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Harvard Business Review
02-05-2025
- Business
- Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review Sales Management Handbook Toolkit
Product Description Publication Date: Sales leadership essentials for an era of rapidly advancing digital technology. Managing an effective sales organization is key to revenue generation, customer satisfaction, and business results. But whether you're a sales manager or lead a large sales force, it's increasingly challenging to balance success today with driving the digital sales transformation that will position your team for the future. The Harvard Business Review Sales Management Handbook Toolkit will allow you to put the advice from the Harvard Business Review Sales Management Handbook into action, bringing both the high-level concepts and the step-by-step processes in the book to bear as you build value for your company, your customers, and your sales teams. Within, you'll find: An Ebook copy of the Harvard Business Review Sales Management Handbook. A detailed toolkit manual to help you use the included materials in relationship to the book. 13 downloadable tools and templates, including spreadsheets, worksheets, and exercises so you can immediately start implementing the book's ideas into your own work. 2 HBR article reprints from the authors of the book. The Harvard Business Review Sales Management Handbook Toolkit is a digital product licensed for use with teams of up to 10. To use this product with a group of more than 10 participants, please contact for volume discounts. To download this product after your purchase, simply sign in to and visit the 'Orders' section of your account.


Harvard Business Review
02-05-2025
- Business
- Harvard Business Review
HBR Guide to Data Analytics Basics for Managers Toolkit, Updated and Expanded
Newly Updated and Expanded. Today's business environment brings with it an onslaught of data, but leaving the analysis to others in your company just won't cut it. Now more than ever, managers must know how to tease insight from data--to understand where it comes from, make sense of the numbers, and use those findings to inform their toughest decisions. With the newly expanded and updated HBR Guide to Data Analytics Basics for Managers Toolkit, you'll learn how to prepare your company's data for use with Generative AI, work with your team to create business experiments, ask the right questions when analyzing data and speaking with data experts, and communicate your findings in a way that influences and persuades. Within, you'll find: An Ebook copy of the HBR Guide to Data Analytics Basics for Managers. A toolkit handbook with an overview of each tool and how to use it in relation to the book. 5 editable worksheets to assess your company's analytics capabilities, define metrics, tell a story with data, and more. 2 videos that define big data and analytics and explain the fundamentals of regression analysis. A customizable slide deck and worksheet to help you run disciplined business experiments. A podcast episode about where data-driven decision making can go wrong. 8 HBR Article Reprints on readying your company's data for Gen AI, data visualizations that work, a refresher on A/B testing, and more. The HBR Guide to Data Analytics Basics for Managers Toolkit, Updated and Expanded is a digital product intended for individual use only. To download this product after your purchase, simply sign in to and visit the 'Orders' section of your account. If you'd like to purchase multiple copies of this Ebook and its accompanying tools to share with your team or learn more about volume discounts for organizations, please contact


Harvard Business Review
02-05-2025
- Business
- Harvard Business Review
HBR Guide to Generative AI for Managers Toolkit
Leverage gen AI to save time, innovate faster, and lead effectively. You're probably aware that generative AI can output quality text and create stunning images in seconds. But smart managers are now using gen AI for high-level work--problem-solving, driving innovation, strategic thinking, and dozens of other applications. Managers who develop their generative AI capabilities will soon be leaping ahead of those who don't. Fortunately, you can start today and see immediate results. In the HBR Guide to Generative AI for Managers Toolkit, you'll find exercises, strategies, tips, and frameworks to accelerate and improve countless aspects of your work. Within the toolkit, you'll find: An Ebook copy of the HBR Guide to Generative AI for Managers. A handbook to help you use the tools along with the book. Eleven worksheets to support you in embracing the right mindset for AI, determining whether a task is best suited for using gen AI as a co-pilot or co-thinker, experimenting with various tasks, and more. Six customizable slide decks that explain co-pilot and co-thinker modes and offer tips and tricks for successful experimentation along with avoiding common gen AI traps. Two article reprints from the authors of the guide. The HBR Guide to Generative AI for Managers Toolkit is a digital product intended for individual use only. To download this product after your purchase, simply sign in to and visit the 'Orders' section of your account. If you'd like to purchase multiple copies of this Ebook and its accompanying tools to share with your team or learn more about volume discounts for organizations, please contact


Harvard Business Review
30-04-2025
- Business
- Harvard Business Review
Introducing a New Era of HBR IdeaCast
Skip to content April 30, 2025 A new sound is in store for the HBR IdeaCast . Every Tuesday, we'll keep giving you the insights, research, and advice you need to lead, featuring practical conversations with leading thinkers. But as Adi Ignatius, editor-at-large at Harvard Business Review, joins executive editor Alison Beard as cohost of the show, we're offering even more to better serve you. Look forward to more interviews with C-suite executives, more expert perspectives on the most pressing, up-to-date problems facing leaders, and some special surprises for HBR subscribers. The new and improved HBR IdeaCast kicks off next Tuesday, be sure to hit subscribe so you don't miss an episode. Tell us what topics you'd like us to cover: ideacast@ ALISON BEARD: Hey, guys. It's Alison Beard, executive editor at Harvard Business Review and for nearly seven years, host of this show, the HBR IdeaCast . ADI IGNATIUS: And I'm Adi Ignatius. For 16 years, I was the editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review, and now I'm an editor-at-large and joining HBR IdeaCast as the new cohost. ALISON BEARD: With Adi joining us, you can look forward to all of the same HBR IdeaCast content you love, ideas, research, and hard evidence you need to lead. We'll continue our focused, practical conversations with world-renowned thought leaders. ADI IGNATIUS: But we also want to keep changing and evolving and making sure we're serving you, the best and brightest leaders and managers out there, with the information that you need. So that means bringing you even more interviews with C-suite leaders to share what they're really doing behind the scenes. ALISON BEARD: More expert advice around the most pressing problems you're facing in your organization today. From tariffs to AI to talent retention. ADI IGNATIUS: You'll see us pop up more often on your favorite video and social platforms like YouTube and Instagram. ALISON BEARD: Plus, there will be some special surprises in store for Harvard Business Review subscribers. ADI IGNATIUS: Check out the new and improved HBR IdeaCast , same time, same place every Tuesday. Hit subscribe and follow the show on your favorite podcast app and tell us what topics you'd like us to cover. Just email us a note at IdeaCast@ ALISON BEARD: HBR IdeaCast , where we offer insights and inspiration to make you a better leader. See you next week.
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Harvard Business Review to Host the 2025 HBR Leadership Summit on April 29
Featuring Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and other top leaders, this year's event explores the theme "Driving Performance with Purpose in a New Era of Business." BOSTON, April 17, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Harvard Business Review will hold the 2025 HBR Leadership Summit, a virtual, full-day event, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. A premier event for purpose-driven business leaders, the Summit will convene top executives and management thinkers to explore how leaders can deliver on both their mission and bottom line amid constant change. The program will feature live conversations with global CEOs and mini-masterclasses with leading academics, with sessions covering strategy, AI, talent development, navigating uncertainty, and more. ThreatLocker and Reltio are contributing sponsors of the Summit, with Upwork serving as supporting sponsor. A partial list of confirmed speakers includes: Andy Jassy, CEO, Amazon (pre-recorded)Priscilla Sims Brown, President & CEO, Amalgamated BankThomas Buberl, CEO, AXADavid Risher, CEO, LyftAnish Shah, Group CEO and Managing Director, Mahindra GroupRon Shaich, CEO & Managing Partner, Act III Holdings; Founder, Panera; Chair, CAVA; and author of Know What MattersJanti Soeripto, CEO, Save the Children USJane Sun, CEO, Group (pre-recorded)Stephanie Creary, Assistant Professor, The Wharton SchoolKevin Evers, Senior Editor, Harvard Business Review, and author of There's Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor SwiftHeidi K. Gardner, Distinguished Fellow, Harvard Law School, and author of Smarter CollaborationGianpiero Petriglieri, Associate Professor, INSEADKarthik Ramanna, Professor, University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government, and author of The Age of Outrage See the full lineup and purchase your ticket here. Media who would like to cover the event should contact Amy Poftak at apoftak@ About Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, nine international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. View source version on Contacts Amy Poftakapoftak@