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Ethics and AI: 3 Conversations Companies Need to Have
Move from abstract concerns to actionable plans.
Are the Risks of Global Supply Chains Starting to Outweigh the Rewards?
In addition to product costs and supplier choices, today’s managers need to consider geopolitics, logistics, sustainability, and suppliers’ health.
Microsoft’s Jared Spataro on How the Pandemic Sped Up Technological Change (and Moved Us Closer to the Metaverse)
Avatars, holograms, and other metaverse technologies will facilitate human connection in the months and years ahead.
4 Ways to Bridge the Global Skills Gap
As more entry-level jobs are automated, businesses and policymakers need to work together to ensure young people have the skills they need.
How to Make Your Organization’s Language More Inclusive
Four practices to make sure you’re sending the right message.
How the War in Ukraine Is Further Disrupting Global Supply Chains
It may accelerate a shift to regional suppliers.
Research: To Excel, Diverse Teams Need Psychological Safety
Findings from a study of 62 drug-development teams.
Fixing Data Overload in Health Care
A five-step approach to get the right data into the right hands at the right time.
What Great Hybrid Cultures Do Differently
It only works when all employees are treated like they’re remote.
5 Key Trends Leaders Need to Understand to Get Hybrid Right
New research from Microsoft.
How to Ease Back into Traveling for Work
Four strategies for your next business trip.
Standardized APIs Could Finally Make It Easy to Exchange Health Records
A U.S. law requires that the process be simplified by the end of 2022.
Why U.S. Frontline Workers Are Quitting
And what companies can do to stem the tide.
What Stops People on Your Team from Leaving?
Ask these four questions in your next one-on-one.
Stop Wasting People’s Time with Meetings
Prepare in advance to showcase your best self and make the most of your time.
HBS Professor Linda Hill Says Leaders Must Engage with Emotions as Never Before
Skills leaders need today from the professor who wrote the book on leadership.
To Make Deals in the Middle Market, Private Equity Needs Cultural Literacy
Doing business starts with building mutual trust and respect.
What Stops Managers from Looking to Other Industries for Inspiration
It’s a smart strategy. But people often lack the mandate, authority, or confidence to make it happen.
The Cyber Insurance Market Needs More Money
Securities could help give insurers the breathing room they need to keep growing — and meet customers’ mounting needs.
3 Practices That Set Resilient Teams Apart
First, they know that “collaboration” doesn’t always mean “meetings.”
How to Stop Overthinking and Start Trusting Your Gut
Five strategies to strengthen your sixth sense.
How Legacy Companies Can Pivot to a Platform Model
Lessons from several firms who have made the switch.
Why You Should Allow Returns on Customized Products
They may be harder to resell, but customers are less likely to return them anyway.
When Women Leaders Leave, the Losses Multiply
Women leaders tend to have more engaged teams and drive better job performance — and their departures can hurt organizations for years to come.
Business Forecasts Are Reliably Wrong — Yet Still Valuable
Six ways savvy leaders can use them to gain a competitive advantage.
How to Talk to Your Team About Distressing News Events
Three steps for managers to open up a dialogue.
Is Remote Work Actually Better for the Environment?
Commutes aren’t the only factor at play.
Keith Ferrazzi on How the Pandemic Taught Organizations to Be “Crisis Agile”
Post-pandemic, companies need to, above all, be ready to adapt to a new world of work.
How to Scale AI in Your Organization
Tech-savvy companies have started to adopt a new discipline: machine learning operations, or MLOps.
Does Your Company Offer Fruitful Careers — Or Dead-End Jobs?
Seven questions to help you measure the quality, mobility, and equity of the jobs you’re creating.
Designing the Best Strategy for Your Next Global Product Rollout
Should you go all in, or take a more measured approach?
Research: How Bias Against Women Persists in Female-Dominated Workplaces
A look inside the ongoing barriers women face in law, health care, faith-based nonprofits, and higher education.
How Data Can Make Better Managers
IBM is applying computational leadership science to better anticipate, address, mitigate, and even benefit from disruption.
Research: The Link Between Recessions and Physical Pain
A 3% increase in unemployment rate was linked to a 1% increase in the number of people in pain, according to an analysis of data from 1.3 million people in 146 countries.
How Your Brand Should Use NFTs
Wading into a new space always comes with risk — but so does staying out of it.
What Makes a Company Successful at Using AI?
Five areas where top performers stand out.
The New Rules of Data Privacy
Navigating privacy protection, new regulation, and consumer revolt.
Why Flexible Work Is Essential to Your DEI Strategy
Data shows that 60% of Black employees who aren’t happy with the flexibility at their current job will look for a new one in the coming year.
Using a Mantra to Be a More Inclusive Leader
Focusing on a clear intention can help you act in a way that’s consistent to your values.
Why Becoming a Data-Driven Organization Is So Hard
Company culture is often a bigger hurdle than any technical problem.
5 Ways Marketing Leaders Can Drive More Value in 2022
Marketers must claim the broader growth agenda, connecting the dots across data, digital, and the full customer journey.
Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson on Entrepreneurship and Self-Doubt
The three-time founders share their hard-won lessons.
To Reach Your Goals, Embrace Self-Compassion
Four strategies to help you let go of paralyzing perfectionism and move forward.
How to Motivate Your Team When People Keep Quitting
Six strategies for managers.
Agile Doesn’t Work Without Psychological Safety
Scrums and kanbans can’t help you if you’ve got a legacy culture that punishes vulnerability.
4 Lessons from Levi’s’ Digital Transformation
How to navigate a major shift as a legacy brand with a deeply-rooted company culture.
The Cybersecurity Risks of an Escalating Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Now is the time to revisit your business continuity plans.
The Unintended Consequences of Asking for Employee Input
A study found that when managers solicit ideas from employees, they often unconsciously take credit for them.
Does Your Company Need a Chief ESG Officer?
Three questions to ask before appointing one.