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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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The Condensed October 2014 Issue

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




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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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The Condensed November 2014 Issue

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




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Myths About Entrepreneurship

Linda Rottenberg, author of "Crazy Is a Compliment," on what it really takes to start a business.




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Boris Johnson on Influence and Ambition

The mayor of London explains why Churchill is a role model and whether his aspirations include the Prime Minister's office.




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The Condensed December 2014 Issue

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




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The Condensed January-February 2015 Issue

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




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What Still Stifles Ambitious Women

Pamela Stone, professor at Hunter College, on the surprising findings from a massive study of MBAs.




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The Condensed March 2015 Issue

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




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The Condensed April 2015 Issue

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




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Case Study: Reinvent This Retailer

Hear this story based on real events at J.C. Penney. A discussion with contributor Jill Avery and editor Andy O'Connell follows.




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Making Health Care More Consumer-Driven

Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School professor, talks about how to dismantle the barriers to innovation in care delivery.




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The Condensed May 2015 Issue

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




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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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The Condensed June 2015 Issue

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




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Making Sense of Digital Disruption

R. "Ray" Wang, author of "Disrupting Digital Business" on how business is transforming.




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The Condensed July-August 2015 Issue

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




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How Science and Tech Are Changing the Human Body

Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans explain how we're "evolving ourselves."




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The Condensed September 2015 Issue

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




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Become a Better Listener

Mark Goulston, psychiatrist and author of "Just Listen," explains how.




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What’s Your Digital Quotient?

Kate Smaje of McKinsey explains how it's about more than being tech-savvy.




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The Condensed October 2015 Issue

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




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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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The Condensed November 2015 Issue

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




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What Makes Social Entrepreneurs Successful?

Sally Osberg, president and CEO of the Skoll Foundation and author of "Getting Beyond Better" with Roger Martin.




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Slide Deck Presentations Don’t Have to Be Terrible

Evan Loomis and Evan Baehr, coauthors of "Get Backed," on how to win someone over with PowerPoint.




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The Condensed December 2015 Issue

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




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Accenture’s CEO on Leading Change

Pierre Nanterme discusses the forces changing consulting, and other knowledge-intensive industries.




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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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The Condensed January-February 2016 Issue

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




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Stop Focusing on Your Strengths

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor at University College London and Columbia University and CEO of Hogan Assessments, explains how the fad for strengths-based coaching may actually be weakening us.




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The Condensed March 2016 Issue

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




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The Condensed April 2016 Issue

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




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Understanding Agile Management

Darrell Rigby of Bain and Jeff Sutherland of Scrum explain the rise of lean, iterative management tactics, and how to implement them yourself.




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The Condensed May 2016 Issue

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




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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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Be a Work/Life-Friendly Boss

Managers play a huge role in their employees' personal lives, which in turn affects productivity, morale, and turnover at work. Professor Scott Behson, author of "The Working Dad's Survival Guide," and professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, gives practical tips for being a leader who is flexible, fair, and effective.




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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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Brexit and the Leadership Equivalent of Empty Calories

Mark Blyth of Brown University and Gianpiero Petriglieri of INSEAD discuss Britain's vote to leave the European Union.




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The Era of Agile Talent

More of us are working in organizations employing a mix of freelancers, contractors, consultants, and full-timers, explains Jonathan Younger, coauthor with Norm Smallwood of "Agile Talent: How to Source and Manage Outside Experts."




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The Zappos Holacracy Experiment

Ethan Bernstein, Harvard Business School professor, and John Bunch, holacracy implementation lead at Zappos, discuss the online retailer's transition to a flat, self-managed organization. They are the coauthors of the HBR article "Beyond the Holacracy Hype."




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In Praise of Dissenters and Non-Conformists

Adam Grant, Wharton professor and author of "Originals", on the science of standing out.




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The Connection Between Speed and Charisma

Bill von Hippel, professor at the University of Queensland, on how the ability to think and respond quickly makes someone seem more charismatic.




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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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When Not to Trust the Algorithm

Cathy O'Neil, author of "Weapons of Math Destruction" on how data can lead us astray–from HR to Wall Street.




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A Leadership Historian on the U.S. Presidential Election

Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn talks about the surprising election of businessman Donald Trump as U.S. president, and what leaders throughout history can tell us about bridging divides and leading in times of uncertainty.




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How Focusing on Content Leads the Media Astray

Bharat Anand, author of The Content Trap and professor at Harvard Business School, talks about the strategic challenges facing digital businesses, and explains how he and his colleagues wrestled with them when designing HBX, the school's online learning platform.




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Handling Stress in the Moment

HBR contributing editor Amy Gallo discusses the best tactics to recognize, react to, and recover from stressful situations. She's a contributor to the "HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work."




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Generosity Burnout

Senior leaders Brad Feld, Sarah Robb O’Hagan, Mike Ghaffary, Heidi Roizen, and John Rogers Jr. discuss burning out on giving, the techniques they use to avoid it, and how they recognize it in their employees.