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Boost Your Productivity with Microbreaks

Charlotte Fritz, assistant professor at Portland State University.




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The Myth of American Decline

Daniel Gross, columnist and economics editor for Yahoo! Finance and author of "Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline . . . and the Rise of a New Economy."




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Make Your Own Culturematic

Grant McCracken, anthropologist and author of "Culturematic: How Reality TV, John Cheever, a Pie Lab, Julia Child, Fantasy Football . . . Will Help You Create and Execute Breakthrough Ideas."




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The Power of the Introvert in Your Office

Susan Cain, author of "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking."




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Nate Silver on Predicting the Unpredictable

Nate Silver, statistician and founder of The New York Times political blog FiveThirtyEight.com.




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Has America Outsourced Too Much?

Gary Pisano, Harvard Business School professor and coauthor of "Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance."




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The Rise of the Global Super-Rich

Chrystia Freeland, editor of Thomson Reuters Digital and author of "Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else."




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Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Transformation

Jorge Cauz, president of Encyclopaedia Britannica.




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Solving America’s Innovation Crisis

Bruce Nussbaum, professor at Parsons The New School of Design and author of "Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire."




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Pricing Strategies People Love

Sandeep Baliga and Jeff Ely, professors at the Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern University.




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Read Fiction and Be a Better Leader

Joseph Badaracco, Harvard Business School professor.




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Office Politics for the Pros

Karen Dillon, author of the "HBR Guide to Office Politics," talks with Dorie Clark, author of "Reinventing You."




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How CEOs Are Succeeding in Africa

Jonathan Berman, author of "Success in Africa," busts media myths about the continent.




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Clay Christensen and Dominic Barton on Consulting’s Disruption

The HBS sage and McKinsey head discuss how to stay on top in a rapidly changing industry.




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Lead Authentically, Without Oversharing

Lisa Rosh, assistant professor of management at the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University, explains how to build trust through skillful self-disclosure.




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Feeling Conflicted? Get Out of Your Own Way

Erica Ariel Fox, who teaches negotiation at Harvard Law School, discusses how to resolve inner conflict to lead wisely and live well.




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Editors’ Picks of the Week

HBR editors read top posts from HBR.org.




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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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Nomadic Leaders Need Roots

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




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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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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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Are You the “Real You” in the Office?

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




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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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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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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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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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Explaining Silicon Valley’s Success

AnnaLee Saxenian, author of the classic book "Regional Advantage," still thinks the area's future is bright.




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Communicate Better with Your Global Team

Tsedal Neeley, Harvard Business School professor, explains how globally distributed teams can collaborate better together.




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Ethical CEOs Finish First

Fred Kiel, author of "Return on Character," explains his research on why being good benefits the bottom line.




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Why We Pretend to Be Workaholics

Erin Reid of Boston University on why men (but not women) feign long working hours.




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Michael Lynton on Surviving the Biggest Corporate Hack in History

The CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment discusses the crisis with editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius.




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Test-Taking Comes to the Office

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, author of the HBR article "Ace the Assessment," explores the rising practice of using tests in hiring and promotion decisions.




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Salman Rushdie on Creativity and Criticism

The acclaimed writer describes how he develops his novels, what he expects from reviewers, and why business people should still read fiction.




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PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi on Design Thinking

How PepsiCo is harnessing the power of design.




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Your Office’s Hidden Artists and How to Work with Them

Kimberly Elsbach, author of the HBR article "Collaborating with Creative Peers," on collaborating better with a certain type of colleague.




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Katie Couric on the Shifting Landscape of News

The renowned American journalist talks with HBR senior editor Dan McGinn.




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4 Types of Conflict and How to Manage Them

Amy Gallo, author of the "HBR Guide to Managing Conflict at Work," explains the options.




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Becoming a More Authentic Leader

Bill George, Harvard Business School professor and author of "Discover Your True North," gives advice to both new and experienced leaders.




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Make Peace with Your Inner Critic

Tara Mohr, author of Playing Big, explains how to deal with self-doubt (or help someone else manage theirs).




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Isabel Allende on Fiction and Feminism

The bestselling author describes her creative process and explains why she was always determined to have a career.




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Asking for Advice Makes People Think You’re Smarter

The research shows we shouldn't be afraid to ask for help. Francesca Gino and Alison Wood Brooks, both of Harvard Business School, explain.




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A Brief History of 21st Century Economics

Tim Sullivan, co-author with Ray Fisman of "The Inner Lives of Markets," on how we shape economic theory -- and how it shapes us.




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Macromanagement Is Just as Bad as Micromanagement

Tanya Menon, associate professor at Fisher College of Management, Ohio State University, explains how to recognize if your management style is too hands off. She's the co-author of "Stop Spending, Start Managing: Strategies to Transform Wasteful Habits."




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Restoring Sanity to the Office

Basecamp CEO Jason Fried says too many people find it difficult to get work done at the workplace. His company enforces quiet offices, fewer meetings, and different collaboration and communication practices. The goal is to give employees bigger blocks of time to be truly productive.




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Voices from the January-February 2017 Issue

Roger Martin of Rotman School of Management, Paul Zak of Claremont Graduate University, Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School, comedian Jerry Seinfeld, and HBR Editor-in-Chief Adi Ignatius respectively discuss customer loyalty, the neuroscience of trust, entrepreneurship in Africa, the source of innovation, and the new, hefty magazine. For more, see the January-February 2017 issue.




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Dealing with Conflict Avoiders and Seekers

Amy Gallo, HBR contributing editor, discusses a useful tactic to more effectively deal with conflict in the workplace: understanding whether you generally seek or avoid conflict. Each personality style influences how you approach a particular conflict, as well as how your counterpart does. Gallo talks about how to escape the common pitfalls of conflict seekers and conflict avoiders, so that you can improve your work and your relationships. She’s the author of the “HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict.”




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Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You?

Chris Kuenne, entrepreneurship lecturer at Princeton, and John Danner, senior fellow at the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business talk about one of the least understood factors that leads to success at scale: the personality of the company founder. Their research describes four distinct types of highly successful entrepreneurial personalities: the Driver, the Explorer, the Crusader, and the Captain. While popular culture currently celebrates big-ego personalities in the mold of Steve Jobs, the interview guests show how different kinds of people succeed at that level. Kuenne and Danner are co-authors of the new book, “Built for Growth: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win.”




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Basic Competence Can Be a Strategy

Raffaella Sadun, a professor at Harvard Business School, explains why seemingly common-sensical management practices are so hard to implement. After surveying thousands of organizations across the world, she found that only 6% of firms qualified as highly well-managed — and that managers mistakenly assumed they were all above average. She is a co-author of “Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management?” in the September–October 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review.




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Microsoft’s CEO on Rediscovering the Company’s Soul

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s third CEO, opens up about his effort to refresh the culture of the company and renew its focus on the future. He reflects on important life lessons he learned growing up in India, immigrating to the U.S., and working for Microsoft for 25 years. Nadella thinks of the past, he says, for the sake of the future—of technology, public policy, and work. His new autobiography is "Hit Refresh."




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The Hardscrabble Business of Chinese Manufacturing in Africa

Irene Yuan Sun, a consultant at McKinsey, explains why so many Chinese entrepreneurs are setting up factories in Africa. She describes what it’s like inside these factories, who works there, what they’re making—and how this emerging manufacturing sector is industrializing countries including Lesotho and Nigeria. Sun’s new book is “The Next Factory of the World: How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa.”