To improve how businesses use unstructured data, leaders should follow a series of steps that begin by addressing ...

Stretch assignments can accelerate career growth—but new research shows they don’t benefit all employees equally. In a study ...

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Conflict on executive teams is inevitable—and necessary. CEOs need to hear a variety of well-informed opinions and arguments ...

The once-ubiquitous acronym VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) is being nudged aside by a different ...

The way in which you share bad news with your board can either damage their trust—or deepen it, transforming tough situations ...

As your company adopts AI, what skills will your employees need and how can you develop them? This HBR Executive Playbook ...

Trust between a CEO and their board isn’t optional—it’s the foundation for strategic alignment and effective leadership. Too ...

Strategy involves placing a bet on a desired outcome—often shaped by uncertain customer behavior—and building a logical, testable theory for how the company will achieve competitive advantage.

If you feel like you’ve lost control of your schedule, it’s because you’re not smartly allocating your scarcest resource—your time. The most effective CEOs know their role is not to do everything ...

Leaders can take the principles of strategy used in boardrooms across the world and apply them to their own lives, as explained in this HBR Executive Masterclass. BCG’s Rainer Strack and colleagues ...

Leading today is less about getting people to follow you to the future, and more about getting them to co-create it with you. In this HBR Executive Masterclass, HBS professor Linda A. Hill spells out ...