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- 16 Jun 2022
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CEO Recruiters Increasingly Prize Soft Skills
- 01 Sep 2011
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Never Underestimate the Importance of Soft Skills in Executing Strategy
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Don Ryder
- 26 Jun 2018
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Hard-Pressed by Soft Skills, CIOs Face Talent Challenge
- 14 Feb 2022
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Harvard Wants MBAs to Learn How to Be Happy at Work
- 23 Feb 2022
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‘From Strength to Strength,’ Lessons in Leadership, Happiness
- 27 Apr 2022
- News
Rolling Back Degree Requirements Expands the Pipeline for Tech
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
high-rise surface. On a Sunday afternoon in late November, Kim, 60, climbs the pathways crisscrossing Namsan, the 269-acre park rising high above Seoul. Soft yellow ginkgo leaves carpet the ground. A man, decked out in a white tracksuit...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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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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- 11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of...
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- 17 Feb 2022
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A Big Bet
certificate courses in IT support, data analytics, project management, and user experience design. In addition to hard skills, the training partners will provide support and guidance in soft skills such as...
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- 27 Mar 2023
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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 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
The facts of the ever-widening skills gap are increasingly difficult to ignore: As many as 9 million tech jobs sit vacant across the US, Europe, and China, says Przemyslaw Berendt (PLDA 18, 2014). And judging by the $1 trillion spent on...
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- 05 Jul 2011
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The Business of Champions
that this would not be a soft team, nor would it welcome soft individuals. My take-away: When leadership embodies and lives the desired culture, that culture is more likely to take root. I don’t think anyone...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
skills development. Those qualities, known as human capital, provide a better predictor of economic status, says Associate Professor Scott Duke Kominers. “A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility,” authored by Kominers, Kevin Murphy and the...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Stanford Lets Students Customize
leads off with a quarter of required “Management Perspectives” courses designed to provide students with an integrative overview of management challenges and to develop soft leadership and communication skills, including courses in...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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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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- 21 Dec 2018
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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
- 01 Dec 2008
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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 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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