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Building a Company Everyone Loves

Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones, authors of the HBR article "Creating the Best Workplace on Earth."




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Yes, Business Relies on Nature

Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and author of "Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature."




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Talent Strategies for the Post-Loyalty World

Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh, coauthors of the HBR article "Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee Compact."




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Why Some Companies Last and Others Don’t

Michael Raynor, director at Deloitte Services LP and coauthor of the HBR article "Three Rules for Making a Company Truly Great."




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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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The Booming Business of Craft Cocktails

Thomas Mooney, co-owner and CEO of House Spirits Distillery.




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What the Best Decision Makers Do

Ram Charan, coauthor of "Boards that Lead," talks about what he's learned in three decades of helping executives make tough decisions.




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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.




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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 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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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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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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How Companies Can Embrace Speed

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




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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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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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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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Taking Business Back from Wall Street

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




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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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What Makes Teams Smart (or Dumb)

Cass Sunstein, Harvard professor and author of "Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter."




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Skills We Can Learn from Games

Andrew Innes, game designer, product manager, and author of "What Board Games Can Teach Business."




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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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Signs You’re Secretly Annoying Your Colleagues

Muriel Maignan Wilkins, coauthor of "Own the Room," on the flaws everyone's too polite to point out.




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Be Less Reactive and More Proactive

Peter Bregman, author of "Four Seconds," on changing the way you lead.




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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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PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi on Design Thinking

How PepsiCo is harnessing the power of design.




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The Creator of WordPress

Matt Mullenweg, founder and CEO of Automattic, on growth, leadership, and mindfulness.




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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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China and the Biggest Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard of

Clay Shirky talks about Xiaomi, the subject of his new book, "Little Rice."




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Simple Rules for Creating Great Places to Work

Gareth Jones, author of "Why Should Anyone Work Here?", explains the things managers know, but struggle to do.




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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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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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Marketing Lessons for Companies Big and Small

Denise Lee Yohn, author of "Extraordinary Experiences" and "What Great Brands Do," explains what we can learn from retail and restaurant brands




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Life’s Work: Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Iconic relationship expert Dr. Ruth discusses what she's learned over a long career.




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Let Employees Be People

Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, both of Harvard, discuss what they've learned from studying radically transparent organizations where people at all levels of the hierarchy get candid feedback, show vulnerability, and grow on the job. Their book is "An Everyone Culture."




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Yo-Yo Ma on Successful Creative Collaboration

The acclaimed cellist explains how he chooses and works with partners and shares advice on honing one's talent.




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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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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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Making the Toughest Calls

Joseph Badaracco, Harvard Business School professor, explains what to do when no decision feels like a good decision. He is the author of "Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work."




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Excessive Collaboration

Rob Cross, professor at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, explains how work became an exhausting marathon of group projects. He's the coauthor of the HBR article "Collaborative Overload."




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Power Corrupts, But It Doesn’t Have To

Authority changes us all. Berkeley's Dacher Keltner, author of the HBR article "Don't Let Power Corrupt You" and the book "The Power Paradox" explains how to avoid succumbing to power's negative effects.




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What the World’s Best CEOs Have in Common

Long-term thinking, short-term savvy, and relentless focus on employees.




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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.