Flexibility - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

software deployments, and new coordinated routines across teams. The best can use this as an opportunity to experiment and learn where technology can deliver service or enable more flexible work arrangements. To learn more, read Are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

January 15, 2019
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Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?

By: Josh Baron

The legacy of Vanguard founder John Bogle has brought attention to the transformative influence of ownership structures within the business world. Bogle's revolutionary insight into the limitations of active fund management led to the widespread adoption of index... View Details

Keywords: Ownership Type; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strength and Weakness; Competitive Advantage

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10 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

Besides, prior studies have shown that other factors motivate self-employed people more than salary. Their bottom lines are not entirely measured in dollars, Kerr says. “It’s about being your own boss, spending more time with your family, having more View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

organizations to flexibly respond by devising new arrangements and renegotiating the old ones. Salient examples requiring some truly complex negotiations include the convergence of computing, telecommunications, and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

to take people away from what you sold them on, that's hard. A fascinating issue for the students has been, how do you square the need to do that with the need to be flexible and pivot?" Eisenmann was surprised by students'... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

quality, low cost, short lead-time and flexible production. And Toyota's operating system—the Toyota Production System—had been widely credited for Toyota's sustained leadership in manufacturing performance. Furthermore, Toyota had been... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

you can do to shape this idea of your responsibilities within the firm.” At the end of the day, companies need to consider whether strong incentives designed to boost productivity—and keep workers locked in on the task at hand—also leave View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

20 Jan 2022
Op-Ed

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

support they need. For example, a team member may wish to have flexibility in their work schedules when school starts and ends to get their children settled. The ability to schedule meetings around those times can enable them to do their... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

primary objectives of screening investment or negotiating with investors. These agencies had the flexibility to attract personnel with the marketing expertise successful investment promotion requires. In addition, they were able to obtain... View Details

Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint

01 May 2020
What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

otherwise wasted on commuting (2) by avoiding the office, I also avoid colleagues who, in the past, inappropriately commented on my appearance, asked me out, or told me to my face that they would never work for a woman, (3) the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

workers have continued working remotely as these companies started to resume normal operations, and flexible work-from-home arrangements are likely to become a permanent policy after the crisis. Consistent with past research, this forced... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

benefits for caregivers—if only employees would use them. While 65 percent of employers said they offered flexible working arrangements—the most common caregiving benefit—only 39 percent of employees said they have used the benefit.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

supervisor; the individual contribution is harder to measure. Finally, in open source people have greater flexibility when moving from project to project, building up knowledge and "tools" as they go. By contrast, in commercial... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

says. "There has been some talk at conferences where there seems to be an understanding that these models are too restrictive." Widening The View So the professors created a new discrete choice model called Flexible Substitution... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

years. Similarly, Digital Equipment Corporation couldn't match the flexibility of the personal computer assemblers' processes, Sears couldn't match the inventory turns and low prices of the discount retailers, and so on. It is important... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

to keep up or start questioning their own performance.” 3. Be extra flexible The beauty of classic remote work is the breathing room for employees to take a walk, throw in a load of laundry, or start dinner, all while getting more work... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

proximity that clusters provide, companies can do things together without formal ownership or legal relationships. And this kind of flexibility opens up more possibilities for change and dynamism, which are crucial ingredients in a modern... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

yes." The consolidation phase is the time for measurement and rewards. The organization must be ready to make changes to the change plan, based on an honest assessment of what's working and what isn't. It is at these moments that the View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

04 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

the promise of eventual reward of candy and soda: They not only completed fewer tasks, but also made more mistakes, which downgraded their performance. “We'd expect to find that being more flexible in monitoring Internet use could... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

share and then progressing through this wheel of retailing is in the past. Smaller retailers are gaining influence by playing in very special niches where they don’t have to win with low prices ” Nick C said: “Perhaps it is a function of expanding consumer power and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

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