Researchers conducted an experiment with 1,026 engineers in which participants evaluated a Python code snippet that was ...

For some companies, imitating the right rivals at the right time can be more effective—and lucrative—than attempting to chart an entirely new course. Sign up for HBR Executive Agenda - for insights ...

Being promoted after a leader fails is a unique leadership challenge. You’re inheriting instability, not just a new title. If you’ve just stepped into such a role, here’s how to steady the ship and ...

Turnarounds often involve drastic changes, from restructuring to layoffs, that can breed a range of emotions in the very ...

In times of uncertainty, it’s tempting for organizations to move fast, make workforce cuts first, and explain later. But what ...

With few exceptions, Americans are relative newcomers on the international business scene. Today, as in Mark Twain’s time, we are all too often “innocents abroad,” in an era when naiveté and ...

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 ...

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Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors, product developers focus too much on building ...

For the past two decades, trust has been touted as the all-powerful lubricant that keeps the economic wheels turning and greases the right connections—all to our collective benefit. Popular ...

HBS professor Ranjay Gulati has spent much of his career studying who wins—and who loses—in uncertain times. It turns out that success doesn’t require a genetic predisposition toward courage ...