Future of Work Briefs

An interview with Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. For more, see the April issue of HBR.

Questions that reshape perspectives can fix talent management systems in ways that naturally enable broader diversity in leadership.

If you run a large organization or its human resources department, you are probably starting to wonder if your financial commitment to wellness programs makes sense. Your consultants and vendors assure you that they save lots of money.

The debate over the pay of top bankers is highly charged. One person's reward for generating significant revenues is another's blank check for doing little else than gambling with a client's life savings.

Business news headlines featuring social-networking giant Facebook change almost as often and as dramatically as a teenager updates her Facebook status online.

If you knew how to help feed the hungry — would you? Most of us would, but often we just don't know how. So, it was difficult at first to see how General Mills, half a world away in North America, could play a meaningful role in addressing hunger in Africa.

CMOs and CFOs don't always see eye-to-eye. However, in the best run companies, the relationship between CMOs and CFOs has changed radically and for the better.

Business leaders must establish robust processes not just for qualifying third party vendors, but for making sure that there is integration of those suppliers in a strong safety culture with close company oversight of safety management and processes. This fundamental lesson may be lost on business leaders amidst the high profile excavation of past supplier controversies currently besetting BP and Boeing.

There are two foundational concepts that underscore the financial nature of human capital: human capital is one of only two forms of business capital; and, the financial resources spent on human capital are an investment, not an expense.