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Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

Re: Ranjay Gulati, Raffaella Sadun

In this collection from our archives, Harvard Business School faculty discuss specific challenges that can be solved with the right organizational design. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property

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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. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation

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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. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

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. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

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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. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

Sharpening Your Skills: Successful Negotiation

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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. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis

by Staff

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. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

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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. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

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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. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance

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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. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

Re: Geoffrey G. Jones, Anthony Mayo

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. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action

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. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management

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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. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.