Research Roundup: Humility at the Top, Motivating Your Staff, Retailer-Brand Relationships, and More
https://hbr.org/2025/08/research-roundup-humility-at-the-top-motivating-your-staff-retailer-brand-relationships-and-more
https://hbr.org/2025/08/research-roundup-humility-at-the-top-motivating-your-staff-retailer-brand-relationships-and-more
Harvard Business Review
Research Roundup: Humility at the Top, Motivating Your Staff, Retailer-Brand Relationships, and More
Adapted from the July-August 2025 edition of the magazine, this round-up features recent research your company needs to know. The findings were pulled from academia, consultancies, and other vetted sources, and include studies on why you should lead with…
Your AI Strategy Needs More Than a Single Leader
https://hbr.org/2025/08/your-ai-strategy-needs-more-than-a-single-leader
https://hbr.org/2025/08/your-ai-strategy-needs-more-than-a-single-leader
Harvard Business Review
Your AI Strategy Needs More Than a Single Leader
Many companies are appointing chief AI officers (CAIOs) to lead their AI initiatives, but this approach often fails, because the role is too broad and misaligned with organizational needs. Instead, successful AI adoption comes from a distributed leadership…
Research: How School Shootings Are Felt in Local Economies
https://hbr.org/2025/08/research-how-school-shootings-are-felt-in-local-economies
https://hbr.org/2025/08/research-how-school-shootings-are-felt-in-local-economies
Harvard Business Review
Research: How School Shootings Are Felt in Local Economies
New research finds that, after a fatal school shooting, people shop and dine out less, and they avoid public spaces in the impacted U.S. county. This leads to measurable drops in local spending to the tune of $5.4 million in the six months post-shooting,…
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Disrupting the Freezer Aisle: Dr. Bombay Ice Cream
https://hbr.org/podcast/2025/08/disrupting-the-freezer-aisle-dr-bombay-ice-cream
https://hbr.org/podcast/2025/08/disrupting-the-freezer-aisle-dr-bombay-ice-cream
Harvard Business Review
Disrupting the Freezer Aisle: Dr. Bombay Ice Cream
A fast-moving, celebrity-backed brand uses its cultural credibility to push into crowded shelves.
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Are You Optimizing Your Virtual Communication Practices?
https://hbr.org/podcast/2025/08/are-you-optimizing-your-virtual-communication-practices
https://hbr.org/podcast/2025/08/are-you-optimizing-your-virtual-communication-practices
Harvard Business Review
Are You Optimizing Your Virtual Communication Practices?
A conversation with the University of Texas’ Andrew Brodsky on improving our online—and offline—interactions.
What New CEOs Should Ask Themselves in Their First 100 Days
https://hbr.org/2025/08/what-new-ceos-should-ask-themselves-in-their-first-100-days
https://hbr.org/2025/08/what-new-ceos-should-ask-themselves-in-their-first-100-days
Harvard Business Review
What New CEOs Should Ask Themselves in Their First 100 Days
When you step into the CEO role, the pressure to have all the answers is real. But no one expects you to solve everything overnight. Taking the time to ask the right questions during your first 100 days can help you build a stronger foundation of trust, alignment…
Use AI to Stress Test Your Supply Chain
https://hbr.org/2025/08/use-ai-to-stress-test-your-supply-chain
https://hbr.org/2025/08/use-ai-to-stress-test-your-supply-chain
Harvard Business Review
Use AI to Stress Test Your Supply Chain
Firms around the world are struggling to adjust their supply chains and operations to the chaotic trade war unleashed by the Trump administration. Some firms have developed a dynamic stress-testing system to assist them. It uses a combination of AI and human…
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It’s Time to Streamline How We Communicate at Work
https://hbr.org/2025/08/its-time-to-streamline-how-we-communicate-at-work
https://hbr.org/2025/08/its-time-to-streamline-how-we-communicate-at-work
Harvard Business Review
It’s Time to Streamline How We Communicate at Work
Misaligned communication habits—whether around response times, preferred channels, or writing style—can lead to missed deadlines, frustrated colleagues, and lost productivity. As digital tools proliferate and AI-generated writing becomes more common, it’s…
The Best Leaders Edit What They Say Before They Say It
https://hbr.org/2025/08/the-best-leaders-edit-what-they-say-before-they-say-it
https://hbr.org/2025/08/the-best-leaders-edit-what-they-say-before-they-say-it
Harvard Business Review
The Best Leaders Edit What They Say Before They Say It
At the executive level, your words carry more weight and come with greater responsibility. That’s why strategic editing is a critical senior leadership skill. It’s knowing what to say (and what to leave out), how to say it, and when silence is more powerful.…
How Ambitious Entrepreneurs Can Use AI to Scale Their Startups
https://hbr.org/2025/08/how-ambitious-entrepreneurs-can-use-ai-to-scale-their-startups
https://hbr.org/2025/08/how-ambitious-entrepreneurs-can-use-ai-to-scale-their-startups
Harvard Business Review
How Ambitious Entrepreneurs Can Use AI to Scale Their Startups
Ambitious entrepreneurs are increasingly turning to AI to drive growth, innovation, and efficiency. They have used AI to compete with major players, showing that small teams can achieve outsized impact. Entrepreneurs aiming to hire more than 20 employees…
Avoid These Communication Breakdowns When Launching Strategic Initiatives
https://hbr.org/2025/08/avoid-these-communication-breakdowns-when-launching-strategic-initiatives
https://hbr.org/2025/08/avoid-these-communication-breakdowns-when-launching-strategic-initiatives
Harvard Business Review
Avoid These Communication Breakdowns When Launching Strategic Initiatives
Communication “leak points”—specific transition moments where critical meaning evaporates—require systematic intervention. There are three leak points that are most common in organizational messaging. The first leak point is where visionary thinking often…
Do You Have an Emotionally Intelligent Team?
https://hbr.org/2025/08/do-you-have-an-emotionally-intelligent-team
https://hbr.org/2025/08/do-you-have-an-emotionally-intelligent-team
Harvard Business Review
Do You Have an Emotionally Intelligent Team?
To create top-performing teams, you need team emotional intelligence. Team EI is a set of habitual routines or norms that together meet the core social needs that are activated when people enter teams. These include the need to feel genuinely accepted, known…
Should You Stop Investing in AI (for Now)?
https://hbr.org/2025/08/should-you-stop-investing-in-ai-for-now
https://hbr.org/2025/08/should-you-stop-investing-in-ai-for-now
Harvard Business Review
Should You Stop Investing in AI (for Now)?
Companies aren’t generating ROI on their AI investments because they’re still thinking about AI as a siloed, piecemeal solution instead of the data, software and process foundation for a completely different way to power a business. It’s time to stop throwing…
