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The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most
By: Raffaella Sadun, Joseph B. Fuller, Stephen Hansen and PJ Neal
Landing a job as a CEO today is no longer all about industry expertise and financial savvy. What companies are really seeking are leaders with strong social skills. That’s what the authors discovered after analyzing nearly 7,000 job descriptions for C-suite roles.... View Details
Keywords: C-Suite; Skills; Skills Development; Social Skills; Management Skills; Interpersonal Communication; Talent and Talent Management
Sadun, Raffaella, Joseph B. Fuller, Stephen Hansen, and PJ Neal. "The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 4 (July–August 2022): 42–50.
- February 2018 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap
By: William Kerr, Michael Norris and Manjari Raman
In 2018, Ann Randazzo, executive director of the Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD) is assessing the organization’s performance since its 2006 founding. Founded to address an imminent retirement bubble of middle skills workers in the utilities industry,... View Details
Keywords: Workforce Development; Industry Cooperation; Skills Gap; Middle Skills; Training; Strategic Planning; Competency and Skills; Utilities Industry; United States
Kerr, William, Michael Norris, and Manjari Raman. "CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap." Harvard Business School Case 818-081, February 2018. (Revised May 2019.)
- June 1979
- Background Note
Developing Skill in Listening
By: Arthur N. Turner
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication
Turner, Arthur N. "Developing Skill in Listening." Harvard Business School Background Note 479-033, June 1979.
- Mar 28 2018
- Testimonial
Developing Critical Leadership Skills
- October 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Technical Note
A Framework for Interpersonal Skills Development
By: Sandra J. Sucher
Sucher, Sandra J. "A Framework for Interpersonal Skills Development." Harvard Business School Technical Note 320-040, October 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
- Sep 19 2014
- Testimonial
Developing the Skills to Connect—and to Lead
- 10 Sep 2020
- News
4 Ways to Develop Your Strategic Thinking Skills
- 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... View Details
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.
- 10 Mar 2024
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Five Books To Develop Leadership Skills In 2024
The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development
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 distruption" and on the other by a widening gap between... View Details
- 03 Oct 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development
- 03 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Transferable Skills
This is a repost from the HBS Recruiting blog. Shelby, Jasmyn and Katie (MBA 2019) describe their summer internship experiences. All three students utilized transferable skills from their previous work experience to transition into new... View Details
- 11 Jul 2023
- News
What the Best Leaders Know — and What Skills They Develop
Are the 'Best and Brightest' Going into Finance? Skill Development and Career Choice of MIT Graduates
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Using detailed data on recipients of bachelor's degrees from MIT between 2006 and 2012, I examine the selection of students into finance or science and engineering (S&E). I find that academic achievement in college is negatively correlated with... View Details
- 17 Sep 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills
No business skill may be as important to success as negotiation. We negotiate everything: agreements with partners and vendors, in-scope/out-of-scope parameters around important projects, and our own compensation and job responsibilities,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2021
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Leapfrog Leaders: Accelerating Systems Leadership Skills
By: Laura Cabrera, Derek Cabrera and Hise O. Gibson
We need leaders who can execute at the Strategic, Operational, and Tactical (SOT) levels. But, research shows it takes time for skills to develop at all three levels—too much time. Why does it take too much time? First, because expertise is borne of experience. An... View Details
Keywords: DSRP; VCML; Strategy; Operations; Leadership Development; Decision Making; Organizational Structure
Cabrera, Laura, Derek Cabrera, and Hise O. Gibson. "Leapfrog Leaders: Accelerating Systems Leadership Skills." In The Routledge Handbook of Systems Thinking, edited by Derek Cabrera, Laura Cabrera, and Gordon Midgley. London: Routledge, forthcoming.
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
financed them—declared such brick-and-mortar businesses were dinosaurs on their way to extinction. The success of Bluemercury proved the critics wrong. “We’ve always had a hard time being able to identify the skills and behaviors of... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
- 23 Jun 2022
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The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most
- March–April 2019
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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... View Details
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.)