For decades, multinationals largely framed China in one of two ways: The country was either an enormous growth market—challenging to operate in, but too big to ignore—or a rising competitor, increasingly difficult to out-run. As a result, they organized China operations downstream—focused on localization, market access, and revenue—while keeping core innovation anchored elsewhere. #China #Fit […]
Tim Ferriss shows that entrepreneurial edge doesn’t come from learning; it comes from learning faster than the competition. #Founder #Mindset #Tim #Ferriss #Experiments #Risk #Freedom
To compete on innovation, firms often choose between building and buying their way to success. Buying is typically presented as a route to synergy, scale, diversification, speed-to-market, and ready-to-use assets. Building is often treated as the cheaper alternative that can be customized to needs. In our view, that framing is too simplistic. The real question […]
In the June 8, 2026, edition of The Insider, managing editor Gretchen Gavett highlights the third installment of annual research on how people are really using AI. #Data
ADI IGNATIUS: I’m Adi Ignatius. ALISON BEARD: I’m Alison Beard, and this is the HBR IdeaCast. ADI IGNATIUS: All right, Alison. Today’s topic is one that every single listener is sure to have strong views about, and that is meetings. So, Alison, what do you generally think about work meetings? ALISON BEARD: I try to […]
AI tools can help teams become faster and more efficient. But as organizations race to integrate artificial intelligence into more workflows, a problem is taking shape: the erosion of the critical thinking skills that leaders value. At the 2026 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, we asked technology and business leaders to answer this question: What is […]
Hiring managers need new methods to assess authenticity and competence. #Broken #Hiring #Heres #Fix
For most of the past decade, discussions about AI and jobs have focused on the impact of entry-level roles. Most notably, we worry about call-center agents being replaced by chatbots, analysts displaced by algorithms, or junior coders assisted into obsolescence by agentic AI and synthetic coworkers. #CSuite #Board #Roles #Reshaped
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images Summary: At a time of high stress and uncertainty, leaders must increasingly spend time and energy steadying their people. However, work like comforting a team after layoffs or explaining a change of direction takes a toll. And as this work grows, women leaders report that they are doing an […]
It’s been three-and-a-half years since generative AI exploded onto the scene. In this past year, progress has continued its relentless pace: Vibe coding took off, companies embraced agentic workflows, regular users of ChatGPT hit 900 million and Google’s Gemini surpassed 750 million, and OpenAI posted an $852 billion valuation in its latest funding round. #People
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