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Find Your Purpose in Your Most Challenging Experiences
What are those challenging moments that have tested you, but also reveal who you are? You may discover your sense of purpose by revisiting your past. -
Realizing What You're Made Of
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleA ruptured disk pressed against Glenn Mangurian's spinal cord several years ago, leaving the lower half of his body permanently paralyzed. One minute,... -
What to Do If Your Boss Doesn't Like You
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA targeted plan to make things better. -
Are You Picking the Right Leaders? (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen it comes time to hire or promote, top executives routinely overvalue certain skills and traits while overlooking others. Intuitively, for example,... -
Followers Don't See Their Leaders as Real People
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleUnderstanding that is the first step to influencing others. -
How Presidents Persuade
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleDavid Gergen, adviser to presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton, knows a thing or two about how leaders get their messages across. In this edited... -
Love and Fear and the Modern Boss
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleShould a leader be loved or feared? That age-old question still has no simple answer. It depends on who the leader is and whom she's leading. Successful... -
When Followers Become Toxic
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleLeaders are vulnerable, too. That is, they can be led astray just as their followers can--actually, by their followers. Sometimes, good leaders end up... -
Research: Career Hot Streaks Can Happen at Any Age
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYour most productive years aren't necessarily in your thirties and forties. -
Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleYou've heard about the importance of emotional intelligence in the workplace--that there's an incontrovertible link between executives' emotional maturity,... -
Obama's Inauguration and Why We Still Need Rituals
Global Business Digital ArticleLeadership rituals aren't just about leaders; they're about the led. -
Personal Branding for Introverts
Brand management Digital ArticleBuild your reputation — without the schmoozing. -
3 Mistakes Executives Make When Telling People That They’re Leaving
Career transitions Digital Article84% of execs would do things differently next time. -
Our Favorite Advice on Work, Change, and Life
Personal purpose and values Big IdeaWhen you’re facing a pivotal moment, these HBR articles and podcasts, selected by our editors, can help. -
Defend Your Research: Are Entrepreneurs Really Pot-Smoking Rebels?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThere is such a thing as too much rule-breaking. -
Learn to Love Networking
Professional networks Magazine ArticleEven people who find it repugnant can do it effectively. -
The Leap to Leader
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe author has conducted in-depth interviews with hundreds of CEOs and other executives for the New York Times feature "Corner Office" and his leadership... -
How Will You Measure Your Life?
Personal ethics Magazine ArticleDon’t reserve your best business thinking for your career. -
The Value in Vulnerability
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLong before he achieved tabloid status for his personal life, Tiger Woods won the 1997 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, by 12 strokes. It was such... -
How to Play to Your Strengths
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMost feedback accentuates the negative. During formal employee evaluations, discussions invariably focus on "opportunities for improvement," even if the...
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Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View 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... -
Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley (D)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (C) case. -
Jamie Turner at MLI, Inc.
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the evolution of an interpersonal mismatch between a previously successful manager, Jamie Turner, and his new boss, Pat Cardullo. Turner,... -
Are You Ready? Devising a Personal Strategy for Life After Business School
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This note offers a set of strategic questions to help you formulate an effective personal plan that can be especially useful for your first years after... -
Huntington Hospital (A): Empowering Staff
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Kim Markey began as executive director of revenue cycle at Huntington Hospital (HH) in November 2012. Located in Pasadena, California, HH was a 625-bed... -
The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Organization in the World
28.00View Details What does it take for women to succeed in a male-dominated world? The Grit Factor. At age nineteen, Shannon Huffman Polson became the youngest woman ever... -
Coaching Makena Lane
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Makena Lane has a gift for producing results, even in the challenging retail context of the 2010s, but she also has a knack for "ruffling some feathers"... -
Thomas Green: Power, Office Politics and a Career in Crisis
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the dilemma of a marketing manager, Thomas Green, who, after being rapidly promoted, is harshly criticized by his boss, Frank Davis.... -
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... -
Innovation Magic
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Why do certain product and service experiences seem like magic, making them all but destined for success, while other items languish on store shelves?... -
Marilyn Carlson Nelson and the Carlson Companies' Renaissance
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2005, Marilyn Carlson Nelson, CEO and chairman of the Carlson Companies, must decide whether to outsource jobs at the risk of destroying the culture... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself, Vol. 2 (with bonus article "Be Your Own Best Advocate" by Deborah M. Kolb)
24.95View Details Position yourself for success. Get more of the management ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with "HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (Vol.... -
Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (With New Preface)
28.00View Details "Students talk about Stewart D. Friedman, a management professor at the Wharton School, with a mixture of earnest admiration, gratitude and rock star... -
Huntington Hospital (B): Empowering Staff
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The B case begins with the consultants' proposal to Kim Markey, executive director of revenue cycle at Huntington Hospital (HH). The proposal is untraditional... -
Dealing With A Toxic Boss A
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case is divided into A, B, and C cases. See OB85 Dealing with a Toxic Boss for an expanded version of the full case. A Case: Ned was an upper middle... -
Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics)
9.99View Details We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: with ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession regardless of where... -
Ambiculture: Seeking the Multicultural Middle
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Series of scenarios each presenting a situation that asks the student to decide how to proceed. -
Leadership on the Line, With a New Preface: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Change
35.00View Details 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... -
Being the Boss, with a New Preface: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader
35.00View Details Are you the boss you need to be? You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from your subordinates,... -
HBR Guide to Your Job Search
21.95View Details Land the job of your dreams. You're ready to take the next step in your career. But securing the right role can take a lot of work--and a lot of time...
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Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View 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... -
Find Your Purpose in Your Most Challenging Experiences
What are those challenging moments that have tested you, but also reveal who you are? You may discover your sense of purpose by revisiting your past. -
Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley (D)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (C) case. -
Jamie Turner at MLI, Inc.
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the evolution of an interpersonal mismatch between a previously successful manager, Jamie Turner, and his new boss, Pat Cardullo. Turner,... -
Are You Ready? Devising a Personal Strategy for Life After Business School
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This note offers a set of strategic questions to help you formulate an effective personal plan that can be especially useful for your first years after... -
Realizing What You're Made Of
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleA ruptured disk pressed against Glenn Mangurian's spinal cord several years ago, leaving the lower half of his body permanently paralyzed. One minute,... -
Harvard Business Review, May/June 2021
Leadership & Managing People Magazine Issue19.95View Details Harvard Business Review publishes new and authoritative ideas for improving the practice of management. Written by leading business thinkers and executives,... -
Huntington Hospital (A): Empowering Staff
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Kim Markey began as executive director of revenue cycle at Huntington Hospital (HH) in November 2012. Located in Pasadena, California, HH was a 625-bed... -
What to Do If Your Boss Doesn't Like You
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA targeted plan to make things better. -
The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Organization in the World
28.00View Details What does it take for women to succeed in a male-dominated world? The Grit Factor. At age nineteen, Shannon Huffman Polson became the youngest woman ever...