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Why We’re All in Sales

Daniel Pink, author of "To Sell Is Human" and the HBR article "A Radical Prescription for Sales."




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Mary Robinson on Influence Without Authority

Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland.




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Improve Your Business Writing

Bryan Garner, editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary and author of the "HBR Guide to Better Business Writing."




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Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead."




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Austerity’s Big Bait-and-Switch

Mark Blyth, professor at Brown University and author of "Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea."




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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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Why We Need to Redefine Intelligence

Scott Barry Kaufman, adjunct assistant professor of psychology at New York University and author of "Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined."




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The Women Who Become Board Members

Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell, authors of the HBR article "Dysfunction in the Boardroom."




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How to Schedule Time for Meaningful Work

Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen, coauthors of the HBR article "Make Time for the Work that Matters."




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Working Fathers Need Balance, Too

Joan C. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California and coauthor of the forthcoming book, "What Works for Women at Work."




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Why We Love to Hate Consultants

Dan McGinn, HBR senior editor.




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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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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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How Goldman Sachs Drifted

Steven G. Mandis of Columbia Business School discusses his book, "What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences."




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Christine Lagarde on the World Economy and the IMF’s Future

The managing director of the International Monetary Fund talks with HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius.




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Scott Adams on Whether Management Really Matters

The Dilbert creator talks with HBR senior editor Dan McGinn.




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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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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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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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Building the Agile Workforce

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




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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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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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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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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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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 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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How Companies Can Embrace Speed

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




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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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Taking Business Back from Wall Street

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




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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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How to Change Someone’s Behavior with Minimal Effort

Steve J. Martin, coauthor of "The Small Big: Small Changes That Spark Big Influence," on the little things that persuade.




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Learning What Wiser Workers Know

Dorothy Leonard, author of "Critical Knowledge Transfer" ​and Harvard Business School professor, on retaining organizational expertise.




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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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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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How to Negotiate Better

Jeff Weiss, author of the "HBR Guide to Negotiating" and partner at Vantage Partners, explains how to prepare to be persuasive.




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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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Why Leadership Feels Awkward

Herminia Ibarra, author of "Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader" and professor at INSEAD, on moving forward, even when it's not comfortable.