Delivering Bad News Via Email With Empathy

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1. 19 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   Reference #5 cites 'How to Deliver Bad News' at URL hbr.org/2021/02/how-to-deliver-bad-news-to-your-employees. The real HBR article with this title was published in 2015/03, not 2021/02; the URL as pr

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   <li><p>Harvard Business Review. How to Deliver Bad News. https://hbr.org/2021/02/how-to-deliver-bad-news-to-your-employees</p></li>

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   <li><p>Harvard Business Review. How to Deliver Bad News to Your Employees. <a href="https://hbr.org/2015/03/how-to-deliver-bad-news-to-your-employees" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://hbr.org/2015/03/how-to-deliver-bad-news-to-your-employees</a></p></li>

   Why: Reference #5 cites 'How to Deliver Bad News' at URL hbr.org/2021/02/how-to-deliver-bad-news-to-your-employees. The real HBR article with this title was published in 2015/03, not 2021/02; the URL as pr

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1. Correction 19 July 2026

   Emir Baycan: Reference #5 cites 'How to Deliver Bad News' at URL hbr.org/2021/02/how-to-deliver-bad-news-to-your-employees. The real HBR article with this title was published in 2015/03, not 2021/02; the URL as pr

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