Talent Management Center
STRATEGIES TO BUILD YOUR LEADERSHIP PIPELINE
The Harvard Business Talent Management Center equips your leaders with a wide variety of resources to attract, develop, retain, and advance key talent. This preeminent online resource features groundbreaking research on human capital management and offers useful concepts, tips, and tools to find, cultivate, and keep high-potential people.
TAKING TALENT SERIOUSLY
The Talent Management Center provides a simple site for accessing “the best of” our premier resources. The diverse colllection focuses on helping leaders establish talent management capabilities and processes aligned with a long-term organizational strategy.
THOUGHT-PROVOKING INSIGHTS AND SOLUTIONS ADDRESS A SPECTRUM OF CHALLENGES:
- Linking talent to business strategy
- Recruiting the right, bright people
- Differentiating individual
development - Creating a retention culture
- Integrating succession into
development initiatives
CONTENT IS ORGANIZED BY
TOP-RANKED DOMAINS:
- Talent strategy
- Recruitment
- Development
- Retention
- Successions
Managers generally earn their positions through outstanding performance. However, many have scant training in how to manage people. Harvard Business Publishing helps managers learn important skills, such as coaching, delegating, providing feedback, setting goals, appraising performance, and motivating a team. These skills help managers improve their own performance, and inspire those who work for them.
Sample Solution Elements
- Faculty Seminar Series -
Managing People for Competitive
Advantage - Harvard Business Review - A Market Driven Approach to Retaining Talent
- Case in Point - Aligning Strategy
- Harvard Business Publishing Case
- Succession and Failure - Harvard ManageMentor - Hiring
PROGRAM ELEMENTS
EASILY INTEGRATED INTO YOUR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
Blend the best published ideas on talent management into your leadership development curriculum. The resources in the Center can support and reinforce both self-directed learning and group action learning.
Pre-work
Assign targeted content from featured experts or specific sections for review.
Core Work
Use cases, articles, or other resources as part of your lesson plan or to support cohort teams. Facilitator and Participant Guides are available to help you roll out sessions that align with the Talent Management Center.
Post-work
Promote ongoing learning through development plans, news feeds, and stories.
Support
The Talent Management Center is quick and easy to deploy via your LMS or intranet. Our Implementation Services team will help you develop an effective roll-out strategy and can customize the product to meet the specific needs of your organization for even greater impact.
TARGET AUDIENCE
The Talent Management Center provides advice, tools, and resources for leaders who must:
- Develop and align a talent management strategy
- Hire and support new talent
- Create leadership development programs
- Retain top talent
- Integrate succession planning into leadership development



VIDEOS AND RESOURCES
Video clips showcase advice and proven practices from renowned experts, such as:
- Douglas A. Ready
“How Committed Is Your
Organization?”
- Christopher A. Bartlett
“Managing People for
Competitive Advantage” - John W. Boudreau
“How Specific Is Your Talent Strategy?” - Boris Groysberg
“Hire for Your Future” - Thomas J. Delong
“Who Have You Recognized Lately?” - Tamara J. Erickson
“Strategies for Building Loyalty” - Boris Groysberg
“Succession Management”
In addition to articles, tools, guidelines, and checklists, the program contains news feeds that automatically link users to recent news on talent strategies from top sources - delivering the latest thinking in the field to your managers and leader
FLEXIBLE ARRAY OF
RESOURCES
The Talent Management Center is ideal for flexible, blended learning initiatives on how to align talent management with organizational strategy.
RESOURCES INCLUDE:
- Videos
- Checklists & Tools
- Case Studies
- Interactive Scenarios
- Articles
- Classroom Experiences
- Faculty Seminars
