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What the Best Private Equity-Backed CEOs Do Differently
7+ hour, 1+ min ago (1197+ words) A two-year study of CEOs at private equity-backed companies that consistently deliver outsized returns found that they excel by mastering five behaviors: 1) They create strategic clarity; 2) They align talent to growth ambitions; 3) They maintain relentless focus; 4) They enforce disciplined execution…...
What's Stopping the 4-Day Workweek?
6+ hour, 51+ min ago (141+ words) If the four-day workweek creates happier employees without a loss in productivity, why isn't it more common in the United States? To answer this question, we asked our audience about what holds their companies back from adopting a shorter workweek,…...
Is Your Company Suffering from Initiative Overload?
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1517+ words) A conversation with leadership consultants Rose Hollister and Michael Watkins on how to ease the overwhelm. ALISON BEARD: Welcome to'HBR On Leadership. I'm HBR Executive Editor Alison Beard. On this show, we share case studies and conversations with the world's…...
New Research on How Brand Associations Drive Customer Spending
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (710+ words) Research has shown that measuring customer surplus value, or now how much compensation a customer requires to forgo the brand, can help companies determine how valuable they are to their customers. But what drives that value? New research, conducted with…...
What AI Can't Do: The New Job of Leadership
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (209+ words) An HBR Executive Masterclass with Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks on how leadership is changing in the age of AI. For senior leaders, the question isn't whether AI will change work'it already has. The deeper question is what's left for leaders…...
How Integrated Wearable Technologies Are Shaping the Next Era of Health Care Innovation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MEDTRONIC
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (243+ words) The United Nations" World Health Organization projects a shortfall of approximately 11 million health workers by 2030. As this global workforce gap widens, it"s getting harder to deliver high'quality hospital care. One visible consequence of this understaffing is in the practice…...
Managers and Executives Disagree on AI'and It's Costing Companies
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (229+ words) AI initiatives often stall not because leaders lack ambition or investment, but because the people charged with making them work'middle managers'see a very different reality from senior executives. Executives tend to experience AI as a strategic advantage, while managers confront…...
A New Model to Drive Financial Health and Commercial Sustainability in the Development Sector - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MASTERCARD
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (613+ words) In 2009, the International Institute for Environment and Development reported that as much as $360 million had been wasted on clean water projects in rural Africa. Water wells were built, but regular maintenance and other plans for long-term commercial sustainability were largely…...
The Case for Designing Work Around Circadian Rhythms
2+ day, 27+ min ago (1811+ words) A conversation with the University of Sydney's Stefan Volk about how to manage the varied and fluctuating energy levels on your team. ALISON BEARD: I'm Alison Beard. ADI IGNATIUS: And I'm Adi Ignatius, and this is the HBR Idea Cast....
Decision-Making by Consensus Doesn't Work in the AI Era
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (180+ words) While most leaders probably agree that their organizations will need to adapt to AI, too few are willing to admit that this will require them to abandon one of the most pervasive management principles of the past half-century: decision-making by…...