Leaders love AI because it makes knowledge instantly reusable—drafts, code, analysis on demand. A recent study uses a formal model to show what happens when “good-enough” answers become essentially ...

Mission-driven leaders face overlapping economic, political, technological, and social pressures that turn routine decisions into public tests of values and integrity. Research surfaced four patterns ...

As generative AI and content platforms make it effortless to sound authoritative, organizations are being overwhelmed by polished insight that rarely translates into real change. The growing gap ...

But realizing AI’s competitive advantages requires a solid AI foundation. Traditional IT infrastructure wasn’t designed to ...

For decades, Americans have been taught to build their financial lives around one event: retirement. Save early, save often, and one day you can stop working altogether. Retirement has been marketed ...

You spend much of your day in conversations. Some feel important and energizing; others seem routine or dull. It’s easy to decide in advance which ones deserve your full attention. But that instinct ...

Few companies have been able to fundamentally change their operating and business models around AI. The primary obstacle to ...

As firms increasingly incentivize employees to build and oversee complex teams of agents—for example, by measuring and ...

Corporate venture capital is experiencing renewed momentum. Over the past decade, as digital disruption and new technologies have accelerated, CVC activity has grown to record levels and has been ...

For many small and midsize businesses (SMBs), artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful force multiplier—an innovative technology that allows growing companies to operate with greater speed, ...

Companies are facing intensifying pressure to take public stands on divisive political issues—but the strongest forces aren’t ...

The broadening conflict in the Middle East means executives are redrawing their risk assessments. In this issue of the HBR ...