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- 05 Jan 2023
- News
6 Business Skills Every Engineer Needs
- May 2020
- Article
Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment
By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low and Kathleen McGinn
Using a randomized control trial, we examine whether offering adolescent girls nonmaterial resources—specifically, negotiation skills—can improve educational outcomes in a low-income country. In so doing, we provide the first evidence on the effects of an intervention... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Competency and Skills; Training; Age; Gender; Education; Investment; Outcome or Result; Developing Countries and Economies
Ashraf, Nava, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low, and Kathleen McGinn. "Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment." Quarterly Journal of Economics 135, no. 2 (May 2020): 1095–1151.
- 06 Jan 2015
- News
Bringing business skills to Ed reform
Kristen McNutt (MBA 2015) plans to combine her business skills with her lifelong passion for education to help reform K-12 education. (Published January 2015) View Details
- Feb 06 2017
- Testimonial
Applying Hard-Won Skills in a New Domain
- July 2020
- Background Note
Leadership for Change: Seven Enduring Skills for Experienced and Aspiring Change Leaders
Leaders use seven leadership skills in conceiving and managing change projects, whether innovations in established organizations, culture and process changes, or entrepreneurial ventures for industry or social change. The skills leaders need are different at various... View Details
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Leadership for Change: Seven Enduring Skills for Experienced and Aspiring Change Leaders." Harvard Business School Background Note 321-019, July 2020.
- 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.)
- 1 Feb 1974
- Conference Presentation
Women in Organizations: Change Agent Skills
By: R. M. Kanter
Kanter, R. M. "Women in Organizations: Change Agent Skills." Paper presented at the New Technology in Organization Development Conference, New Orleans, February 01, 1974. (Also in Current Issues and Strategies in Organization Development, edited by W.R. Burke. N.Y.: Behavioral Publications, 1976; Portions published as "On Ending Female Tokenism in T-Groups," Social Change, vol. 5 (1975), pp. 1-3. Reprinted in Sensitivity Training and the Laboratory Approach, edited by R.T. Golembiewski and A. Blumberg. Third Edition. Itasca, IL: Peacock, 1977.)
- 04 Jun 2025
- Podcast
Vanguard's skills strategy for tech transformation
Can the shareholder-owned discount brokerage giant parlay its investments in enterprise and cloud infrastructure into an AI-enabled expansion into new markets while improving productivity and service delivery? CIO Nitin Tandon explains the global workforce strategy... View Details
- Article
When Feeling Skillful Impairs Coordination in a Lottery Selection Task
By: Anna Dorfman, Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Simone Moran
Choosing a major field of study to secure a good job after graduation is a tacit coordination problem that requires considering others' choices. We examine how feeling skillful, either induced (Experiment 1) or measured (Experiment 2), affects coordination in this type... View Details
Dorfman, Anna, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, and Simone Moran. "When Feeling Skillful Impairs Coordination in a Lottery Selection Task." PLoS ONE 8, no. 6 (June 2013): 1–6.
- Working Paper
The Returns to Skills During the Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
By: Livia Alfonsi, Vittorio Bassi, Imran Rasul and Elena Spadini
The Covid-19 pandemic represents one of the most significant labor market shocks to the world economy in recent times. We present evidence from a field experiment to understand whether and why skilled and unskilled workers were differentially impacted by the shock, in... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; System Shocks; Labor; Competency and Skills; Development Economics; Uganda
Alfonsi, Livia, Vittorio Bassi, Imran Rasul, and Elena Spadini. "The Returns to Skills During the Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Uganda." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-003, August 2024. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32785, August 2024.)
- 24 Oct 2018
- News
America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away
- 20 Aug 2021
- Video
Career Vision Workshop: Signature Skills
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
of jobs over the past few decades. And while trade deals undoubtedly play a role in the global topography of jobs, today many American jobs may hang in the balance based upon a completely different factor: the availability of skilled... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Who's Responsible for Erasing America's Shortage of Skilled Workers?
- 04 May 2020
- Blog Post
Learning New Skills to Further Your Career In Any Industry: Finance
The demand for finance skills is growing in various industries, including marketing, sales, engineering, healthcare, and human resources. In this HBS Online blog post How Learning About Finance Can Jumpstart Your Career No Matter Your... View Details
- 2024
- White Paper
Modernizing the U.S. Exchange Visitor Skills List
By: William R. Kerr and Michael C. Clemens
Kerr, William R., and Michael C. Clemens. "Modernizing the U.S. Exchange Visitor Skills List." Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Brief, 24-8, Peterson Institute for International Economics, September 2024.
- November 2001 (Revised October 2017)
- Supplement
Store24 (B): Service Quality and Employee Skills
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "Store24 (B): Service Quality and Employee Skills." Harvard Business School Supplement 602-097, November 2001. (Revised October 2017.)
- 07 Jun 2023
- Podcast
Changing the skills narrative: Opportunity@Work’s Byron Auguste
Many public- and private sector employers are becoming more selective about which positions require college degrees, opening more good jobs to non-degree holders. What will it take to broaden the adoption of skills-based hiring? And will the trend survive economic... View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
- News