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Harvard Business Review | Weekly Hotlist
 

March 23, 2026

 

When Senior Leaders Lack People Skills, Transformations Fail

Four strategies for closing the gap between what leaders perceive and what employees actually experience.

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Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got “Trendslop” in Return.

When prompted for help on seven key strategy questions, LLMs recommended the same buzzy solutions—even when the context changed.

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What the Best AI Users Do Differently—and How to Level Up All of Your Employees

An eight-month study of 2,500 employees at KPMG discovered indicators that can help identify superusers.

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The Oil Shock Is Here. And We’re Just Beginning to Feel It.

Energy analyst Rory Johnston tells HBR “I fear it will break the system.”

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LLMs Are Manipulating Users with Rhetorical Tricks

An HBR tech editor spoke with researchers who found that LLMs “persuasion bombed” BCG consultants who tried to verify their outputs.

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