Three years ago, consultants Laurence Prusak and Thomas H. Davenport asked prominent management thinkers to name their gurus and reported the results...

To move forward, society needs geniuses--those rare individuals whose flashes of insight and imagination change the way we live and see the world. Traditionally,...

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It's hard to find a better exemplar for competition than chess. Even people who have scant knowledge of the game instinctively recognize that chess is...

Last fall, the United States was brutally thrust into a new and dangerous world. As the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed and the Pentagon...

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Unless you're a hermit, you can't avoid relationships. And your professional career certainly won't go anywhere if you don't know how to build strong,...

Americans are outraged at the greediness of Wall Street analysts, dot-com entrepreneurs and, most of all, chief executive officers. How could Tyco's Dennis...

Why do some people bounce back from life's hardships while others despair? HBR senior editor Diane Coutu looks at the nature of individual and organizational...

As the economy softens, corporate downsizing appears almost inevitable. Don't panic yet, though. While layoff decisions might seem beyond your control,...

Business students nowadays are not, for the most part, poets. A growing proportion come to business school with a background in investment banking or...

Most of us see the organizations we operate in--our schools or companies, for instance--as monolithic and predictable, subjecting us to deadening routines...

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In January 2008, CBS anchor Katie Couric asked then-candidate Barack Obama what single book, apart from the Bible, he would bring with him to the White...

The belief that teams make us more creative and productive - and are the best way to get things done - is deeply entrenched. But Hackman, a professor...