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Are you a good boss--or a great one? Get more of the management ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with "HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People...

In most organizations, the employee appraisal process causes more tension than any other aspect of personnel management. Despite the good intentions behind...

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The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance...

I@NS was intended to mimic the experience of founding a start-up, getting it funded, building a product, and taking it to market, with all the potential...

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You know you need to delegate some of your work so that you have time to focus on the things that require your expertise. But it's not easy to do. "Delegating...

The law firm, Sloan & Harrison, was confronting issues pertaining to morale and turnover among its associate ranks. Annual surveys of associates revealed...

Imagine the impact on your students' motivation and learning if they could personally assess themselves-and receive peer feedback-on the critical behaviors...

An effective and highly motivated executive at 3DP Incorporated, a company that specialized in manufacturing objects with three-dimensional printing,...

Wolfgang Keller, manager of the Ukrainian subsidiary of a German beer company, faces a managerial dilemma. His subordinate, Dmitri Brodsky, is a talented...

Take the stress out of giving feedback. To help your employees meet their goals and fulfill their potential, you need to provide them with regular feedback....

In 2015, Edip Ilkbahar, HBC's founder and CEO, was looking over the plans for a new branch in Cyprus. Since the inception of the company by the Alarko...

Build a mentally healthy workplace. Mental health is just as important as physical health. Yet being honest about depression, anxiety, and other psychological...

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It was 2019, and the senior manager of strategy and business operations at Lyft Inc. (Lyft), headquartered in San Francisco, had been tasked with helping...

Use this checklist.

It's about more than keeping quiet.

By building on a hierarchy of goals, consultants and managers can work toward mutual interests.

Overcome unconscious bias using humility and empathy.

Hated by bosses and subordinates alike, traditional performance appraisals have been abandoned by more than a third of U.S. companies. The annual review's...

Want to truly engage your workers? Help them see their own progress.

You need to be clear in five areas.

Throughout history, people had little need to manage their careers--they were born into their stations in life or, in the recent past, relied on their...

It’s a tricky conversation, but it can be productive.

For years managers have been encouraged to candidly praise and criticize just about everything workers do. But it turns out that feedback does not help...