Despite their reputation in the 1980s as corporate raiders, most private equity firms attempt to improve the performance of their portfolio companies through better corporate governance. But while ...

A version of this article appeared in the May–June 2025 issue of Harvard Business Review. Zach Mercurio is a researcher and adviser on purposeful leadership and meaningful work.

Over the past 25 to 30 years, agile innovation methods have greatly increased success rates in software development, improved quality and speed to market, and boosted the motivation and ...

To remain competitive in the internet-of-things era, should the CEO of SolidTech Innovations, a fictional elevator company, ...

The Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements have forced people in positions of power—namely, the white men who dominate institutional leadership roles—to realize they must personally step up ...

A version of this article appeared in the May–June 2025 issue of Harvard Business Review. Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School.

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Workplace stress, on the rise for decades, has been treated by many organizations as a personal issue instead of a business-critical risk that merits executive oversight. This is likely due in ...

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Harvard University lawyers urged a federal judge to rule quickly that the Trump administration’s freeze on about $2.6 billion in federal funding is illegal and that it violated the school’s free ...

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In recent years, many organizations have reevaluated and attempted to improve their processes for reporting and investigating workplace abuse. But new research, which analyzed thousands of ...