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Fangfang Wang
says Fangfang. “I saw a lack of soft skills, such as critical thinking. We had lots of ‘yes men,’ but few people capable of innovating.” With that insight in mind, Fangfang wants to “work as a content provider to cultivate softer View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
required him to call on the soft skills he learned at HBS. "The people there are not profit driven or bonus driven; they are in life to help people and give back to society," he says. His goals for the...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
most crucial in today’s world have very little to do with what’s being taught in a lecture hall. We like to say that the traditional soft skills—empathy, self-awareness, resilience, creativity—are actually the power View Details
- 18 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS after Military Service
in a high stakes environment forced me to be comfortable with analyzing information, deciding on a way forward, and implementing a course of action. The opportunity to gain these soft skills at a relatively...
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- 10 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Why the MBA is Still Relevant
Some people pursue an MBA because their professions require it; others because they are looking to switch careers; and yet another cohort seeking to formally build upon business skills obtained on the job. And although I had received...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
consumers can be assured of the quality and effectiveness of the resources they are procuring. It appears you plan to have a measurable way to assess the technical and soft skills of the resources: Consumers...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
favored white males, hunted for clues to candidates’ soft skills over dinner or coffee, and hired people based on résumés that revealed little about job fit. Yet Polli knew that scientists possessed a...
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- 05 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Addressing Unmet Needs in Health Care Using an MBA
excellent training ground to develop these soft skills. The case-based teaching methodology is a very good training ground to learn to ask the right questions, hone communication and listening skills and...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
A strong commitment to community service is a given for most HBS clubs — the challenge lies in determining the most efficient means of leveraging the skills and interests of club members to create change. New York, Boston, San Francisco,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
people or overcome other issues, everything from neurodiversity to creating pathways for veterans whose skills are usually overweighted on the soft skills, underweighted on the hard side. Let's go back to...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
remain unfilled? Because companies cannot find people with the skills they need. This skills gap presents opportunities for people seeking successful careers, to be found in the many educational options that...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
able to do, and it’s not hard, and they’re among the hardest skills to master. How do you think about soft skills as you hire? How do you think about trying to help employees...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
includes a dozen years at General Foods, “our strengths were highly flexible assets and a deeply skilled workforce. Our niche clearly was in products where skilled cheese making was more important than...
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- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
being mindful of constraints, focusing on the tangible impact of actions while recognizing their symbolic significance and combining formal power with legitimacy. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54691 Making Sense of View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
you can’t study a leader in isolation; there’s a relational construct between a person and society. Clinical psychology gets into the underlying motivation for people who seek leadership positions. In political science, we saw the distinction between hard power, which...
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Julia Hanna
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
on how best to reward their workers in ways that will bring them greater job satisfaction and motivate them to work harder. When recruiting, emphasize benefits Talking up a job’s perks, such as flexible work schedules and skill training,...
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- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate goods sector, entrepreneurs must...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance
What’s the best way to run a company? The question has bedeviled economists as long as companies have existed. How, after all, do you measure something as soft as management style across the range of different types and sizes of companies...
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by Michael Blanding
- 06 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Extraordinary Things We Do on Ordinary Days: A Mother’s Day Tribute
truck to leave our family gathering. He started to back out and then stopped. He rolled down his window, called me over to the truck, lifted up his sunglasses and said, “Eme, you are a wonderful mother.” The sincerity in his eyes and the View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
as if little has changed. Their employees are responding to their expectations by working themselves even harder. Enough." "Thank you." Say it with sincerity and say it often. Along with empathy and emotional intelligence, kindness is one of the most essential View Details
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