Do you find Facebook a helpful tool for maintaining and growing business contacts, or are you contemplating what Harvard Online editor Paul Michelman is about to do: "Defriend" all his business contacts. As a business tool, says Michelman, Facebook is not working, and it's...
Online Editorial Director Paul Michelman sits down with consultant and author Adrian Slywotzky, whose latest book is entitled "The Upside: The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats into Growth Breakthroughs." In the interview, Slywotzky explains how managing strategic threats as forms of risk can not only diminish their impact, but...
Online Editorial Director Paul Michelman talks with Larry Bossidy, former chairman and CEO of both AlliedSignal and Honeywell, and the author of an April 2007 HBR article entitled "What Your Leader Expects of You." In our interview, Bossidy will guide us through the key tenets of what he calls "the...
When you hear a bottle of Coca-Cola being opened, does the pop-fizz sound wet your thirst for that first sip? Or does it do something more, transporting you back in time to a happy, warm memory when your grandfather snapped open an eight-ounce bottle of the popular...
Extreme Jobs: In this week's feature segment, Paul Michelman speaks with Sylvia Ann Hewlett, co-author of the highly provocative "Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek," featured in the December issue of Harvard Business Review. Today's overachieving professionals labor longer, take on more responsibility, and earn more than...
Paul Michelman used the Harvard Business Review Conversation Starters blog Friday to highlight a piece of news that was easy to miss amid all the howls of pain emanating from Wall Street: China's trade surplus "soared to its second-highest monthly level on record in July," WSJ.com reports. Given analysts...
Interesting debate taking place over at the Harvard Business site on the idea that true leaders take responsibility when things go wrong -- even if they are not personally at fault. Former Morgan Stanley co-president Zoe Cruz recently lost her job apparently because, according...
Back in October BNET's The View from Harvard Business was reminding companies that "if you aren't already doing some scenario planning about what a slowing or uncertain economy means to your bottom line, you are behind the game." Unfortunately, the economic outlook hasn't grown any rosier since then, and most...
