Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning Announces Integration into Microsoft Viva Learning Platform

New integration will enable learning in the flow of work for Microsoft Viva users.

Boston, MA – July 14, 2021 – Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning today announced an integration with Microsoft’s new technology platform, Microsoft Viva, an employee experience platform bringing together communications, content, learning, and artificial intelligence into a highly engaging work experience. This collaboration will allow Microsoft to integrate one of the world’s best leadership content and learning resources into the Viva employee experience platform.

Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning, turns the most important and provocative ideas influencing business—fueled by the latest thinking in Harvard Business School, Harvard Business Review and other world-renowned experts—into impactful and actionable skill building and learning experiences that help build strong leaders across organizations. Viva customers will now be able to access the extensive leadership and management learning resources from the Harvard Business Publishing collection.

“We are excited to make our learning experiences accessible through Microsoft Viva. This will enable clients to learn in the flow of work and access the most critical ideas and learning experiences shaping leaders today and tomorrow,” said Ian Fanton, Executive Vice President and Head of Corporate Learning at Harvard Business Publishing.

“We are pleased to partner with Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning by bringing their diverse learning content library into the flow of work with Viva Learning. Harvard Business Publishing’s contextualized industry knowledge and subject matter expertise represent a critical learning category that our customers highly value. With Viva Learning we’re making this content easily accessible and sharable within the apps and tools people already use during their workday, and together we’re empowering people and organizations to meet challenges and thrive.”
• Seth Patton, general manager, Microsoft 365 Next Gen Productivity & Employee Experience

Microsoft has developed Viva Learning to be an extensible platform – enabling connections throughout the learning ecosystem so users can easily discover, share, recommend, and learn from content libraries across the organization. This integration will provide learners with an on-demand and engaging experience for leadership and management development—allowing organizations to get in-the-moment access to the ideas shaping tomorrow, helping to build future-ready leaders.

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About Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning:

With more than 25 years of success delivering dynamic learning experiences to the world’s biggest brands, Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning partners with Global 2000 companies to co-create leadership-development solutions that align with strategy and engage learners. The company combines unrivaled subject-matter expertise and scale with unmatched flexibility and contextualization to bring the right programs to the right learners in the most useful ways. From highly focused executive leadership programs to enterprise-wide engagements for thousands of global employees, each learning experience leverages the remarkable depth and breadth of Harvard Business School and Harvard Business Review resources, industry experts, technology-enabled and user-friendly solutions, and a creative, collaborative mind-set to help clients discover something new. The result is stronger companies better prepared to meet their challenges and thrive both today and in the future. Harvard Business Publishing is comprised of three market groups—Higher Education, Corporate Learning, and Harvard Business Review Group—and is an affiliate of Harvard Business School. To learn more, visit www.harvardbusiness.org.

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