Last month, Nokia's new CEO Stephen Elop sent an e-mail to his staff, the contents of which would change the course of the company. In a candid, pointed missive, the Canadian executive said, <a href="http://engt.co/ibFV46"…

There is a reason why some small retailers offer incentives for paying in cash.  For instance,  a local restaurant might give a customer a free drink with a cash payment in order to avoid "Interchange Fees."  These fees are at…

We're all worried about the costs of information overload and we typically associate these problems with new digital technologies. But actually information overload has very deep roots: signs of information overload were present already in the accumulation of manuscript texts…

Andrew Sullivan posted this as Infographic: Tax Breaks vs. Budget Cutson his Daily Dish blog on The Atlantic. He traced it back to this possible origin, which has a lot of detail at the bottom about…

I am in Rome, Italy. Gas prices here are roughly $6 a gallon and many of the cars on roads look like two-door golf carts. As far back as 1976, Italians were paying equally…

"Mission" for nonprofits is the same as "profits" for private sector companies. In the private sector, corporations achieve their goals by carefully designing business operations that are reflected in a budget and then regularly reporting on how actual profits compare…

In a seven-part series on personal productivity, Bob Pozen, chairman emeritus of MFS Investment Management and a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, talked to HBR's Justin Fox about balancing work and life.

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Failure is all the rage these days. Recently, from HBR alone, we have David Simms talking about the power of positive failure (and Scott Anthony's response), and the excellent series on lessons from the military often…

Marketers plan to increase…