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— Leadership Learning Ecosystem Building the foundations for lifelong learning

• Harvard Manage Mentor (HMM) is a set of lessons on more than 40 topics, in- cluding assessments. At the end of each lesson, you will be able to create your action plan about what you would want to improve in the next 60 days. Upon completion, you will be granted a certifi- cate and a digital badge that you can dis- play on social media including LinkedIn to show your accomplishments. • Harvard Manage Mentor Spark (or HMM Spark) contains articles, podcasts and videos from HMM, featured lessons and the full library of Harvard Business Re- view articles. The big differentiator of HMM Spark is that it is powered by De- greed, and as such offers us the possibil- ity to create our own learning paths, en- hancing the Harvard content with other internal and external sources. All the Cor- porate learning solutions like the IGNITE programs and the curiosity sprints are built on Spark. Soon yours can be too, as you will also be able to build your own learning programs with Spark! listening to a podcast on a leadership topic that pertains to you. You are in the driver’s seat, choosing what to learn and when to learn it. We hope this will become a new way of approaching learning during daily work and instilling a habit for life- long learning. With both HMM and HMM Spark you are just a click away from reading an article or

Launched two months ago, our new Lead- ership Learning Ecosystem is starting to get attention from our colleagues all over the world. Great positive feedback has been received, and the Business Areas and Corporate teams are excited to work to- gether on continuing to enhance the learn- ing offering for all ABB leaders. The ecosystem is more than just a learning platform. It is also a new philosophy of learning that we have coined “Learn. Con- nect. Grow.” It is about learning with more content available ever than before, any- time, anywhere. Connecting with col- leagues, guest speakers, business leaders and experts. And this connection can take place both virtually as well as face-to-face. With the new ecosystem, you can grow personally and grow your business by ap- plying the learnings. As you get to know the ecosystem, it might be helpful to understand the differ- ence between Harvard Manage Mentor and Harvard Manage Mentor Spark and how they complement each other: