Managerial behavior

You and your boss play key roles in each other's success. Take the initiative in managing this important relationship by getting to know your boss well...

When researchers tracked the performance of 444 celebrated U.S. CEOs, they discovered that companies run by MBAs underperformed the rest. The reason?...

Every year, at the annual summit of Ralston Crane's marketing group, Chief Marketing Officer Ruth McViney homes in on an important organizational objective....

The author, a professor at Harvard Law School, argues that concerns about the perils of short-termism--and support for measures that would insulate corporate...

AllerGen, a young biotechnology firm, is heading for trouble, possibly even bankruptcy. The company's one product--a vaccine for people allergic to cats--may...

Managers will tell you that the resource they lack most is time. If you watch them, you'll see them rushing from meeting to meeting, checking their e-mail...

Learn what professional athletes know: that recovery and refueling are critical to high performance.

Does your organization recognize the problem?

Teams whose leaders are emotionally engaged with them have lower turnover, higher productivity, and a greater sense of community.

Contrary to popular belief, change efforts succeed more often than they fail. Set your team up for success by highlighting the opportunities that change...

Critical initiatives stall for a variety of reasons--employee disengagement, a lack of coordination between functions, complex organizational structures...

Four approaches to keeping your career moving forward.

The personal traits your top people possess matter much less than what they actually do every day. Kevin Sharer, former chief executive at Amgen, argues...

Effective administration depends upon three basic personal skills which, for analytical purposes, can be classified as technical, human, and conceptual....

While it is easy to recognize leadership in action, defining the essence of leadership is hard because it cannot be reduced to a set of personal attributes...

Managers have tried various strategies and perks to boost employee engagement--all with little impact on long-term retention and performance. But now,...

For the past 33 years, Prahalad, a professor of strategy at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, has ended all his MBA and executive...

HBR's advice columnist offers three research-backed approaches to try.

Leaders make decisions every day of their lives, but how they do it changes dramatically over the course of their careers. At lower levels, the job is...

Jill Hoover was looking skyward, marveling at the heart-stopping beauty of Paradise Park-Seattle's newest attraction, its tallest and scariest roller...