Business management
Three Elements to Expressing Your Idea
Julia Kirby, HBR editor-at-large, shares tips for writing clearly and effectively.
Aug 04, 2015
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- Business management
HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2005
The List is HBR's annual attempt to capture ideas in the state of becoming--when they're teetering between what one person suspects and what everyone...
- Business and society
Which Sustainability Programs Should You Support?
Julia Kirby, HBR editor-at-large, explains how UPS uses a "materiality matrix" to sort and rank sustainability programs it might support, as explained...
Mar 19, 2014
- Business management
Passion for Detail: A Conversation with Thoroughbred Trainer D. Wayne Lukas
What wisdom could a horse trainer have to offer a corporate manager? Let's start with the fact that the word "manage" has an equine origin. It comes from...
- Business management
Beauty of Buzzwords
TQM, thought leadership, dot-com, dot-bomb, golden parachute: the litany of business jargon could go on for pages. HBR talks with Marjorie Garber about...
- Business and society
Capitalism Gone Wild
Julia Kirby, HBR editor-at-large, explains how our economic system got to this sad state--and where to look for hope.
Dec 21, 2011
- Business management
Playing to the Back Row: A Conversation with Ringmaster Chuck Wagner
Reprint: R0901B It's hard to imagine a leadership image more iconic than the ringmaster. Merely say the word, and a picture springs to mind of a tall,...
Automation Transformation: Leveraging Digital Labor in the AI Era
Featuring Julia Kirby, senior editor at Harvard University Press and coauthor of Only Humans Need Apply.
Oct 20, 2016
- Business management
Toward a Theory of High Performance
What does it mean to be a high-performance company? The process of measuring relative performance across industries and eras, declaring top performers,...
- Business management
Jack Griffin's Ouster: Lessons from a Failed "Change Agent"
The abrupt departure of Time Inc. CEO Jack Griffin after less than six months on the job has the media world buzzing. Now, to be sure, the media world...
Feb 18, 2011
- Business and society
Obama's Lack of Anger and the Limits of Authenticity
The essence of great leadership is always a lead story for Harvard Business Review, but even we've been surprised to see the coverage of the BP oil spill...
Jun 10, 2010
- Business management
Where Most New Product Launches (But Not Apple's) Go Wrong
With all the commotion about the Apple iPad heading into the Easter weekend, you'd have thought it was the second coming. (Certainly its arrival was greeted...
Apr 05, 2010
- Business management
Google to China: Enough is Enough
Any multinational business has to learn to play by different sets of rules in different places; the laws and powers that govern corporate activity are...
Jan 13, 2010
- Finance and investing
Still Many Ways to Skin a Capital Cost
When executives evaluate a potential investment, whether it's to build a new plant, enter a new market, or acquire a company, they weigh its cost against...
Mar 10, 2011
- Business management
Schmidt, Jobs, Zuckerberg, and the Future of Adult Supervision
The two big corporate leadership names in the news this week - Steve Jobs and Larry Page - have something big in common. And while we're at it, let's...
Jan 21, 2011
