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Harvard Business Review | Weekly Hotlist
 

June 22, 2026

 

3 Forces Are Redefining the Transition from Manager to Leader

Updating a classic HBR framework.

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Help Employees Get Better—Not Just Faster—with AI

A four-step process to help people develop and apply their own judgment.

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Prevent Team Friction from Turning into Dysfunction

Lessons on avoiding communication breakdowns from one of Harvard Business School’s signature programs.

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How to Design Agentic Systems Around the Implicit Rules that Govern Your Company

The firms that win will use agent deployment as an X-ray and redesign their organizations around what they find.

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The Pros and Cons of Continually Assessing Performance

AI is helping companies directly link assessment to coaching, reskilling, and workforce planning. But they need to be careful how they implement these systems.

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