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How to Rediscover Your Inspiration at Work
Creativity Digital ArticleLook for fresh experiences and new role models. -
The Surprising Power of Questions
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAsking questions is a uniquely powerful tool for unlocking value in organizations: It spurs learning and the exchange of ideas, it fuels innovation and... -
Just Thinking You Slept Poorly Can Hurt Your Performance
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA new study reveals the powerful effects of perceptions. -
How to Stop Overplanning (Even If You're a Perfectionist)
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt's making you more stressed, not more organized. -
How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDuring a conference call with the executive committee of a nonprofit board on which I sit, I decided to send an email to a client. I know, I know. You'd... -
What You Eat Affects Your Productivity
Health and behavioral science Digital ArticleDon’t let poor lunch decisions derail your day. -
How to Manage Your Team's Workload After Layoffs
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleProtect your employees from burnout, prioritize retention, and visualize long-term success. -
Create Colleagues, Not Competitors
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleTo maximize information exchange among employees, don't reward individual performance. -
A Ritual to Help You Keep Your Focus and Your Temper
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleJohn McCaffrey* is a great guy. The CEO of a professional services firm, he's been successful by any measure. He's financially secure. He's happily married... -
How to Spend the First 10 Minutes of Your Day
Managing yourself Digital ArticleIt shouldn’t involve email. -
Research: How to Power Through Boring Tasks
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleGiving your brain something else to focus on can make it easier to finish dull work. -
Why the Middle Class is Shrinking
Wages and productivity have decoupled. -
Take Back Your Life in Seven Simple Steps
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIn my most recent blog, I wrote about how we've allowed technology to take a pernicious toll on our attention, and in turn, on our creativity, our resilience,... -
Being Too Busy for Friends Won’t Help Your Career
Time management Digital ArticleStrong social ties take time to nourish, but they’re important. -
Are Happy People Dumb?
Leadership & Managing People Digital Article"Happy people are not the smart people." I was talking to a stock trader shortly before giving a lecture at a large bank in New York. I think he thought... -
The Key to Effectiveness? Focus
Time management Digital ArticleAs the health care debate rages on, some politicians are calling on the Obama administration to slow down and get a few tangible things done first (e.g. stop denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions) rather than tackle everything at once. Putting aside the politics of the suggestion, it’s a reasonable comment. Is it really possible […] -
Building Healthy Habits When You're Truly Exhausted
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleGetting enough sleep and eating right will help other habits stick. -
A Modest Proposal: Eliminate Email
Personal productivity Digital ArticleReasonable attempts to tame it are doomed to fail. -
What Mix of WFH and Office Time Is Right for You?
Time management Digital ArticleHow to figure it out for yourself — and convince your boss. -
Leadership Begins at Home
Personal productivity Digital ArticleOne of the greatest gifts you can give your kids is help in foregoing immediate gratification, by setting boundaries for them and by modeling the behavior yourself. That’s also one of the greatest gifts you can give to those you lead or manage. I got to thinking about all this after reading “Growing up Digital: […]
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Too Long for Comfort: Tackling Consultation Wait Time at a Hospital Emergency Department
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In early 2019, Alan Jay, an executive in the Quality, Safety and Risk Management (QSRM) department of Gloria Hospital, a full-service hospital that specialised... -
State Bank of India: Transforming a State Owned Giant
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details February 2011: O.P. Bhatt reflected contentedly on his five-year term as Chairman of State Bank of India (SBI), India's largest commercial bank. He had... -
Self-Awareness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
19.99View Details Self-awareness is the bedrock of emotional intelligence that enables you to see your talents, shortcomings, and potential. But you won't be able to achieve... -
Market Making Exercise
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Students make a market in a new security, posting bid and offer prices and quantities for a new derivative security. -
Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company
30.00View Details Creating a culture of learning and growth. Growth is the goal. Helping people develop their potential--enabling them to articulate and become the self... -
Patient Flow at Brigham and Women's Hospital (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details The B Case is an email from the ED Director. He clarifies where the process deviations occurred. -
Performance Pay at Safelite Auto Glass (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Describes a company's changing of its compensation and incentive plan. In particular, it shows how a change from hourly pay to piece rate pay (for windshield... -
IDEO Product Development
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Describes IDEO, the world's leading product design firm, and its innovation culture and process. Emphasis is placed on the important role of prototyping... -
Agile: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
22.95View Details More than a buzzword, agile is a powerful business tool for all. To the uninitiated, agile is a software development and project management process involving... -
PEARL Project: Work Patterns at Ditto (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Describes life on a product development team, the behaviors that are rewarded, and the difficult tradeoffs members often have to make as a result. This... -
Colombia: An Economic Premium to Peace?
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Colombia, once the fastest growing country in Latin America, continues to struggle with productivity. Both labor productivity and total factor productivity... -
Stop Spending, Start Managing: Strategies to Transform Wasteful Habits
32.00View Details Stop Wasting Precious Time and Money. You have a complex problem at work, and you know the standard solutions: hire a consultant, enlist a superstar employee,... -
HBR Guide to Remote Work Toolkit
79.95View Details Get your best work done, no matter where you do it. Working remotely gives you more flexibility in how and where you do your job. But being part of a... -
The Virtual Manager Collection (3 Books) (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
Communication Book35.00View Details Learn how to work productively from anywhere. Whether you're calling in from a home office every day or one of your team members occasionally logs in... -
Barber Cardiosystems
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Barber Cardiosystems, based in Melbourne, Australia, designs and manufactures therapeutic devices used for treatment of coronary conditions. Over four... -
Energy + Motivation (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
19.99View Details Push through when procrastination calls. Some days you're on fire at work; other days you're burned out and easily distracted. How can you maintain your... -
Eli Lilly and Co.: Manufacturing Process Technology Strategy--1991
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Outlines the evolution of Lilly's corporate manufacturing strategy over the past decade. The corporate vice president of manufacturing must decide on... -
The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self--Every Day
28.00View Details You can be the leader you want to be--today and every day. Do you find yourself wishing you had more hours in the day? Do you want to do more, yet feel... -
Ming Min Hui (MBA 2015)
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To Trade or Not to Trade: NAFTA and the Prospects of Free Trade in the Americas
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Discusses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the United States, Canada, and Mexico, a decade after it came into force in...
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How to Rediscover Your Inspiration at Work
Creativity Digital ArticleLook for fresh experiences and new role models. -
The Surprising Power of Questions
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAsking questions is a uniquely powerful tool for unlocking value in organizations: It spurs learning and the exchange of ideas, it fuels innovation and... -
Just Thinking You Slept Poorly Can Hurt Your Performance
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA new study reveals the powerful effects of perceptions. -
How to Stop Overplanning (Even If You're a Perfectionist)
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt's making you more stressed, not more organized. -
How (and Why) to Stop Multitasking
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDuring a conference call with the executive committee of a nonprofit board on which I sit, I decided to send an email to a client. I know, I know. You'd... -
What You Eat Affects Your Productivity
Health and behavioral science Digital ArticleDon’t let poor lunch decisions derail your day. -
How to Manage Your Team's Workload After Layoffs
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleProtect your employees from burnout, prioritize retention, and visualize long-term success. -
Sales Superstars: How to Seal the Deal Every Time (HBR OnPoint Magazine)
Sales & Marketing Magazine Issue18.95View Details Getting sales right nowadays requires a balance of science, creativity, efficiency, and empathy. This issue of Harvard Business Review OnPoint will help...
