Harvard Business Impact® leadership development in South Africa
Develop stronger managers, leaders and teams with practical learning solutions from Harvard Business Impact, available to organisations in South Africa through Global Business Solutions.
From structured online management courses and personalised leadership learning to immersive business simulations, the Harvard Business Impact portfolio gives organisations different ways to build leadership capability, strengthen management skills and support continuous professional development.
Explore Harvard ManageMentor ®, HBR ® Spark and Harvard Business Impact Simulations ®.
Our Harvard Business Impact® solutions
Three flexible solutions. A stronger, more capable workfore.
HBR Spark is a personalised online leadership development experience for emerging and established leaders. It combines leadership and management content with personalised recommendations, the HBR Leadership Framework and AI-supported learning experiences.
Learners can access more than 25,000 resources from the HBR library and beyond, including articles, videos and podcasts, with curated learning pathways and content recommendations based on development goals.
Best suited to: continuous leadership development, self-directed learning, personalised development, learning in the flow of work and large-scale organisational learning.
Harvard Business Impact Simulation Experiences place participants inside realistic business scenarios where they make decisions, see the consequences of those decisions and discuss what they would do differently.
The simulations are designed as practice environments for leadership and business decision-making, using realistic constraints, consequences, gameplay and facilitated reflection.
Harvard Business Impact currently describes more than 19 simulation experiences covering areas including leadership, strategy, finance, innovation, change, team performance, risk, execution and decision-making.
Best suited to: leadership programmes, management development, executive development, team learning, strategy programmes and experiential learning.
Harvard ManageMentor is a structured online leadership and management learning solution covering practical workplace capabilities across three broad areas: leading yourself, leading others and leading the business.
Learners can develop skills across areas such as strategic thinking, decision-making, coaching, feedback, project management, change management, communication, business acumen and digital intelligence. The GBS proposition groups the Harvard ManageMentor curriculum across these three development areas.
Best suited to: structured management development, leadership academies, individual development plans, emerging-manager programmes and organisation-wide capability building.
Which Harvard Business Impact solution is right for your organisation?
The three solutions can be used independently or incorporated into a broader leadership development programme.
Use Harvard ManageMentor when you want structured courses and defined management capabilities.
Use HBR Spark when you want continuous, personalised leadership learning and access to a large library of current leadership and management content.
Use Harvard Business Impact Simulations when you want people to practise business and leadership decisions in realistic scenarios.
GBS can also combine digital learning, facilitated discussions, learning cafés, workshops and simulations into development journeys suited to different management levels. The GBS proposition already includes examples of pathways for aspiring managers, frontline managers and senior leaders.
Leadership development for South African organisations
GBS works with organisations seeking practical approaches to:
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leadership development
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management development
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supervisor and frontline manager training
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emerging leader development
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senior leadership development
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talent and succession development
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digital leadership
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organisational capability building
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employee upskilling and reskilling
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learning and development programmes
Programmes can be structured around organisational priorities, target audiences and specific capability requirements rather than requiring every learner to follow the same development journey.
Talk to GBS about Harvard Business Impact (HBI)
Whether you are developing first-time managers, building a leadership pipeline or looking for a scalable corporate learning solution, GBS can help you explore the Harvard Business Impact solutions available for your organisation.
FAQ's about HBI
What is Harvard Business Impact?
Harvard Business Impact provides leadership and management learning solutions that draw on content and thinking from Harvard Business School, Harvard Business Review and other contributors within the Harvard Business Publishing ecosystem. Its solutions include digital learning, personalised leadership development and simulation-based experiences.
What Harvard Business Impact solutions are available through GBS?
GBS currently works with Harvard ManageMentor, HBR Spark and Harvard Business Impact Simulations as part of its leadership and management development proposition.
Are these leadership programmes available in South Africa?
Yes. GBS provides Harvard Business Impact learning solutions to South African organisations through its partnership arrangements with Connemara.
Can the three solutions be combined?
Yes. Harvard ManageMentor courses, personalised HBR Spark learning and simulation experiences can form part of broader development journeys depending on the needs of the organisation and learner group.