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- December 2022
- Article
Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo
By: Stefan Dimitriadis and Rembrand Koning
Recent field experiments demonstrate that advice, mentorship, and feedback from randomly assigned peers improve entrepreneurial performance. These results raise a natural question: what is preventing entrepreneurs and managers from forming these peer connections...
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Keywords:
Social Skills;
Business Performance;
Entrepreneurs;
Peer Relationships;
Field Experiment;
Entrepreneurship;
Performance;
Relationships;
Interpersonal Communication;
Togo
Dimitriadis, Stefan, and Rembrand Koning. "Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo." Management Science 68, no. 12 (December 2022): 8635–8657.
- Article
The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most
By: Raffaella Sadun, Joseph B. Fuller, Stephen Hansen and PJ Neal
Landing a job as a CEO today is no longer all about industry expertise and financial savvy. What companies are really seeking are leaders with strong social skills. That’s what the authors discovered after analyzing nearly 7,000 job descriptions for C-suite roles....
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Keywords:
C-Suite;
Skills;
Skills Development;
Social Skills;
Management Skills;
Interpersonal Communication;
Talent and Talent Management
Sadun, Raffaella, Joseph B. Fuller, Stephen Hansen, and PJ Neal. "The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 4 (July–August 2022): 42–50.
- 18 Aug 2020
- Podcast
Google expands college-alternative tech skills training
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the shortage of workers with up-to-date digital skills. Tech titans like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have responded with training and certification programs of their own. In July, Google added certificates in data analytics,...
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- 2017
- Article
The Impact of Training Informal Healthcare Providers in India: A Randomized Controlled Trial
By: Jishnu Das, Abhijit Chowdhury, Reshmaan Hussam and Abhijit Banerjee
Health care providers without formal medical qualifications provide more than 70% of all primary care in rural India. Training these informal providers may be one way to improve the quality of care where few alternatives exist. We report on a randomized controlled...
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Keywords:
Health Care;
India;
Business Training;
RCT;
Health Care and Treatment;
Training;
Performance Evaluation;
Performance Improvement;
India
Das, Jishnu, Abhijit Chowdhury, Reshmaan Hussam, and Abhijit Banerjee. "The Impact of Training Informal Healthcare Providers in India: A Randomized Controlled Trial." Science 354, no. 6308 (October 7, 2016): 80.
- February 2018 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap
By: William Kerr, Michael Norris and Manjari Raman
In 2018, Ann Randazzo, executive director of the Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD) is assessing the organization’s performance since its 2006 founding. Founded to address an imminent retirement bubble of middle skills workers in the utilities industry,...
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Keywords:
Workforce Development;
Industry Cooperation;
Skills Gap;
Middle Skills;
Training;
Strategic Planning;
Competency and Skills;
Utilities Industry;
United States
Kerr, William, Michael Norris, and Manjari Raman. "CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap." Harvard Business School Case 818-081, February 2018. (Revised May 2019.)
- 08 Feb 2023
- Podcast
Skills engine: An update on Google’s role as training provider
What’s the strategy behind the tech giant’s expanding portfolio of certificate programs and partnerships? Lisa Gevelber, founder of Grow with Google, on boosting prospects for workers with and without college degrees, coordinating with employers to address the skills...
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- 22 Jan 2015
- News
Business Skills for Artists
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
7 Skills Needed to Thrive in the C-Suite
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Business Skills and Buddhist Mindfulness
- 05 Jan 2023
- News
6 Business Skills Every Engineer Needs
- 08 Nov 2009
- News
In need of business skills
- 14 Mar 2022
- News
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
- 10 Oct 2014
- News
Ending Gender Discrimination Requires More than a Training Program
- 06 Jan 2015
- News
Bringing business skills to Ed reform
Kristen McNutt (MBA 2015) plans to combine her business skills with her lifelong passion for education to help reform K-12 education. (Published January 2015)
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- Editorial
Stop Waiting for Governments to Close the Skills Gap
By: John Streur and George Serafeim
Keywords:
Worker Productivity;
Workers;
"America";
Training;
Employee Training;
Employee Engagement;
Employee Compensation;
Productivity;
Inequality
Streur, John, and George Serafeim. "Stop Waiting for Governments to Close the Skills Gap." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 11, 2017).
- 02 May 2016
- News
Building Startup Skills for Business and Life
Island school district the skills to develop and run their own startups and to begin to think more broadly about careers. E360 is a year-long entrepreneurship curriculum at the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center, a...
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- 06 Apr 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
Why German Business Supports, Trains and Hires Syrian Refugees
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Re: Rebecca M. Henderson
- 05 Dec 2018
- News
Skills gap solution? Disrupt the system
- 10 Dec 2018
- Video
Leveraging Transferable Skills
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory
As a boy in Asheboro, North Carolina, George Sondecker (MBA 2016) developed a fondness for launching rockets that evolved into a passion for working in the aerospace industry. A fellowship provided by gifts to the HBS Fund is helping him pursue an MBA to acquire the...
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