Social and global issues

Harvard Business School professor Sandra Sucher tells HBR: “This is the time to take action to move the needle.”

Editor at large Adi Ignatius talks to analysts at ING Bank about how they’re revising their forecasts.

Energy analyst Rory Johnston tells HBR “I fear it will break the system.”

AI is simultaneously increasing the need for judgment and destroying the experiences that produce it.

How leaders can act with clarity amid rising social and political uncertainty.

And how companies can solve it.

Three keys to success in a fractured global business environment.

Their difficulties could foreshadow economic trouble in the coming year.

Local initiatives—driven by necessity and resource constraints—offer scalable solutions for waste reduction, supply chain resilience, and environmental and social leadership.

Seven approaches to make it easier and less costly for Millennials and Gen Zers to get the necessary care.

While political ideology is often blamed for workplace divides, employees’ moral philosophy is a better predictor of faultlines.

Organizations can make decisions today about how much air pollution the AI boom will create.

Many leaders follow a “hero’s journey” that leaves them with new skills, relationships, commitment to work, and desire to improve systems for the next generation.

How the nonprofit care system is using AI, robotics, and other technology to improve patient outcomes.

How the evolving tariff landscape has shaped the U.S. economy, and what it could mean for businesses in the coming months.

New research finds that when brands link social action to their core business, they earn higher trust, broader appeal, and long-term loyalty from customers.

A new study found that while most large firms are staying the course, important coalitions are crumbling.

Businesses must ensure that every worker has the opportunity to increase their skills, contributions, and income.

A wide-ranging HBR Executive Live conversation with Foreign Affairs editor Daniel Kurtz-Phelan.