Core Competencies - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 2007
Article

Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders

This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Planning

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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

for Social Entrepreneurs By: Cait Brumme & Brian Trelstad June 2023 | Harvard Business Review 101, no. 3 Years ago the line between nonprofit and for-profit enterprises was clear, but that has changed. Nonprofits now offer products that View Details

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Organizational Leadership? + – In Leadership Principles, the 360-dgree assessment is called the Emotional and Social Competency Inventory (ESCI), and it is administered by Korn Ferry. The assessment provides insight into View Details

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From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni

for you, the next phase is building your core competencies to position yourself for consideration. Specifically, you will need to demonstrate general management and cross-functional leadership skills and... View Details

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Apply frameworks, tools, and goal-setting and tracking exercises to your own strategic initiatives Evaluate and elevate your team’s management of the core tensions of strategy execution, including how... View Details

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

times to get their core work done said they had greater control over their workdays, were less stressed, and were happier with their jobs overall, Whillans found. Also, be aggressive about shielding your time in other ways, Whillans... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

extent to influence how policies were interpreted, in part because of the respect in which the company was held. The corporate reputation for integrity and competence was a major competitive advantage in this respect. A part of the reason... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

core propagation mechanism of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007–2009. What are the long-lasting effects of the GFC on small business credit supply? The authors find that banks affected by the decline in real estate prices... View Details

Blog

Leading Successful Digital Transformation

bright young entrepreneurs who are given significant resources and freedom to come up with new ideas. It is not uncommon for these new units to be physically located far away from the headquarters. However, this approach often fails because of the disconnect between... View Details

10 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Combining an Interest in Music and Business

of what I was doing at the time, either high school, college, or working, music has always been a core part of who I am and not just what I do. On that note, I have also spent nineteen years trying to figure out how to fit music in my... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

All told, Coty Inc. competes in 80 markets in 29 countries. Harf began working for Coty's German parent company, Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH, in 1981. Ten years later, he became CEO of what is now Coty Inc., a company that he helped to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

25 May 2011
HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

It's a much believed assumption in the retail world: If you're going to compete on the basis of low cost, then you can't afford to invest in your employees. Extensive training—who has the time to give? Regularly scheduled hours?—way too... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

School Professor Frances Frei has explored that question for years in the retail realm, culminating in her 2012 book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business. This past semester at HBS, the UPS... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

is an essential skill, and where the science of negotiation is headed. Negotiation is a core competence for life, "not merely an important skill to be wheeled out for special occasions," they... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Openings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

mini-summaries during transitions can provide takeaways that complement or substitute for elements in the closing. Instructors should consider the connections among these core elements of the class session when preparing teaching plans. A... View Details

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

resource-based view and identification of core competencies are effective frameworks for strategy formulation. If the company has a great human capital base, with skilled, experienced, and highly motivated... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Feb 2023
Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

during the challenges ahead—or give them up at your company’s peril. Yes, it will be tough, especially when competing profit targets and employee demands in the new work models vie for priority. But you can protect those gains if you... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore

2007
Text Book

Teaching the Moral Leader: A Literature-Based Leadership Course

By: Sandra J. Sucher

This book is a comprehensive, practical manual to help instructors integrate moral leadership in their own courses, drawing from the experience and resources of the Harvard Business School course "The Moral Leader," an MBA elective taken by thousands of HBS students... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Curriculum and Courses; Moral Sensibility; Body of Literature; Books; Leadership; Personal Development and Career