The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 27, 2023

The demand for new skills and capabilities provides your organization with an opportunity and a challenge. The World Economic Forum predicts that upskilling and reskilling will meet the demand for 97 million new jobs created by emerging technologies. Upskilling is teaching your employees new skills.

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ROI Organizational Behavior Situational Leadership Learning-by-Doing 52

HR Digest

JULY 14, 2021

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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Short-term Leadership Pipeline Execution Leadership 59

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

The first thing they should know is that not all technological change is “disruptive.” Entrants may target over-looked segments of the market with a product considered inferior by incumbent’s most-demanding customers and later move up-market as their product improves. A prime example is Netflix.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Human Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

The situation is somewhat like the one American industrial companies faced in the 1970s and '80s when product quality slipped but was covered up by marketing and moving up-market. So here's a proposal to make sure MBAs are actually learning the skills they need: competency tests, administered to all graduates.

Education 15

Education Organizational Behavior Case Study Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

Business schools could also rely on new technologies to measure a professor’s impact. ” We could only console the student by saying that we’re all working on getting findings like this out to the broader market. Where has this stuff been hiding?” We’re just not there yet. But we should be.

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Metrics Ethics Incentives Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

We think this way because we''re primates, and primates are innately hierarchical, says Nigel Nicholson, a professor of organizational behavior at London Business School. Just highlight what it is about your current job that you love — and how you can continue to develop your skills to make yourself valuable to your company.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 30, 2023

The paper utilizes longitudinal administrative data from Germany to shed light on the long-term benefits of apprenticeship training programs for workers entering the labor market after completing secondary school. Skills matter The analysis of longitudinal wage data revealed that skill development is the primary driver of early wage growth.

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Career Training Rate of Return Education 100