Sharpening Your Skills
There are 21 articles for this feature.
Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing
| Published: | February 9, 2012 |
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In this collection from our archives, Harvard Business School faculty discuss the latest research on online marketing techniques, including consumer reviews, video ads, loyalty programs, and coupon offerings.
Published in 2011
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
| Published: | November 17, 2011 |
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In this collection from our archives, Harvard Business School faculty discuss specific challenges that can be solved with the right organizational design.
Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
| Published: | September 29, 2011 |
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Many companies lack a coherent policy for maximizing the value of their intellectual property. In this collection from our archives, Harvard Business School faculty offer insights on the importance of IP and how best to protect and use it.
Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation
| Published: | June 22, 2011 |
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Can employers motivate employees to work more creatively, ethically, or productively? Or does that power reside solely within the individual? Recent research at Harvard Business School suggests workers can be motivated by their environment.
Published in 2010
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
| Published: | December 6, 2010 |
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Going global is one thing, targeting emerging economies quite another. In this collection from our archives, HBS faculty discuss strategy development, government relations, exploiting local opportunities, and risk management when dealing in emerging economies.
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
| Published: | June 1, 2010 |
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The most difficult task for socially responsible companies is how to report the value of their work to a diverse group of stakeholders. Here's a starting place.
Sharpening Your Skills: Successful Negotiation
| Published: | March 8, 2010 |
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Can you out-negotiate Wal-Mart? Can women overcome gender stereotypes to win equitable pay? Recent research from Harvard Business School looks at important factors to consider before sitting down at the bargaining table.
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
| Published: | January 19, 2010 |
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The economic crisis is tapping the inner reserves of experienced leaders and introducing a new generation of managers to crisis management. These previous WK articles explore leadership, the role of the Board, the emotional needs of managers, and the risk to corporate giving programs.
Published in 2009
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
| Published: | June 29, 2009 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
