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Researchers at Vlerick Business School’s Centre for Financial Leadership and Digital Transformation have worked with CFOs and ...

In April 2025, Harvard Business Review Analytic Services conducted a survey of 236 members of the Harvard Business Review ...

Yesterday we listed five research-backed strategies that can lead to a happier life—even for busy professionals. Here are five more: Act nicely. Agreeableness is consistently found to be highly and ...

Real-life coaching sessions with leaders working to overcome professional challenges. Muriel Wilkins is an executive coach with a strong track record of helping CEOs and senior leaders get through ...

Most developmental psychologists agree that what differentiates leaders is not so much their philosophy of leadership, their personality, or their style of management. Rather, it’s their ...

Hated by bosses and subordinates alike, traditional performance appraisals have been abandoned by more than a third of U.S. companies. The annual review’s biggest limitation, the authors argue ...

Reprint: R0410B Employers are beginning to realize that they face a nearly invisible but significant drain on productivity: presenteeism, the problem of workers’ being on the job but, because of ...

What consumers truly value can be difficult to pin down and psychologically complicated. But universal building blocks of value do exist, creating opportunities for companies to improve their ...

A generation ago, a “Kodak moment” meant something that was worth saving and savoring. Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up ...

Cross-border flows plummeted in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic swept the world, reinforcing doubts about the future of globalization. As we move into 2021, the latest data paint a clearer — and ...

Reprint: R1111F A growing number of socially motivated entrepreneurs have been creating new kinds of organizations that combine a social mission with a business engine. Unlike typical for-profits ...