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- 01 Oct 1998
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A Marketable Skill
talented, artistically, but I was good at managing creative types." After sharpening those management skills at HBS, Gehrke held a succession of marketing jobs with big companies but never stayed in one place too long. "I need to run...
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Deborah Blagg
- 24 Jan 2013
- News
Training women for corporate combat
- 27 May 2015
- News
A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
Every year depression affects one in every five employees and costs American businesses $210 billion in medical bills and lost productivity. In fact, for every worker with a depressive disorder, a company loses an average of 32 productive...
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- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
Every year depression affects one in every five employees and costs American businesses $210 billion in medical bills and lost productivity. In fact, for every worker with a depressive disorder, a company loses an average of 32 productive...
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All Industries
- 24 Oct 2016
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The Table: Closing the Skills Gap
- 14 Dec 2015
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What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training
- 20 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators
meditation and living in an ashram in India to dropping in on a calligraphy class at Reed College. All these varied experiences would later trigger ideas for innovations at Apple Computer. Collectively, these discovery skills—the cognitive View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
- News
HBS study addresses U.S. middle skills gap
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Your Sales Training Is Probably Lackluster. Here's How to Fix It
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Yuchun Lee
U.S. companies spend over $70 billion annually on training and an average of $1,459 per salesperson—almost 20% more than they spend on workers in all other functions. Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales...
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Cespedes, Frank V., and Yuchun Lee. "Your Sales Training Is Probably Lackluster. Here's How to Fix It." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 12, 2017).
- Nov 2014
- Report
Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America's Middle Skills
The market for middle-skills jobs—those that require more education and training than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree—is consistently failing to clear. That failure is inflicting a grievous cost on the...
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- March 11, 2020
- Editorial
A Bolder Vision for Business Schools
By: P. Tufano
Business schools teach to a model that dates back to the 1950s. Given the growing demands on business to take a lead in confronting societal challenges, business schools need to update how they train business leaders and how they compete, argues Oxford’s Saïd School...
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Business And Society;
Business Education;
Leadership Development;
Business and Stakeholder Relations
Tufano, P. "A Bolder Vision for Business Schools." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (March 11, 2020).
- 23 Jun 2022
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The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most
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Middle Skills - U.S. Competitiveness
Research Middle Skills The demand for “middle-skills” jobs—those that require more education and training than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree—remains high, yet the lack of a...
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- 2014
- Report
Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America's Middle Skills
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Jennifer Burrowes, Manjari Raman, Dan Restuccia and Alexis Young
The market for middle-skills jobs—those that require more education and training than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree—is consistently failing to clear. That failure is inflicting a grievous cost on the competitiveness of American firms...
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Business or Company Management;
Human Capital;
Education;
Competency and Skills;
Macroeconomics;
United States
Fuller, Joseph B., Jennifer Burrowes, Manjari Raman, Dan Restuccia, and Alexis Young. "Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America's Middle Skills." Report, U.S. Competitiveness Project, Harvard Business School, November 2014. (This report was authored jointly by Accenture, Burning Glass Technologies, and Harvard Business School.)
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Training Materials - Research Computing Services
Training Training Materials 3ms Research Computing Services is proud to offer training on a wide range of topics in partnership with other groups across Harvard. Whether you...
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Corporate Training Programs | HBS Online
video Leaders from Athena Health describe how they were able to apply the course concepts directly to their business and the usability of the HBS Online course platform. Why Work with Us? HBS Online’s high-impact View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning or Playing? The Effect of Gamified Training on Performance
- 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...
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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.