Boards need robust debate to make good decisions, yet many directors and CEOs struggle to speak candidly. Research suggests ...

AI in HR once stayed primarily in the shallow end, updating job descriptions and drafting policy documents. Now, it’s moving into critical workflows: hiring, payroll, compliance, performance ...

A Q&A with University of Colorado Denver’s Wayne Cascio on how companies can preserve morale and retain talent—and whether employees should accept the offer. Sign up for HBR Executive Agenda - for ...

For many business owners, the hardest question isn’t how to grow the company today, but who will lead it tomorrow. Yet as important as answering this question is, succession planning is often delayed ...

For health care leaders, these questions go beyond clinical details. As the burden of cardiovascular and other noncommunicable diseases rises and care systems face persistent workforce and capacity ...

When you’re leading strategic change, employees take cues from your leadership team’s conviction—and building that conviction takes time and emotional investment. Before drafting a purpose statement, ...

Leaders seeking to turn AI’s promise into business value often overlook employees already experimenting with emerging ...

Optimism isn’t about ignoring problems or assuming everything will work out. In this HBR Executive Masterclass, researcher ...

However, 92% of insurers say their data is a challenge to AI success, the study found, and data silos are a bigger barrier in ...

October 2026 data out of Gallup shows that employee engagement in the United States has fallen to its lowest level in 15 ...

AI is making familiar voices, faces, and documents easy to counterfeit, allowing fraudsters to exploit gaps between business ...

In this week’s HBR Executive Agenda newsletter, editor at large Adi Ignatius talks to IMD professor Michael Watkins to ...