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      Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo
      Sharpening Your Skills: Social Media
      Using social media to advance your marketing is a potentially powerful and low-cost tool. But the risk is potentially powerful, too—allowing...
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      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Learning with People Like Me: The Role of Age-Similar Peers on Online Business Course Engagement

      By: Laura R. Huber, Jacqueline N. Lane and Karim R. Lakhani
      Over the past decade, online learning has witnessed tremendous growth in popularity due to its ability to reach diverse participants in a scalable manner. However, one primary area of concern is the low course completion rates in digital platform-based learning,...  View Details
      Keywords: Homophily; Online Courses; Social Engagement; Business Skills Training; Business Education; Online Technology; Knowledge Sharing; Age
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      Huber, Laura R., Jacqueline N. Lane, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Learning with People Like Me: The Role of Age-Similar Peers on Online Business Course Engagement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-072, December 2020.
      • October 2020 (Revised November 2020)
      • Case

      Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa

      By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Wood and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard
      In 2018 the majority ownership of publicly owned Wilderness Safaris, the leading high-end ecotourism company in Africa with safari operations in eight countries, was acquired by The Rise Fund, one of the world’s largest private social impact investing funds, and by FS...  View Details
      Keywords: Investing; Investing For Impact; Ecotourism; Covid-19; Africa; Rwanda; Angola; Equity Financing; Strategy Formulation; Profitability; Strategy; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Social Enterprise; Sustainability; Social Entrepreneurship; Conservation Planning; Corporate Social Responsibility; Tourism Industry; Africa; Rwanda; Angola
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      Austin, James E., Megan Epler Wood, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa." Harvard Business School Case 321-020, October 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
      • July 2020
      • Background Note

      Leadership for Change: Seven Enduring Skills for Experienced and Aspiring Change Leaders

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
      Leaders use seven leadership skills in conceiving and managing change projects, whether innovations in established organizations, culture and process changes, or entrepreneurial ventures for industry or social change. The skills leaders need are different at various...  View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Leading Change; Management skills
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Leadership for Change: Seven Enduring Skills for Experienced and Aspiring Change Leaders." Harvard Business School Background Note 321-019, July 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      The Pursuit of Passion Propagates Privilege

      By: Josephine Tan and Jon M. Jachimowicz
      For many graduating college students entering the workforce, “pursue your passion” is not only a frequently repeated graduation mantra but also a commonly embraced ideal. In line with this view, prior academic research finds that passion connotes work-related benefits,...  View Details
      Keywords: Passion; Careers; Socioeconomic Status; Discrimination; Emotions; Personal Development And Career; Status And Position; Prejudice And Bias
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      Tan, Josephine, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "The Pursuit of Passion Propagates Privilege." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-136, June 2020.
      • June 2020
      • Background Note

      Customer Management Dynamics and Cohort Analysis

      By: Elie Ofek, Barak Libai and Eitan Muller
      The digital revolution has allowed companies to amass considerable amounts of data on their customers. Using this information to generate actionable insights is fast becoming a critical skill that firms must master if they wish to effectively compete and win in today’s...  View Details
      Keywords: Cohort Analysis; Customers; Data And Data Sets; Segmentation; Analysis; Customer Value And Value Chain
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      Ofek, Elie, Barak Libai, and Eitan Muller. "Customer Management Dynamics and Cohort Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 520-122, June 2020.
      • May 2020
      • Article

      Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education

      By: Jessica N. Holtzman, Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert and Jennifer Kasper
      Problem: Value-based health care (VBHC) is an innovative framework for redesigning care delivery to achieve better outcomes for patients and reduce cost; however, providing students with the skills to understand and engage with these topics is a challenge to...  View Details
      Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care And Treatment; Higher Education; Curriculum And Courses
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      Holtzman, Jessica N., Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert, and Jennifer Kasper. "Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education." Academic Medicine 95, no. 5 (May 2020): 740–743.
      • March 6, 2020
      • Article

      Networking Doesn’t Have to Be Self-Serving

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
      How can individual leaders help to tackle some of big social problems? It can seem like an overwhelming, impossible task. But successful change agents have shown that networking and communication skills are key. They show up, in person, to investigate the issues and...  View Details
      Keywords: Network; Self-service
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Networking Doesn’t Have to Be Self-Serving." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (March 6, 2020).
      • February 2020
      • Case

      Leading Change in Talent at L'Oréal

      By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Vincent Dessain and Emer Moloney
      Jean-Claude Le Grand just stepped into a new role as Executive Vice-President for Human Resources at the global cosmetics company, L’Oréal. He is now responsible for the hiring, development, promotion, and retention of 83,000 employees worldwide. The highly successful...  View Details
      Keywords: Advertising; Business Headquarters; Business Divisions; Business Organization; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Competency And skills; Experience And Expertise; Talent And Talent Management; Demographics; Diversity; Gender; Nationality; Multinational Firms And Management; Human Resources; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Selection And Staffing; Innovation And Management; Jobs And Positions; Employment; Human Capital; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Practices And Processes; Marketing; Brands And Branding; Product Marketing; Organizations; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Personal Development And Career; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems And Challenges; Networks; social Psychology; Attitudes; Power And Influence; social And Collaborative Networks; Business Strategy; Advertising Industry; Beauty And Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; France; Paris
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      Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Vincent Dessain, and Emer Moloney. "Leading Change in Talent at L'Oréal." Harvard Business School Case 420-106, February 2020.
      • 2020
      • Book

      Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
      Over a decade ago, renowned innovation expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter co-founded and then directed Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative. Her breakthrough work with hundreds of successful professionals and executives, as well as aspiring young entrepreneurs, identifies...  View Details
      Keywords: Leaders; Advanced Leadership; Advanced Leadership Initiative; Community; Change Leadership; Innovation; Problem Solving; Cross-sector Collaboration; Institutional Change; Leadership; Change; Leading Change; Communication; Innovation Leadership; Collaborative Innovation And Invention; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Business And Community Relations; Civil Society Or Community
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time. New York: PublicAffairs, 2020.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      From Know-It-Alls to Learn-It-Alls: Executive Development in the Era of Self-Refining Algorithms, Collaborative Filtering and Wearable Computing

      By: Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas
      We examine the future of executive education on a technological and cultural landscape that is imminent but different to the one we are accustomed to. We show how the contextualization, socialization and personalization of learning—avowed but distal goals of current...  View Details
      Keywords: Executive Education; Leadership Development; Technological Innovation; Customization And Personalization; Management skills; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing
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      Moldoveanu, Mihnea, and Das Narayandas. "From Know-It-Alls to Learn-It-Alls: Executive Development in the Era of Self-Refining Algorithms, Collaborative Filtering and Wearable Computing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-061, November 2019.
      • September 2019
      • Case

      Shell: A Company of Opportunity?

      By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney
      The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Competency And skills; Experience And Expertise; Talent And Talent Management; Energy; Energy Sources; Non-renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Human Resources; Employees; Retention; Collaborative Innovation And Invention; Innovation And Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Jobs And Positions; Job Design And Levels; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge; Knowledge Use And Leverage; Labor; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Strategic Planning; Projects; Motivation And Incentives; Business Strategy; social And Collaborative Networks; Technology Platform; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Netherlands
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      Fuller, Joseph B., and Emer Moloney. "Shell: A Company of Opportunity?" Harvard Business School Case 320-025, September 2019.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      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...  View Details
      Keywords: Social Skills; Communication Practices; Business Performance; Entrepreneurs; Peer Relationships; Field Experiment; Entrepreneurship; Communication; Performance; Developing Countries And Economies; Africa; Togo
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      Dimitriadis, Stefan, and Rembrand Koning. "Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo." SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 3459643, September 2019.
      • July 2019 (Revised May 2020)
      • Case

      AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow

      By: William R. Kerr, Joseph B. Fuller and Carl Kreitzberg
      By the late 2000s, rapid changes in the telecommunications industry forced AT&T’s management team to take on a task that CEO Randall Stephenson called the “biggest logistical challenge” they had ever seen: retraining 100,000 workers by 2020. In 2012, internal company...  View Details
      Keywords: At&t; Workforce; skills; Future Of Work; Telecommunications; Unions; Technological Change; Layoffs; Moocs; Strategic Planning; Employees; Training; Competency And skills; Labor; Learning; Labor Unions; Technology Adoption; Talent And Talent Management; Telecommunications Industry; Communications Industry; United States
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      Kerr, William R., Joseph B. Fuller, and Carl Kreitzberg. "AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow." Harvard Business School Case 820-017, July 2019. (Revised May 2020.)
      • March–April 2019
      • Article

      The Future of Leadership Development

      By: Das Narayandas and Mihnea Moldoveanu
      The need for leadership development has never been more urgent. Companies of all sorts realize that to survive in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment, they need different leadership skills and organizational capabilities from those that...  View Details
      Keywords: Talent Management; Executive Education; Leadership Development; Business Education; Management skills; Learning; Online Technology
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      Narayandas, Das, and Mihnea Moldoveanu. "The Future of Leadership Development." Harvard Business Review 97, no. 4 (March–April 2019): 40–48. (Spotlight Talent Management.)
      • 2019
      • Article

      Brokerage and Brokering: An Integrative Review and Organizing Framework for Third Party Influence

      By: Nir Halevy, Eliran Halali and Julian Zlatev
      Brokerage and brokering are pervasive and consequential organizational phenomena. Prevailing models underscore social structure and focus on the consequences that come from brokerage—occupying a bridging position between disconnected others in a network. By contrast,...  View Details
      Keywords: Brokerage; Brokering; Social Interactions; Organizations; Relationships; Power And Influence; Framework
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      Halevy, Nir, Eliran Halali, and Julian Zlatev. "Brokerage and Brokering: An Integrative Review and Organizing Framework for Third Party Influence." Academy of Management Annals 13, no. 1 (2019): 215–239.
      • June 2018
      • Teaching Note

      Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work

      By: Boris Groysberg and Amram Migdal
      Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 416-031, 416-032, 416-033, 416-034, 416-035, and 416-036.  View Details
      Keywords: Communication; Communication Intention And Meaning; Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Management skills; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Personal Development And Career; Relationships; Groups And Teams; social Psychology; Attitudes; Behavior; Conflict And Resolution; Conflict Management; Emotions; Perception; Personal Characteristics; Perspective; Power And Influence; Prejudice And Bias; Reputation; Satisfaction; Trust
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      Groysberg, Boris, and Amram Migdal. "Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 418-084, June 2018.
      • 2017
      • Other Teaching and Training Material

      Organizational Behavior Reading: Leading Organizational Change

      By: Ryan Raffaelli
      This reading combines conceptual frameworks and research-based knowledge to provide practical guidance about how to lead organization change. The essential reading outlines key choices leaders must make when managing a change and the common traps that can cause a...  View Details
      Keywords: Leading Change; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Change Management
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      Raffaelli, Ryan. "Organizational Behavior Reading: Leading Organizational Change." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Publishing 8324, 2017.
      • February 2017
      • Module Note

      Leading Global Teams

      By: Tsedal Neeley
      This module aims to help students become effective leaders and members of global teams that must work together across national boundaries and toward a common goal. Students will learn to diagnose the challenges that global teams often face as well as strategies that...  View Details
      Keywords: Groups And Teams; Leadership; Cross-cultural And Cross-border Issues
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      Neeley, Tsedal. "Leading Global Teams." Harvard Business School Module Note 417-073, February 2017.
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      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
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      Streur, John, and George Serafeim. "Stop Waiting for Governments to Close the Skills Gap." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 11, 2017).
      • March 2016
      • Teaching Note

      Advanced Leadership Pathways: Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek – Lighting Liberia

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
      After successful careers as lawyers and Fellows in Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative, Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek set out to tackle a large-scale infrastructure challenge in a complex environment by ultimately using advanced leadership skills to increase...  View Details
      Keywords: Energy
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Tessa Natanay Hamilton, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek – Lighting Liberia." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 316-034, March 2016.
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