Hot management topics for 2010-2011

By briefly reviewing the articles published in Harvard Business Review (HBR) from 2010 to 2011, I highhglight the main hot management topics and exact key phrases in the field of management. These key concepts provide useful clues of what keep senior managers awake at night. I believe they provide useful ideas for management research, including final year dissertation proposal formulations for business students. The following table groups the key HBR concepts by major management themes (there are 8 themes noted by me in this exercise). The items provided in the table are not exhaustive in this case.

Human resource management/ general management	Managerial style/ Leadership	Product development	Corporate social responsibility	Global Business Management	Change management	Strategic Management/ Marketing	IT Management
CEO succession	Horrible bosses	Breakthrough products	Work with green activists	Cosmopolitcan corporation	Shake-up of businesss	Great repeatable business model	Cloud computing
Effective organizations	Wise leaders	Green product development	Social strategies	The China rules	Innovation wars	Business model of organized crime	IT project risks
Productivity	Adaptive leadership		co-creative enterprise	How to conquer new markets	The execution trap	Mystery shopping
Social media role	Leadership lessons from military			Emerging market giants	Entrepreneurial revolution	Growth markets
How to fix mistakes	Bosses as human shields			Global acquisition from PRC enterprises	Entrepreneurial opportunities	Empowered customers with social media
Productivity paradox	Mistakes leaders make			China's bid for technology dominance	Reinvent business model	Strategy execution
Decision-driven organizations	Collaborative leaders			Bottom of the pyramid	Innovation on front lines	Strategy stress test
Promotion: men vs women	Professional boards				Learn from failures	Social media strategy
Collaborative enterprise	Unleash innovation from leaders				Build culture of trust and innovation	Place corporate bets
Evolution of modern management					A culture of experimentation	How to fix capitalism
Embrace complexity					Why good ideas die	Make financial markets work for consumers
Creatively managed companies						New rules of branding with social media
Collective ambition						Make great strategic decisions
Succession not as a horse race						Compete against "free"
Lean principles for knowledge works						New M&A playbook
						Reinvent supply chain