Founders who tailor their pitch language to the strength of their evidence dramatically boost their odds of funding. When ...

This collection of the 10 most-read HBR articles on gen AI in the first half of 2025 can help leaders engage with, and answer ...

About a third of middle-market companies are owned by private equity, and many currently founder-led companies will have at least one phase of PE ownership eventually. A majority of PE deals result in ...

Real-life coaching sessions with leaders working to overcome professional challenges. Muriel Wilkins is an executive coach with a strong track record of helping CEOs and senior leaders get through ...

Hated by bosses and subordinates alike, traditional performance appraisals have been abandoned by more than a third of U.S. companies. The annual review’s biggest limitation, the authors argue ...

Reprint: R0410B Employers are beginning to realize that they face a nearly invisible but significant drain on productivity: presenteeism, the problem of workers’ being on the job but, because of ...

Motivating yourself is one of the main things that sets high achievers apart, and it’s hard. How do you keep pushing onward when your heart isn’t in it? In her research, Fishbach has ...

Research has shown that layoffs yield disengagement, turnover, and reduced productivity among remaining employees. As more ...

Many leaders today are struggling to balance the aspiration of being supportive with the reality of feeling overwhelmed by their own to-do list. But when a well-meaning leader becomes the default ...

If it feels like leadership is getting harder, that’s because it is. AI is transforming the workplace faster than most leaders can adapt. The news cycle is relentless, geopolitical risk is ...

Generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), offers a promising new tool for early-stage market research by simulating customer responses to product concepts. This can allow companies ...

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