In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

When systems are attacked, we should respond. But how much better would it be if we could anticipate attacks before they strike and stop them with a proactive defense? Faced with today’s cybersecurity ...

Legacy tech may have carried eCommerce businesses this far, but it wasn’t designed for today’s speed, complexity, and especially customer expectations. What used to be manageable (running a single ...

Consumers want functional food. If nothing else is certain, that is. In many areas, from coffee to bread to plant-based protein to non-alcoholic drinks, consumers want food that can provide functional ...

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

The functional gummies market is growing fast. Worth an incredible $25.74bn (€21.86bn), it’s projected to reach $38.12bn by the end of the decade (market insights company Mordor Intelligence). “This ...

Hi, Carolyn: You mentioned emotional reactivity in a column, so I looked it up. It totally describes my husband. In reading articles about it, the gist always seems to be how to placate and ...

Welcome to the HBR Executive Agenda for August 14, 2025. Adi Ignatius is the editor at large at Harvard Business Review and its former editor in chief. HBR Executive delivers trusted insights and ...

Functional scoliosis is a product of imbalanced muscles or posture, often due to uneven leg length. In contrast, structural scoliosis is a product of how the spine has grown. Understanding the ...

Built on top of Erlang, Elixir makes it easier to write good functional programming code and harder to mess it up. Here's a first look at this language on the rise. Elixir is one of the most ...