When You Have to Assign Work No One Wants to Do
Managers often try to generate buy-in for unwanted assignments by persuading, incentivizing, or softening the message-but these tactics can backfire....
Jan 26, 2026
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Managers often try to generate buy-in for unwanted assignments by persuading, incentivizing, or softening the message-but these tactics can backfire....
Jan 26, 2026
Featuring digital, AI, and design experts Jen Stave, Ryan Kurt, and John Winsor. Stave is chief operator of the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard. Kurt is the founder and CEO of The AI Lab. Winsor is the founder and chairman of Open Assembly and an executive fellow at the Digital Data Design Institute. […]
Mar 25, 2026
With the right approach, even small firms can get a competitive advantage from the right kinds of tests.
The overwhelming majority of generative AI programs have so far failed to deliver significant business returns. Research across industries reveals that...
Sep 12, 2025
Many companies are appointing chief AI officers (CAIOs) to lead their AI initiatives, but this approach often fails, because the role is too broad and...
Aug 04, 2025
This collection of the 10 most-read HBR articles on gen AI in the first half of 2025 can help leaders engage with, and answer, some of today's most pressing...
Aug 13, 2025
AI is being adopted in everything from automobiles to chatbots, but AI products-like all products-will eventually fail. And how a company markets its...
AI agents are fast becoming much more than just sidekicks for human workers. They're becoming digital teammates-an emerging category of talent. To get...
May 22, 2025
The famous author plots out the three most compelling story arcs.
Apr 15, 2014
A conversation with Columbia Business School’s Michael Morris on cultural psychology.
Traditionally, transformation efforts are organized as programs with a defined beginning and end. Rooted in a change model popularized by German American...
Jun 04, 2024
Only 15% of managers consistently use gen AI, but 40% of business graduate students do. These managers and leaders of the near future will soon enter...
Sep 20, 2024
The risks of U.S. commercial banks being overexposed to commercial real estate (CRE) have intensified as the global pandemic upended long-held economic...
Jul 23, 2024
Don’t let the opportunity you’ve identified come to nothing.
Case Study Reprint
Kurt Landgraf, newly named CEO of Du Pont Merck Pharmaceutical Co., addresses complaints of discrimination from African-American scientists in R&D during...