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Research: Simple Writing Pays Off (Literally)
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If You Want People to Actually Read What You Write
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How to Calm Your Nerves Before a Big Presentation
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Revaluing Writing
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Those Grammar Gaffes Will Get You
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4 Tips for Writing Better Email
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How to Write a Strong Personal Statement
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How to Ask a (Near) Stranger for a Favor
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Improve Your Résumé by Turning Bullet Points into Stories
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Did Your Email Get Lost in Translation?
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How We Describe Male and Female Job Applicants Differently
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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities
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Improve Your Writing to Improve Your Credibility
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How to Write Email with Military Precision
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Calling for a More Efficient Way of Communicating
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Write to Reward Your Reader
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A Speech Is Not an Essay
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Bad Writing Is Destroying Your Company’s Productivity
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Corporate Writing Doesn’t Have to Sound Like It’s Written by Committee
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4 Quick Tips to Improve Your Business Writing
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Research: Simple Writing Pays Off (Literally)
Communication Digital ArticleInvestors reward clear communication. -
Harvard Business Review Guides Ultimate Boxed Set (16 Books)
300.00View Details This 16-volume, specially priced boxed set makes a perfect gift for aspiring leaders looking for trusted advice on such diverse topics as data analytics,... -
Next-Level Negotiating: Women at Work Discussion Group Toolkit
Sales & Marketing Book99.95View Details The "HBR Women at Work" series, based on the popular HBR podcast of the same name, spotlights the real challenges and opportunities women experience throughout... -
If You Want People to Actually Read What You Write
Business communication Digital ArticleEver get looped into an e-mail thread on the fifth round and tried to figure out which part you’re supposed to read? All you see is a tangle of text chunks indented with strange characters and punctuated with outdated header information and worthless “Thanks!” replies. Whether you know it or not, when you compose an […] -
How to Calm Your Nerves Before a Big Presentation
Business writing Digital ArticleYour audience doesn’t have to know you’re shaking on the inside. -
Revaluing Writing
Business writing Magazine ArticleCompanies spend whatever it takes to develop intellectual assets. At the same time, they routinely seek to minimize their investment in the technical and procedural documents that tell people how to use those assets. Such meta-information as instruction manuals, process descriptions, and procedure guides script the experience of customers and the performance of suppliers and […] -
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Those Grammar Gaffes Will Get You
Business writing Digital ArticleIt pays to nitpick. -
4 Tips for Writing Better Email
Business communication Digital ArticleAfter all my posting about what makes for bad business writing, what is my advice for writing well? I’m glad you asked — because that’s the subject of the list below. 1. Call to action. The number one thing that separates a memo, report, or PowerPoint from A Tale of Two Cities is a call […] -
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS '86) who worked in finance, were planning for their...