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- 11 Jun 2014
- News
Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite
- Teaching Interest
The Entrepreneurial Manager
This course addresses the issues faced by managers who wish to turn opportunity into viable organizations that create value, and empowers students to develop their own approaches, guidelines, and skills for being entrepreneurial managers.
View Details- March 2014 (Revised February 2015)
- Case
Loki Capital Management
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Shikhar Ghosh and Matthew Preble
In December 2013, Michael Kane was preparing to launch his start-up's first hedge fund. While pleased with the development of the business, he wanted to address a few lingering issues before going any further. He debated whether or not to fire the company's chief...
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- March 18, 2014
- Article
The Seven Skills You Need to Thrive in the C-Suite
By: Boris Groysberg
What executive skills are most prized by companies today? How has that array of skills changed in the last decade, and how is it likely to change in the next ten years? To find out, I surveyed senior consultants in 2010 at a top-five global executive-search firm....
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Groysberg, Boris. "The Seven Skills You Need to Thrive in the C-Suite." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (March 18, 2014).
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Sales Managers Must Manage
A common complaint from C-level executives about their sales colleagues concerns the latter’s ability to manage, not sell. Nearly every firm has examples of successful salespeople who are poor managers because they persist in their behaviors as reps rather than...
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Cespedes, Frank V. "Sales Managers Must Manage." Top Sales Magazine (February 2019).
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
really is less about managing content and more about managing or framing context, creating an environment in which these people can negotiate the best solution for the organization. Q: What is your advice...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- Teaching Interest
Technology and Operations Management - MBA Required Curriculum
This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position. It helps them to understand the complex processes underlying the development and manufacture of products as... View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
- News
Retraining road-trip: New skills for older workers
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
Linda Hill's book for the star performer-turned-new-manager, Becoming a Manager: Mastery of a New Identity appeared a decade ago to much acclaim. Much of the original book is still fresh today. But a new edition, Becoming a Manager: How New View Details
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by Linda Hill
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
managers to technical sales managers –and that many of those jobs remain open well longer than average, suggesting that employers are struggling to fill them. The extent of the View Details
- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR
By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management...
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Keywords:
Analysis;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Business Plan;
Disruption;
Transformation;
Talent and Talent Management;
Decisions;
Diversity;
Ethnicity;
Gender;
Nationality;
Race;
Residency;
Higher Education;
Learning;
Entrepreneurship;
Fairness;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Global Strategy;
Growth and Development;
AI and Machine Learning;
Digital Platforms;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technological Innovation;
Job Offer;
Job Search;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Product;
Mission and Purpose;
Strategic Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Corporate Strategy;
Equality and Inequality;
Valuation;
Value Creation;
Employment Industry;
United Kingdom
- 19 Aug 2011
- News
Managing Multiple Bosses
- Research Summary
Management of Succession
By: Joseph L. Bower
An outgrowth of the work on the corporate office has been a more focused study on the management of succession. This work identified the reasons why the management of CEO succession has proved so difficult for so many companies as well as the way the best companies are...
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- 19 Sep 2022
- News
5 Skills Every Salesperson Needs to Succeed
- 11 Jan 2021
- News
Here’s where skilled freelancers can find jobs
- Sep 19 2014
- Testimonial
Developing the Skills to Connect—and to Lead
- 2014
- Report
Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America's Middle Skills
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Jennifer Burrowes, Manjari Raman, Dan Restuccia and Alexis Young
The market for middle-skills jobs—those that require more education and training than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree—is consistently failing to clear. That failure is inflicting a grievous cost on the competitiveness of American firms...
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Business or Company Management;
Human Capital;
Education;
Competency and Skills;
Macroeconomics;
United States
Fuller, Joseph B., Jennifer Burrowes, Manjari Raman, Dan Restuccia, and Alexis Young. "Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America's Middle Skills." Report, U.S. Competitiveness Project, Harvard Business School, November 2014. (This report was authored jointly by Accenture, Burning Glass Technologies, and Harvard Business School.)
- Program
Owner/President Management
months over three calendar years, the Owner/President Management (OPM) program is a transformative learning experience that will boost your leadership skills—and the value of your enterprise. Key Benefits Whether you seek a broader global...
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- 27 Jan 2021
- News
Reorienting Work and Learning Around Skills Building
- 2016
- Working Paper
The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development
By: Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas
Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven on one side by the proliferation of a new technological, cultural, and economic landscape commonly referred to as “digital disruption” and on the other by a widening gap between the...
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Moldoveanu, Mihnea, and Das Narayandas. "The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-019, September 2016.