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4 Lessons Learned Outside the Classroom during an MBA

Tom Spencer

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a rigorous program of study. Developing teamwork skills is a major part of the value you will get from an MBA. Time management. In order to take on all of these responsibilities, one has to develop outstanding time management skills.

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Future-proofing your job against the robots

Comatch

In the expectation that we will soon be competing with machines, it seems worthwhile to train our “soft skill muscles.” – Anna Julius Even though we know the importance of this skillset, many people don’t know how to develop or improve their soft skills. One such study by Jason S. Take time for your relationships.

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Student consulting – it does more than deliver

Tom Spencer

I had done barely any extracurriculars in my first year and had not developed skills which were relevant to getting a job, so joining a student consultancy was a good way for me to show an interest in the commercial world and to develop relevant skills for my CV. You get to develop or learn new skills. Image: Pexels.

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How to Keep Email from Ruining Your Vacation

Harvard Business

The power of our devices, even when they’re just silently sitting there, was confirmed recently by a study published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. A few summers ago I was able to try out a proto-version of Thrive Away, which at the time was an email tool we were developing for HuffPost.

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Health Care Providers Can Use Design Thinking to Improve Patient Experiences

Harvard Business

Mary sought care at a large academic medical center with multiple entrances and towers; at times she was expected to travel long distances due to the sheer size of the facility. While the consequences of missed appointments have been widely studied , the specific reasons patients fail to show up are not always as clear.

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How to Focus on What’s Important, Not Just What’s Urgent

Harvard Business

In a series of studies recently published in the Journal of Consumer Research , people typically chose to complete tasks that had very short deadlines attached to them, even in situations in which tasks with less pressing deadlines were just as easy and promised a bigger reward. You’re hardly alone.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business

The old care model creates friction between the practice and the patient: the difficulties and delays in scheduling visits, the hassle of traveling to the practice and waiting in the waiting room, and the penalty of copays and coinsurance make patients think twice before seeking in-person care. A Way Forward.

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