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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company required more time on-site in North Carolina, she’s managed to scale... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- August 2017 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Flex Hungary: Launching Production (A)
By: Willy Shih
This case examines design choices in the construction of flow lines. Flow lines are a popular way of arranging production because they are simple and inherently efficient. Equipment or workstations are arranged according to the sequence of steps in which a product is... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Line-balancing; Flow Line; Conveyor-paced Line; Consumer Goods; Consumer Products; Production Management; Production Planning; Production Scheduling; Operations; Production; Management; Supply Chain; Design; Analysis; Goods and Commodities; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; European Union
Shih, Willy. "Flex Hungary: Launching Production (A)." Harvard Business School Case 618-002, August 2017. (Revised March 2020.)
- 20 Jan 2014
- News
After Your "Daddy Days" End
- 14 Apr 2020
- Video
Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Advaithi-Shih (Session 6)
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
The one benefit workers want more than anything
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Zooming into Remote Work: A Virtual Conversation
- 11 Mar 2020
- Video
Managing Through Crisis: How To Work Remotely
- January–February 2018
- Article
The New CEO Activists
By: Aaron K Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
Though corporations have been lobbying the government and making campaign donations for a long time now, in recent years a dramatic new trend has emerged in U.S. politics: CEOs are taking very public stands on thorny political issues that have nothing to do with their... View Details
Keywords: Government Policy; Rights; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Sustainability; Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Policy; Social Issues; Communication Intention and Meaning; United States
Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel. "The New CEO Activists." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 1 (January–February 2018): 78–89. (Winner of the 2019 HBR Warren Bennis Prize as best 2018 HBR article on leadership. Featured in the HBR Ideacast podcast and an HBR Webinar.)
- 06 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Parks Management is People Management
not yet becoming clear. This guided my decision to intern with the National Park Service (NPS). My objective was to test the portability of MBA principles to practical and timely resources challenges. The great news is that, half way... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- Research Summary
Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures
To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)
rich, dynamic, and representative of the world we live in. Coming to the program with an Engineering background I was ecstatic to flex my problem-solving skills in a different way through the program's rigorous case method style of... View Details
- 29 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
time is also effective. Employers could consider supplementing financial incentives with time-based rewards, like extra vacation time or flex days, or health perks, like gym... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
really flexed the model," says Shelman. This was in part due to KFC being owned by PepsiCo when it first came to China. PepsiCo was not a fast-food company, so Su was given more managerial freedom. Along with being lucky, Su is... View Details
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
Entrepreneurship in the world's two most populous nations, China and India, has through modern times been somewhat asleep. But now, says HBS professor Tarun Khanna in a new book, both societies "have woken up," and the results... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
she and Zuckerberg have implemented longer bereavement plans and more flex time for coping with life tragedies, policies which, if they spread to other companies, would offer a tangible payoff for all this... View Details
- 23 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
Fireside Chats with Harvard Faculty: A COVID-19 Symposium
Professor Dani Rodrik and Professor Debora Spar discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Global Economy and Globalization, as a whole. COVID-19: What We Learned in China View Video Flex CEO, Revathi Advaithi, and Professor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
In the early 1970s, as Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) graduated from HBS, Islam was flexing both religious and political muscles that had long been dormant. It came to a head with Iran’s 1979 revolution, an uprising against the ruling political... View Details
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Sarah Zia
Coming to HBS is... An adjustment, and it takes a bit to settle in. But once you get the hang of it, time starts to fly by. The first 6 weeks of the first semester felt like 6 years and the second 6 weeks felt like 6 minutes. What is your... View Details