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While backlash to DEI has challenged how many companies and practitioners approach creating more equitable workplaces, fewer have considered whether DEI work itself has room to improve. A new ...

Social media was supposed to usher in a golden age of branding. But things didn’t turn out that way. Marketers originally thought that Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter would let them bypass ...

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Reprint: R1409C The author, a strategy and international-business professor at Harvard Business School, has come to a conclusion that may surprise you: Trying to apply management practices ...

The advice show for workplace dilemmas. We take your questions and offer a better way forward.

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For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which industry entrants will succeed ...

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 ...

To avert upheaval we need policy change and private-sector leadership.

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What exactly is a digital transformation, and how can you lead one successfully? Often guiding a digital transformation requires rethinking how your company creates value, its strategy, and the ...