Flexibility - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2016
News

Prima Datarina

with a long history in the airline and hotel industries now gaining traction in the arts world. By analyzing existing data, Hodges and her team have the flexibility to adjust ticket prices on a weekly, or even daily, basis to smooth the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2022
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Business as a Force for Good in Society

create an institute such as this, which will generate ideas with impact, is made possible by gifts to the HBS Fund. This support each year from alumni and friends provides the flexible resources needed to fuel the School’s core activities... View Details

24 Jul 2020
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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
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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
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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

01 Mar 2023
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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

Keywords: bipolar disorder; mental health; wellness; HBS community

02 Jan 2020
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Empowering Rural Communities

nor would it be limited by the financial restrictions that govern nonprofit electrical cooperatives. Instead, it would have both the incentive and the flexibility to bring renewable power to communities that would benefit economically... View Details

Keywords: April White; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Apr 1998
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Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered

pioneer in the study of flexible manufacturing systems. A major component of his work was a comprehensive study of more than half of these systems in use worldwide. The project had a significant impact on improving the management of... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Case Study: Growing the Family Business

(Zoonar RF/Thinkstock; iStock) Sweet Kiddles is a new concept in center-based childcare. Unlike traditional centers where parents must commit to fixed full- or part-time schedules, Sweet Kiddles’ flexible scheduling allows families to use... View Details

Keywords: childcare; Finance

01 Mar 2004
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HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania

HBS alumni excursion was organized by Global Adrenaline, an adventure travel company based in the Chicago area. The overwhelming response to the trip allowed Nancy Collins (MBA ’99), our trip leader and Global Adrenaline’s founder and president, to demonstrate her... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 May 2018
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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
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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

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
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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

11 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)

perfect combination of strength, cardio, and flexibility training. Also, being outdoors is great for my mind and my soul!" Follow Brittani Rettig on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GRITbyBrit. For more information on Grit by Brit, go to... View Details

Keywords: fitness; wellness; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2003
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report

in June 2006. The world is certainly more complicated these days, and it has become increasingly challenging to host these events around the globe. Thank you for your patience and flexibility as we wrestle with the various forces of... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1998
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Tech Trekker

someone like me who had 'different' ideas," says Lang, who eventually became vice president of software and marketing. The company was also flexible - and smart - enough to allow Lang, already the mother of two children, to bring her... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 2008
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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

01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters

Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details