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ADI IGNATIUS: I am Adi Ignatius. ALISON BEARD: I’m Alison Beard, and this is the HBR IdeaCast. ADI IGNATIUS: All right, so we are back again this week to the topic of AI. One of the things that I find most interesting about AI is that despite its huge potential, there’s no blueprint for how to use it. So we’re all essentially pioneers experimenting with this powerful technology to figure out how it can help us. ALISON BEARD: Yeah, I’m constantly hearing from colleagues, guests on this show, other contacts about how they’re using AI in really new and creative…

Mick Cronin’s angry. What’s new?Not much, except that the UCLA men’s basketball coach found a new way to express that frustration. With the Bruins enduring their second consecutive blowout loss, Cronin made an example out of center Steven Jamerson II. With 4:26 remaining in the game, and the Bruins trailing by 27 points, Jamerson committed a hard foul against Michigan State’s Carson Cooper as he broke away in transition. After the foul, he and Cooper went face to face, exchanging pleasantries. After their teammates separated them, Jamerson returned to UCLA’s bench. The officials went to review the foul to determine the…

There is a particular form of blindness that afflicts the fortunate—a blindness to the quiet miracles of ordinary existence. We walk through our days surrounded by what a patient once called “unexperienced happiness,” moving through gifts we no longer recognize as gifts, breathing blessings we’ve forgotten are blessings. It often takes a brush with loss to restore our sight. This is a meditation that can perhaps grant us more mindfulness than hundreds of seminars. It’s about the obvious that we sometimes simply no longer see. The Loss of “Normal” Let me share a story that illuminates this phenomenon with uncomfortable…

PANICK Entertainment has officially announced a partnership with Rocketship Entertainment ahead of their release of a packed second wave of horror comic book titles that will be hitting comic book shop and bookstore shelves this year. In conjunction with the announcement, we have an exclusive look at Tim Seeley’s cover art for The Accessories, the upcoming horror sidekick comic book series from David Dastmalchian, Leah Kilpatrick, Patrick Piazzalunga, Marco Brakko, and Patrick Brosseau! We have a full look at Tim Seeley’s cover art for The Accessories #1 below, as well as the official press release with details on PANICK’s upcoming…

For many people, feelings can get intense and out of control very quickly. While our feelings are always important and meaningful, our responses to whatever provoked the feelings aren’t always responses that are in our best interests. By learning how to self-calm in the moment, you might spare yourself the unwanted consequences of acting too quickly when provoked. The process of managing our emotional responses so that we can return to a state of calm and make our best decisions is called emotional regulation. The quickest and healthiest way to do this is by pausing and taking some deep breaths.…

Let’s talk about something deeply weird that nobody wants to acknowledge: at some point in the late ’80s and early ’90s, America collectively decided it was totally fine to put a child murderer on lunchboxes, action figures, and breakfast cereal. Freddy Krueger, the razor-fingered monster who explicitly murdered children in their dreams, became a beloved mascot. Kids wore his face on t-shirts. Parents bought Freddy dolls for Christmas. MTV gave him a talk show. He became less “horrifying embodiment of parental failure and childhood trauma” and more “that funny burned guy with the one-liners.” And it all happened because of…

Democrats have made a new offer to the White House in negotiations to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, which shut down on Saturday over a fight centered on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The odds of a deal in the coming days look slim, though the fact that few details have emerged over the…

THE HORROR OF GODZILLA Unleashes The Scariest Godzilla Comic Yet: “The shocking fear and astonishing devastation behind Godzilla’s first attack on humanity will be unleashed this summer. Smashing into comics shops this July is the debut issue of the most spine-chilling kaiju comic book event you’ll ever experience: THE HORROR OF GODZILLA from Eisner-nominated co-writers Ethan S. Parker & Griffin Sheridan (Marvel Zombies: Red Band, GODZILLA: ESCAPE THE DEADZONE) and acclaimed horror artist Tristan Jones (EVENT HORIZON: DARK DESCENT, Aliens: Defiance). Set in 1954 Japan, witness the sheer terror behind Godzilla’s first horrifying onslaught on the human race and how the…

The 2019 miniseries on FX, Fosse/Verdon, about the eternally linked lives of director Bob Fosse and actress Gwen Verdon, highlights the pursuit and acquisition of perfection. Engulfed by success, Bob continues to struggle to extract any meaning or joy from it. There’s aways a place that he can’t seem to get to, thus he’s always left reaching. At the beginning of the series, we learn of his dream to be the next Fred Astaire. With all of Fred’s talent, Bob appears bereft of a quality repeatedly noted but never fleshed out, that thing that makes someone a star. Whether it’s…

BRIAN KENNY: Welcome to Cold Call, the podcast where we dive deep into the groundbreaking ideas in Harvard Business School case studies. Today on Cold Call, we’re looking at a sport where innovation doesn’t come from flash or funding, but from rethinking first principles. The sport is speed skating and we’re dropping this episode during the 2026 Winter Olympics. The US men’s Speed Skating team is coming off years of disappointment, searching for a breakthrough in the team pursuit event. The innovation works. Times drop, records fall, medals could follow. So the question at the heart of this case, and…