2014
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Ruth Reichl on Challenging Career Moves
July 14 | HBR IDEACAST | Comments (0)The renowned author and former editor of Gourmet talks about the magazine’s closure and her recent transition to fiction writing. She is featured in the Life’s Work section of the forthcoming June issue.
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Data Goes Best With a Good Story (and Vice Versa)
July 11 | Walter Frick, Editor, Harvard Business Review | Comments (0)I recently spoke with The Post’s Jim Tankersley about what he sees as the benefits of pairing narrative and data to get your point across. An edited version of our conversation follows.
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Corporate Boards Fail Again!
July 09 | Edward E. Lawler III, Distinguished Professor of Business and Director of the Center for Effective Organizations, USC Marshall School of Business | Comments (0)Who is responsible for the continuing escalation of US executive compensation? It is easy to identify the “guilty parties.” It is the corporate boards of corporations. They continue to create executive compensation pay programs that increase executive compensation.
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Presentation Tools That Go Beyond “Next Slide Please”
June 23 | Nolan Browne, Co-Founder, Plotly | Comments (0)Today, users have unprecedented access to data at their fingertips and powerful applications to process them in real time. This new need is driving the development of communication and presentation tools, posing a fundamental challenge to the hegemony of PowerPoint.
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What Makes the Best Infographics So Convincing
June 20 | Andrea Ovans, Senior Associate Editor, Harvard Business Review | Comments (0)A great infographic is an instant revelation. It can compress time and space. These intriguing revelations come from a short trip around The Best American Infographics, 2013.
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To Tell Your Story, Take a Page from Kurt Vonnegut?
June 19 | Andrea Ovans, Senior Associate Editor, Harvard Business Review | Comments (0)Businesspeople are often advised to turn their data into stories to make them more persuasive. But they are given precious few tools to help them do that. It turns out though that graphs can be remarkably useful in demonstrating the mechanics underpinning an effective story.
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The Indispensable Power of Story
June 13 | Anthony Tjan, CEO, Managing Partner and Founder, Cue Ball | Comments (0)Some people have a way of making the complex clear. They know who they are, why they do what they do, and where they want to go. Because they have internalized all this, they are able to sharply crystallize ideas and vision.
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Why Amazon Is Copying Zappos and Paying Employees to Quit
June 12 | Bill Taylor, Cofounder, Fast Company | Comments (0)Last week, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos released his annual letter to shareholders. As is the case every year, it is a tour de force of ideas and initiatives about the customer experience (Amazon Prime), disruptive technology (Fire TV), and strategic consistency.
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The Real Reason New MBAs Want to Work for Goldman Sachs
June 12 | Gretchen Gavett , Associate Editor, Harvard Business Review | Comments (0)What attracts top talent? Is it great benefits, flexible hours, steep pay packages, or state-of-the-art training? New research suggests it’s something simpler – but more difficult to obtain. Prestige.
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What I Learned Watching 150 Hours of TED Talks
June 11 | Carmine Gallo, Author, Talk Like TED: The 9 Public Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds | Comments (0)What makes for a great presentation — the kind that compels people’s attention and calls them to action? TED talks have certainly set a benchmark in recent years: HBR even asked Chris Anderson, the group’s founder, to offer lessons drawn from the three decades he’s run TED’s signature events.
