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- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Long Days and Flexible Time Stall Women’s Careers
- Article
Incentives in Discrete-Time MDP Processes with Flexible Step-Size
By: Jerry R. Green and Francoise Schoumaker
Green, Jerry R., and Francoise Schoumaker. "Incentives in Discrete-Time MDP Processes with Flexible Step-Size." Review of Economic Studies 47, no. 3 (April 1980): 557–565.
- 21 Jun 2021
- News
As Boston Offices Become Busier, Workers Want Flexibility
- 2011
- Working Paper
Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation
By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis
We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation of deceased donor kidneys to patients on a waiting list, in a fair and efficient way. We focus on policies that have the same form as the one currently used in the U.S. In...
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Fairness;
Policy;
Health Disorders;
Marketplace Matching;
Performance Effectiveness;
Rank and Position;
Health Industry;
United States
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis. "Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-025, October 2011.
- 09 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis
- 01 Feb 2022
- News
4 Ways Managers Can Increase Flexibility Without Losing Productivity
- 28 Oct 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Fairness, Efficiency, and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation
- 30 Aug 2012
- News
Flexible Work Schedules are Good for Business, Expert Says
- January–February 2013
- Article
Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation
By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis
We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation of deceased donor kidneys to patients on a waiting list, in a fair and efficient way. We focus on policies that have the same form as the one currently used in the United...
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Keywords:
Health Care Policy;
Healthcare;
Fairness;
Resource Allocation;
Policy;
Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Specialties;
Health Industry;
United States
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis. "Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation." Operations Research 61, no. 1 (January–February 2013): 73–87.
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
requirements are in a constant state of flux, according to HBS professor Marco Iansiti and assistant professor Alan MacCormack. With Italian colleague Roberto Verganti, the pair coauthored a 1999 working paper, "Developing Products on 'Internet Time': The Anatomy of a...
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Judith A. Ross
- 28 May 2020
- News
Private equity requests for flexibility may backfire during pandemic
- Article
Agile Product Development: Managing Development Flexibility in Uncertain Environments
By: S. Thomke and D. Reinersten
Thomke, S., and D. Reinersten. "Agile Product Development: Managing Development Flexibility in Uncertain Environments." California Management Review 41, no. 1 (Fall 1998): 8–30. (Translated into German and reprinted in Harvard Business Manager (May 1999). Also reprinted in Engineering Management Review 28, no. 1 (2000), special issue on Strategy and New Product Design.)
- Jan 10 2023
- Interview
Nurture Flexibility in Yourself, Your Team, and Your Strategy
- 28 May 2024
- In Practice
Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible
will create barriers at a time when many firms are actively seeking to trim their workforce. Flexibility and willingness to be available for opportunities as they arise will be a differentiator given the few offers they will be making....
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by Rachel Layne
- April 2023
- Article
A Field Experiment on Subgoal Framing to Boost Volunteering: The Trade-off Between Goal Granularity and Flexibility
By: Aneesh Rai, Marissa A. Sharif, Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman and Angela L. Duckworth
Research suggests that breaking overarching goals into more granular subgoals is beneficial for goal progress. However, making goals more granular often involves reducing the flexibility provided to complete them, and recent work shows that flexibility can also be...
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Rai, Aneesh, Marissa A. Sharif, Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, and Angela L. Duckworth. "A Field Experiment on Subgoal Framing to Boost Volunteering: The Trade-off Between Goal Granularity and Flexibility." Journal of Applied Psychology 108, no. 4 (April 2023): 621–634.
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Labor Supply Flexibility and Portfolio Choice in a Life-Cycle Model
By: Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton and William Samuelson
Bodie, Zvi, Robert C. Merton, and William Samuelson. "Labor Supply Flexibility and Portfolio Choice in a Life-Cycle Model." Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control 16, nos. 3-4 (July–October 1992): 427–449.
- August 1995
- Teaching Note
Eli Lilly and Company: The Flexible Facility Decision (1993) TN
By: Gary P. Pisano
Teaching Note for (9-694-074).
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Pharmaceutical Industry
How Fast and Flexible Do You Want Your Information, Really?
Almost all executives want more and faster information, and almost all companies are racing to provide it. What many of them are overlooking is that the real aim should not be faster information but faster decision making, and those aren't the same things. Executives...
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- January–February 2023
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Rethink Your Employee Value Proposition: Offer Your People More Than Just Flexibility
By: Mark Mortensen and Amy C. Edmondson
A lot of leaders believe that the formula for attracting and keeping talent is simple: Just ask people what they want and give it to them. The problem is, that approach tends to address only the material aspects of jobs that are top of employees’ minds at the moment,...
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Compensation and Benefits;
Retention;
Recruitment;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Satisfaction
Mortensen, Mark, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Rethink Your Employee Value Proposition: Offer Your People More Than Just Flexibility." Harvard Business Review 101, no. 1 (January–February 2023): 45–49.