Personal strategy and style

In negotiation, correctly identifying your counterpart's strategy is vital. Only then can you constructively influence their behavior--or adapt appropriately...

Are you the boss you need to be? You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from your subordinates,...

Discusses the levels of learning in the General Management Program of the Harvard Business School.

This field-based case introduces students to the challenges of building a professional brand through the lens of a college athlete. Since the National...

Opt out of the hamster wheel. Whether we're just starting out or are well into our professional journeys, we often equate our productivity with the number...

This case is divided into A, B, and C cases. See OB85 Dealing with a Toxic Boss for an expanded version of the full case. A Case: Ned was an upper middle...

Supplements the (A) case.

The development of a new venture partnership and the challenges associated with raising its first fund are chronicled. The decision to focus on early-stage...

Explores the career challenges facing highly successful women who leave the full-time workforce for several years to manage family commitments. Carol...

This enhanced version of the "The Harvard Business Review Manager's Handbook" includes 17 downloadable tools and templates to help you get started right...

High-performance psychologist Michael Gervais presents a groundbreaking guide for overcoming what may be the single greatest constrictor of human potential:...

Zia Yusuf, a Pakistani graduate of Harvard Business School in 1998, joined SAP, a high technology software company, in 2000 after working first at Goldman...

"Students talk about Stewart D. Friedman, a management professor at the Wharton School, with a mixture of earnest admiration, gratitude and rock star...

In 2020, the legal cannabis industry in the United States was emerging. One large player in the nascent industry was Canopy Growth Corporation (Canopy...

Contains a description of a decision confronting an employee of IBM in late 1981. Should he leave IBM to become head of a new venture capital fund which...

This case is divided into A, B, and C cases. See OB85 Dealing with a Toxic Boss for an expanded version of the full case. A Case: Ned was an upper middle...

What distinguishes great leaders? Exceptional leaders capture passion. They lead for real: from the heart, smart and focused on the future, and with a...

Steve Jones, senior investment analyst at Stonehill Capital, among other responsibilities, had to ensure that his team prepared a pitch book which presented...

The author, a professor of negotiation at Harvard Business School, offers 15 specific pieces of advice for job candidates: (1) Don't underestimate the...

For more than 30 years, the TED conference series has presented enlightening talks that people enjoy watching. In this article, Anderson, TED's curator,...

Harvard Business School's Christensen teaches aspiring MBAs how to apply management and innovation theories to build stronger companies. But he also believes...

Many managers feel overwhelmed. They have too many problems--too many monkeys--on their backs. All too often, they say, they find themselves running out...

For better or worse, in today's world everyone is a brand. Whether you're applying for a job, asking for a promotion, or writing a dating profile, your...

As the demands of the workplace keep rising, many people respond by putting in ever longer hours, which inevitably leads to burnout that costs both the...

The would-be analyst of leadership usually studies popularity, power, showmanship, or wisdom in long-range planning. But none of these qualities is the...

It’s far more than just being nice.

When asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasize traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision--the qualities traditionally...

When executives need to persuade an audience, most try to build a case with facts, statistics, and some quotes from authorities. In other words, they...