Business management
Building Your Company's Vision
Companies that enjoy enduring success have a core purpose and core values that remain fixed while their strategies and practices endlessly adapt to a...
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Organizational Vision and Visionary Organizations
Presents a framework for understanding organizational vision. "Vision" is a term frequently used by academics and practicing managers, but there has been...
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5 Ways Organizations Can Pivot with Purpose
Today's business environment is unpredictable, and the challenges leaders face are fast-changing and interconnected. In this world, executives must learn...
Dec 03, 2025
- Business management
The Definitive HBR Strategy Glossary
Over the past several decades, HBR has published numerous articles about how best to develop strategy. This glossary contains descriptions of more than...
Jul 28, 2025
- Strategy
4 Steps to Creating a Strategy in an Uncertain World
The past few years have seen unprecedented disruptions, and companies are finding it nearly impossible to plan for the future. Such a volatile environment...
Jun 03, 2022
- Leadership and managing people
Unpacking 5 Myths About Management
In science the key question is "Is it true?" In management the key question is "Does it work?" But context is critical: Just because an idea works in...
Nov 08, 2021
- 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,...
- Leadership and managing people
Four Principles of Enduring Success
When your company is doing well, and money is pouring in, how do you know if it could be doing better? How can you tell which management practices are...
- Business management
Make Your Values Mean Something
Take a look at this list of corporate values: Communication. Respect. Integrity. Excellence. They sound pretty good, don't they? Maybe they even resemble...
- Business management
Control in an Age of Chaos
How do we build organizations that are skilled enough, smart enough, and, most of all, enduring enough to maneuver through a treacherous competitive environment--without...
- Leadership and managing people
Turning Goals into Results: The Power of Catalytic Mechanisms
Most executives have a big, hairy, audacious goal. They write vision statements, formalize procedures, and develop complicated incentive programs--all...
- Innovation
The Leadership and Artistry of Tony Hsieh
Tony Hsieh, the former CEO of Zappos and a legendary internet entrepreneur and management thinker, has died at age 46. His passing has inspired an outpouring...
Nov 30, 2020
- Business and society
Why Private Equity Still Makes Us a Little Queasy
Whatever its other educational benefits, the race for the Republican presidential nomination has served to introduce legions of hitherto oblivious Americans...
Jan 17, 2012
- Business management
Quest for Resilience
In less turbulent times, executives had the luxury of assuming that business models were more or less immortal. Companies always had to work to get better,...
- Business management
Why Twitter's Mission Statement Matters
How else do you know what has to stay the same, and what needs to change?
Nov 13, 2014
