Nina Cheng, Author at Harvard Business Impact https://www.harvardbusiness.org/insight/author/nina-cheng/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:37:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.harvardbusiness.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/hbi_favicon-1.svg Nina Cheng, Author at Harvard Business Impact https://www.harvardbusiness.org/insight/author/nina-cheng/ 32 32 The C-Suite View https://www.harvardbusiness.org/insight/the-c-suite-view/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:40:52 +0000 https://www.harvardbusiness.org/?p=7992 Insights that sharpen decisions and accelerate enterprise-wide impact.

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The C-Suite View

Insights that sharpen decisions and accelerate enterprise-wide impact.

Redefining leadership in a world of acceleration


As AI reshapes the very practice of leadership, the question isn’t whether leaders will be replaced—but how they must evolve.

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The relentless pace of change

Leadership today has undergone a fundamental transformation compared to just a few years ago. The typical organization has experienced five major firmwide shifts in just three years, and nearly 75% expect this pace to accelerate. 

AI is amplifying transformation and expectations

Employees today are asked to adapt and reskill at pace, while leaders must do the same and guide their organizations through the transformation with clarity, resilience, and vision. 

Insights and resources for the C-suite

Harvard Business Impact brings together research, insights, and practical tools designed for the C-suite to help executives make informed decisions, align learning with strategy, and drive enterprise-wide transformation in an AI-driven world.

Guide

A Strategic Conversation Guide for the C-Suite

This guide includes 10 questions designed to spark high-level conversations across your executive team, helping you build organizational capacity to execute against your most urgent business goals and prepare your leaders for the challenges ahead. 

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Perspective

A New Kind of Collective Intelligence: How AI Is Transforming the Living, Learning Organization

With AI woven into the fabric of business, planning is no longer static—it’s a dynamic exchange between people and machines. This creates a new form of collective intelligence and ushers in an era of the adaptive enterprise. 

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Each month, The Leader’s Agenda draws on insights from Harvard Business Review and Harvard Business Impact, proven practices from global executives, and an informed view of the trends steering the future of organizations.

Assessment

10 Strategic Questions for the C-Suite

AI is transforming strategy, execution, and leadership at a pace that exceeds many organizations’ readiness. Yet only 36% of organizations say their leaders excel at embracing AI as a core part of strategy and operations.

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The Leadership Imperative

Equipping Leaders and Organizations to Thrive Amid Accelerating Change and AI-Driven Transformation

Leadership today has undergone a fundamental transformation compared to just a few years ago. 

Effective leadership development ensures leaders at every point of influence are equipped to drive impact, align teams, and deliver results in a world of acceleration.

Harvard Business Impact offers a versatile portfolio of leadership development solutions tailored to your context, whether it’s aligning leaders to execute strategy or building a talent pipeline to secure the organization’s future. We bring deep experience helping organizations worldwide tackle their most pressing leadership challenges. 

Download the brochure to learn how we help organizations shape the best minds in leadership, continuously raising the bar for how leaders think, perform, and grow. 

Our impact at a glance

100+ years

delivering dynamic leadership development programs together with Harvard Business School

900

Global 2000 enterprise clients
across all major industries

30+

Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards in Leadership Development 

10M+

global learners 

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]]> A New Kind of Collective Intelligence: How AI Is Transforming the Living, Learning Organization https://www.harvardbusiness.org/insight/a-new-kind-of-collective-intelligence-how-ai-is-transforming-the-living-learning-organization/ Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:06:41 +0000 https://www.harvardbusiness.org/?p=7808 With AI woven into the fabric of business, it’s an exchange between people and machines, creating a new form of collective intelligence.

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A New Kind of Collective Intelligence: How AI Is Transforming the Living, Learning Organization

With AI woven into the fabric of business, planning is no longer static—it’s a dynamic exchange between people and machines. This creates a new form of collective intelligence and ushers in an era of the adaptive enterprise. 

For senior executives, this shift signals both new opportunities and a set of urgent and unfamiliar challenges. Leading companies are meeting these demands by embracing three strategic imperatives in the way they work.  

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Report Highlights

45%

of large organizations are now focused on integrating digital labor with human teams.

52%

of organizations say they
must put more focus on building an AI ready culture.

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A Strategic Conversation Guide for the C-Suite

10 Questions the C-Suite Should Be Asking Now About Their Leaders

AI is reshaping strategy, execution, and leadership—faster than most organizations are prepared for. 

This guide includes 10 questions designed to spark high-level conversations across your executive team, helping you build organizational capacity to execute against your most urgent business goals and prepare your leaders for the challenges ahead. 

Use these questions to strengthen leadership alignment and ensure your organization is ready for what’s next.

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Assessment: 10 Strategic Questions for the C-Suite

AI is transforming strategy, execution, and leadership at a pace that exceeds many organizations’ readiness. Yet only 36% of organizations say their leaders excel at embracing AI as a core part of strategy and operations.

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Leading Through Transformation: Rethinking the Role of Midlevel Leaders

As business imperatives evolve, midlevel leaders are playing an increasingly vital role in leading and executing transformation efforts.

Findings from Harvard Business Impact’s global study of more than 600 leaders highlight this shift:

  • 96% of midlevel leaders say they’ve taken on increased responsibility to lead or participate in more transformation initiatives over the past year.
  • 65% of midlevel leaders say they provided strategic input or supported the implementation of transformation efforts.

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]]> Under Pressure: Why Burnout Among Midlevel Leaders May Be a Strategic Risk https://www.harvardbusiness.org/insight/under-pressure-why-burnout-among-midlevel-leaders-may-be-a-strategic-risk/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:38:41 +0000 https://www.harvardbusiness.org/?p=7742 Many midlevel leaders are struggling with persistent burnout, limited support, and a widening gap between them and senior leadership.

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Under Pressure: Why Burnout Among Midlevel Leaders May Be a Strategic Risk

Many midlevel leaders are struggling with persistent burnout, limited support and recognition, and a widening gap between them and senior leadership.

When burnout and stress go unaddressed, midlevel leaders may become less engaged and less confident in their roles—undermining their ability to retain talent and drive results.

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]]> Midlevel Leaders: The Bridge to Your Organization’s Future https://www.harvardbusiness.org/insight/midlevel-leaders-the-bridge-to-your-organizations-future/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 01:40:00 +0000 https://www.harvardbusiness.org/?p=7472 In Harvard Business Impact’s recent survey of 600 midlevel and senior leaders across industries and global regions, both groups agreed that expectations of midlevel leaders continue to rise. Addressing these escalating demands requires more than individual capability; it necessitates an organizational context that enables leaders to succeed. Four foundational elements—autonomy, empowerment, psychological safety, and recognition—can...

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Midlevel Leaders: The Bridge to Your Organization’s Future

In Harvard Business Impact’s recent survey of 600 midlevel and senior leaders across industries and global regions, both groups agreed that expectations of midlevel leaders continue to rise.

Addressing these escalating demands requires more than individual capability; it necessitates an organizational context that enables leaders to succeed.

Four foundational elements—autonomy, empowerment, psychological safety, and recognition—can help strengthen a leader’s capacity to carry heavier loads without buckling.

Survey Highlights

88%

of midlevel leaders surveyed say they feel caught between the demands of their senior leaders and the needs of their teams.

50%+

of midlevel leaders surveyed say they still spend at least 40% of their time on administrative
or individual contributor tasks.

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Building the Collective Intelligence of Humans and Machines

Artificial Intelligence has shifted. It’s no longer just a tool, but a true teammate. As machines learn faster, the question becomes: how well can humans and machines learn together?

Leading organizations are responding with three powerful strategies:

  • Amplify with AI – From personalized coaching to adaptive simulations, AI is transforming how leaders learn.
  • Lean into Full-Immersion Learning – Embedding learning into real work to build capability and commitment.
  • Champion Human Strengths – As AI scales tasks, human skills—judgment, empathy, creativity—are more critical than ever.

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2025 Global Leadership Development Study

Harvard Business Impact’s 3rd Annual Study

Fast, Fluid, and Future-Focused Learning

Through interviews with and a survey of more than 1,100 Learning & Development (L&D) professionals and functional leaders across more than 14 countries, the theme that emerged this year is that L&D has a new mandate. The business is looking for fast, fluid, and future-focused learning.

In response, the velocity of organizational learning must be accelerated through a reciprocal exchange of information between Al and the people working alongside it. This mandate demands big changes from L&D and has important implications for leadership development and more. Organizational learning is now a serious competitive differentiator.

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1,100 +

L&D and HR professionals and
functional heads surveyed

14+

countries across
multiple industries

20,000+

employees at nearly half of companies surveyed

In the coming year, respondents foresee three objectives for L&D to develop leaders for future success.

In this year’s survey, 40% say their organizations are putting even more emphasis this year than last on building a change-ready organization.

“We use the 4B analysis as we look at the workforce we’ll need in the future and determine how we are going to get it. Are we going to buy, build, or borrow the talent, skill, or expertise? Or does this task get transferred to a button or bot? This kind of analysis is done in every market, every function, every business line now.”

— Head of Corporate Training & Development at a Multinational Food and Beverage Company

Readiness Reimagined: How to Build a Change-Seeking Culture

44% of survey respondents say their organization will put greater emphasis this year than last on supporting workforce upskilling and reskilling in their leadership development programs.

“We have [many] technical people who are strong technical experts, but
with a lower capability in transmitting knowledge back into the leadership.”

— Head of HR in North America for a Multinational Transportation Company
The Fluid Future of Work: Rethinking Roles in the Age of Intelligent Machines

Whether learning initiatives are designed to develop a skill, create alignment, improve collaboration, foster new ideas, or encourage changes in perspectives, they all have new requirements: they need to be more easily scalable, happen faster, and be delivered in context for the organization.

“Taking a broader view that considers how I can strengthen collective intelligence by supporting collective memory, attention, and reasoning can open opportunities to unlock the true potential of human-AI collaboration.”

— Christoph Riedl, “How to Use AI to Build Your Company’s Collective Intelligence,” HBR.org
Why the Tortoise Doesn’t Win Anymore: Speed to Skill as a Competitive Advantage

Three Strategies to Address Learning & Development Objectives

Amplify with AI

Lean into Full-Immersion Learning

Champion the Complementary Elements

Research Report

Discover how to prepare your leaders to thrive in an AI-driven world.

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Research Findings

Dive deep into the results from our study.

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Uncover more insights with our on-demand webinar and infographics

On-Demand Webinar: Collective Intelligence in the Age of AI

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Infographic: 3 L&D Priorities for Building the Collective Intelligence of Humans and Machines

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Infographic: 3 Strategies to Meet the Moment

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Infographic: The Future Is Fluent: Why AI Demands a New Kind of Leader

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See how forward-thinking companies are adapting to change and transforming at scale.

Mastering Leadership in a Dynamic World at Charles Schwab

Through Advanced LEAD, a nomination-based program for high-potential directors and managing directors, Charles Schwab empowers its leaders with the strategic mindset and networks needed to thrive in a dynamic industry.

Read the client story

Developing Leaders for Transformation at Rabobank

Rabobank leveraged strategic leadership development to navigate significant change and realize its transformation goals.

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Developing Managers to Lead Confidently through Transformation at Atos

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, is preparing a global population of change-leaders to thrive amid digital disruption by empowering them with the skills to become more consultative partners to their clients and to inspire and motivate diverse individuals and teams. 

Read the client story

Building Leadership for the Future at Oman Arab Bank

Oman Arab Bank aims to build a prosperous future aligned with Oman Vision 2040, focusing on innovation, sustainability, and equal opportunities. 

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Investing in Digital Learning for Greater Effectiveness at Maybank

To rapidly upskill its employees with the capabilities emerging in the new economy, financial services leader Maybank adopted an agile approach to development: They provided their entire workforce with access to digital learning and anticipated evolving business conditions with the most relevant learning resources. 

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About the research

Study Methodology

Based on 1,159 survey responses, plus interviews with senior L&D and functional leaders (January–March 2025).

Regions
The Americas40%
Asia Pacific28%
Europe, the Middle East, and all others32%
Sectors
Financial Services25%
Energy & Utility12%
Spread out other industries63%
Company Size
Revenue more than $10B51%
Headcount more than 20,00047%
Role
L&D/HR Professionals50%
Functional Heads50%

Previous Global Leadership Development Studies

In 2023, we launched our first study of global leaders responsible for leadership development to understand their business and human capital priorities for the coming year, and in what ways they are relying on their leaders to meet those objectives.

Explore insights from our past global leadership development studies below.

Time to Transform

The theme that emerged in 2024 was the need to advance the practice of leadership to meet the needs of transformation efforts across organizations.

Explore the insights

Ready for Anything

In 2023, we discovered a greater need to develop leaders who are truly ready for anything.

Explore the insights

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2025 Global Leadership Development Study: Fast, Fluid, and Future-Focused

In 2025, Harvard Business Impact conducted a comprehensive global study to survey more than 1,100 leadership development professionals, examining how their work fits into the jobs to be done for organizations today.

The results show that as organizations work to operationalize AI across every aspect of business, the pressure is mounting on those charged with leading learning and development to deliver fast, fluid, and future-focused learning that builds the collective intelligence of humans and machines.

In this report, we explore three objectives for the coming year and three strategies for learning and development and the C-suite to consider as they tackle those objectives.

Survey Highlights

1,159

L&D/HR professionals
and functional leaders

20,000+

Nearly half from organizations with
at least 20,000 employees

14+

More than 14 countries and across industries

51%

from organizations with annual revenue of at least $10 billion

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