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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
New Director of MBA Career Services Focuses on Power of Alumni Network
refers to as a "network job search" - is just the sort of strategy he's advising current MBA students to use as they confront today's considerably less hospitable market. "In this climate, students will need to work harder," Merrick states. "They're going to have to be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
finance course. I’m not a leader, but I am a good manager, and I can make decisions. I like to affiliate myself with smart, dynamic people who are creative. I like to make things happen, but I don’t need to be there when they hand out awards. My advice to today’s... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
paid sick leave and the flexibility to work from home, or even abroad. Our hourly employees, working in Rent the Runway’s warehouse, on the customer service team and in our retail stores, had to face life events like caring for a newborn,... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Ensuring That Students Can Pursue Their Dreams
operations job at GE to attend HBS. Sergio explains that the Michael J. and Mary C. Johnston Fellowship she received “gave me more flexibility and freedom in the first several years post-HBS to make some riskier decisions.” After... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
money,” Letelier says, and the grants that typically power nonprofits don’t typically offer organizations the flexibility of the financial products available to for-profit companies, which can mean everything from bootstrapping and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
four regional offices. Through a program instituted in 2006, many of these patent examiners were allowed to work from home up to four days a week, which gave them flexibility in their schedules. In 2011, the USPTO revamped its remote... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
young, Wiley was a pioneer in negotiating a flexible schedule for her public policy consulting work with Urban Systems Research and Engineering. "Of course, as a working parent, any choice you make is demanding," she cautions, remembering... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
incredible financial support because of alumni and friends of the School whose generosity has given us the flexibility to meet current needs. For this academic year, we’ve welcomed just over a thousand new students, and we’re really... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Turning Point: In Good Company
the flexibility to work from home. I remember feeling that I didn’t belong at the reunion among classmates with more conventional (and much more successful) corporate careers. And then in 2018, I unexpectedly found what I was looking for... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
In Pursuit of Academia
shows that, as people move between contexts where they experience different levels of status—something that is becoming increasingly frequent as organizations adopt more crossfunctional and flexible structures—these changes in status... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
pressure? “We try to emphasize that this is not easy,” says Beshears, who led the course with Senior Lecturer Andy Wasynczuk. “A big part of achieving some degree of success is having the flexibility to change your mind. That’s important... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lack of Energy: The Problem of Human Inertia
occurrence of problems such as overfishing.) Organizationally, Bazerman asserts that the U.S. government is hampered by bureaucratic fiefdoms with too little regulatory flexibility and a lack of collaboration across units and agencies.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
can’t solve this problem, she says, adding that some public policy initiatives need to be implemented, along with paid childcare and more flexible workplaces. Ackerley is passionate about closing the gender pension gap and furthering... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
their most critical projects. This flexible system avoids the activity/budget focus of traditional project planning and increases managers’ ability to achieve big-picture strategic objectives. How the Wise Decide: The Lessons of 21... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New Releases
edition of Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution. This highly acclaimed, landmark work introduced a framework that would help companies achieve global-scale efficiency, respond flexibly to national market differences, and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
Most alumni gifts go to the HBS Fund, which provides flexible resources the School can spend immediately on both core priorities and new initiatives. Your gifts support the people and programs that have a tremendous impact on business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
What’s Next for You?
way you work, not the work itself. Your goal may be to gain increased flexibility and a better balance between professional and personal pursuits. Networking and serendipity play a huge role. Who you know doesn’t matter as much as who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
GREENWALD: A savvy, successful approach that combines marketing tactics and psychological insight. Can Rachel win NBC's "Match Off"? Her story: how Rachel met Brad The veteran of several high-level marketing positions, Rachel Greenwald (MBA 1993) eventually sought a... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
thing that’s helpful for people who wish to invest in this space is to also be flexible as to the stage at which they will invest. My second largest position in a space company, most of this year was in a company called VIASAT which is a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
MBA curriculum, as well as a new prematriculation module on information technology. And in the elective curriculum, there’s a steady stream both of new courses and of new materials. We’ve built a significant degree of flexibility into our... View Details