communication skills - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Nov 2014
News

Providing relief when disaster strikes

Erik Dyson (MBA 1999) uses the management skills he learned at HBS to lead All Hands Volunteers, a nonprofit that coordinates volunteers around the world to help communities affected by natural disasters.... View Details

08 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

C-suite executive. “I took a year off to decompress and do some fun things,” Kloeblen explains. As a skilled woodworker, an experienced health coach, and a licensed sea captain, he had many interests to explore and enjoy long subordinated... View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Mar 2013
News

Sea of Dreams

employees. A skilled shipfitter named Gale Tribble had been crouching and crawling in cramped spaces for 43 of his 62 years. His body was falling apart, but he could not afford to retire. Osly Heinandez, just 21 years old, knew the work... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Oct 2021
News

HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures

Thrive! helps communities of color Roughly 84 percent of children born into poverty will live in poverty for the rest of their lives. Thrive! is a software-as-a-service that helps local governments break the cycles of poverty in View Details

23 Oct 2018
News

Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart

defer gratification forever. We can sacrifice as much as we need to, to be perfect or to match what standard somebody has set for us. And so, I have a feeling about my speaking career that is both very grateful for the skill and for the... View Details

28 Mar 2016
News

Drawing Connections Between Business and Art

Wallace Stevens called playing “A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,” is a fugitive thing. It depends on an artist’s skill and a viewer’s perception, neither of which can be quantified or standardized. For many, this moves art beyond the... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

April 2019 (Revised January 2025)
Case

Clear Link Technologies, LLC: Driving Sales with Peer Effects

By: Christopher Stanton, Richard Saouma and Olivia Hull

The importance of a good peer or coworker is widely discussed, but understanding the glue that makes coworkers valuable is less understood. This case sheds light on the importance of peers and the practices and environments that make a group greater than the sum of its... View Details

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02 Mar 2015
News

To Market, To Market

that integrates livestock and sustainable agriculture,” says Ferrari. “We come at it from a community development perspective. We do a lot of work preparing villages to engage in the relatively harsh world of markets. It’s hard for them.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Agriculture; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

06 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

Lost sales. Friction. Inefficiency. These are dirty words in the world of business, and they are inevitabilities for companies that don't watch their language, so to speak. Harvard Business School Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley believes that to accommodate the View Details

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

28 May 2019
News

Future Source

vision by creating highly skilled African workers who will attract foreign investment and help build the businesses of the future. Launched in 2014, the company has received $180 million in venture-backed funding to date. Andela offers a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Jan 2013
What Do You Think?

Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?

importance of measuring the quality of the contribution that individuals make to a team. Tom Dolembo pointed out that "Teamwork isn't about falling backwards into a mattress, it is about a specific skill Unless teaming is approached as a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

March 2022 (Revised November 2022)
Case

When Should CEOs Speak Out Publicly? The 2021 Georgia Voting Law

By: William W. George, Hubert Joly and Amram Migdal

This case describes the March 2021 passage of a voting and elections law in the U.S. state of Georgia and reactions by corporations and corporate leaders to the law. Included are a brief history of voting rights in the United States and Georgia and an overview of the... View Details

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Educators

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Exploring in a Passion Safe Environment

military, I feel like I’m starting from “behind” my classmates who come from the business world. And I often questioned if my skills would directly translate into those skills needed to contribute in... View Details

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Session Types | Information Technology

pianist Lisa Qiya Li ‘23 and cellist Maddie Tucker ‘23. Play Video duration: 1:28 The Arts of Communications Candace Bertotti, adjunct lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, used the HBS Live Online Classroom to help MBA... View Details

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Digital Marketing & AI Workshop - Course Catalog

foundation for those looking to drive brand growth—whether at an established company or with just a laptop and a bold vision in today’s AI-powered landscape. Educational Objectives This course fosters an experimental, customer-centric approach to digital marketing,... View Details

06 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

training, and college and career prep programs. Over the past two years, she also worked as an investment associate at ICA Fund, a nonprofit venture capital fund that uses investments to address the gender and racial wealth gap. She said, “Through the fellowship, I... View Details

11 Jul 2013
News

Making Lives Better

course. "I think every parent whose child is diagnosed with autism becomes an advocate to some extent," she says. "Everyone goes to the walks, but there are a handful of people who want to take their professional training and use their View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; autism; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

20 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

concrete business model from scratch, skills that can be applied to any sector. Further, the HBS case method helped build my confidence and communications skills beyond the... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

How I Got to Google

create the elective course Product Management 101. Update: A former business operations intern at the software company Autodesk, Soheili recently landed a product manager job at design firm Homepolish. SS: What are the characteristics of a good product manager? PR:... View Details