Born into a family of Genoan builders, Piano rebelled—but only slightly—by leaving home to study architecture in Florence and ...

Senior leaders often have to make unpopular choices that are necessary for the organization, but aren’t ones everyone agrees ...

In today’s volatile and uncertain world, leadership skills have become more crucial than ever, yet many organizations ...

As your visibility grows, so do the networking requests. Some are reasonable; others cross the line. While a strong network is built on mutual support, it shouldn’t leave you feeling depleted. Watch ...

Strategic initiatives often land as abstract ideas that feel disconnected from (or irrelevant to) the reality on the ground.

Strategic plans and budgets are often misaligned because they’re built on incompatible frameworks: Strategy focuses on ...

Corporate boards have a critical role to play in addressing climate change, not only by overseeing risk and compliance but ...

In the debate over whether it’s helpful or hurtful to share employee pay data, consider a new finding: When the SEC mandated CEO‐to‐median‐employee pay disclosures, the information didn ...

Many organizations are aware that they are suffering from project overload, slowing execution and obscuring strategic priorities. Yet even with this knowledge they struggle to kill projects to ...

Welcome to the HBR Executive Agenda for August 14, 2025. Adi Ignatius is the editor at large at Harvard Business Review and its former editor in chief. Explore HBR HBR Store About HBR Manage My ...