Corporate governance

Send the right signals to the local stakeholders you want to work with.

Diagnose what’s driving the overreaching behavior so you can shift their focus back to strategy.

They must juggle competing stakeholder priorities, adapt as new technologies upend strategies, and help a diverse group of directors find common ground.

Tapping into a range of views prevents the groupthink and blind spots that undermine decision-making and creativity.

All eyes will be on the newly minted CEOs at Target, Walmart, and Disney as they try to show they were the right insiders for the top job.

An “ownership culture” also requires financial transparency, empathy, and rigorous culture measurement.

How to avoid the traps that compel talented leaders to accept the wrong roles.

The HBR Executive Playbook on protecting governance, repairing trust, and keeping the work on track.

A playbook for leveraging your company’s unique strengths.

When the person who built the company steps back, emotions run high—and many organizations stumble. Here’s how to manage the transition.

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

How to define the role, provide a clear mandate, and ensure they’re positioned to deliver value for the company.

A closer look at what’s driving the turnover.

It’s not just struggling companies that are making changes at the top.

How the century-old, family-owned company pursues positive social impact, including ambitious climate-change targets, while continuing to grow profits.

A Q&A with Mars CEO Poul Weihrauch from HBR’s Future of Business 2025 live event.

Lessons from an experiment comparing human and AI boards deliberating the same business case.

And how a trusted CHRO can help companies avoid them.

Successful dual-leadership structures require continuous calibration.