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Research shows that eating together enhances group performance.

Robots’ speed and brawn - and the fact that they don’t get bored or suffer repetitive-stress injuries - make them a no-brainer for manufacturing.

What happens when Amazon, Apple, and others start competing with their own partners?

Start-ups are getting bigger faster than ever - but that’s no guarantee of success.

Following a crisis, regulators and managers naturally take steps to prevent a recurrence. In 2002, after Enron and WorldCom succumbed to massive accounting fraud, U.S. legislators passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which gave directors and executives new oversight responsibilities.

In the fall of 2014 an investor contacted HBS professor Clayton Christensen with a friendly challenge. Christensen is best known for his theory of disruptive innovation, which describes how firms that introduce rudimentary products can eventually overrun established players by systematically improving the products until they meet the needs of mainstream consumers, generally at low prices.

How companies can benefit from "inconspicuous consumption".

"When Rivals Merge, Think Before You Follow Suit" by Thomas Keil and Tomi Laamanen. "First, Let’s Fire All the Managers" by Gary Hamel. "The Power of Collective Ambition" by Douglas A. Ready and Emily Truelove. "The Ordinary Heroes of the Taj" by Rohit Deshpande and Anjali Raina.

"Doing Business in a Post Growth Society" by James Gustave Speth; "The Female Economy" by Michael J. Silverstein and Kate Sayre; "Why Sustainability is Now the Key Driver of Innovation" by Ram Nidumolu, C.K. Prahalad, and M.R. Rangaswami; "Death by Information Overload" by Paul Hemp; "Are You Having Trouble Keeping Operations Focused?" by Robert S. Huckman; "The Coming Battle Over Executive Pay" by Karen Dillon; and "How Strategy Shapes Structure" by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.

"The Science of Sensory Marketing". "Reaching the Rich World’s Poorest Consumers" by Muhammad Yumus, Frederic Dalsace, David Menasce, and Benedicte Faivre-Tavignot. "Leadership Summits that Work" by Bob Frisch and Cary Greene. "Corporate Governance 2.0" by Guhan Subramanian.

"Teach Workers About the Perils of Debt" by Annamaria Lusardi and Peter Tufano; "How to Jump-Start the Clean Tech Economy" by Mark W. Johnson and Josh Suskewicz; "What Would Peter Say?" by Rosabeth Moss Kanter; "Time for an End Run?" by Bronwyn Fryer; "What Every Leader Should Know About Real Estate" by Mahlone Apgar IV; "Is It Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?" by Robert C. Pozen; and "Make Better Decisions" by Thomas H. Davenport.

"Why You Aren't Buying Venezuelan Chocolate" by Rohit Deshpande. "Branding in the Digital Age: You're Spending Your Money in All the Wrong Places" by David C. Edelman. "Robert S. McNamara and the Evolution of Modern Management" by Phil Rosenzweig. "China vs the World – Whose Technology Is It?" by Thomas M. Hout and Pankaj Ghemawat.

The cover story this month is "Getting Past Yes," which discusses the importance of negotiating while keeping the future of the deal in mind. The second story this month will show you how to navigate the unexplored yet bountiful territory of one-on-one executive coaching. The HBR Spotlight section this month focuses on 21st century supply chains, and contains two articles.

In this issue: "How to Make the Most of Omnichannel Retailing" by the Editors of Harvard Business Review. "Beyond the Holacracy Hype" by Ethan Bernstein, John Bunch, Niko Canner, and Michael Lee. "How to Pay for Health Care" by Michael E. Porter and Robert S. Kaplan. "The Case for Capitation" by Brent C. James and Gregory P. Poulsen.

"In E-Commerce, More Is More", "Talent Management for the 21st Century", "When Growth Stalls", "Is Yours a Learning Organization?", "Authenticity: Is It Real or Marketing", "Timeless Leadership: A Conversation with David McCullough", "Transforming Strategy One Customer At a Time", "How Local Companies Keep Multinationals at Bay", "A More Rational Approach to New-Product Development", and "Radically Simple IT".

"How Companies Can Profit from a Growth Mindset." "The Best-Performing CEOs in the World" by Harvard Business Review. "Turn Your Science into a Business" by Reddi Kotha, Phillip H. Kim, and Oliver Alexy. "How Not to Cut Health Care Costs " by Robert S. Kaplan and Derek A. Haas.

"Your Company’s History as a Leadership Tool" by John T. Seaman Jr. and George David Smith; "Who Can Fix the Middle-Skills Gap?" by James Finegold and Paul Osterman; "The Microwork Solution" by Francesca Gina and Bradley R. Staats.

By now we know that we’re (mostly) not supposed to multitask - that we can’t do two things at once very well and that it takes us a while to refocus when we switch from one task to another.

This month's cover story asks "Is Silence Killing Your Company?" All too often, behind failed products, broken processes, and regretted career moves are people who chose to bite their tongues rather than speak up. Such silence can be catastrophic. But, you can break the cycle silence. Also in this edition of the Harvard Business Review for May 2003: the high cost of accurate knowledge, learning to hedge your customers by diversifying your customer profiles, and more.

"Beware the Next Big Thing" by Julian Birkinshaw; "How to Outsmart Activist Investors" by Bill George and Jay W. Lorsch; and "Managing the ‘Invisibles’" by Daniel Zweig.