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...

HBR's editors searched for the best new ideas related to the practice of management and came up with a collection that is as diverse as it is provocative....

Does the ad jingle have a future? HBR senior editor Leigh Buchanan points out the appeal of simplicity in a complicated age.

Blind since childhood, Herb Greenberg emphasizes character above presentation when he advises companies on how to make job interviews more meaningful.

When Shirley Franklin took over as mayor of Atlanta in 2001, city hall was flat broke, employee morale was in the basement, and the public had lost faith....

Truly new ideas spawn original language, but where new management ideas should be, there are too many cliches borrowed from other fields. We deserve better,...

E. Lawrence Kersten thinks corporate America could use a good dose of demotivation. Carrying products that promise to "unleash the power of mediocrity,"...

Randall Yim of the U.S. Government Accountability Office urges companies to get involved in homeland defense.

Employee engagement may influence performance and retention more than any other factor.

Sometime around the middle of the past century, telephone executive Chester Barnard imported the term "decision making" from public administration into...

Robert Morris, an Amazon Top 10 reviewer, helps you decide which business books are worth your time and attention.

Henry Jenkins, the director of comparative media studies at MIT, talks about the influence of video games in and on the workplace.

Reprint: R0410A The Denver office of the Clarion Company, a $30 million full-service marketing firm, has always been a politics-free zone. Nonwork conversations...

Marc Abrahams, a co-founder of the Annals of Improbable Research, says some ideas deserve second and third chances.

The "broken windows" theory of crime prevention--pay attention to the details--pertains to companies, too.