Interpersonal skills

Five tips to help you bounce back with grace.

David Whyte talks about how poetry begets courageous conversation and, in turn, better leadership.

Strategies for addressing common workplace woes before they damage morale.

Create safety so people can open up.

Here’s how to address the problem in a productive way.

At this large GM plant the union and management jointly seek to change the meaning of work itself

Be specific about what you're asking for - or you'll keep getting crickets.

“You can’t be serious!” Mike Trail, the president and fourth-generation owner of Trail Manufacturing, stared at five older men standing uncomfortably in his small office. “I’m afraid we are, Mike.” Sandy Mulder, the most senior of the five, was polite but firm. “We won’t switch over to the new equipment. We want to continue to […]

Don’t default to your comfort zone. Deliver your message in the way that works best for the situation.

Six tips for soliciting radical candor.

Do you avoid conflict? If you do, you’re not alone. Conflict avoidance is one of the most common characteristics of corporate cultures. At the same time it is one of the most pernicious and dangerous sources of unintentional complexity in organizational life. The tendency to avoid conflict — albeit inconvenient — is very human. Most […]

Lessons from new research.

It’s not easy to become less directive and more empowering. Here’s how to navigate the challenges.

Take control of your narrative.

Feedback is crucial--but almost everyone, from new hires to C-suite executives, struggles with receiving it. The authors, who have spent 20 years working...

Try this three-step approach.

There’s a reason “your” is in this headline.

Six tips to reclaim your time (without alienating your coworkers).

When we do our best work as leaders, we don't imitate others. Rather, we draw on our own values and capabilities. We enter what author Robert Quinn calls...

You still have to do it.

This note briefly describes compensation and incentive issues in one of the major US professional sports leagues, the National Football League (NFL)....

Your stomach's churning; you're hyperventilating -- you're in a badly deteriorating conversation at work. Such exchanges, which run the gamut from firing...

This case describes the deterioration of the relationship between three people in an organization. Ramesh, Learning and Development Head, Chrysalis Pharmaceuticals,...

Presents the final outcome of the events. The William Jurgens case presents a description from the corporation president's point of view of the series...

Brothers André and Daniel Albuquerque founded the company Terra Nova in 2001 to mediate land disputes between poor families illegally living in urban...

Just after 8:00 p.m. on a Monday evening, Catherine Russell, senior vice president and director of business development at Western Banking Group, arrived...

In November 2014, the Residence Services department at MacEwan University in Alberta, Canada, needed to replace a residence assistant who was exiting...

To lead is to live dangerously. It's romantic and exciting to think of leadership as all inspiration, decisive action, and rich rewards, but leading requires...

You've got a good idea. You know it could make a crucial difference for you, your organization, your community. You present it to the group, but get confounding...

After the attack on the World Trade Towers on September 11th, Senator John (Jack) C. Danforth's appointment as the president's special envoy to the Sudan...

In September 2022, Price and his team evaluated the past year's strategies to increase Method App adoption and discussed new initiatives to consider.

In February 2013, the G-20 finance ministers met in Moscow, Russia to discuss the rising anxieties over a potential international currency war. It was...

Denise Frazer and Paolo Canto, two HBS students, have decided to give each other feedback on their class participation. While Paolo believes that he has...

Two-party, multi-issue, scoreable negotiation regarding a prenuptial agreement, calling for a balance of substantive and relationship concerns. Marlene...

Wendy Peterson was recently promoted to Vice President of Sales at the Plano, Texas, office of AccountBack, an accounting software and services company....

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Eleganzia Group management faces tough decisions heading into the summer of 2010. With tourism on the decline due to the global economic recession, General...

Two-party contract negotiation between a computer consultant and a school district representative at an apparent impasse over different expectations over...

A student takes a position on a case which is in conflict with the other students' conclusions. The professor believes the student's answer is correct...

Harvard Business Review Special Issues are timely, single-theme collections of HBR articles written by some of the world's leading management scholars...

Five tips to help you bounce back with grace.

David Whyte talks about how poetry begets courageous conversation and, in turn, better leadership.

This note briefly describes compensation and incentive issues in one of the major US professional sports leagues, the National Football League (NFL)....

Your stomach's churning; you're hyperventilating -- you're in a badly deteriorating conversation at work. Such exchanges, which run the gamut from firing...

Strategies for addressing common workplace woes before they damage morale.

Create safety so people can open up.

Here’s how to address the problem in a productive way.

At this large GM plant the union and management jointly seek to change the meaning of work itself