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Focusing on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know—leadership, strategy, change, and self-management—HBR has sorted through hundreds of articles, selecting the most essential readings that prove valuable regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.

Whitzman examines Canada’s crisis from all sides, defining adequate housing while detailing the decades of policy that facilitated this crisis. She uses evidence-backed plans to outline how all levels of government can work together to provide affordable housing.

Canada now provides more state-facilitated euthanasia and assisted suicides than any other country. This book provides critical reflections and valuable insights as more jurisdictions consider their own assisted dying laws and policies.

Rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide rose sharply among adolescents in the 2010s. Haidt describes how the “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to addiction and loneliness.

Discusses pivotal events such as an armed insurrection and a delegation from Rupert's Land negotiating Indigenous peoples’ place in Canada. Outlines the influence of the Métis and First Nations in laying the groundwork for settlement in Western Canada.

Women have consistently been less likely than men to run for office, despite changing attitudes toward women in politics. This book analyzes women's challenges throughout the candidate emergence process, featuring new survey data and interviews with potential candidates.

Today’s white supremacism originated in cultivated homes, parties, festivals, and digital media, ultimately reshaping U.S. politics. This book discusses the new players in this movement, offering vital perspectives on why vigilance is required to check its influence.

Inspired by Descartes’s portrayal of wonder, De Cruz describes wonder and awe as emotional drives motivating us to inquire and discover new things, and that humanity has nurtured these emotions in cultural domains such as religion and science.

Drawing on interviews with global executives and policymakers, Braw poses the difficult questions businesses and economies are facing in the collapse of globalization—and traces the intricate story of globalization from the exuberant ’90s to the embattled present.

In times of unexpected change when we most need to be creative, we're often reactive. Martin shows us another way: how to build creative capacity and the ability to improvise forward, even during life's biggest twists and turns.

Saskatchewan literary great Guy Vanderhaeghe's insightful collection spans his forty-year writing career. It covers the craft of fiction, growing up on the prairies, struggling to find his voice as a writer, and other writers he admires.

Discussing the intersection of legal studies, technology and ethics, this book focuses on AI's role in reshaping professional education, the needs of legal education institutions, and the tools to navigate the evolving legal landscape while maintaining ethical standards.

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The Reading Room

May 2025

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