Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

At Level 4, you're helping customers build their social capital — that is, helping them to build and expand valuable support groups and communities. Helping customers build social capital may seem far removed from the concerns a competitive business should occupy itself with.

Social Capital 9

Social Capital Review Software Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. We created a network and trained the community to take advantage of all these assets, turning them into social capital.

Social Capital 13

Social Capital Education Human Capital Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The free-flowing exchange, in which employees, partners, and collaborators gain social capital through their creative input, has helped propel growth. Harvard Business Review. He asked his management team to join him in a six-month prototype of the company’s open “Leadership Community.” Further Reading.

Creativity 8

Creativity Storytelling Social Capital Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

This lack of female leadership is important to explore, but what are the experiences of black women in the workplace before they make it to the c-suite? ” Because she performed so well on the project, she gained social capital with her supervisor. It’s not a formal program but it’s part of the review process.

Hotels 15

Hotels Project Class Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

It is quite different for entrepreneurs inside where the most significant investment (and risk) criteria they consider is their social standing and relationship capital within the organization. Entrepreneurship Innovation Leadership' Their peers and their immediate boss become the important gatekeepers to the first step.

Entrepreneur 19

Entrepreneur Organization Competitive Advantage Social Capital 19

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

As Jennifer de Vries has astutely observed, painting male allies and mentors as heroic rescuers actually strengthens the gendered status quo, inadvertently reinforcing male positional power while framing women as ill-prepared for serious leadership roles. So what’s a decent guy to do? We call it reciprocal mentoring.

Mentor 11

Mentor Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

To win and succeed in a stretch assignment, high potentials need to have the right motive (a willingness to have an impact on others in a selfless way), the right leadership assets (including among others the ability to learn, stay resilient, and connect), and be willing to accept the costs of a senior executive position.

Positioning 12

Positioning Social Capital McKinsey Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

As summarized in a detailed review of over 100 scientific studies, creative people tend to be better at identifying (rather than solving) problems, they are passionate and sensitive, and, above all, they tend to have a hungry mind: they are open to new experiences, nonconformist, and curious.

Innovation 8

Innovation Succession Creativity Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

And being the last to learn about key decisions can set your team back, and bring your leadership into question. In our work with leadership teams about meeting governance, we coach folks to put the company first by stepping forward to “vote themselves off the island” by opting out of meetings where they wouldn’t add value.

How To 8

How To Social Capital Maturity Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2011

ITC decided to measure its own performance in terms of its contribution to creating economic, environmental, and social capital through innovations that would be embedded in its business strategy.

Long-term 13

Long-term Business Model Innovation Human Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2011

As he acknowledges, he also had the incredible good fortune to be born into money and privilege, which provided him with endless support, social capital and opportunity. "If But what's most impressive about Warren Buffett is that he recognizes his wealth and success are not simply a function of his skills.

Hedge 15

Hedge Social Capital Class Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

The guiding concepts in this view of leadership are openness, self-election, continuous prototyping, robust platforms, and low coordination costs. Leadership skills focus on community building, consensus building, mediation, commitment, and humility.". Socialize your underused assets.

Mission Statement 9

Mission Statement Class Learning-by-Doing Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Employees provide human capital, customers provide revenue and social capital, governments provide critical infrastructure (not just "pipes and schools" but most fundamentally the rule of law) and legitimacy, and shareholders provide financial capital.

CEO 11

CEO Short-term Long-term Objective 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In one case, two operational leaders at Kelly Services, a workforce solutions firm, created a Business Resource Group to promote leadership development and increase employee engagement. Create Energizing Events. Organize and run events with an explicit focus creating energy, not just delivering content, products, or services.

Energy 8

Energy Health Care Leadership Pipeline Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

What makes these five examples so painful for me is that none of them required much in the way of capital investment. But all of them required (and continue to demand) expenditure of social capital, changing in the way people work together. Health Innovation Leadership' The results are impressive.

Health Care 11

Health Care Examples Mayo Management 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

What makes these five examples so painful for me is that none of them required much in the way of capital investment. But all of them required (and continue to demand) expenditure of social capital, changing in the way people work together. Health Innovation Leadership' The results are impressive.

Health Care 11

Health Care Examples Mayo Management 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

So you engage her by giving her speaking opportunities, you co-present at her industry association, host a webinar featuring her, invite her to local customer forums, and give her a leadership role if she's interested. They're helping customers build social capital. They're improving customers' lives.

Goal 8

Goal Webinar Social Capital Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product. They also have more influence and authority over company resources.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Our decades strangely resemble each other – and have big implications for how individuals and companies may want to rethink a whole host of issues, from career management and pensions to mobility and leadership criteria. For decades, this has eliminated too many women from leadership pipelines.

Career 8

Career Leadership Pipeline Social Capital Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. But it would take a lot of social capital.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

Smart companies form brand councils to meet this leadership imperative. On occasion, these senior executives may designate lieutenants to sit on the brand council as their representatives, but they ensure the designees have the social capital, as well as the authority, to participate fully.

Brand 8

Brand Strategy Advertising Brand Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Cathleen Black's appointment raises, first, the perennial question: Is leadership a highly contextual capability? Leaders need others' confidence and support and get it when their experience is perceived as relevant and, better yet, when key relationships provide them with social capital. How portable are leaders?

Tacit Knowledge 12

Tacit Knowledge Festinger Social Capital Education 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

We’ve heard a lot about how the Democrats need new leadership. Democrats and Republicans must start accumulating today the political and social capital they will surely need if they are to face a future crisis together. This is problematic even in the best of times. When times are bad, it can be fatal.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Politics Policies 8