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As your company adopts AI, what skills will your employees need and how can you develop them? This HBR Executive Playbook ...

The way in which you share bad news with your board can either damage their trust—or deepen it, transforming tough situations ...

Trust between a CEO and their board isn’t optional—it’s the foundation for strategic alignment and effective leadership. Too ...

Leaders can take the principles of strategy used in boardrooms across the world and apply them to their own lives, as explained in this HBR Executive Masterclass. BCG’s Rainer Strack and colleagues ...

If you feel like you’ve lost control of your schedule, it’s because you’re not smartly allocating your scarcest resource—your time. The most effective CEOs know their role is not to do everything ...

Successful business leaders tend to catastrophize more than most people. But, according to HBS professor Arthur Brooks, worry actually blocks real problem-solving. In this HBR Executive Masterclass he ...

Strategy involves placing a bet on a desired outcome—often shaped by uncertain customer behavior—and building a logical, testable theory for how the company will achieve competitive advantage.

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AI has the potential to revolutionize healthcare by providing personalized treatment plans, streamlining clinical trials, and ...