AI is reshaping how work gets done — and the pressure on HR leaders to respond has never been higher. At HBR's 2026 Leadership Summit, three of the world's most senior HR executives gathered to answer the question leaders everywhere are grappling with: how do you build
The way organizations execute strategy is changing — and the shift is more fundamental than most leaders realize. For most of the 20th century, companies were structured around stable functions: marketing, finance, operations, HR. Projects were side activities layered on top of "real work." That model is breaking down.
Pick up almost any packaged food at the grocery store and flip it over. Somewhere in that ingredient list, you will likely find names like potassium sorbate, sodium nitrite, or citric acid. For decades, regulators in the United States and Europe classified these preservatives as safe. Now, the largest nutritional
Colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer-related death among Americans under 50 — and yet one in three eligible adults has never been screened. The American Cancer Society just made it significantly easier to change that. In 2026, the ACS updated its colorectal cancer screening guidelines to officially include
You've probably heard that microplastics are everywhere. They're in the ocean, in the air, in your food, and in your water. But here's something that hits much closer to home: they're also inside your body — in your blood, your lungs, and, according
Most people accept frailty as an unavoidable part of growing old. But a compelling and still underappreciated body of research suggests that in many older adults, the real driver of physical decline is not time itself — it is unresolved trauma. New findings show that treating that trauma with a well-validated
You know the feeling. It shows up uninvited — triggered by a song, a smell, a stranger's jacket, or a photograph someone posts from thirty years ago. It isn't quite sadness and it isn't quite happiness. It's something in between: a tug toward
Every time you've changed your mind after talking to someone you respect, felt the pull to go along with a crowd, or found yourself adding a product to your cart after seeing a celebrity rave about it, you were experiencing social influence. It happens constantly, often below the
You mean well. You really do. When your partner asks if their presentation was good enough, and it wasn’t, you smile and say it was brilliant. When they’re anxious about a decision they’ve already made, you tell them it was the right call. You do it out
A new Australian study has found that just four weeks of eating differently can measurably reduce biological age in adults aged 65 to 75. The research, published in Aging Cell in May 2026 by scientists at the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre, tested four distinct dietary patterns
Most adults know they should be sleeping more. But a landmark study published in Nature in May 2026 reveals that the conversation about sleep needs to go much deeper than counting hours. A team of researchers at Columbia University has demonstrated, for the first time at this scale, that sleep
Most people know that eating junk food is bad for gut health. But new research suggests the clock on your wall may matter just as much as the contents of your plate. A landmark study presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2026 found that combining chronic stress with late-night eating