Most businesses, especially small to medium-sized ones, still treat energy like rent: essential, predictable, and largely outside managerial control. That era is ending as energy prices and supply volatility shift from being marginal operating-cost questions to board-level resilience, strategy, and competitiveness issues. Source: Read Full Article
Engaged employees provide organizations with a valuable competitive advantage. Research consistently shows they are more productive and significantly less likely to leave than less engaged colleagues. It’s why organizations invest so heavily in building an engaged workforce. Source: Read Full Article
Life has been challenging for U.S. retail chains over the past decade. The Covid-19 pandemic forced widespread store closures, long-standing supply sources became uncertain, and customers’ buying habits changed rapidly, with online retail sales growing from 7.4% of total retail sales in the fourth quarter of 2015 to 16.4% in third quarter of 2025. In…
new video loaded: How Kharg Island May Change the Trajectory of the Iran War Kharg Island exports 90 percent of Iran’s crude oil. It has also become a potential U.S. target. Peter Eavis, our Business reporter, examines how the small island in the Persian Gulf has become a strategic target with significant risks. By Peter…
An HBR Executive Live conversation with Pinterest CEO Bill Ready. by Adi Ignatius March 25, 2026 What if social media didn’t have to run on outrage to succeed? That’s a question on the mind of Bill Ready, CEO of Pinterest, who is on a mission to reorient the platform away from the attention-maximizing algorithms that…
new video loaded: What Soaring Fuel Costs Mean for Your Air Travel The price of jet fuel has almost doubled since the start of the war. Our reporter Niraj Chokshi, who covers aviation, describes what that will mean for flights. By Niraj Chokshi, Léo Hamelin, Stephanie Swart, Rebecca Suner and Lauren Pruitt March 25, 2026…
Company leaders have long claimed that people are their greatest asset. Yet many still design work as if employees were just one of many operational inputs, leaving their greatest assets feeling dissatisfied and unmotivated. Companies have become masters at understanding their customers. They map customer journeys, study their behaviors, and use predictive analytics to anticipate…
Picture a familiar scene. A vendor demonstrates a new generative AI “agent” to your leadership team. It’s impressive: The agent triages support tickets, updates customer records, drafts a proposal, and routes it for approval. The demo is seamless. Pretty soon, inevitably, someone asks the question: How soon can we deploy this across the enterprise? Source:…
You have an idea to bring in revenue in the next quarter. The case is solid and you’ve done the homework. But you can’t get your peers on board—and your boss isn’t biting either. The problem isn’t always you. It’s that getting traction at this level requires more than a strong argument. So how do…
Organizations have moved quickly to put AI tools in the hands of their employees. But for all of this investment, many leaders struggle to assess how it’s going. Is AI measurably improving the quality, speed, and ambition of people’s work? Is it strengthening professional judgment? Who is succeeding with it, and why? What does successful…
