HANNAH BATES: Welcome to HBR On Strategy, case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, hand-selected to help you unlock new ways of doing business. Glossier launched in 2014, as an e-commerce makeup and skincare brand aimed at millennial women. From the start, Glossier’s founder Emily Weiss built a strong digital […]
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HANNAH BATES: Welcome to HBR on Leadership, case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, hand-selected to help you unlock the best in those around you. What do you think of when you hear these words: “Office politics”? Maybe you think of someone hoarding information or taking credit for other people’s
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Sarah is turning the gift guide over to me today to talk about board games and video games that might be worth a purchase this holiday season (or honestly whenever you damn well feel like). Want to see? Just click that image or click right here, and come shop with us! And if you’d like
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Love on the Brain Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood is $1.99! I feel like I rarely see Hazelwood’s books on sale and I do worry this one will poof immediately. However, if you wanted to give this one a try without waiting for a library hold to come in, this can be yours for
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Help A Bitch Out This HaBO is from Meagan, who is looking to find this mafia romance: It’s a mafia romance. The main characters are called “Barbie and Ken” by the heroine’s friends. I think there are 3 or 4 books in series. In this one, the hero was a mafia boss and a doctor,
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Since ChatGPT’s launch two years ago, generative AI (gen AI) has been promising to reshape how work gets done. The use cases are many and varied, and we’re still discovering what’s going to work best, for us as individuals, in teams, and as organizations. In a surprising twist, it’s the white-collar work of the office
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Despite the fact that 98% of Fortune 500 companies have mentoring programs, only 37% of professionals actually benefit from them. This disconnect is exacerbating retention issues. So, why are mentoring programs failing to deliver on their promise? The issue lies not with mentoring itself but in the underutilization and ineffective reach of many mentoring programs.
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Do you know how your employees truly feel about their roles, work, and relationships? Asking the right questions in focused one-on-one settings is key to making sure you’re in tune with your people. This article outlines six questions to try to move beyond surface-level interactions. The more you recognize your team members as people with
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ALISON BEARD: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Alison Beard. The iPhone is no question one of the most interesting and successful products to be launched in the past two decades. In one sense, it’s amazing how it grows with you. Regular operating system updates, an app store that lets you
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