Chris’s product management team is faltering. Despite managing to hit their deadlines and churn out the basic product upgrades, sales are down, and it’s hard to remember the last time they had a ...

A great deal is known about how monetary incentives increase the performance of individual employees. But what effects do they have on the performance of teams, whose work requires coordination, ...

Welcome to the HBR Executive Agenda for October 9, 2025. Adi Ignatius is the editor at large at Harvard Business Review and its former editor in chief. Harvard ...

How overcommitment derails projects, and what managers can do instead. Mark Mortensen, a professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD, discusses the research on “multiteaming”—when employees work ...