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# Gretchen Gavett

## Profile
Managing editor of HBR.org and author of *The Insider*, a weekly subscriber-only [[entity-org-harvard-business-review-d104]] newsletter covering workplace and leadership topics.

## Role in this source
**Author / curator.** Gavett wrote and curated this Insider roundup, which is the single source for this entire vault. She frames the lead question ('Should You Treat AI Like a Teammate?') and stitches together the four threads below.

## Attributed contributions in this vault
- [[concept-ai-anthropomorphization-risk]] and its sub-notes ([[concept-blurred-accountability]], [[concept-identity-confusion]])
- [[concept-strategic-discounting]] (curating [[entity-rafi-mohammed]]'s work)
- [[concept-change-induced-burnout]] (curating the Insider Insights survey)
- [[concept-continuous-change-adaptation]] (curating [[entity-nilofer-merchant]]'s IdeaCast appearance)

As curator she is the connective voice rather than the originator of the underlying research findings.

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# Gretchen Gavett

**Profile.** Gretchen Gavett is an editor at **Harvard Business Review** and the curatorial/authorial voice of this newsletter-style roundup (the "GG" in the source URL).

**Role in this source.** She is the *narrating author* who stitches together three separate research strands — decision rights, strategy under uncertainty, and the pitfalls of purpose — into a single argument, and who issues the closing survey callout on managing AI agents.

**Attributed contributions in this vault:**
- Editorial framing and synthesis across the whole source (the connective tissue linking [[concept-decision-rights]], [[concept-strategic-centering]], and [[concept-thwarted-impact]]).
- The **"How Are You Managing AI Agents?"** survey callout → [[question-ai-agent-management]] and the assumption it rests on, [[prereq-ai-agents]].

*Note: Gavett's role is curatorial rather than as an original researcher; the substantive claims are attributed to the cited scholars.*

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# Gretchen Gavett

**Gretchen Gavett** is a senior editor at **[[entity-org-harvard-business-review-d8]]** and the editorial voice curating this source, *'New Data on How We're Really Using AI'* (June 2026). She frames and stitches together the vault's two threads — [[entity-marc-zao-sanders]]'s AI-usage data and the sports-coaches decision-making study — and hosts the reader-facing prompts, including the *'Tell Us: How Are You Managing AI Agents?'* callout that seeds [[action-manage-ai-agents]] and [[question-managing-agents-challenges]].

**Role in this source:** editorial curator / host. She contributes framing, synthesis, and the survey callouts rather than original research findings, but as the top-level voice she is the through-line connecting the vault's two domains. (Emitted per the speaker-completeness convention so every named voice in the source resolves to an entity.)

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# Gretchen Gavett

**Profile.** Managing editor of HBR.org and author of *The Insider*, HBR's weekly subscriber-only newsletter.

**Role in this source.** Gavett is the **editorial voice and curator** of this roundup issue. She frames and connects its three segments — [[concept-workslop-d49|AI squeezing middle managers]], [[concept-end-of-cheap-capital|the end of cheap capital]], and [[concept-values-based-decision-making|values-based decision-making]] — for a leadership audience. She authors no standalone claim in the extraction; her contribution is selection, sequencing, and connective framing.

**Contributions to this vault.** As curator she surfaces and juxtaposes the work of [[entity-julia-shin]], [[entity-sandra-j-sucher]], [[entity-michael-mankins]], [[entity-matthew-crupi]], [[entity-paul-ingram]], [[entity-robert-glazer]], and [[entity-laura-huang]] within [[entity-org-harvard-business-review-d49|Harvard Business Review]].

Related: [[entity-org-harvard-business-review-d49]]