Flexibility - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 29

involves designing, launching, and managing teams. And yet teams are fickle. Even as teams become more common at all levels of organizations, a shocking number of them fail to live up to their potential or even to deliver at all. Teams remain the most View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

philanthropic efforts but more often helping communities through core business practices, such as gaining flexibility to hire and fire from the union by raising wages and increasing training or helping laid-off employees start small... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

has chosen to examine make them difficult to manage and generate conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. Indeed, he points out that managers often forgo large, risky projects—even those that are expected to add shareholder value. An inherent lack of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

unintentionally undermined the intended admissions policy—led to the elimination of Boston’s walk zones. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52937 May 2017 American Economic Review Stable and Strategy-Proof Matching with View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 18

Ayal, and Dan Ariely Abstract In three experiments, we examine whether individuals cheat more when other individuals can benefit from their cheating (they do) and when the number of beneficiaries of wrongdoing is larger (they do). Our results indicate that people use... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

mental flexibility that enables a manager to negotiate, adapt, and modify the layers of competitive advantage and various strategic imperatives that are part of any multinational company. "We talk about building a matrix into the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

data, is computationally light and allows for flexible substitution patterns. We apply the model to a data set containing browsing and purchase information from a retailer stocking over 500 products, recover the elasticity matrix, and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

your goal is a great marketing plan or a brilliant idea for a software system, it doesn't matter if it took 2 hours or 20 hours. The client is paying for the quality of the solution. Q: What do you think about the issue of flexible work... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22

virtues of vertical integration with the flexibility of sourcing. Such arrangements are increasingly discussed in the operations literature and in practice. This case provides students an opportunity to do an in-depth analysis of such an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

regular business hours. In fact, the average communication share outside of regular hours for men was nearly 14 percent, versus nearly 9 percent for women. “Prior literature shows that women have the least flexible schedules because they... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

Alignable’s June survey suggested that PPP applications from minority-owned businesses were twice as likely to be rejected. Mills says that future loans should be simpler, easier to access, and provide more flexible terms to encourage... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service

17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

in tastes. Our framework allows us to characterize matching equilibrium in a flexible way that includes as special cases the classic fully- and non-transferable utility models, collective models, and settings with taxes on transfers,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

can take years, it's too soon to determine the results of GSK's efforts, but preliminary indications are positive, according to Lerner. "Glaxo has very deliberately said let's try to move to a situation where there's real accountability for what people are doing,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

exit in two or three years, they will probably need to hold investments for a longer period of time, he said. To invest in Europe, you need flexibility above all else, the panelists agreed. For an industry that prides itself on local,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

survivors such as eBay, has to do with a work style that allows you to be enormously productive, professional, able to turn on a dime, and be open to change—because that's what many of those companies had to do. What we learn is View Details

Keywords: by Staff

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

employees so they would be viable candidates for jobs long after they left the company. It developed systems to promote employee innovation as well as offering flexible work options such as part time work so employees could focus on... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

02 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

flexibility of executive compensation is so enormous that it's always possible to find loopholes. It can even create distorting incentives that make the problem worse." In 1993, for example, Congress imposed a $1 million cap on CEO... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

28 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

that one will fall short of forecast by 50 percent while another sells twice what was expected. "We just don't know in advance which ones will be those two," he said. On the plus side, LEGO's strength is flexible production.... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

mechanism." The basic concept is straightforward enough: A cap is set on carbon emissions. Companies can then buy and sell a limited number of emission permits, which allows them flexibility in their pollution levels, and at the same... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607010 Note on Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Reimbursement Account Vendors Harvard Business School Note 307-034 Purchase this note:... View Details