If your AI efforts aren’t paying off, it’s likely not a tech problem. The biggest barriers to success are often people and processes. To unlock real value from AI, your organization must build what ...

Early adopters of gen AI are deriving positive business outcomes from established use cases. In November 2024, Harvard ...

New research from BrightHire and Harvard Business School’s Managing the Future of Work project reveals that although ...

When uncertainty strikes, the default reaction is often to retreat. But courageous leaders don’t wait for clarity—they create it. Courage is not about being fearless; it’s about acting in service of a ...

Research has shown that layoffs yield disengagement, turnover, and reduced productivity among remaining employees. As more ...

Founders who tailor their pitch language to the strength of their evidence dramatically boost their odds of funding. When ...

About a third of middle-market companies are owned by private equity, and many currently founder-led companies will have at ...

This collection of the 10 most-read HBR articles on gen AI in the first half of 2025 can help leaders engage with, and answer ...

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 ...

Researchers have struggled to establish a causal relationship between diversity and financial performance—especially at large companies, where decision rights and incentives can be murky, and ...

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 ...

Reprint: R0410B Employers are beginning to realize that they face a nearly invisible but significant drain on productivity: presenteeism, the problem of workers’ being on the job but, because of ...