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Ask an Expert: Our Favorite Reads
Managing yourself ListicleYour toughest questions about work — answered. -
The Psychology Behind Meeting Overload
Psychology Digital ArticleSix biases that lead us to have too many meetings — and how to overcome them. -
These Strategies Will Help You Influence How Decisions Get Made
Organizational decision making Digital ArticleNegotiators who understand the most common decision rules — majority rule, chair-decides, and consensus — are more likely to get their way. -
How to Foster Healthy Disagreement in Your Meetings
Collaboration and teams Digital ArticleStirring things up can lead to fresh ideas. -
Navigating Work While Undergoing Fertility Treatments
Health and wellness Digital ArticleGuidance on several challenges, including managing appointments and whether to tell your boss. -
Make Learning a Part of Your Daily Routine
Continuous learning Digital ArticleStrategies to help you get better at learning, unlearning, and relearning. -
A Measured Approach to Making a Drastic Change
Career planning Digital ArticleTake these small steps before making a big leap. -
Video: Black Women on the Challenges and Opportunities of the Past 18 Months
Business and society Digital ArticleBlack women are often “the onlys” in their organizations, often leading to tremendous pressure and responsibility. -
Navigating Postpartum Depression at Work
Working parents Digital ArticleThere’s no one-size-fits-all approach, but these seven strategies can help. -
Rethinking Negotiation
Negotiation strategies Magazine ArticleA smarter way to split the pie -
Stop Sabotaging Your Ability to Innovate
Innovation Magazine ArticleAvoid these psychological traps. -
Life’s Work: An Interview with Danielle Steel
Personal productivity Magazine ArticleThe prolific best-selling author loves her unique writing process. -
Building an Ethical Company
Personal ethics Magazine ArticleCreate an organization that helps employees behave more honorably. -
How to Succeed Quickly in a New Role
Professional networks Magazine ArticleFive ways to build a strategic network -
A Guide to the Virtual Meeting
Collaboration and teams Digital ArticleYou still need to determine if you need to meet at all. -
The Realities of Remote Work
Leading teams Digital ArticleWork-life boundaries are blurring and managers worry about productivity. What can be done? -
Getting Back to the Basics of Human Connection
Interpersonal communication Digital ArticleThe return to in-person work can be overwhelming. These four strategies can help. -
When Pitching an Idea, Should You Focus on “Why” or “How”?
Business communication ResearchIt depends on whether you’re talking to experts or novices. -
How Much Time Can I Take Off Between Jobs?
Career transitions Digital ArticleSix factors to consider when negotiating your start date. -
Putting Common Career Advice to the Test
Managing yourself Digital ArticleNew research sheds light on what’s actually useful — and what isn’t.
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The Psychology Behind Meeting Overload
Psychology Digital ArticleSix biases that lead us to have too many meetings — and how to overcome them. -
Make Learning a Part of Your Daily Routine
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStrategies to help you get better at learning, unlearning, and relearning. -
These Strategies Will Help You Influence How Decisions Get Made
Organizational Development Digital ArticleNegotiators who understand the most common decision rules - majority rule, chair-decides, and consensus - are more likely to get their way. -
How to Write a Cover Letter
Cover letters Best PracticeFocus on why you’re right for the job and how badly you want it. -
5 Reasons Not to Quit Your Job (Yet)
Careers Digital ArticleJumping ship isn’t always the best way to get what you want out of your career. -
15 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe author, a professor of negotiation at Harvard Business School, offers 15 specific pieces of advice for job candidates: (1) Don't underestimate the... -
What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means
Managing yourself Digital ArticleDebunking three common misconceptions. -
Taming the Epic To-Do List
Time management Digital ArticleYou need two of them, plus a list of things you’ve decided aren’t worth your time. -
Our Brains Were Not Built for This Much Uncertainty
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleUnderstanding how we're wired can help us set expectations and stay motivated. -
How to Succeed Quickly in a New Role
Professional networks Magazine ArticleFive ways to build a strategic network -
How to Give a Killer Presentation
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleFor more than 30 years, the TED conference series has presented enlightening talks that people enjoy watching. In this article, Anderson, TED's curator,... -
What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)
Emotional intelligence ResearchIt’s not just about introspection. -
How to Foster Healthy Disagreement in Your Meetings
Collaboration and teams Digital ArticleStirring things up can lead to fresh ideas. -
How Much Time Can I Take Off Between Jobs?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSix factors to consider when negotiating your start date. -
Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAs the demands of the workplace keep rising, many people respond by putting in ever longer hours, which inevitably leads to burnout that costs both the... -
What Motivates Lifelong Learners
Organizational learning Digital ArticleMany leaders think it’s the fear of losing your job. They’re wrong. -
Estimate the Cost of a Meeting with This Calculator
Meeting management Digital ArticleTime is money. -
Why Design Thinking Works
Design thinking Magazine ArticleIt addresses the biases and behaviors that hamper innovation. -
The Surprising Power of Questions
Managing people Magazine ArticleIt goes far beyond exchanging information. -
Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMany managers feel overwhelmed. They have too many problems--too many monkeys--on their backs. All too often, they say, they find themselves running out...
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iPhone's Supply Chain Under Threat
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The outbreak of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease, 2019) posed unprecedented challenges to the global supply chains. As a leading and innovative supply chain... -
Conflict at MRW: The New Employee's Pregnancy
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details MRW is a courier firm based in Barcelona (Spain). In 2010, it was consolidating internationalization of its business. It is against this background that... -
Introducing iSnack 2.0: The New Vegemite
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Vegemite is an iconic Australian breakfast spread and is often seen as a quintessential Australian product. This case focuses on Kraft's decision to revitalize... -
Ions Consulting: The MP 2 Training Program
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The recently hired human resources (HR) director had to come up with a program that would meet the needs of transferring knowledge from older, more experienced... -
La Liga's RCD Espanyol
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The case presents an evaluation of a game played every year by the RCD Espanyol soccer team as a start to the season. The case provides the economic details... -
Jack Welch: General Electric's Revolutionary, Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes the work of Jack Welch as CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 1992, focusing particularly on his transformation of the company's portfolio... -
HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business
19.95View Details Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open... -
Prestige Telephone Co., Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details An independent regulated telephone company has established a computer services subsidiary that seems to remain unprofitable. Managers must determine whether... -
Negotiating Star Compensation at the USAWBL (A-1): Confidential Instructions for Jesse J, Spanish Version
Communication Case Study8.95View Details In this three-party negotiation exercise, Jesse J, star center in the U.S.A. Women's Basketball League, with her agent, is negotiating a possible compensation... -
Agnellis and the Fiat Group: The Story of a Family Empire (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
Howard, Shea & Chan Asset Management (D): Sales Presentation
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Provides the context and hard copy material to accompany a video sales presentation. Participants are asked to develop criteria for evaluating a sales... -
Quincy Apparel (B), Portuguese Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details The (B) case provides post-mortem analysis from Quincy's cofounders on why their startup failed and what they could have done differently. Explanations... -
Scovill, Inc.: NuTone Housing Group
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Describes a conflict between the corporate controller and a division president about labor standards, which the division purposefully overstates to protect... -
Vipp A/S
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Rapidly growing Vipp sells highly differentiated (and expensive) "designer" versions of a product that most buyers think about in purely functional terms:... -
Washout: The Founders' Tale and Investors' Tale
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The competing narratives of the founders of Alantec, Inc. and the venture capitalists who funded the company are explored in the context of Kalashian... -
Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Rob Parson was a star producer in Morgan Stanley's Capital Markets division. He had been recruited from a competitor the prior year and had generated... -
Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works
32.00View Details Who drives transformation in society? How do they do it? In this compelling book, strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO... -
Caroline Regis at Excel Systems
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the effects of a proposed change in Excel's manufacturing strategy as seen through the eyes of the company's VP of Manufacturing, Caroline... -
Michael Eisner at Disney
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Looks at a proven successful leader in entertainment (Michael Eisner) at a time of leadership crisis. At the time of the case, Eisner is managing an internal... -
PARKING SPACES FOR SUPER COMPUTER - Confidential Instructions for Rom Rosok, 100 Blue Chip Street Property Manager
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Two-party, two-issue scoreable negotiation between an office building owner and commercial tenant over the terms of a lease for parking spaces. Super...
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The Psychology Behind Meeting Overload
Psychology Digital ArticleSix biases that lead us to have too many meetings — and how to overcome them. -
Make Learning a Part of Your Daily Routine
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStrategies to help you get better at learning, unlearning, and relearning. -
These Strategies Will Help You Influence How Decisions Get Made
Organizational Development Digital ArticleNegotiators who understand the most common decision rules - majority rule, chair-decides, and consensus - are more likely to get their way. -
How to Write a Cover Letter
Cover letters Best PracticeFocus on why you’re right for the job and how badly you want it. -
4 Ways to Follow Up After a Job Interview
Career planning AdviceWhen is it best to write the hiring manager a note? -
5 Reasons Not to Quit Your Job (Yet)
Careers Digital ArticleJumping ship isn’t always the best way to get what you want out of your career. -
15 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe author, a professor of negotiation at Harvard Business School, offers 15 specific pieces of advice for job candidates: (1) Don't underestimate the... -
What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means
Managing yourself Digital ArticleDebunking three common misconceptions. -
Taming the Epic To-Do List
Time management Digital ArticleYou need two of them, plus a list of things you’ve decided aren’t worth your time. -
How to Give and Receive Compliments at Work
Giving feedback AdviceUse this checklist.