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If your AI efforts aren’t paying off, it’s likely not a tech problem. The biggest barriers to success are often people and processes. To unlock real value from AI, your organization must build ...

Welcome to the HBR Executive Agenda for August 14, 2025. Adi Ignatius is the editor at large at Harvard Business Review and its former editor in chief. Explore HBR HBR Store About HBR Manage My ...

Many organizations are aware that they are suffering from project overload, slowing execution and obscuring strategic priorities. Yet even with this knowledge they struggle to kill projects to ...

In the debate over whether it’s helpful or hurtful to share employee pay data, consider a new finding: When the SEC mandated CEO‐to‐median‐employee pay disclosures, the information didn ...