recently Joined Corporate America 5 Jun 2024 --- If you know, you know. Inspired by @LeoGonzall #workjargon #corporateamerica #work Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to Get Through the Workday When the News is Terrible 22 Mar 2021 --- 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝘼𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮! ✨ https://www.youtube.com/c/HBRAscend ✨ 2020 was a rough year. And the start of 2021 doesn't feel like it's getting any easier. So how do you stay focused at work? 00:00 2020 was a rough year. 02:05 How do you unplug from social media when it's your day job? 03:19 How do you tell your team that yo...

The Explainer: Creating New Products for Emerging Markets 16 Jul 2019 --- Engineer a reverse innovation. When a company investigates a new product opportunity, it is important to define the problem, and the requirements that will dictate a viable solution, independently from the company’s existing lines of similar products or preconceived ideas of what a solution should entail. This is especially...

Why Senior Leaders Should Stop Having So Many One-on-Ones 29 Oct 2025 --- Too many executive 1:1s create silos, bottlenecks, and back-channel decision making. Instead, bring the right leaders together early so alignment happens before action—not after confusion. Read the full article here: https://s.hbr.org/4qxrr4H ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...