Harvard Business Review

To Connect at Work, Learn Your Team's Laugh Languages 12 Sep 2025 --- Humor helps leaders connect, but you don’t need to be a comedian—just understand your team’s unique sense of humor. Listen to the full IdeaCast episode here: https://s.hbr.org/3Vejkvv ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5 Actions Companies Can Take to Prioritize Employees’ Well-Being as the Climate Changes 22 Aug 2024 --- As companies prepare for climate change, many overlook the critical impact it can have on employee health — from events like wildfires, extreme heat, and flooding. Proactively safeguarding employee health not only benefits workers, but also strengthens public health systems and enhances corporat...

Microsoft’s CEO on the Metaverse and Flexible Work 28 Oct 2021 --- Few people have more insight than Nadella into how teams collaborate and innovate successfully. HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius interviewed the Microsoft CEO to discuss what team collaboration will look like going forward, the next generation of workplace technology, the new imperatives of leadership — and whether and when our fut...

How to Control Your Emotions During a Difficult Conversation: The Harvard Business Review Guide 2 Mar 2022 --- When you’re in the middle of a conflict, it’s common to automatically enter a “fight or flight” mentality. But it’s possible to interrupt this response and clear a path towards a more productive discussion. 00:00 Have you ever lost control during a heated argument at work? 00:28 Emotions...

Designing a Financial Game Plan: Where Do I Even Start? 19 Jul 2021 --- If you’re overwhelmed with managing your savings—emergency fund? retirement? debt?—here’s a clear, step-by-step plan to get started. Tori Dunlap, entrepreneur and finance educator, lays out which financial goals to prioritize first to best leverage your investment of time and money. 0:00 How (and where) do you start your finan...

Pricing Strategies for Uncertain Times | HBR IdeaCast 22 Feb 2023 --- Rafi Mohammed, founder of the consulting firm Culture of Profit, says a crisis or recession is not the time to panic and slash prices. He says leaders should instead reevaluate their price strategy — or develop one for the first time — to better respond to customers during the slump and keep them when the economy recovers. He sh...

How to Get (A Lot) More Out of Working with Gen AI 5 Dec 2024 --- Use AI to create something unique — something that can't be achieved without collaboration between human and machine. Read the full article by Brian Solis here: https://s.hbr.org/3OKSiII Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Business Runs on Data. But What About Instinct? 8 Aug 2025 --- Professor Laura Huang traded engineering for business research. She wanted to know if the instincts guiding big decisions could be understood, measured, and explained. 🎧 Listen to the full IdeaCast episode here: https://s.hbr.org/4m8spSx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to Disagree with Someone More Powerful: The Harvard Business Review Guide 26 Oct 2021 --- Just agreeing with your boss (or your boss’s boss) feels easier, but it’s often better to voice your disagreement. HBR's Amy Gallo shows how. 00:00 Let’s say you disagree with someone more powerful than you. Should you say so? 00:30 Before deciding, do a risk assessment 01:39 When and where to voice disag...

Harvard’s Arthur C. Brooks on the Secrets to Happiness at Work 12 Sep 2023 --- To the strivers and workaholics out there, bestselling author and Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks has a message for you: change your behavior before it’s too late. Brooks was one of you: a pace-setting boss who expected others to work 80-hour weeks just like him, leaving little time for friends and family. He says he...

The Explainer: What It Takes to Be a Great Leader 25 Jun 2019 --- “Level 5” leadership is about combining fierce resolve with personal humility. “Level 5” refers to the highest level in a hierarchy of executive capabilities. Leaders at the other four levels in the hierarchy can produce high degrees of success but not enough to elevate companies from mediocrity to sustained excellence. Level 5 lead...

How to Work with Someone You Can't Stand: The Harvard Business Review Guide 18 May 2022 --- Sure, you could just argue with them. But if you have to work together, here are more productive ways for everyone to win. 00:00 Let me guess: you argue with someone you don't like, or complain about them, or ignore them, right? 00:26 I have a magic trick that will make that annoying co-worker ... less anno...

Microsoft’s Jared Spataro: Pandemic Sped Up Technological Change (Moving Us Closer to the Metaverse) 17 Mar 2022 --- Jared Spataro heads Microsoft’s Modern Work team, which is looking at the future of work and the technologies that will get us there. They just finished their second annual Worker Trend Index, which analyzes a survey of 31,000 people in 31 countries as well as other data and trends....

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins on Keeping Employees Engaged Right Now 18 Nov 2020 --- We speak with Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco Systems, on the future of work, on how American business can get back on track, and on the challenges of leading through crisis. We also discuss how Cisco achieves high levels of employee satisfaction and how it's trying to sustain a strong culture during the pandemic. ---------...

The Truth Behind Imposter Syndrome | Christine vs Work 17 Nov 2023 --- What if we’ve been going about imposter syndrome all wrong? Typically, imposter syndrome is framed as something an individual should mentally tackle, but there’s something much larger underneath these personal feelings of insecurity, doubt, and fear. The concept itself (described as “imposter phenomenon”) was coined in a psycho...

When Will We Reach Gender Equality? 24 Sep 2019 --- Ten years? Fifty? Business students take their best guesses, and Melinda Gates explains why the real number is centuries away. Across all aspects of American life, it is most often men who set policy, allocate resources, lead companies, shape markets, and determine whose stories get told. Meanwhile, what gains have been made typically haven’t ext...

How to Be Creative on Demand 21 Feb 2023 --- Here are ways to reliably create the conditions that make creativity a more predictable occurrence. Based on the HBR article by Joseph Grenny: https://hbr.org/2019/01/how-to-be-creative-on-demand 00:00 People often sort themselves into categories of creatives or non-creatives, but this is wrong. 00:45 You can create the right conditions to be creative f...

Are You Leading—or Just Reacting to Volatility? 17 Nov 2025 --- In a moment defined by volatility and constant curveballs, many leaders find themselves reacting instead of leading. In our latest IdeaCast episode, Brené Brown breaks down why today’s instability is pushing leaders into rapid, scarcity-driven decisions—and what it means to “settle the ball” and lead with more grounded clarity. Listen...

What You Didn't Know About Gratitude 26 Nov 2024 --- When expressing gratitude at work, timing matters. Read the full article by Professors Hooria Jazaieri and Olivia (Mandy) O’Neill here: https://s.hbr.org/4fGC67p Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fighting Workaholism: You Are Not a Success Machine 10 Sep 2024 --- Many strivers might think they're addicted to work, but underneath that is a deeper addiction: to success. In this video, HBS Professor and co-author (with Oprah Winfrey) of "Build the Life You Want", Arthur C. Brooks, offers advice for overcoming this self-destructive drive. 00:00 Workaholism is a serious addiction 01:00 Work isn...

The Explainer: The Case for More Silent Meetings 2 Dec 2019 --- Talking meetings have much merit, but can also be subject to a host of problems. There are approximately 55 million meetings a day in the United States. Although they often have many different purposes and goals, these meetings are typically conducted in the same way, time and time again. Namely, individuals gather together, virtually...

How AMD's Lisa Su Is Thinking About AI 13 Dec 2024 --- In a conversation with HBR editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius, Lisa Su, CEO of leading semiconductor company AMD, discusses its evolution toward high-performance and adaptive computing, the future of AI use in sectors from healthcare to tech to personal productivity, and the importance of responsible risk-taking. She advocates for fast experimentati...

What Makes a Great Leader? 20 Sep 2022 --- Today, it’s less about getting people to follow you to the future, more about getting them to co-create it with you. Harvard Business School’s Linda A. Hill, co-author of “Collective Genius”, spells out the new ABCs for leading innovation. 00:00 When organizations can’t innovate, it’s because they don’t have the right leadership. 01:06 The new ABCs of lea...

What It Means to Be a Moral Leader 22 Sep 2023 --- Remember when leaders could sidestep taking a stand on sensitive political or societal issues by saying, “The business of business is business”? That aloof neutrality no longer works, says Dov Seidman, founder and chairman of The HOW Institute for Society. “I think the business of business is society,” he says. “It's community, and how we relate t...

The Five T's of Great Coaches - Part 4: Teamwork 10 Jul 2023 --- Creating a healthy team culture starts with the coach: setting the tone, defining expectations, and providing clear criteria for what is acceptable and not acceptable. This is Part 4 of our series exploring what lessons major-league, professional sports coaches have for business leaders seeking to unlock human potential on their team...