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Teaching The Skills Entrepreneurs Need To Scale Their Business

The Horizons Tracker

A new paper from INSEAD documents a trial undertaken to test a new training program for entrepreneurs that aims to help improve their competencies in areas such as networking, human capital management and business model innovation. Skills for scaling.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

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Marketing Is Dead

Harvard Business Review

Help them build social capital. The new marketing helps its advocates and influencers create social capital: it helps them build their affiliation networks, increase their reputation and gives them access to new knowledge — all of which your customer influencers crave. That got NI into the C-suite.

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The More You Energize Your Coworkers, the Better Everyone Performs

Harvard Business Review

Answer These 5 Questions Think of your boss — your direct supervisor or manager — and consider each statement below. As Dutton and Heaphy describe, the leaders focused on building high-quality connections and strengthening social capital as ways to improve the leadership pipeline. Does Your Boss Give Off Good Energy?

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Why “Network More” Is Bad Advice for Women

Harvard Business Review

And although there are benefits to social capital, as Fang and Huang’s study makes clear, rewarding the people with the chummiest network simply creates a self-fulfilling cycle. Talent management Gender Assessing performance Financial Services' ” Promoting someone based on measurable competence! What a wild idea.

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. ” I document this extensively in my forthcoming book, The Laws of Globalization , but let’s consider just a few examples. Why does all this matter for the purposes of anger management? In the U.S.,