Sharpening Your Skills
There are 13 articles for this feature.
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
| Published: | June 29, 2009 |
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| Feature: | Sharpening Your Skills |
Nothing like a global recession to test your change-management skills. We dig deep into the Working Knowledge vault to learn about building a business in a down economy, motivating the troops, and other current topics.
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
| Published: | May 14, 2009 |
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| Feature: | Sharpening Your Skills |
The ability to lead teams is fast becoming a critical skill for all managers in the 21st century. Here are four HBS Working Knowledge stories from the archives that address everything from how teams learn to turning individual performers into team players.
Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance
| Published: | January 15, 2009 |
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| Feature: | Sharpening Your Skills |
Achieving a life that balances the pleasures and demands of work and life has never been easy. Here are four HBS Working Knowledge stories from the archives that address everything from spirituality in leadership to understanding when "just enough" is truly enough.
Published in 2008
Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters
| Published: | August 28, 2008 |
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| Feature: | Sharpening Your Skills |
Business history is a rich source of knowledge and inspiration for today's executives. Do we pay enough attention to the past? Here are four Working Knowledge articles that provide lessons from history about leaders, leadership, and business organization.
Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action
| Published: | July 23, 2008 |
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| Feature: | Sharpening Your Skills |
Introduced by Harvard Business School professor Robert Kaplan and colleague David Norton, the Balanced Scorecard has been used by thousands of organizations to align business activities with the strategy.
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
| Published: | May 27, 2008 |
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| Feature: | Sharpening Your Skills |
Are global brands effective? Which countries are the most business friendly? How can my foreign assets be protected? Here are some recent Working Knowledge articles on thinking about the global business.
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
| Published: | April 30, 2008 |
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| Feature: | Sharpening Your Skills |
Should I trust my brand to a sports endorser? Does B2B branding work? What does mystery writer James Patterson know about branding that I don't? Here are some recent Working Knowledge articles on issues that keep brand managers up at night.
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
| Published: | March 26, 2008 |
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| Feature: | Sharpening Your Skills |
Disaster brings out the best in some, the worst in others. But every disaster tells a tale we can learn from. Here we look at lessons learned from failures involving polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, NASA, and a Mount Everest climbing team.
Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business
| Published: | February 25, 2008 |
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| Feature: | Sharpening Your Skills |
Thinking about starting your own business? Read our collection of articles on legal issues, managing resources, product development, and keeping owner control.
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
| Published: | January 10, 2008 |
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| Feature: | Sharpening Your Skills |
Can lean production methods be used in service industries? How can operations be used to competitive advantage? These are several of the questions answered in this month's Sharpening Your Skills on the topic of operations management.
Published in 2007
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
| Published: | December 5, 2007 |
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| Feature: | Sharpening Your Skills |
Are my stores cannibalizing direct sales? Should I break out individual costs on a price tag? These questions and others are explored in our latest collection of marketing stories from the HBS Working Knowledge archives.
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
| Published: | October 24, 2007 |
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| Feature: | Sharpening Your Skills |
Can creativity be managed? Where do creative ideas come from? These questions and others are explored in this latest collection from the HBS Working Knowledge archives.
Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation
| Published: | September 26, 2007 |
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| Feature: | Sharpening Your Skills |
A new HBS Working Knowledge feature called Sharpening Your Skills debuts on the topic of negotiation. Sharpening Your Skills collects together past articles to offer readers practical advice around a specific business management topic. Let us know what you think!
