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Learn key business management strategies, trends and ideas from today's top leaders through informative interviews from the Harvard Business School.

How Top CEOs Cope with Constant Stress
Justin Menkes, author of "Better Under Pressure," explains why today's leaders need realistic optimism, subservience to purpose, and the ability to find order in chaos.

Teamwork on the Fly
Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor, describes how to manage intellectually diverse and geographically dispersed work groups.

Why Everyone at Your Company Should Speak (A Little) English
Tsedal Neeley, Harvard Business School assistant professor, explains why every company needs a language strategy

Can Introverts Lead?
Dick Beatty, professor of Human Resource Management at Rutgers University, explains how to identify your most important positions -- and get your best people into them

Build a Strategy for Sustainability
Adam Werbach, Global CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi S and former Sierra Club president, is the author of Strategy for Sustainability.

Be Strategic With Your Workforce
Dick Beatty, professor of Human Resource Management at Rutgers University, explains how to identify your most important positions -- and get your best people into them.

Consumer Psychology in a Recession
An interview with John Quelch, Professor, Harvard Business School. In a tough economy, companies can succeed if they understand their customers' evolving consumption patterns and fine-tune their marketing strategies accordingly.

Creating a Culture of Innovation
An interview with David Kester, Chief Executive, Design Council. To foster a culture of innovation, managers must look outward to identify consumers' problems and spark ideas for solving those problems. They must also ease employees' fear of change.

Creating an Innovation Mindset
An interview with Vijay Govindarajan, Professor, Tuck. To create an innovation mindset, managers must bring in fresh voices from outside their company, encourage collaboration, and consider how emerging markets' needs can spur ideas for innovative offerings.

Fluevog's Open-Source Footwear
From Bill Taylor's Practically Radical Blog at HarvardBusiness.org. In lean times, there's nothing more valuable than a great new product idea. Why not invite your customers to share their creativity with your company -- and turn the best ideas into actual products! That's what legendary shoe designer John Fluevog has done, with a project he calls open-source footwear.

Green Recovery: Emerge from the Downturn on Top
Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, explains how to get lean, get smart, and emerge from the downturn on top.

Grow Your Stars -- Don't Buy Them
An interview with Boris Groysberg, Professor, Harvard Business School. Many star performers hired from outside don't perform as expected at their new company. So, develop stars within your company; for example, through strong training and mentoring programs.

Innovate Like Google
An interview with Tom Davenport, Professor of Information Technology & Management, Babson College. While some elements of Google's success as innovator would be very hard to emulate, others can be profitably adopted by almost any business.

Innovating at Every Level
An interview with Erich Joachimsthaler, CEO, Vivaldi Partners. To innovate, companies need to circulate insights about consumers throughout the organization and think of ways to revolutionize consumers' everyday lives.

Innovating on a Shoestring
Scott Anthony, president of Innosight, explains how to innovate when time and money are tight.

Interview Strategy from Harvard Business School
Rod McNealy, Johnson & Johnson Marketing Executive, Harvard MBA, Wharton Lecturer, presenting Job Interview strategy at Princeton.

Leadership Brand
An interview with Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood, Co-founders, The RBL Group. Companies build a leadership brand by developing leaders who enable employees to deliver the results expected by customers.

Seglin on Ethics for Harvard Business School Publishing, Leveling with Employees During Layoffs

Social Intelligence and Leadership
An interview with Daniel Goleman, Psychologist. See how you can use emotional and social intelligence to improve your own and your organization's performance.

Teamwork and Collaboration
Cisco CEO John Chambers explains how abandoning command-and-control leadership has enabled the company to innovate more quickly, using collaboration and teamwork.

The Biggest Mistake a Leader Can Make
Management thought leaders share their ideas on how leadership goes wrong. Featuring: Bill George, Evan Wittenberg, Dr. Ellen Langer, Andrew Pettigrew, Gianpiero Petriglieri, Carl Sloane, Jonathan Doochin, Scott Snook, and Daisy Wademan Dowling.

The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy
An Interview with Michael E. Porter, Professor, Harvard University. Porter's five competitive forces is the basis for much of modern business strategy. Understand the framework and how to put it into practice.

The Importance of Learning in Organizations - Harvard Business Interview
An interview with David Garvin and Amy Edmondson, Professors, Harvard Business School. Learning organizations generate and act on new knowledge. The ability to do this enables companies to stay ahead of change and the competition.

Professor Deepak Malhotra Harvard Business Sales Negotiation Strategies
Professor Deepak Malhotra Harvard Business School discusses how to us effective sales negotiation strategies and tactics in order to close more business.

The Shortcomings of the Stimulus Plan
Featuring Paul Krugman, Professor, Columnist, and Nobel Prize Winner. Get his take on the Obama stimulus plan and who might be to blame for the economic crisis -- and learn what a "Krugman Plan" would look like.

Use Failure to Grow Your Business
An interview with Rita McGrath, Professor, Columbia Business School. How can companies plan and pursue an aggressive growth agenda with confidence? By framing their strategic growth opportunities, testing assumptions, and creating a culture that acts on evidence and learning.

Where Will We Find Tomorrow's Leaders?
An Interview with Linda A. Hill, Professor, Harvard Business School. We won't find new global leaders by looking in conventional places for people who act in conventional take-charge ways. Instead, look for people who can lead from behind to promote the collective genius of their teams.

Harvard Business School, Chris Schroeder Interview Healthcare Technologies
Chris M Schroeder (CEO of HealthCentral) speaks about Healthcare Technology.

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