Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the September 2016 Issue

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Enjoy these cartoons from the September issue of HBR, and test your management wit in the HBR Caption Contest. If we choose your caption as the winner, you will be featured in an upcoming magazine issue and win a free Harvard Business Review Press book.

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“I’m bored. I think I’ll post something online that destroys my career prospects.”

Tom Toro


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“Is everything to your Facebook friends’ liking?”

Susan Camilleri Konar


And congratulations to our September caption contest winner, Mike Vos of Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Here’s the winning caption:

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“Well, I guess it’s one way to develop a can-can do attitude.”

Cartoonist: Crowden Satz


NEW CAPTION CONTEST

Enter your caption for this cartoon in the comments below — you could be featured in an upcoming magazine issue and win a free book. To be considered for this month’s contest, please submit your caption by September 2.

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Cartoonist: Paula Pratt