Skills - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Mar 2016
First Look

March 29, 2016

that innovation comes from the edges"). Thus, the program is not viewed as a subsidized Corporate Social Responsibility activity but as a positive net benefit activity, as well as a way of addressing skills shortages by tapping into... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

continuation of the compensation growth and workplace improvements that we have started to see over the last few years. For instance, remote or hybrid work models appeal to many skilled workers, even if their employer would prefer them... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

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Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Business School talks about the challenges business in the U.S. is facing, including political gridlock in Washington and an ever-deepening skills shortage. July 2013 Other Publication "American Competitiveness Worldwide: Impacts on Small... View Details

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Founder - Entrepreneurship

the summer? Apply to one or both of the following: Rock/SEI Summer Fellowship Student i-Lab Membership SUMMER Work on your new venture: Rock Summer Fellowship program is a rigorous and practical program where you apply the skills you are... View Details

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

promotion. A government can carry out investment promotion itself, but this approach has the disadvantage that the government organization may be unable to acquire skills that are required if the activity is to be managed properly. The... View Details

Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint

March 2024
Case

From “BIG” Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

In the summer of 2023, Eduard (“Eddie”) Croitoru, Vice President (VP) of ICL Group (“ICL”) Corporate Initiatives, was reflecting on ICL’s internal ideation program, the Business Innovation for Growth (BIG) Accelerator. When Raviv Zoller became the CEO of ICL in 2018,... View Details

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08 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles

can go out and find everyone who has the skill listed on a platform like GitHub,” Koning says. Workers can also benefit from the rise in recruiting. They might receive requests from companies that weren’t on their radars but might provide... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

31 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

agencies, and compared prosocial and standard job postings with the same skill requirements—some 27,000 of them. To test the veracity of their work, the authors cross-referenced employee reviews from the website Glassdoor. They also... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Developing Instructor Style - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Professor Delong explores why it is important to know how people experience you, whether you are a student, a teacher, or a manager. Transcript Suggested Reading 1995 The Four Temperaments by Alice M. Fairhurst 2003 Leadership Presence by Linda Belle Halpern & Kathy... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Buy Big, Sell Small

brands and SKUs,” she says. Shruti, who graduated at the top of her class at the Indian Institute of Technology and had experience in consulting and impact investing, came to HBS to gain the skills to launch an India-based impact... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/JohnnyGreig View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

role in the Africa Business Club as co-leader of the Africa Business Conference . Leading the conference provided Nneka with a window into how her interests and skills could fit together to drive impact. She and her co-lead brought... View Details

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

was justified by the faculty. Professor Thomas J.C. Raymond said, in 1954, “because when schooling is over and the graduate has embarked on his business career, no one will hand him a case. Instead, the graduate will have to go out and in effect put together his own... View Details

23 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

approximately 150 million children ages 3 to 8, making it an ideal partner for working at scale. Rocket develops and delivers digital training materials focused specifically on boosting the skills of this group of public-sector educators.... View Details

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

account individual circumstances. From the 1980s Unilever also honed skills in divesting businesses. Unilever's ability to identify acquisition targets, and to absorb the capabilities of acquired companies, became one of its principal... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

22 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

order of tasks. A complementary tool, the SCE (system complexity estimator), ranks a software module based on its complexity and compares its actual architecture with its ideal (simplest) architecture in order to learn where a team might need more or fewer View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

21 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

end in a draw. “You can imagine a number of different scenarios, where Slack turns out to be very successful in certain segments—engineering, IT—and Teams is more successful in others,” he says. “That’s a very reasonable scenario.” Related Reading: Why Digital Is a... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

"employees can give their employers 100 percent and provide great performance while furthering their own careers," says Joyce Gioia of The Herman Group, a consultancy based in Greensboro, North Carolina "The two aren't mutually exclusive,"... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

process improvements. In Stage 5, the leader's openness and skill in running the strategy management review meeting determines its effectiveness for fine-tuning the strategy throughout the year. And in Stage 6 the leader must allow even a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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