June 09, 2025

Employee Stress Is a Business Risk—Not an HR Problem

This research-backed framework will help leaders measure and pinpoint the steep costs of a stressed-out workforce.

Research: Why Employees Work While Sick—and How Leaders Can Stop It

What leaders can do to prevent a culture of presenteeism and build a healthier, more resilient workforce.

Forget What You Know About Search. Optimize Your Brand for LLMs.

How to sell your product when generative AI becomes the consumer.

How to Phrase Your Questions When You Need Honest Answers

Sometimes people withhold useful information because it’s uncomfortable. Here’s how to get them to tell you the hard truth.

Growth Isn’t the Only Way for Companies to Create Value

The strategies of “stable outperformers” offer organizations an alternate path forward.

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The Growth Dilemma: Managing Your Brand When Different Customers Want Different Things

By Annie Wilson and Ryan Hamilton

You always want to grow your brand, but there's a dilemma: The more customer segments you target and serve, the harder it becomes to manage their diverse preferences and behaviors. Welcome to “the conflict zone,” where brands must navigate incompatibilities between customer segments to achieve growth, or risk losing more customers than they gain. The Growth Dilemma features dozens of cases to provide insight into how brands can drive growth by attracting new segments without alienating or losing their current customers. The authors also explore how brands can more strategically select and manage customer segments to drive high velocity growth and symbiotic segment relationships.

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HBR Guide to Better Recruiting and Hiring Toolkit

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An open position on your team presents both a challenge and an opportunity. You need to understand what skills and capabilities will add value now and in the future, all while juggling the hiring process with the day-to-day demands of your job as a manager. In the HBR Guide to Better Recruiting and Hiring Toolkit, you’ll find practical tips and exercises for rethinking your hiring process and becoming more strategic about it. It includes digital versions of worksheets, checklists, and other resources to help improve your approach to interviews, ask smarter questions, and develop a better way of hiring.

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