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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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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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The Condensed November 2014 Issue

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




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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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Myths About Entrepreneurship

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




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Is the Corporate Campus Dying?

Jennifer Magnolfi, Founder & Principal Investigator at Programmable Habitats LLC, on how digital work, and the Internet of Things will fundamentally change the how we use the buildings and neighborhoods we work in.




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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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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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Making Good Decisions

Stanford's Ron Howard, one of the fathers of decision analysis, explains how it's done.




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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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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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The Condensed January-February 2015 Issue

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




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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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Innovation Needs a System

David Duncan, senior partner at Innosight and coauthor of "Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days," explains how to organize corporate creativity.




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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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GoDaddy’s CEO on Leading Change

Blake Irving talks about the company's renewed focus on small businesses and bringing on a new leadership team.




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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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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.




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Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo

Nicholas Carlson, author of "Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo," on the CEO's management style.




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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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Goldie Hawn on Female Leadership

The Hollywood icon explains why she moved from acting to producing and directing, then launched a foundation that teaches mindfulness to kids.




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Set Habits You’ll Actually Keep

Gretchen Rubin, author of "Better than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives," explains that you've got to know your habit-setting style.




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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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Blue Ocean Strategy and Red Ocean Traps

Renée Mauborgne of INSEAD explains how a landmark idea is evolving. She is coauthor, along with W. Chan Kim, of "Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition (2015)."




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Your Brain’s Ideal Schedule

Ron Friedman, Ph.D., author of "The Best Place to Work," on how to structure your day to get the most done.




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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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Understand How People See You

Heidi Grant Halvorson, author of "No One Understands You and What to Do About It," explains the science of perception.




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Brian Grazer on the Power of Curiosity

The Oscar-winning producer explains why a passion for learning--about other people and pursuits--has been the key to his success.




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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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Consumer Privacy in the Digital Age

Timothy Morey and Allison Schoop, both of frog, on designing customer data systems that promote transparency and trust.




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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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Evernote’s CEO on the New Ways We Work

Phil Libin discusses the impact of technology--from Microsoft Word to wearables--on our collaboration and productivity.




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Are Robots Really Coming for Our Jobs?

James Bessen, economist and former software executive, on what we can learn from 19th century mill workers about innovation, wages, and technology.




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Beating Digital Overload with Digital Tools

Alexandra Samuel, online engagement expert and author of "Work Smarter with Social Media," on the tools you should use--and the ones you could be ignoring.




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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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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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Can HR Be Saved?

Peter Cappelli, author of the HBR article, "Why We Love to Hate HR...and What HR Can Do About It," on perhaps the least popular function in business.




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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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“Social Media-Savvy CEO” Is No Oxymoron

Charlene Li, author of "The Engaged Leader," on why and how senior executives are diving into online networks.




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The CEO of YP on Leading Digital Transformation

David Krantz, the CEO of YP (formerly the Yellow Pages), explains how they've reinvented their business.




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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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Building Healthy Teams

Mary Shapiro, author of the "HBR Guide to Leading Teams" and professor at Simmons, on dealing with conflict and other issues.