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LLMs Misunderstand Luxury Brands. Here’s How to Optimize Your Marketing Strategy for AI.

LLMs Misunderstand Luxury Brands. Here’s How to Optimize Your Marketing Strategy for AI.

LLMs often fail to capture the sensory, spatial, and cultural nuances that make luxury brands desirable. This article offers a practical playbook for translating a brand’s visual grammar, spatial logic, and cultural associations into forms AI can interpret, helping marketers preserve brand allure ac

Harvard Business Review by David Dubois
22 Jun 2026
LLMs Misunderstand Luxury Brands. Here’s How to Optimize Your Content Strategy for AI.

LLMs Misunderstand Luxury Brands. Here’s How to Optimize Your Content Strategy for AI.

LLMs often miss the nuance that makes luxury brands desirable — the visual grammar, spatial logic, and cultural associations that convey exclusivity. This article offers a practical playbook for translating those sensory and cultural cues into AI-ready content — from structured metadata and image de

Harvard Business Review by David Dubois
22 Jun 2026
Our Favorite Management Tips on Decision-Making

Our Favorite Management Tips on Decision-Making

A curated compilation of HBR’s best management tips on decision-making drawn from one of its most popular newsletters. The roundup highlights practical frameworks, common cognitive pitfalls, and actionable strategies leaders can use to improve judgment, speed, and outcomes.

Harvard Business Review by HBR Editors
22 Jun 2026
Resolving Muddled Objectives in Corporate Venture Capital

Resolving Muddled Objectives in Corporate Venture Capital

Researchers analyzed 59 active corporate venture capital units (2017–2024), mapping them from strategic to financial priorities and conducting about 20 in-depth interviews with experienced CVC managers. They find that persistent, muddled objectives—trying to pursue both strategic access to new techn

MIT Sloan Management Review by Michael A. Cusumano and Tomohisa Okamoto. Michael A. Cusumano is the Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Tomohisa Okamoto is a senior m
22 Jun 2026

How to keep health care costs predictable

Kaiser Permanente’s integrated care-and-coverage model reduces fragmentation by aligning insurance and health services, which makes costs easier to forecast. By coordinating care within a single system, employers and members benefit from more predictable health care spending and fewer surprise bills

HR Dive
22 Jun 2026
The hidden cost of bigger buying committees: How L&D can keep personalization on track

The hidden cost of bigger buying committees: How L&D can keep personalization on track

As buying committees grow, decision-making often shifts toward safer, broad solutions and personalization—the factor that drives learner engagement and impact—gets sacrificed. L&D can prevent this by owning learner outcomes and data, defining clear segment-based requirements, running pilots, and usi

HR Dive
22 Jun 2026
Is This the Time to Raise Prices?

Is This the Time to Raise Prices?

Consumers are growing fatigued after years of repeated price increases. Pricing strategist Rafi Mohammed advises against blunt across‑the‑board hikes and instead urges businesses to pursue more creative ways to capture value.

Harvard Business Review by Adi Ignatius
19 Jun 2026
How to Design Agentic Systems Around the Implicit Rules that Govern Your Company

How to Design Agentic Systems Around the Implicit Rules that Govern Your Company

Top firms will deploy agentic systems not just to automate work but as an X‑ray that reveals the implicit rules, workflows, and decision patterns governing their organization. They’ll then redesign structures, incentives, and processes around those insights to improve efficiency, accountability, and

Harvard Business Review by K. Sudhir
19 Jun 2026
Learning Insights: Anil Santhapuri champions learning innovations

Learning Insights: Anil Santhapuri champions learning innovations

Anil Santhapuri describes an unplanned pivot from IT into learning and development after meeting an inspiring CLO, which led him to build and relaunch L&D functions and corporate universities across global organizations. He argues that when positioned strategically, learning is a transformation engi

Chief Learning Officer by Elizabeth Loutfi-Hipchen
19 Jun 2026
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