You’ve Been Called Out for a Microaggression. What Do You Do?

You’ve Been Called Out for a Microaggression. What Do You Do?

It was a throwaway comment, and you were unaware that it was demeaning. But now that a colleague has brought the...

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3 Scenarios for How the Pandemic Could Change U.S. Health Care

3 Scenarios for How the Pandemic Could Change U.S. Health Care

Confusion reigns concerning the future course and consequences of the novel coronavirus pandemic in the United States. But one thing...

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How to Mentor Someone Who Has Manipulative Tendencies

How to Mentor Someone Who Has Manipulative Tendencies

“It’s getting to the point where I can’t trust anything she says,” lamented Beth, the president of a $7B business...

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A Data-Driven Approach to Addressing Racial Disparities in Health Care Outcomes

A Data-Driven Approach to Addressing Racial Disparities in Health Care Outcomes

It is now well-known that the Covid-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting Black, Indigenous, and other disadvantaged communities in the United...

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How to Create a Workplace that Actually Inspires Passion

How to Create a Workplace that Actually Inspires Passion

Passion provides powerful motivation for learning, yet our 2017 survey of U.S. workers found just 13% of all employees exhibiting the type...

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Don’t Work on Vacation. Seriously.

Don’t Work on Vacation. Seriously.

How — and when — we work is fundamentally changing. Data from the 2018 American Time Use survey indicates that 30% of full-time...

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How Spotify and TikTok Beat Their Copycats

How Spotify and TikTok Beat Their Copycats

In the digital economy, the race is often won by imitators who turn out to be more agile and creative...

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How to Brainstorm — Remotely

How to Brainstorm — Remotely

In the age of Covid-19, many of us are no longer working together in the same rooms — but we...

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Why Your Mentorship Program Isn’t Working

Why Your Mentorship Program Isn’t Working

After five decades of mentoring relationship research, the evidence is irrefutable: people who have strong mentors accrue a host of professional...

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Impact Investing Won’t Save Capitalism

Impact Investing Won’t Save Capitalism

Next month will be the anniversary of the U.S. Business Roundtable’s 2019 call for a shift from “shareholder capitalism” toward “stakeholder capitalism.”...

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DO WE REALLY NEED THE OFFICE?

DO WE REALLY NEED THE OFFICE?

My desk at HBR is a chaotic place: covered with books, stacks of folders, gifts from colleagues (mostly involving cats),...

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Working Parents, Your Family Needs a “Board of Directors”

Working Parents, Your Family Needs a “Board of Directors”

Many of the roles we play in our lives do not fit neatly into professional and personal categories. Covid-19 has...

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Use Your Social Network as a Tool for Social Justice

Use Your Social Network as a Tool for Social Justice

Millions of individuals around the world are protesting in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, and many are asking...

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The Upside of Virtual Board Meetings

The Upside of Virtual Board Meetings

Like everyone else, members of corporate boards have had to innovate quickly due to Covid-19. A once-in-a-generation economic shock has...

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Stop Asking Job Candidates for Their Salary History

Stop Asking Job Candidates for Their Salary History

In response to nationwide protests, CEOs have committed to fighting discrimination and intolerance and have renewed pledges to increase diversity...

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