Management philosophy

As AI-enabled leadership evolves, human qualities like compassion and wisdom will only become more important.

Geeks are “obsessive mavericks”, and every company can benefit from their leadership style.

Working–and living–inauthentically can cause stress, mental illness, or worse.

It can help you work around obstacles, find opportunities across silos, and more.

“New power” is about circulating new ideas for anyone and everyone to interpret and build on – rather than being controlled by a centralized organization.

Research shows that good management is more profitable than a cult of personality.

Remote work brought a subtle but important shift in how employees expect their managers to work with them.

As HBR turns 100, we look back on our original mission, how we’ve changed, and what the future holds.

HBR turns 100 this year, and to mark the anniversary, we're taking both a look back--and a look forward. In the essay, "Improving the Practice of Management--Then...

Your why may not be what you think it is.

"Despite its sudden elevation in corporate life, purpose remains a confusing topic," the authors write. A primary cause of this confusion, they say, is...

The airline had to adapt to a seemingly endless series of dire, pandemic-related challenges.

What actually determines compensation on a systemic level? And what should?

A top-down approach doesn't work anymore.

When Steve Jobs arrived back at Apple in 1997, he laid off general managers of all business units and combined disparate functional departments into one...

A new kind of workspace could help employees thrive.

Distinctive cultures produce distinctive products.

It’s how successful companies redefine their businesses.

Connect them to a broader goal.

A case study for effecting change in a change-averse industry.

If you want to be as successful as Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, or Michael Dell, read their autobiographical advice books, right? Wrong, says Roger Martin...

This case, a follow-up to Cancer Treatment Centers of America (A), HBS No. 313-012, begins with the debate over New Hampshire's certificate-of-need (CON)...

Ctrip is a $437 million Chinese on-line travel services company with a scientific, data driven approach to management. The case explores Ctrip's founding...

Provides a follow-up to the (A) and (B) (Condensed) case. Brings events up to date from 1985-1991. Bob Koski, Sun's CEO, has now taken on a new #2 heir...

In October 2018, Mike Bogan, CEO of LandCare, a nationwide commercial landscaping firm, was concerned about the significant headwinds facing not only...

Two managers discuss the benefits, costs, opportunities, and headaches of corporate computing. Topics include security, training, the Internet and Web,...

Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques had spent the summer between their first and second years of their Harvard Business School MBA program fund raising...

This is a case organized around the theme of preserving an entrepreneurial culture in the face of rapid growth, including over 800 employees and several...

Zensar is a rapidly growing, mid-sized Indian IT services company with a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies. One of its practices,...

The case provides insight into a business leader whose cognizance of contextual forces (social, economic, and political) allowed him to drive significant...

In February 2020, Nick Dalton, executive vice president HR business transformation at Unilever, reflected on the changing nature of work marked by rapid...

The case revolves around the actions that Barbara Novick, co-founder and Vice-Chair of Blackrock, and Michelle Edkins, Global Head of Investment Stewardship,...

Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges? Now you can find out--with Lessons Learned....

Unilever is making strides to integrate the operations of Mae Terra-one of Brazil's leading brands for packaged organic foods-into its own structures,...

The case describes a dispute between the management of Dr. Reddy's and a trade union over the employment terms of contract workers. However, as events...

Artificial intelligence, big data, modern science, and the internet are all revealing a fundamental truth: The world is vastly more complex and unpredictable...

Introduces managers and students of management to some of the basic categories and frameworks of philosophical ethics. Consists of five parts: l) Classifying...

For nearly half a century, Peter Drucker has inspired and educated managers - and influenced the nature of business with his landmark articles in the...

Supplements the (A) case.

Each Case Flash Forward provides educators and students with a brief update of key changes at a particular company covered in a related case study. It...

The president and CEO of Estee Lauder Companies learned the importance of time management back when he worked under U.S. treasury secretary Donald Regan....

Teaching note for case 820007.

If you want to be as successful as Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, or Michael Dell, read their autobiographical advice books, right? Wrong, says Roger Martin...

Leaders develop their resonance and renew themselves by cultivating three essential elements: mindfulness, hope, and compassion. This chapter highlights...

Americans are outraged at the greediness of Wall Street analysts, dot-com entrepreneurs and, most of all, chief executive officers. How could Tyco's Dennis...

Teaching Note for 109079.

This case, a follow-up to Cancer Treatment Centers of America (A), HBS No. 313-012, begins with the debate over New Hampshire's certificate-of-need (CON)...

Ctrip is a $437 million Chinese on-line travel services company with a scientific, data driven approach to management. The case explores Ctrip's founding...

This is an MIT Sloan Management Review article. Futurists are skilled at listening to and interpreting signals. They look for early patterns on the fringe,...