Harvard Business Review, July/August 2024

Harvard Business Review publishes new and authoritative ideas for improving the practice of management. Written by leading business thinkers and executives, HBR gives readers a first look at cutting-edge ideas and their real-world applications in areas like strategy, leadership, marketing, team management, and professional development. Each monthly issue presents groundbreaking research, analysis of the forces shaping the business agenda, and proven best practices designed to help individuals and organizations lead, manage, and compete more effectively and with greater purpose. The July/August 2024 issue contains a Spotlight section entitled "The Psychology of CEO Succession" by Dan Ciampa, Adam Bryant, Claudius A. Hildebrand, Jason Baumgarten, Mahesh Madhavan, Rebecca Slan Jerusalim, and Navio Kwok.

This issue features the following articles:

• "Why Entrepreneurs Should Think Like Scientists"
• "Firms Led by CEOs from Former U.S. Frontier Areas Are Awarded More Patents" by Amy Meeker
• "The CEO of Sodexo on Building More-Sustainable Food Systems" by Sophie Bellon
• "Build a Corporate Culture That Works" by Erin Meyer
• "When Your Employee Feels Angry, Sad, or Dejected" by Christina Bradley, Lindy Greer, and Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks
• "How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk" by Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz
• "Will That Marketplace Succeed?" by Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
• "Toward Healthier B2B Relationships" by Bryan Hochstein, Clay Vorhees, Ross Johnson, Neal McCoy, and Vijay Mehrotra
• "How to Respond to Shareholder Activism" by Mark DesJardine
• "Disclosing Downstream Emissions" by Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
• "The Middle Path to Innovation" by Regina E. Herzlinger, Duke Rohlen, Ben Creo, and Will Kynes
• "Stop Playing Favorites" by Ginka Toegel and Jean-Louis Barsoux
• "HBR Case Study: Are the Right People in the Right Seats?" by Nitin Nohria with expert commentary by Michelle MacKay and Jeff Jones
• "The Promise and Peril of AI at Work" by Eben Harrell
• "Life’s Work: An Interview with Darius Rucker"