As a leader, you need visibility into your team’s work—what’s on track, what’s falling behind, and where support is needed. But too much oversight can breed distrust, especially among experienced team ...

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In April 2025, Harvard Business Review Analytic Services conducted a survey of 236 members of the Harvard Business Review ...

Researchers at Vlerick Business School’s Centre for Financial Leadership and Digital Transformation have worked with CFOs and ...

Yesterday we listed five research-backed strategies that can lead to a happier life—even for busy professionals. Here are five more: Act nicely. Agreeableness is consistently found to be highly and ...

Real-life coaching sessions with leaders working to overcome professional challenges. Muriel Wilkins is an executive coach with a strong track record of helping CEOs and senior leaders get through ...

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What consumers truly value can be difficult to pin down and psychologically complicated. But universal building blocks of value do exist, creating opportunities for companies to improve their ...

Reprint: R0904C 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 House. He cited Team of ...

Motivating yourself is one of the main things that sets high achievers apart, and it’s hard. How do you keep pushing onward when your heart isn’t in it? In her research, Fishbach has ...

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Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors, product developers focus too much on building ...