Researchers conducted 18 semi-structured interviews with partners, managers, and junior consultants at two major consulting ...

AI is fueling a surge in cyberattacks, with the average breach now costing SMBs more than $250,000. In this issue of the HBR ...

Even more striking, these companies sustain margin leadership across downturns, rate resets, and geopolitical shocks. While ...

What if the company you’re leading isn’t the one you think it is? Most companies operate as two organizations: the polished ...

How are chief strategy officers planning for the long term in an era shaped by AI-driven disruption? At HBR’s inaugural Strategy Summit, Sherry Sanger of Penske Transportation Solutions, Jennifer Moll ...

As AI agents take on more complex work, the key constraint is no longer access to technology but an organization’s ability to ...

Many believe that making AI’s decision-making more transparent will help users of AI tools overcome potential biases in the ...

When McKinsey introduced the Three Horizons of Growth model in 1999, it gave enterprises a time-based vocabulary for thinking ...

So Zero Trust is widely accepted but inconsistently implemented. So from an engineering perspective, what does it take to ...

Business leaders increasingly face decisions that are not just technical or financial but deeply philosophical. Questions about what a company is for, what counts as reliable knowledge, and what ...

As companies embed AI more deeply into work, performance depends not only on what systems can do but how they behave.

As the era of cheap capital comes to an end, executives will need to relearn the discipline of rigorous capital allocation.