Social Skills - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

ethics, and workforce implications. How LinkedIn Parses Talent, Skills, and Diversity Professional work has hit multiple inflection points—from generative AI to remote work and shifting skills requirements. There are few better vantage... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Managing the Future of Work (MBA Education—Elective Curriculum)

By: Christopher T. Stanton

The nature and scope of work is changing rapidly, creating massive business challenges in the shadow of broader political and social shifts. HBS launched a major initiative in 2017 on Managing the Future of Work to define these workplace issues and... View Details

22 Jun 2022
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Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

our world, have a growing sense of our place in the world in terms of our personal qualities, our deeply embedded life interests, and the skills that we bring to any given situation. The two root questions for Identity are: “What work... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Jun 2023
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My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

motivations? How do you incentivize your employees? How do you work with others to create change? I came to HBS thinking that I would learn all the hard skills such as accounting and finance—which I did—but I also realized that a lot of... View Details

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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online

Mayo Elevate your leadership skills to drive organizational success and effectively implement transformative change. 7 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay by August 14 $1,850 Certificate New Dynamic Teaming Professor Amy Edmondson Acquire the tools,... View Details

09 Apr 2007
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Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

particularly interested in certified process standards. For example, ISO 14001 is focused on environmental management, and ISO 9000 on quality management. Social Accountability (SA) 8000 focuses on labor management. (ISO is the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

strategic decisions Value a venture, project, or investment opportunity and perform a sensitivity analysis Who Will Benefit College Students and Recent Graduates Those Considering an MBA Mid-Career Professionals Learn the language of business through accounting as you... View Details

27 Nov 2006
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Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

organizational scholars, we were interested in organizations as social and cultural contexts that shape how men make sense of themselves—the stories they tell themselves as men about what it means to be male—and in the effect this... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

25 Jul 2005
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Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

and the socially clueless. Still, people in an organization can be roughly classified using a simple matrix. Our research showed (not surprisingly) that, no matter what kind of organization we studied, everybody wanted to work with the... View Details

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

through a hoop, people who can pick companies to invest in,” says Kim. “If you happen to be one of the lucky ones with a skill set that affords so much opportunity, it’s your duty to fulfill that promise and give back to the society that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

06 Sep 2016
Blog Post

What Makes the HBS MBA unique?

incredible variety of geographies, industries, functions, and backgrounds. You take all of your first year classes together and socialize outside of class. The case method pairs beautifully with the section experience as you learn from... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

related to the workforce, including the skills gap, degree inflation, care economics, the role of artificial intelligence in employment outcomes, the effectiveness of social entrepreneurs in improving... View Details

2023
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Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez

Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details

Keywords: STEM; Selection and Staffing; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Training; Equality and Inequality; Competency and Skills

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Nonprofit Board Service - Alumni

Resources HBS OnBoard is a program from the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative designed to inspire and support alumni serving on nonprofit boards. Program sessions focus on the leadership skills needed for the... View Details

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Thomaz Galvao

responsible for their social mobility. Through education, I’ve been able to reach a status usually denied to Black people. I want to push the boundaries even further, to continue the path of achieving new highs where people like me are... View Details

20 Aug 2007
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HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

top of things in a more interlinked environment will be asking for more, and more targeted, financial communication. They are gradually becoming more attentive to companies that position themselves as ecological and socially responsible... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

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Events - Business & Environment

policy leaders, shaping a skilled workforce to drive cost-effective, sustainable, and healthy food and agriculture policies. Food Policy Pathways supports students, early-career professionals, and career shifters pursuing impactful roles... View Details

January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
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School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg

In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details

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13 Jun 2022
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Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen

pandemic-related stress. Teams are often reconnecting through online platforms like Zoom where it can be harder to read social cues. “When you're engaging with an extrovert in conversation, they may be gregarious, they may be outgoing,... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

14 Aug 2006
HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

primarily around rewards and punishments. Tight supervision, a controlling type of leadership style characterized by a great deal of social distance between leaders and led." That's what you want to do, to get people to broaden the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

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