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Ask These 5 Questions to Decide Your Next Career Move
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTaking a step back can help you find the right path forward. -
Turn Your Career into a Work of Art
Career planning Digital ArticleWhose life am I living? I’m sure you ask yourself that kind of question from time to time. What am I really good at? What is the purpose of my work? These are not new questions. Sooner or later, we all seek answers to them. Up to three or four decades ago, most people struggled […] -
Pursue Your Dream or Move On? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleA young social entrepreneur must decide whether to stick with her struggling start-up--a tomato paste company based entirely in Nigeria--or go to work... -
Embrace Ambivalence When Making Big Career Decisions
Career transitions Digital ArticleYour mixed emotions are telling you something. Listen to them. -
Worried You Might Be in a Dying Industry?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleChances are you're right - so plan your next move now. -
How to Identify a Family-Friendly Employer
Leadership & Managing People Digital Article... before you take the job. -
How Free Are Free Agents?
Business ethics Magazine ArticleJoseph Jett’s account of his tumultuous career on Wall Street isn’t just a story of racism and greed. It’s also a cautionary tale for knowledge workers. -
When Success is Born Out of Serendipity
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How to Mentor Someone Who Doesn’t Know What Their Career Goals Should Be
Career coaching Digital ArticleHelp them focus on transferable skills instead. -
Get Over Your Fear of Sales
Sales and marketing Digital ArticleSelling doesn’t have to be pushy. -
The Rise of the Supertemp
Career transitions Magazine ArticleThe best executive and professional jobs may no longer be full-time gigs. -
The Change-Dazed Manager
Collaboration and teams Magazine ArticleGeorge Stanton thought a new job would solve his problems. But now he’s facing similar workplace conflicts. -
Use the Office Holiday Party to Advance Your Career
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSeven tips for optimizing this fun-bligation. -
10 Extraordinary People and Their Lessons for Success
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleOur favorite moments from a year of Life's Work interviews. -
How Your Company Can Better Retain Employees Who Are Veterans
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleBridge language and culture gaps between military and corporate life. -
Disrupt Yourself
Managing yourself Digital Article“Are you sure you aren’t making a mistake?” I had just announced to one of my dearest friends that I planned to walk away from Wall Street and my seven-figure salary. “Yes, I’m sure.” But was I? Years earlier, I had moved to New York City with a degree in music and a husband who […] -
How to Strengthen Your Curiosity Muscle
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How to Choose the Right References
Job search Best PracticeIf you want to land the job, think creatively. -
Do You Need a Career Coach?
Career coaching Digital ArticleWhy you might want one — and how to find the right one for you. -
HBR Case Study: The Flight of the Boomerang Employee
Career planning Magazine ArticleWhen is it a good idea to return to your old company?
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Leading the Josie Esquivel Franchise (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Reviews Josie Esquivel's career history, detailing how, through her personal attributes, skills, experiences, and organizational practices she has developed... -
Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world's leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather... -
Anne Riley: Laid Off
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the experience of Anne Riley, a 28 year old private equity analyst, who was laid off in 2008. The case explores the emotions she felt... -
High-Impact Wealth Management: Andrew Takes Shelter
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The High-Impact Wealth Management case series is a portfolio of cases that are built around the high-impact theme. Each case in the series can stand on... -
Conflicting Responsibilities
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Presents a framework for resolving issues in which managers' responsibilities--to shareholders, employees, other stakeholder groups, and to their own... -
Debi Coleman and Apple Computer, Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details A companion case to Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer (A) and (B). In a conflict with Dubinsky over the introduction of a new just-in-time distribution... -
Beyond the Myth of the Perfect Mentor: Building a Network of Developmental Relationships
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Instead of embarking on an odyssey for the perfect mentor, individuals should pursue a strategy of building a network of developmental relationships.... -
MacTemps: Building Commitment in the Interim Workforce
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details MacTemps is a provider of temporary workers skilled in computer graphics and database management. Unlike many temporary agencies that treat temps as a... -
Jack Welch: General Electric's Revolutionary
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View 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... -
Traversing a Career Path: Pat Fili-Krushel (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Pat Fili-Krushel, CEO and president of WebMD and past president of ABC Network, contemplates accepting Richard Parson's offer to become the first executive... -
Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Following a brief summary of Henry A. Kissinger's career, this case describes three of his most pivotal negotiations: the historic establishment of U.S.... -
Building Success Habits: Networking and the Science of Self-Change
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details As exercising is to physical fitness, networking is to relational fitness, i.e., the health and resilience of your networks of social and professional... -
Beyond Collaboration Overload: Tools for Working Smarter, Getting Ahead, and Restoring Your Well-Being
119.00View Details We all need to collaborate to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves. But the wrong kind of collaboration is hurting our performance.... -
The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown
30.00View Details A science-backed guide for navigating and thriving through uncertainty--based on interviews and insights from world-renowned leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs,... -
Wal-Mart Through An Associate's Eyes: Ria Kumar's In-Store Experience (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Choosing the right summer internship can often mean landing a plum position in the company after graduation. Ria Kumar arrived fully prepped for the summer... -
Randy Haykin: The Making of an Entrepreneur (A)
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HBR's 10 Must Reads for Executives 8-Volume Collection
175.00View Details You want the most important ideas for executives all in one place. Now you can have them--in a set of HBR's 10 Must Reads, available as an 8-volume paperback... -
Willa Seldon at Tides Center (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Willa Seldon, an African-American woman with 16 years of for-profit experience, was hired as executive director of Tides Center, a nonprofit in San Francisco,... -
Management Tips 2: From Harvard Business Review
20.00View Details Quick, practical management advice from Harvard Business Review to help you do your job better. Drawing from HBR's popular Management Tip of the Day newsletter,... -
The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership
32.00View Details Get ready to make the biggest jump of your career. The chasm separating managers from leaders is widening as the skills required to be an effective leader...
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Ask an Expert: Should I Accept a Lower-Level Position?
Leadership & Managing People AdviceIf you're still learning, earning, and contributing it might be worth it. -
Ask These 5 Questions to Decide Your Next Career Move
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTaking a step back can help you find the right path forward. -
Is an MBA Degree Really Worth It?
Business education AdviceThe right and wrong reasons to pursue one. -
Turn Your Career into a Work of Art
Career planning Digital ArticleWhose life am I living? I’m sure you ask yourself that kind of question from time to time. What am I really good at? What is the purpose of my work? These are not new questions. Sooner or later, we all seek answers to them. Up to three or four decades ago, most people struggled […] -
Pursue Your Dream or Move On? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleA young social entrepreneur must decide whether to stick with her struggling start-up--a tomato paste company based entirely in Nigeria--or go to work... -
Embrace Ambivalence When Making Big Career Decisions
Career transitions Digital ArticleYour mixed emotions are telling you something. Listen to them. -
Worried You Might Be in a Dying Industry?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleChances are you're right - so plan your next move now. -
How to Identify a Family-Friendly Employer
Leadership & Managing People Digital Article... before you take the job. -
Unilever's COO Reveals What Lies Under His Impressive Career Trajectory
Leadership & Managing People InterviewAn interview with Nitin Paranjpe. -
What You Should Chase Instead of a Dream Job
Early career AscendIt’s better to pursue a sustainable and purposeful career.