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Disrupting TV’s Status Quo

Famed producer Norman Lear on developing groundbreaking sitcoms, managing creative partnerships and the lessons he wants to pass on to the next generation.




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The Condensed November 2014 Issue

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.




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Focus More on Value Capture

Stefan Michel, professor at IMD, says your business should rethink how it captures value, not just how it creates it.




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Does Your Sales Team Know Your Strategy?

Frank Cespedes, HBS professor and author of "Aligning Strategy and Sales," explains how to get the front line on board.




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How Google Manages Talent

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, and Jonathan Rosenberg, former SVP of products, explain how the company manages their smart, creative team.




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Fixing the College Grad Hiring Process

Sanjeev Agrawal, Collegefeed cofounder and CEO, explains what recruiters, new graduates, and college career centers need to do differently.




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How Silicon Valley Became Uncool

Walter Frick, HBR editor, explains why we valorize tech heroes from the past, but scoff at today's entrepreneurs.




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The Condensed October 2014 Issue

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.




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The Fall of the Talent Economy?

Roger Martin, former dean of the Rotman School of Management, on why talent's powerful economic position is unsustainable.​




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Privacy’s Shrinking Future

Scott Berinato, senior editor at Harvard Business Review, on how companies benefit from transparency about customer data.




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How to Stop Corporate Inversions

Bill George and Mihir Desai, professors at Harvard Business School, explain why our corporate tax code is driving American business overseas.




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Prevent Employees from Leaking Data

David Upton and Sadie Creese, both of Oxford, explain why the scariest threats are from insiders.




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The Condensed September 2014 Issue

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.




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The Art of Managing Science

J. Craig Venter, the biologist who led the effort to sequence human DNA, on unlocking the human genome and the importance of building extraordinary teams for long-term results.




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The Dangers of Confidence

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor at University College London, on how confidence masks incompetence.




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The Future of Talent Is Potential

Linda Hill, Harvard Business School professor, and Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, senior adviser at Egon Zehnder, on the talent strategies that set up a company for long-term success.




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To Do Things Better, Stop Doing So Much

Greg McKeown, author of "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less," on the importance of being "absurdly selective" in how we use our time.




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Marc Andreessen and Jim Barksdale on How to Make Money

The tech luminaries on bundling and unbundling in the digital age.




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The Fukushima Meltdown That Didn’t Happen

Charles Casto, recently retired from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, on how smart leadership saved the second Fukushima power plant.




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Yang Yuanqing: The HBR Interview

Lenovo's CEO on how the PC leader is poised to win in the "PC plus" world.




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The Condensed July-August 2014 Issue

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.




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When to Go with Your Gut

Gerd Gigerenzer, director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, on how to know when simple rules and snap decisions will outperform analytical models.




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Succeeding Quietly in Our Recognition-Obsessed Culture

David Zweig, author of "Invisibles," on employees who value good work over self-promotion.




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The Secret History of White-Collar Offices

Nikil Saval, editor at n+1, on how gender, politics, and unions have affected the American workplace since the Civil War.




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Cross-Culture Work in a Global Economy

Erin Meyer, affiliate professor at INSEAD and author of "The Culture Map," on why memorizing a list of etiquette rules doesn't work.




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How to Manage Wall Street

Sam Palmisano, former CEO of IBM, on striking a balance between running a company for the long term and keeping investors happy.




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Taking Business Back from Wall Street

Gautam Mukunda, HBS professor, on the dangers of managing companies for shareholders.




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Time Is a Company’s Most Valuable Resource

Michael Mankins, partner at Bain & Company, on how to get the most out of meetings.




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Ruth Reichl on Challenging Career Moves

The renowned author and former editor of Gourmet talks about the magazine's closure and her recent transition to fiction writing.




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Social Physics Can Change Your Company (and the World)

Sandy Pentland, MIT professor, on how big data is revealing the science behind how we work together, based on his book "Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread."




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Best of the IdeaCast

Featuring Jeff Bezos, Howard Schultz, Francis Ford Coppola, Maya Angelou, Nancy Koehn, Rob Goffee, Gareth Jones, Cathy Davidson, and Mark Blyth.




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How Companies Can Embrace Speed

John Kotter, author of "Accelerate," on how slow-footed organizations can get faster.




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How Unusual CEOs Drive Value

William Thorndike, investor and author of "The Outsiders," looks at some less-known but more effective executives.




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Are You the “Real You” in the Office?

Harvard's Robert Kegan on companies that do really personal development.




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Identify Your Primary Customer

Robert Simons, Harvard Business School professor, says companies still struggle to choose the right customer.




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Our Bizarre Fascination with Stories of Doom

Andrew O'Connell, HBR editor, explains why we find tales of disaster so compelling.




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Is Work-Family Conflict Reaching a Tipping Point?

Stewart D. Friedman, Wharton professor and author of "Baby Bust," presents new research.




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Why So Many Emerging Giants Flame Out

John Jullens of Booz & Company says multinationals from China and other emerging markets must learn to innovate and manage quality while remaining nimble.




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We Need Economic Forecasters Even Though We Can’t Trust Them

Walter Friedman, director of the Business History Initiative at Harvard Business School, on the pioneers of market prediction.




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How the U.S. Can Regain its Edge

Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, says the U.S. can remain a global leader only if it addresses issues at home.




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John Cleese Has a Serious Side

The iconic comedian speaks with HBR's Adi Ignatius about work, life, and, yes, comedy.




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Getting Excellence to Spread

Bob Sutton, Stanford University professor, talks about his book, "Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less" (coauthored by Huggy Rao).




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Building the Agile Workforce

Jeffrey Joerres, CEO of ManpowerGroup, on finding the talent you need in an unpredictable world.




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Salman Khan on the Online Learning Revolution

The founder of the Khan Academy talks with HBR senior editor Alison Beard.




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The Management Style of Robert Gates

The former Secretary of Defense talks with HBR editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius about his new book, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War."




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Nomadic Leaders Need Roots

Gianpiero Petriglieri, professor at INSEAD, on the new global elite.




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The Condensed January-February 2014 Magazine

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.




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The Management Myths Hurting Your Business

Freek Vermeulen of London Business School explains how best practices become bad practices.




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The Economics of Online Dating

Paul Oyer, Stanford economist and the author of "Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Economics I Learned from Online Dating," explains the marketplace of online love.




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Reduce Stress with Mindfulness

Maria Gonzalez, author of "Mindful Leadership," explains how to minimize stress -- not just manage it. Contains a brief guided breathing exercise.