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- 16 Jun 2022
- News
CEO Recruiters Increasingly Prize Soft Skills
- Apr 16 2018
- Testimonial
Fine-tuning the Soft Skills of Leadership
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Never Underestimate the Importance of Soft Skills in Executing Strategy
Keywords:
Don Ryder
- March 2018 (Revised January 2020)
- Supplement
STRIVR (B): Moving into the Enterprise
By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson
STRIVR, a company focused on virtual reality training, has decided to shift focus from sports to enterprise customers. The change in strategy requires the CEO to solve a number of issues. The company initally offered training for hard skills, but clients have been...
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Keywords:
Strivr;
Virtual Reality;
Soft Skills;
Hard Skills;
VR;
Applications and Software;
Market Entry and Exit;
Business Strategy;
Training;
Sports;
Technology Industry;
Education Industry;
United States
Lal, Rajiv, and Scott Johnson. "STRIVR (B): Moving into the Enterprise." Harvard Business School Supplement 518-091, March 2018. (Revised January 2020.)
- 26 Jun 2018
- News
Hard-Pressed by Soft Skills, CIOs Face Talent Challenge
- May 11 2023
- Testimonial
Building the Right Skills for a New Role
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 26 Oct 2017
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
10 Skills Teens Need to Succeed in Today's Economy
In a recent study by Payscale, most employers surveyed said that college grads don't possess the soft skills they are looking for. This issue, along with the dramatic increase in the cost of a college education, suggests that parents need to become much more engaged in...
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- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
important leadership quality in these times. Roundtable discussions with about 200 executives echoed those findings. Our survey respondents also ranked creativity, curiosity, and comfort with ambiguity as highly desirable traits. "It’s the View Details
- 2022
- White Paper
The Emerging Degree Reset: How the Shift to Skills-Based Hiring Holds the Keys to Growing the U.S. Workforce at a Time of Talent Shortage
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Christina Langer, Julia Nitschke, Layla O'Kane, Matthew Sigelman and Bledi Taska
Employers are resetting degree requirements in a wide range of roles, dropping the requirement for a bachelor’s degree in many middle-skill and even some higher-skill roles. This reverses a trend toward degree inflation in job postings going back to the Great...
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Keywords:
Skills;
Workforce;
Talent;
Human Resource Management;
Selection and Staffing;
Competency and Skills;
Talent and Talent Management;
Human Resources
Fuller, Joseph B., Christina Langer, Julia Nitschke, Layla O'Kane, Matthew Sigelman, and Bledi Taska. "The Emerging Degree Reset: How the Shift to Skills-Based Hiring Holds the Keys to Growing the U.S. Workforce at a Time of Talent Shortage." White Paper, Burning Glass Institute, February 2022.
- 14 Feb 2022
- News
Harvard Wants MBAs to Learn How to Be Happy at Work
- January 2021
- Case
Leading Culture Change at SEB
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Elena Corsi
The Risk organization at SEB, a leading Nordic financial services group founded in 1856, undertook a culture change program focused on psychological safety, empathic listening, and strategic framing. The program enabled risk organization teams to make progress on...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Risk Management;
Leading Change;
Organizational Culture;
Decision Making;
Banking Industry;
Sweden
Edmondson, Amy C., and Elena Corsi. "Leading Culture Change at SEB." Harvard Business School Case 621-074, February 2021.
The Future of Leadership Development
The need for leadership development has never been more urgent. Companies of all sorts realize that to survive in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment, they need different leadership skills and organizational capabilities from those that... View Details
- March–April 2019
- Article
The Future of Leadership Development
By: Das Narayandas and Mihnea Moldoveanu
The need for leadership development has never been more urgent. Companies of all sorts realize that to survive in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment, they need different leadership skills and organizational capabilities from those that...
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Keywords:
Talent Management;
Executive Education;
Leadership Development;
Business Education;
Management Skills;
Learning;
Online Technology
Narayandas, Das, and Mihnea Moldoveanu. "The Future of Leadership Development." Harvard Business Review 97, no. 4 (March–April 2019): 40–48. (Spotlight Talent Management.)
- 24 Jun 2024
- Video
Can unions and businesses collaborate for mutual success?
- 23 Feb 2022
- News
‘From Strength to Strength,’ Lessons in Leadership, Happiness
- Profile
Fereshteh Zeineddin
for your current role & your long term career? My education at HBS taught me skills, models and frameworks to tackle everyday business problems; however, the most important lesson that I learned is that "soft" skills are...
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Keywords:
Retail
- September 2024
- Teaching Note
Leading Culture Change at SEB
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Cat Huang
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 621-074. The Risk organization at SEB, a leading Nordic financial services group founded in 1856, undertook a culture change program focused on psychological safety, empathic listening, and strategic framing. The program enabled risk...
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- 27 Apr 2022
- News
Rolling Back Degree Requirements Expands the Pipeline for Tech
- 05 May 2022
- HBS Case
College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need
who possess not only the hard skills to do technical work, but soft skills, such as communicating and managing, the note asserts. On the flip side, employees who are over-educated for their work tend to...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 26 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener
period. “The demand for social skills is increasing in every category of the economy,” says Sadun, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at HBS. “[But] it’s not about schmoozing.” Instead,...
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by Jay Fitzgerald