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Building the next leadership pipeline with short-term executive programs in Top B-schools

HR Digest

Employees working for ten years or more have likely developed core skills in a specific discipline, and if they want to make the transition to the C-suite, they need to expand their knowledge. A finance expert who wants now to expand into marketing or customer dealings can choose from a myriad of short courses that deal in the same fields. .

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Should You Get an MBA?

Harvard Business Review

I earned my MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 2000, and since 2007 I’ve been an Instructor and an internal coach back at the GSB, helping hundreds of students develop their leadership and interpersonal skills. Management education has changed significantly over the last few decades.

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Military Leadership Lessons for Training Doctors

Harvard Business Review

But with their focus on clinical disease management and research, training programs actually offer little in the way of true leadership training – authentic experience that helps young doctors develop the leadership skills they will need. So, we contacted the ROTC to see what we could learn from them.

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

For over 30 years I worked as a business school professor educating thousands of MBAs and executives. Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company. Personal Integration.

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How to Master a New Skill

Harvard Business Review

Joseph Weintraub, a professor of management and organizational behavior at Babson College and coauthor of the book, The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business , agrees: "We need to constantly look for opportunities to stretch ourselves in ways that may not always feel comfortable at first. "Too

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