Stop People from Wasting Your Time

2/5/2015

Everyone is incredibly busy—with initiatives, meetings, emails, phone calls, and more. But too often, we fail to get the most important things done, and are distracted by others who don't respect our time.

Leading business thinker Dorie Clark—author of Reinventing You– shares specific, practical steps for better controlling your time, and preventing others from wasting it.

Design a Digital Strategy That Works

2/2/2015

Many companies believe that investments in digital technologies—social, mobile, analytics, and the Internet of things—will provide competitive advantage. Yet most companies aren't finding their investments are paying off by providing an ongoing competitive edge.

What is going wrong? MIT's Jeanne Ross shares insights from her research on digital technology and outlines the key elements for designing a digital strategy that works.

Getting Virtual Teams Right

1/22/2015

"Virtual" teams made up of members who work together from different locations are on the rise. In one recent survey, 79% of employees said they always or frequently work in dispersed teams.

Thought leader Keith Ferrazzi identifies four must-haves in creating successful virtual teams, and he describes the key practices of high-performing virtual teams.

Data-Driven Marketing: How to Engage Your Customers

01/08/2015

Tom Redman, president of Navesink Consulting Group, takes a fresh look at data-driven marketing.

Elevating Your Brand in the Eyes of the Customer

12/11/2014

Author Peter Sheahan discusses how companies can distinguish themselves in crowded marketplaces.

The Innovator’s Method: How Great Innovators Lead Differently

12/10/2014

Join Professors Jeff Dyer and Nathan Furr, authors of The Innovator's Method and the HBR article "Leading Your Team Into the Unknown," as they discuss leadership and innovation.

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

11/25/2014

Roger Martin shares key insights from Playing to Win and also from the new Playing to Win Strategy Toolkit to help leaders implement the Playing to Win framework in their organization.

Managing the Internet of Things: How Smart, Connected Products are Changing the Competitive Landscape

11/20/2014

Strategy expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter and PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann describe the changing landscape of the IOT and how companies need to rethink their businesses.

The Power of Sales Analytics

11/18/2014

Professors Andy Zoltners and Prabha Sinha—who have consulted for over 200 companies on their sales force strategies and co-authored The Power of Sales Analytics—lead a discussion on how companies can leverage analytics to enable better sales force decisions and processes.

What's Your Company's Language Strategy?

11/17/2014

HBS Professor Robert Steven Kaplan explains what a language strategy is and what the benefits are, describes why having one is so important, and details the critical elements of an effective language strategy.

How Technology Can Transform Performance Management Today

11/12/2014

Best-selling author Marcus Buckingham discusses innovative approaches to integrating cloud and other technology and human capital management.

Embedding Analytics for Growth: Creating a Data-Driven Culture

11/12/2014

MIT’s Michael Schrage leads a discussion focused on the way leading companies are creating an analytical culture to drive competitive advantage and a real impact to the bottom line.

Workforce Analytics of the Future:Using Predictive Analytics to Forecast Talent Needs

11/11/2014

USC Professor and talent management expert John Boudreau shares his insights on the role of predictive analytics in optimizing talent decisions in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.

How to Not Cut Health Care Cost

11/5/2014

HBS Professor Robert S. Kaplan and Senior Project Director Derek Haas share insights on how not to cut health care costs, and offer advice to provider organizations on effective processes for successful cost reductions.

The Rise of the Chief Marketing Technologist

11/4/2014

Gartner’s Laura McLellan and Kimberly-Clark CMT Mayur Gupta share their insights on the rise of the chief marketing technologist.

Effective Strategies for Modern Sales

10/31/2014

Harvard Business School Professor Frank Cespedes offers a road map to articulate strategy in ways that people in the field can understand and that will fuel the behaviors required for profitable growth. He provides a framework for diagnosing and managing the core levers available for effective selling in any organization.

The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age

10/30/2014

LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman and co-authors Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh, discuss their new book, The Alliance, and talk about how to recruit, manage, and retain entrepreneurial employees in the networked age.

Closing the Skills Gap: Innovative Talent Management Solutions For a Changing Workforce

10/28/2014

Consultant and author Dr. David DeLong shares insights from research for his forthcoming book, Closing the Skills Gap: Innovative Talent Management Solutions for a Changing Workforce. DeLong provides ideas to help executives develop the leadership and workforce capabilities to drive future growth and innovation.

The Internet of Things

10/23/2014

HBS Professors Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani lead a discussion on the impact of the Internet of Things, examining the opportunities as well as the threats this new wave of technology creates. They describe how leading companies, like GE, are acting to seize new opportunities, highlighting the challenges and tradeoffs organizations face as they create and capture value and remake business models.

Leading Marketing Excellence with Analytics

10/22/2014

In this engaging moderated discussion, senior marketing executives discuss how they're using analytics to meet the growing demands for customer-centered activities that drive meaningful business results.

Total Leadership: Leading the Life You Want

10/7/2014

In his new book, Leading the Life You Want, Wharton professor Stew Friedman says we need to stop viewing work and life as a tradeoff. He discusses how individuals can find ways to integrate work, home, community, and the private self.

Prepare Your Organization to Capitalize on Predictive Analytics

10/3/2014

In leading Accenture's Enterprise Management Analytics offering, Brian McCarthy has worked with a wide range of companies to fully leverage the power of analytics. He shares insights on how organizations can prepare to capitalize on analytics to solve key business problems and propel their businesses forward.

Workspace for a Mobile Workforce

10/2/2014

Workplace expert Christine Congdon, Director of Research Communications at Steelcase, discusses the key trends transforming the world of work. She describes how employers who want to attract and engage top talent can create new workspace environments that can maximize performance.

4 Ways the Best Sales Teams Beat the Market

9/30/2014

McKinsey experts Michael Viertler and Lareina Yee share data, insights, best practices, and case studies on what the best-run sales organizations do differently to beat the competition.

Retail That Connects: Creating the Complete Customer Experience

9/26/2014

Bain's Darrell Rigby shares five best practices about digital-physical mashups discovered from global leaders in 20 industries.

Calculating Success: How the New Workplace Analytics Will Revitalize Your Organization

9/25/2014

Calculating Successco-author Tim Ringo shares his insights on how companies can take a more analytical approach and use new workplace analytics to revitalize an organization.

How I Did It LIVE: Powerful Stories of Strategic Business Leadership from the World's Top CEOs

9/23/2014

In this "How I Did It LIVE" video webinar, Laura Alber, President and CEO of Williams-Sonoma, describes how her company has learned to use a mix of from-the-gut intuition and Big Data-style analytic capabilities to help Williams-Sonoma introduce new brands and products.

The Team Equation: Managing Teams That Deliver

9/17/2014

Team-building expert Mary Shapiro—author of the HBR Guide to Leading Teams—shares proven best practices for effective team building.

Your Scarcest Resource: Time is money, but few organizations treat it that way

9/15/2014

Bain's Michael Mankins shares a new approach for more effectively managing organizational time, with eight specific practices.

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators

9/11/2014

Author Jeffrey Dyer describes the five skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers.

Drive the Right Bargain: Your Framework for Better Negotiations

9/9/2014

Negotiation expert Jeff Weiss, author of the HBR Guide to Negotiating, shares a disciplined, collaborative approach to negotiation that produces better outcomes and stronger relationships.

Bullies, Jerks and Other Annoyances: Identify and Defuse the Difficult People in the Workplace

8/12/2014

Executive coach Michele Woodward shares the playbook she has developed for identifying and diffusing difficult people in the workplace.

The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Great Ideas

8/6/2014

Innovation expert Scott Anthony shares his insights and equips innovators with new tools, questions, and examples to speed through the crucial early stage of innovation--the first mile.

From Blue Ocean Strategy to Blue Ocean Leadership

7/15/2014

Professor Renee Mauborgne discusses the key ideas underlying both Blue Ocean Strategy and "Blue Ocean Leadership." She describes how leaders are using these ideas to better engage talent, and how companies are driving profitable growth by unlocking new opportunities.

Capitalism for the Long Term

7/1/2014

McKinsey's global managing director Dominic Barton outlines practical approaches that business leaders, boards, and investors can employ to help foster capitalism for the long term.

Closing the Strategy-Sales Gap

6/30/2014

Harvard Business School Professor Frank Cespedes discusses how to close the strategy-sales gap and shares practical know-how, emphasizes the role of processes and systems, and provides advice that will drive performance.

The Mobile Mind Shift: How to Engineer Your Business to Win in the Mobile Moment

6/27/2014

Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research explains how to find your customer's most powerful mobile moments with a mobile moment audit. You'll also learn to align your business and technology teams to exploit mobile, and turn one-time product sales into ongoing services and engagement.

The Ultimate Marketing Machine

6/26/2014

EffectiveBrands co-founder Marc de Swaan Arons describes findings from his research on marketing excellence, explains the framework for building a high-performance marketing organization, and discusses the key elements of creating an ultimate marketing machine.

The Capitalist's Dilemma

6/26/2014

Clay Christensen discusses the barriers that blind companies to the best opportunities for creating new jobs and new markets - and the new frameworks for thinking about investing. Harvard Business Review's Adi Ignatius leads the discussion.

The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See

6/25/2014

Harvard Business School Professor Max Bazerman provides a guide to breaking bad habits and spotting the hidden details that will change your decision-making and leadership skills for the better.

BrainSwarming: Because Brainstorming Doesn't Work

6/24/2014

Innovation researcher and expert Dr. Tony McCaffrey--who studies the science of innovation-- explains what BrainSwarming is, how and why it works, and why it is better than traditional brainstorming.

Power Cues: New Science on Influencing Others

6/17/2014

Communications expert Nick Morgan shares insights on how leveraging communications insights-- "power cues"--leaders can maximize their personal impact, enhance their leadership skills, and improve their ability to influence others.

The Visual Organization: Data Visualization, Big Data, and the Quest for Better Decisions

6/13/2014

Technology expert and author Phil Simon describes the new types of data, new generation of tools and applications, new visualization technologies, and completely different mindset of truly visual organizations.

The Nine Elements of Digital Transformation

6/12/2014

George Westerman describes the nine key elements of digital transformation and shares case studies of companies that are transforming.

Engaging Doctors in the Health Care Revolution

6/5/2014

In the June 2014 Harvard Business Review, Drs. Toby Cosgrove (CEO, the Cleveland Clinic) and Thomas Lee (CMO, Press Ganey) share a framework for driving physician engagement.

Making Good on Your Organization's Intentions

5/22/2014

Motivational expert Heidi Halvorson explains why people and organizations often don't do what they intend, shares insights from neuroscience, describes the two key pitfalls of execution, and describes what if-then planning is and why it significantly increases the odds of executional success.

Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation

5/21/2014

Co-authors of the HBR article "Big-Bang Disruption"--Larry Downes and Paul Nunes of the Accenture Institute for High Performance--describe what big bang disruption is, explain why it's different, and provide insights on how to master it.

Bringing Science to the Art of Selling is the ONLY Option

5/20/2014

Jim Dickie, managing partner of CSO Insights, reveals findings from his firm's 2014 Sales Management Optimization study, with data from 1000+ sales organizations and shares statistics about the sales challenges organizations face.

Leading Digital Transformation

5/15/2014

Big data expert Andy McAfee of MIT's Sloan School of Management discusses the rapidly evolving understanding of expertise and leadership in the world of big data.

Making Big Data Actionable: How Data Visualization and Other Tools Change the Game

5/13/2014

Teradata's chief analytics officer Bill Franks focuses on making big data more actionable by using more compelling data visualization tools and techniques.

Collective Genius: Building a Game-Changing Global Talent Strategy

5/12/2014

Research by Harvard Business School Professor Linda Hill shares insights on building a superior talent strategy--including how to create such a strategy and the benefits of doing so.

Powerful Stories of Strategic Business Leadership from the World's Top CEOs (Bizzarri)

5/9/2014

In this "How I Did It" video webinar, Marco Bizzarri, president and chief executive officer of Bottega Veneta, shares a candid account of how he built Bottega Veneta into a billion-dollar brand – keeping sales of luxury goods up even as the global economy collapsed.

It's Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best

5/7/2014

Global talent management expert Claudio Fernández-Aráoz explains why people's decisions--choices about friends, spouses, employees, partners, and mentors--are more important than any other. To thrive, you need the best people in your corner and on your team. Yet few people know how to do that well.

Managing Unpredictable Supply Chain Disruptions

4/30/2014

MIT Professor and co-author of the HBR article "From Superstorms to Factory Fires: Managing Unpredictable Supply-Chain Disruptions," David Simchi-Levi shares a new model for assessing exposure to hidden risks. Use of this model can improve planning, minimize disruptions, and have significant strategic and financial benefits.

Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World

4/24/2014

Global leadership expert John Kotter provides a powerful new framework and advocates a new network type of organizational structure--to complement the traditional hierarchical structure--for competing and winning in a world of constant turbulence and disruption.

Aggressive and Persistent: Using Frameworks to Defend Against Cyber Attacks

4/16/2014

Cyber threats are growing in frequency and severity, and every organization is at risk. Cybersecurity experts Professor Scott Shackelford of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and Andrew Proia of Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research unpack the cyber threat facing the private sector.

Coaching Your Employees

3/20/2014

Ed Batista, experienced executive coach and co-author of the HBR Guide to Coaching Your Employees,shares insights from this Guide and from his extensive coaching experience.

What's It Take to Get a Top Job?

3/14/2014

Peter Cappelli, director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, and a co-author of the HBR article "Who's Got Those Top Jobs," shares findings from new research about the evolution in the profiles and career paths of those who have made it to the top.

New Perspectives on the Energy Business: Challenges and Opportunities from America's Changing Role

3/6/2014

George Mason University Professor Gregory Unruh, author of Earth, Inc., Randy Zwirn, CEO of Siemens Energy US, Jane Okun Bomba, SVP/Chief Sustainability Officer of IHS, and a panel of the sector's leading future influencers, assess the opportunities and challenges facing the energy sector.

5 Essential Communications Skills to Catapult Your Career

3/5/2014

Communication expert Kristi Hedges teaches aspiring executives five must-have communication skills: creating an intentional presence; being able to get buy-in; delivering executive briefings; connecting with distributed teams through virtual leadership; and giving and receiving direct feedback.

Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities

3/3/2014

Tom Davenport, author of Big Data at Work,explains what big data means from a technical, consumer, and management perspective; the opportunities and costs of big data; where it can have real business impact; and which aspects of big data have been oversold.

To Sell is Human: The New ABCs of Moving Others

2/26/2014

Best-selling author Dan Pink draws on cutting-edge social science and best practices from global organizations to reveal the new ABCs of selling.

Delivering World-Class Health Care

2/11/2014

Professors Vijay Govindarajan and Ravi Ramamurti, co-authors of the Harvard Business Reviewarticle, "Delivering World-Class Health Care, Affordably," share findings from their research on why leading Indian hospitals are so efficient, and lessons for U.S. hospitals.

Deciding How to Decide

12/16/2013

Hugh Courtney, the co-author of “Deciding How to Decide,” provides a model to help executives make better decisions.

The Mobile Shopping Life Cycle

12/12/2013

Mobile shopping expert Chuck Martin describes why the sales funnel is dead and how mobile is fundamentally changing the shopping experience.

Essential Attributes of Game Changing Organizations

12/10/2013

MIT’s Doug Ready shares lessons learned from his in-depth analysis of game-changing companies.

Calculating Success: Use Workplace Analytics to Revitalize Your Organization

12/9/2013

Carl Hoffmann and his coauthors explain how companies can apply human capital data to make smarter strategic decisions and drive superior performance.

Getting In Front of Data Quality

12/3/2013

Tom Redman describes why we still struggle so much with data–50 years after we first coined the expression “Garbage In, Garbage Out.”

In Line Behind a Billion People

12/2/2013

Political analyst Damien Ma and global economist Bill Adams discuss how China's scarcity issues will affect the global economy.

How I Did It Live With Andy Taylor

11/21/2013

Executive Chairman of Enterprise Holdings Andy Taylor shares a candid account of how Enterprise used its acquisition of National and Alamo to drive change throughout the merged organization.

The Customer Activated Enterprise

11/19/2013

Saul Berman and Linda Ban share major insights from the 2013 IBM Global C-suite Study.

How Social Influence Does (and Doesn't) Affect Decision Making

11/19/2013

MIT’s Sandy Pentland describes what social exploration is, and explains how, why, and where it produces better decisions.

Big Data's Three Big Questions

11/15/2013

MIT’s Andy McAfee provides answers to big data’s three key questions.

Leverage Customer Data: The Power of Predictive Analytics

11/6/2013

John Lucker discusses how customer analytics can be used to improve the customer experience and strengthen customer relationships.

Analytics 3.0: Measurable Business Impact From Analytics & Big Data

10/15/2013

Analytics industry pioneer Tom Davenport explains Analytics 3.0 and its key characteristics.

After an Attack: Protecting Your Data, Your Customer and Your Reputation

10/10/2013

Professor Darren Hayes lays out the basics of preparing for and effectively responding to a cyber attack.

Five Ways to Innovate Faster

10/9/2013

Innovation expert Scott Anthony describes a framework for improving the speed of moving ideas from paper to market.

Make Time for the Work That Matters

10/9/2013

Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen, co-authors of the recent HBR article “Make Time for the Work That Matters,” share a process that has helped executives achieve remarkable results by consciously deciding how to spend their time.

The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration

10/7/2013

Leigh Thompson shares research findings and examples that illustrate the keys to successful breakthrough collaboration and teamwork that produces results.

How to Drive Risk Out of Your Growth Initiatives

9/26/2013

Bruce Harreld discusses his recent Harvard Business Review article, “Six Ways to Sink a Growth Initiative."

IT Risk: The Conversation You Must Have Now

9/25/2013

Leading technology thinker George Westerman provides a framework on having productive organizational conversations about cyber security and IT risk.

The Strategy That Will Fix Healthcare

9/24/2013

Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and Press Ganey’s CMO Thomas H. Lee share insights from their HBR article, “The Strategy That Will Fix Healthcare.”

Managing the Complete Customer Journey

9/17/2013

Co-authors, Alex Rawson, Ewan Duncan, and Conor Jones, share insights about the importance of managing the entire customer experience.

Managing the Complete Customer Journey

9/10/2013

Gartner analyst Mark McDonald explains how social technology fosters and capitalizes on customers’ and employees’ collective efforts.

Know What Your Customers Want Before They Do

8/23/2013

John Lucker of Deloitte Consulting discusses what NBOs are, what makes a good NBO, and how to build and execute effective NBOs.

Connect then Lead: How to Get Influence and Use It

08/21/2013

Amy Cuddy and John Neffinger, co-authors of the HBR article “Connect, Then Lead,” explain why connecting is so critical to leading, and how to do it quickly and effectively.

Keeping Up With the Quants

8/14/2013

Tom Davenport shares key insights from his new book Keeping Up with the Quants.

Presenting the Perfect Online Presentation

08/01/2013

Ron Ashkenas shares ways to cut through the anxiety that accompanies presenting and provide tips to improve your presentations.

Making the Leap: Creating the Next Generation CIO

7/30/2013

Santa Clara professor Terri Griffith discusses the changing context for CIOs, and the opportunity that exists for IT.

How Motivational Focus Drives Performance

7/10/2013

Motivational expert Heidi Grant Halvorson shares ways to improve your leadership by better understanding your motivational focus and that of others.

The Cyber Threat to Your Business

6/25/2013

Indiana University professor Scott Shackelford discusses how your organization can fully assess, mitigate, and manage cyber risks.

The End of Competitive Advantage

6/24/2013

Professor McGrath discusses the core ideas from her book The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business.

Big Data and the Global Supply Chain

6/17/2013

Lehigh professor Nada Sanders discusses how your organization can use big data to take complexity out of your supply chain.

How Mobile Devices are Changing Marketing

6/11/2013

Author and mobile expert Chuck Martin discusses the death of the traditional sales channel and how marketers must effectively target to reach today’s mobile buyer.

Making Sustainability Profitable

6/10/2013

Leading thinkers from BCG and the world economic forum discuss how you can make your business more economically and environmentally sustainable.

The Employer of Choice

5/29/2013

Learn what next-generation leaders say it takes for corporations to be an Employer of Choice, and the programs that leading companies are putting in place to achieve this goal.

Develop Your Signature Voice

5/10/2013

Amy Jen Su and Muriel Wilkins—co-authors of Own the Room—share a compelling framework for how to develop your powerful personal presence.

Change the Conversation, Change the Game

5/6/2013

In this wide-ranging panel discussion, renowned business author Gary Hamel joins with Jim Stikeleather to discuss how CIOs must redefine IT value and sharpen their focus.

The Third Wave of Virtual Work

4/30/2013

Lynda Gratton shares insights from her recent HBR article, describing this third wave of virtual work.

The Future of Social Impact Investment

4/19/2013

Sir Ronald Cohen discusses impact investment and where it stands today as well as the latest innovations in funding entrepreneurial solutions to societal problems.

Get the Picture: Gaining Insights With Data Visualization

4/18/2013

Jeremy Howard discusses how you can build the basics and leverage a growing crowd of professional data visualizers to take your analysis to the next level.

How Can Big Data and Analytics Spur Innovation in New Markets?

4/9/2013

Harvard Business Review editor Angelia Herrin leads a panel discussion featuring global analytics experts for this interactive Singapore Sessions video webinar.

Big Bang Disruption

3/27/2013

Co-authors Larry Downes and Paul Nunes explain what big-bang disruptions are, how they are different, why they are so devastating, and how to survive them.

The Future of Advertising

3/14/2013

Jeffrey Rayport discusses a new framework for designing your organizations advertising strategy and execution.

Innovating over the Horizon

3/13/2013

Clay Christensen and Max Wessel share the keys to identifying, readying for, and using a disruptive challenge to actually make your company more innovative — and more competitive.

Creating a Workplace that Really Works

3/12/2013

Tony Schwartz, CEO of the Energy Project, describes what sustainable engagement is, why it matters, and how organizations can create it.

A Playbook for Winning

2/26/2013

Thought leaders A.G. Lafley & Roger Martin discuss key insights from their bestselling book "Playing To Win: How Strategy Really Works"

Making Star Team From Star Players

2/13/2013

Michael Mankins describes the four critical steps of creating high-performing teams from A players.

Nine Things Successful Managers Will do Differently in 2013

2/7/2013

Heidi Halvorson describes nine easy things you can do differently in 2013 to become a better manager.

Smarter Marketing: The New Partnership for the CMO and CIO

1/31/2013

C-level marketing and technology experts from the Cleveland Clinic discuss how leaders are partnering to transform their organizations in their radically changing markets.

Big Data: Can You Seize The Opportunity?

1/30/2013

Donald Marchard and Joe Peppard discuss how you can make your IT projects successful in 2013.

Mastering Remote Presentations

1/25/2013

Nancy Duarte shares insights on one of the greatest challenges in delivering remote presentations: building trust with a remote audience.

What Is the Role of Profit in Scaling Social Impact?

1/17/2013

Michael Chu discusses how profitable approaches play a key role in addressing society's greatest challenges.

Building a Sustainable Future

12/6/2012

Experts Barbara Kux, Jennifer Morgan, Gregory Unruh, and Gatien Bon lead a high-level discussion on sustainability topics.

Organizational Imperatives in the Era of Big Data

12/5/2012

Thomas Redman discusses key organizational issues you must resolve in order to leverage big data.

High Tech's New Growth in Emerging Markets

12/4/2012

MIT Professor Dr. Yossi Sheffi, discusses the high tech supply chain and the impact of globalization on emerging markets.

Meeting the Cyber Risk Challenge

11/27/2012

In this HBR webinar, panelists focus on the best practices in information security and privacy programs.

Use Social Media to Tap the Collective Genius of Your Customers & Employees

11/19/2012

Mark McDonald discusses the benefits of using social media to enable mass collaboration--which can be converted into bottom-line business results.

Rules for Risk: A Model for Managing Operational Risks

11/14/2012

Philippa Girling shares effective practices for identifying and managing operational risks.

Yes, Better Management Works

11//2012

Nicholas Bloom describes what good management is, why it is so rare, how it can be delivered, and it's broad implications on business and society.

A Revolutionary Approach to Strategic Change

11/1/2012

John Kotter, foremost expert on leadership and transformation discusses a new approach to accelerate the achievement of their strategic initiatives in a rapidly changing environment.

How Can Businesses Navigate Asia's Increasingly Complex Supply Chain Systems?

10/30/2012

Supply chain thought leaders Hau Lee, Tom Linton, Jonathan Wright, and Kerry Mok discuss strategies for navigating Asia's supply chain.

IT Conversations that Matter: Leveraging IT to Support Growth

10/22/2012

Technology visionary John Hagel leads a conversation focused on how IT can be leveraged to support growth.

Delivering the Best Online Shopping Experience

10/17/2012

Jeffrey Rayport explains the forces that have reshaped the consumer landscape and five principles that can help companies leverage the opportunities of the new reality.

Leverage Technology for Competitive Advantage

10/4/2012

Author Andrew McAfee discusses how big data can fundamentally transform management.

Does Success Require Sleeping With Your Smartphone?

9/27/2012

Leslie Perlow describes the challenges and benefits of disconnecting, and provides a step-by-step guide to changing how your team works.

How Virtual Teams Can Outperform Traditional Teams

9/26/2012

Author Keith Ferrazzi shares a strategy for managing virtual teams that can change how your company operates

A New Model for Minimizing Cyber and IT Risk

9/24/2012

George Westerman shares how organizations can identify their most pressing risks.

The Social Rules

9/19/2012

Innovation expert Nilofer Merchant shares how the most innovative companies are changing their philosophy and way of communicating in the social era.

IT Conversations That Matter

9/17/2012

Michael Schrage discusses new technologies - from cloud computing to machine learning to Big Data - that are transforming companies

Mining Big Data to Find New Markets

9/5/2012

Harvard Business Review Big Data Spotlight authors share insights on Finding New Micromarkets for your products

Tweet them, Friend them, Make the Sale

7/17/2012

Barbara Giamanco and Kent Gregoire discuss how companies can use social media build relationships and increase sales.

Does Asia have the talent to lead innovation in the 21st century?

6/26/2012

Scott Anthony discusses how talent capital management is increasingly becoming an important factor for companies when it comes to generating successful innovations.

Project Management for Profit: Manage Risk and Uncertainty for Success

6/22/2012

Joe Knight shares his firm's easy-to-implement project-management system, which has been refined in the field for almost two decades.

There Is an "I" in Team

6/14/2012

Mark de Rond shares research, insights, and unexpected lessons about how great sports teams achieve high levels of performance--and how teams in the world of business can apply these lessons.

A Better Way to Manage Risk

6/6/2012

The Culture Cycle

5/21/2012

James Heskett explains how to shape and sustain your company's culture, so that it fosters innovation and influences successful strategies.

The Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs

5/7/2012

Walter Isaacson and HBR Editor Adi Ignatius talk about the keys to Jobs' success

Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere

5/2/2012

Vijay Govindarajan discusses how reverse innovation is transforming the way leading companies are thinking about innovation

Communicating What Matters

4/30/2012

Peter Bregman, author of 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, shares how to manage and communicate effectively.

Repeatability: Building Enduring Business

4/11/2012

Bain & Company's Chris Zook describes how profitable growth comes from simple "great repeatable models"

The New Science of Building Great Teams

4/10/2012

Alex "Sandy" Pentland, the Director of MITdescribes how patterns of communication are the key to great teams

Change the Game, Transform Your Company

3/28/2012

Bill Taylor, founder of Fast Company, discusses his ideas on how to become "practically radical."

Where to Win in Emerging Markets

2/22/2012

Experts Bruce Brown, Scott Anthony and Erich Joachimsthaler discuss how understanding consumer context can help companies develop products at the right price points for every market.

Transforming Competition: How Business will Unleash the Opportunities to Innovate and Grow

2/21/2012

HBS professor Michael Porter outlines America's challenge, and the actions that must be taken to reverse the country's looming loss of competitiveness.

The Global Explosion of Capitalism Will Change Your Business

2/9/2012

Author Christopher Meyer and HBR editor-at-large Julia Kirby explore what globalization and the changes in capitalism mean for competition, innovation and the way business operates around the world.

Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value

2/6/2012

HBS professor Michael Beer and BD chairman Edward Ludwig share how leading firms are meeting a higher standard.

Risk Management in a Time of Global Uncertainty

2/3/2012

Risk Management experts Michael Lusk, Archer Daniels Midland, and John Scott, discuss best practices for making risk management a competitive advantage.

Don't Let Your Supply Chain Control Your Business

12/14/2011

Thomas Choi and Tom Linton argue that OEMs now rely too heavily on first-tier suppliers hindering their ability to innovate and manage risks.

Taking Measure of Talent With Analytics

10/19/2011

Author Jeremy Shapiro describes how talent analytics is giving companies a new look into their workforce.

The New Energy Economy: Creating the New Energy Supply Chain

10/11/2011

HBS Professor Michael McElroy, discusses his research on the creation of a new energy grid.

Building Better Decisions with Customer Insights

10/6/2011

In this HBR webinar analytics experts Tom Davenport and Michael Parduhn share a framework to help retailers make the right offer to the right customers at the right time.

From Desktops to Devices: Securely Navigating Through the Cloud

9/29/2011

In this webinar, MIT research fellow Michael Schrage shares solutions to increase security leveraging virtualization and the cloud.

Innovation and Energy: New Technology, New Policy for Our Energy Future

9/8/2011

HBS Professor Matthew Bunn talks about new policies that will help government and private sector work together to meet our energy challenges.

Unlocking Opportunity with Business Model Innovation

7/26/2011

Author Mark Johnson shares a practical framework that maps out how companies can transform their business models to achieve transformational growth.

Before You Make That Big Decision

6/21/2011

Dan Lovallo and Olivier Sibony describe their research into organizational decision-making and their guidelines for confronting bias and improving the bottom-line decisions.

Are You A Collaborative Leader?

6/14/2011

Insead Professors Herminia Ibarra and Morten Hansen describe how top executives are leading collaboration in order to help their organizations generate exceptional long-term results.

Preparing for New Supply Chain in Health Care

4/26/2011

Singh describes a new health care reality and explores how every link of the industry's supply chain will be impacted.

Fully Charged. How Great Leaders Boost Their Organization's Energy and Ignite High Performance

2/24/2011

Bernd Vogel, author of Fully Charged, shares a set tools and strategies that can help leaders manage their company's collective energy.

Jumping the S-Curve: Beat the Growth Cycle, Get on Top and Stay There

2/17/2011

Business experts Paul Nunes and Tim Breen outline the right moves on the way to your next business breakthrough.

Being The Boss

2/10/2011

HBS Professor Linda Hill and her co-author, Kent Lineback, discuss how to evaluate your skills and build a plan to enable you to become the great boss you need to be.

Making Green Work - Andrew Winston at The Harvard Club NYC

2/9/2011

Andrew Winston outlines a road map for using green initiatives to deliver short-term gains and position your company for long-term strategic growth.

Innovate or Adapt? The Challenge of New Markets

11/16/2010

Leading experts Bruce Brown and Inder Sidhu discuss how organizations are developing new products in emerging markets, and using innovative new thinking to adapt products for new customers.

Winning in High-Risk, High-Stakes Negotiations

11/9/2010

This webinar focuses on the critical strategies developed by the military and use real-life examples of generals and CEOs who have successfully negotiated under pressure.

Buy In. How to Save Good Ideas from Getting Shot Down

10/28/2010

Bestselling author John Kotter takes on the devastating ways that people criticize and undercut good ideas, and lays out step-by- step strategies to respond and move forward.

Smart Grid and the Cities: Who Wins?

10/13/2010

In this HBR webinar, author Matthew Kahn discusses his book Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future.

Building a Global Workforce

10/12/2010

IBM executives, Randy McDonald and Denis Brousseau discuss how executives can ensure their organization have the creativity, flexibility and speed to capitalize on growth opportunities in a new landscape.

Decide and Deliver: How to Make the Best Decisions for the Bottom Line

10/5/2010

Michael Mankins discusses his research around improving decision effectiveness at organizations around the globe

Analytics and the Bottom Line

9/23/2010

Analytics experts Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris describe how companies are gaining competitive advantage by embedding analytics in every piece of their organization.

Maximum Value: Making the Older Worker a Competitive Advantage

9/21/2010

In this HBR webinar, Dr. Peter Cappelli discusses how companies can avoid risking the loss of the talents and skills of their most experienced workers.

Maximize the Business Value of Your IT

9/16/2010

In this HBR webinar Susan Cramm helps you rethink the rules and roles of IT and secure the future of your business.

Earth, Inc. Using Nature's Rules to Build Sustainable Profits

8/10/2010

Sustainability expert Gregory Unruh introduces listeners to the Biosphere Rules - nature inspired principles that can transform your business from a resource depleter to a resource re-user.

Nudge Your Customers - Reducing Risk With Better Choices

7/29/2010

In this HBR webinar Daniel G. Goldstein discusses the strategic importance of defaults and the ways to tailor your offerings to better meet your customer needs.

Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity

6/24/2010

In this HBR webinar, Professor Rita McGrath of Columbia Business School, describes how companies can drive growth and reduce risk in uncertain times.

Seizing the Upside of Complexity

6/14/2010

This interactive webinar explores survey findings on the challenges facing CEOs and the way leaders and their organizations can stand out in a complex world.