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- 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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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as...
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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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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
It would be a much sexier story, says Jorge Perez de Leza (MBA 1996), if he told people he was trampled by a raging bull, but the truth is that the fall that had such a profound effect on his life was a much more mundane event. "It was just a really stupid accident,"...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 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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- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting
“There are so many industries that have a history of relying on the "soft stuff," and the soft stuff has worked in the favor of a particular kind of individual. The truth is the soft stuff is often a...
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- 15 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development
organizations and non-profits since I was child, and working in public service in New York City after college, my pivot to HBS was to dive into the hard skills and action-based work that I was missing to make my community development...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 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
- 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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- 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
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
But the leadership development industry is in a state of upheaval. The number of players offering courses to impart the hard and soft skills required of corporate managers has expanded well beyond...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety and diversity seemingly matched only by the...
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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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- 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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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
valued very differently. Like, for example, soft skills become much, much more critical; the ability to work with other business partners becomes so much more critical, because all of those business...
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- 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