Harvard ManageMentor Spark
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What’s New
Content and Curation
This Month: November 2025 – Selling Your Ideas
November 1st, 2025
To advance as a leader, you need to convince others to back your ideas. Learn how to win support for the initiatives, decisions, and strategies you champion.
HBR Magazine Plan – November/December 2025 – Stop Holding Yourself Back
October 2025
Become an Octopus Organization: How your company can adapt to a complex world.
Coming Soon
To provide you with more insight and time for change management planning, this section gives a high-level overview of updates we are working on for upcoming releases. The timeline and details for each update are subject to change.
Content and Curation
Upcoming This Month Feature Topics
Available on the 1st of the Month
| Month | Theme |
|---|---|
| December 2025 | Experimentation |
| January 2026 | Mental Health / Wellbeing |
| February 2026 | Strategy |
HBR Magazine Special Issue Plan – Winter 2025
November 2025
Video Removal
December 1st, 2025
We will be removing these videos from all applications on December 1st, 2025. As our company evolves, we are removing these videos to better reflect our present values and direction. These videos will be removed in all available languages.
Title: How to Handle an Over-Contributor During a Meeting.
Product IDs: 4748AV | 4746AV | 4747AV
Title: When Networking, First Build Rapport
Product IDs: 4848AV | 4849AV | 4847AV
We will also be removing the following assets. Please ensure you are using the Product ID remaining, and update any retiring Product IDs.
| Title | Retiring Product ID | Remaining Product ID |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Ways Cooperatives Can Shape the Future of AI | H08NXK | H08SJT |
| Set Your Committees Up for Success | H08NXO | H08SUP |
| Beyond Burnout | 5295AV | HV1408 |
These introduction podcasts will also be removed from our library:
- H045XK – Introducing Dear HBR:
- H0461E – Introducing Dear HBR:
AI Pathway Updates
November – December 2025
We will be updating 8 of our AI pathways between now and December and adding two new ones:
- EP: Experiment with Gen AI Successfully
- EP: Harness Agentic AI
Pathways getting updated:
- EP: How Generative AI is Transforming Work
- EP: Want a Creativity Boost? Try Gen AI.
- EP: Strengthen Your Skills with Gen AI
- EP: What Everyone Should Understand About AI
- EP: How to Recognize Bias in AI
- EP: Read This Before You Tackle Your First AI Project
- EP: Blockchain for Beginners
- EP: Navigating the Ethics of AI
Pathway Updates
November – December 2025
We will be updating a subset of our HBP-curated pathways between now and December. Review the complete list here.