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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
information technology can lead to more flexible organizational structures and innovative management control systems. These ideas appear in her recent casebook Managing in an Information Age. Professor F. Warren McFarlan is currently... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
difficult to manage and prone to conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. An inherent lack of flexibility compounds these challenges, because most projects involve binary “go/no-go” decisions. Esty uses the forthcoming... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
requirements with life obligations and to persuade managers to adopt these custom-fit work strategies to improve their bottom line. Telling the stories of people at companies like JetBlue, Ernst & Young, and Best Buy, the authors discuss new twists on traditional View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
led in the development of the i-lab, which will also serve as a community resource for residents of the surrounding Allston neighborhood. Curriculum innovation for second-year MBAs brings the introduction of the quarter system, which gives faculty more View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
issues that contribute to turnover. The company has also recently started applying relationship management to former applicants and current employees. Morris has long understood the ways shift changes, small, incremental wage increases, and lack of View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
in the Hermosa neighborhood of Chicago made up of large, open-classroom spaces called Pods for traditional class periods, with up to 60 students, and broken into subjects based on personal learning data. Three teachers support each Pod, and the setup allows them to be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
function. One important element will be time-based pricing that stimulates demand when renewables are producing abundant electricity. Additionally, electrification of whole new sectors such as transportation (through electric vehicles) or heating (through heat pumps)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
can be adapted to a range of content and uses. "Some alumni have told us that they're interested in a forum for real-world challenges like US health care and water scarcity, or life-stage issues like estate planning and returning to work," she says. "It's a very... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
now provides nearly three-quarters of the flexible funding available to principals in the Palo Alto school district. “Most of the band members either have or had kids in Palo Alto schools, so that’s a huge motivator,” says Scheel. “But... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
supports strategic initiatives such as MBA innovation and new course development, lifelong learning for alumni, and new AI tools to enhance student learning) or the new Presidential Priorities Fund (that provides flexible support to meet... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
HBS classroom experience and use HBS Online’s platform, giving the participants flexibility to fit the weekly coursework into their schedules. Those who take all four courses will earn a certificate of completion from HBS/HGSE. “We have... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
pursue the opportunities available to her. I recently had dinner with the se-nior vice president of human resources at a large Fortune 500 company. He said, “Everything that the women employees want are things that I want, too, in View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
initiatives such as field learning, the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem, HBX, and joint degree programs with other Harvard schools,” says Melnick. Philanthropy is essential to the School’s financial health, providing the security and View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
Sachdev (MBA 2013) found that the companies that thrived shared five common traits. In a recent working paper, Lal and Sachdev lay out these best practices, which include an open and flexible regulatory structure, business models that... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
this decade, it is clear that the industry thrives on its extraordinary flexibility and ability to take risks. The recent actions of private-equity groups that are likely to have the broadest societal impact were initially fraught with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
solution is more robust? How they answered the question: “Being flexible proved to be the most effective path forward for us,” Jurist-Rosner says. Wellthy offers a range of pricing models—all informed by utilization data. The PEPM pricing... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
The company has raised about $500,000 in funding so far and is readying a Series A round. The Question: Unger and her team at Nix built the biosenser as an analog system, differentiated from the growing wearables market by its thin, View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Flexible Teams to Do the Best Work of Their Lives By Brian Elliot (MBA 2008), Sheela Subramanian (MBA 2011), and Helen Kupp (MBA 2015) Wiley The way we work has changed. The era of toiling from nine-to-five, five-days-a-week in the office... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
approaches to problem solving. That can be useful, but the downside is that you probably won’t get the kind of cognitive flexibility you need to build an effective top management team. For senior executives, it is also important to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Going Forward
to improve the perception of HBS and business in the world; to engage with the University in mutually beneficial ways; and to build the case for flexible funding that would support innovation at the School. On all these dimensions we have... View Details