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November 13, 2009
A successful wealth-management executive contacted our Halftime office last week looking for help in reinventing himself for his "second half," seeking to redesign not...
October 2, 2009
Humiliated by a federal government bailout and a forced bankruptcy declaration, General Motors experienced the worst ordeal in its history in the past year. Yet just ...
August 4, 2009
Like many companies, Home Depot (HD) has done its share of cost-cutting. The home-improvement retailer closed 15 underperforming stores in 2008, shuttered its EXPO ...
July 31, 2009
Employee disengagement continues to be a critical issue across a wide variety of organizations as they work through the economic downturn. One out of four employees ...
June 23, 2009
Congress will soon consider the Employee Free Choice Act, which is intended to make it easier for workers to join unions. The business community is almost unanimous in...
May 22, 2009
Posted on HBR Editors' Blog: May 21, 2009 9:00 AM Today's great recession is invisibly scarring business. In China's Guandong province, one of the world's biggest ...
May 12, 2009
Posted on Leading Green: May 11, 2009 2:13 PM We're in an interesting period in history when the relationship businesses have with society is undergoing a fundamental,...
May 5, 2009
Posted on Practically Radical: May 4, 2009 2:39 PM The one growth business in this shrinking economy is speculation about where MBAs and other elite students will ...
June 4, 2008
It's true, experience really is the best teacher. Research from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) strongly supports the conventional wisdom that people learn by...
May 29, 2008
Posted on The Leading Edge: January 7, 2008 12:10 PM Feeling the pressure to prove they have what former President George H. W. Bush famously termed "the vision ...
May 27, 2008
I've had the good fortune to work with some of the most successful people in the business world. One thing I've noticed about them is they have unflappable ...
April 29, 2008
During a recent visit to Chennai, I had the opportunity to interview Ranjini Manian, the author of Doing Business in India for Dummies. Although her book may have been...
January 29, 2008
Are you stuck in your own Groundhog Day? Author and entrepreneur Paul Hannam believes watching Groundhog Day (the movie about a weatherman, played by Bill Murray, who ...
November 29, 2007
Remember the phrase "Atomic Age?" Sounded so modern and zippy at the time—and sounds so hopelessly retro now. With the workplace becoming more global and more ...
September 23, 2007
The Idea in Brief It's exciting—even glamorous—to lead others through good times and bad. But leadership also has its dark side: the inevitable attempts to...
