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- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
competitors. He also contends that downturns can provide a little flexibility because the pressure to deliver short-term financial results is lessened. When all companies are reporting poor results, acting to make your company look a... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 11 Oct 2023
2+2 Program and Admissions Information Session
Do you know where an MBA can take you? Open your mind to the breadth of career opportunities available in business and feel the flexibility of the MBA degree. Come learn more about the MBA program at HBS including the 2+2 Program, a... View Details
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Faculty & Research - Business History
Inclusive Alliances: America Must Rediscover the Ideological Flexibility That Helped It Win the Cold War By: Jeremy Friedman 2024 Working Paper Health, Human Capital Development and the Longevity of Japanese Elites Since 710 By: Tom... View Details
- Web
Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
Koo. Firm-Induced Migration Paths and Strategic Human-Capital Outcomes (pdf) , Management Science (forthcoming). With Tarun Khanna and Victoria Sevcenko. Work-From-Anywhere: The Productivity Effects of Geographical Flexibility (pdf) ,... View Details
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
followed by flexible execution. McDonald says that might seem like the reverse of a good strategy—shouldn’t a new firm be flexible at the beginning to see what works? But he says focused selection earlier is... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 22 Nov 2023
2+2 Program and Admissions Information Session
Do you know where an MBA can take you? Open your mind to the breadth of career opportunities available in business and feel the flexibility of the MBA degree. Come learn more about the MBA program at HBS including the 2+2 Program, a... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
smallest being first in line.” (Subsequently, as a result of public criticism, Shake Shack and Ruth’s Chris returned their PPP loan proceeds.) In early June, Congress passed and the President signed the Paycheck Protection Program View Details
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
must discover the right design and identity through experimentation. Both design change and identity change require management attention, which is a limited resource. So changing both at once and quickly is hard. An organization’s design is often more View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Planning a Class Session - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
process that enables greater flexibility in the discussion. Preparation should begin with the identification of a small number of core learning objectives for the session, which frame the development of a teaching plan. "Elements of... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?
large required up-front payments to help make insurance coverage more affordable. Legacy insurers are often using systems that evolved from the traditional approach of hand-processing contracts and checks, which makes adapting to the View Details
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Women at HBS - Alumni
Werk , founded by Anna Auerbach (MBA 2010) and Annie Dean (a recovering Wall Street attorney), Werk makes companies flexible. Their technology puts flexibility insights and data into the hands of companies to help them work smarter. For... View Details
- 07 Jul 2011
- What Do You Think?
So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?
investment, for example)." As C. J. Cullinane put it, "we have to be adaptable and flexible but Too much adaptability can lead to lack of direction " RT said that there is "No shame in revising ideas—publicly and to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting
making around culture and values. “We're very committed to having a modern, diverse workforce and so we're embracing and celebrating hybrid work so that we can give people the flexibility that allows those groups, particularly women and... View Details
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
they couldn’t believe what they saw, as customers gave little gifts to the ladies and said they have never forgotten March 11 and were so grateful for what the Yakult Ladies did for them at that time,” Takeuchi says. “Employees at all levels should feel encouraged to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Matthew Young
where I had the opportunity to pursue many strategic priorities including the sale of our team to HBS Alumni Josh Harris (MBA 1990). Did 2+2 change your path or alter your post-undergraduate plans? The 2+2 program allowed me to have View Details
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
managers themselves to work with the data. That meant creating a flexible analytics system that could not only adapt to real-time business changes but one that managers felt comfortable using. “He didn’t want to be the bottleneck. It took... View Details
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HBR Classics - Alumni
Leadership Team - Complementary Strengths or Competing Agendas , Stephen A. Miles, Michael D. Watkins Picking the Right Transition Strategy , Michael D. Watkins Seven Transformations of Personal Leadership , David Rooke, William R. Torbet Work Life Balance Embracing... View Details
- 21 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree
integrated across the economy and lets you move between legal and business careers. You can pursue careers in the private, public, and non-profit sectors as well as the government. The flexibility built into the program gives you three... View Details
- 27 Sep 2023
2+2 Program and Admissions Information Session
Do you know where an MBA can take you? Open your mind to the breadth of career opportunities available in business and feel the flexibility of the MBA degree. Come learn more about the MBA program at HBS including the 2+2 Program, a... View Details
- September 2014 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling
By: Ethan Bernstein, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats and Luke Hassall
With 24,000 staff and over 300 stores, Belk Inc. sought to replace its entirely manual labor scheduling system with an automated software solution from Reflexis. Belk hoped the upgrade would simplify scheduling, reduce time employees spent in non-customer-facing roles,... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Scheduling; Local Autonomy; Automation; Metrics; Organizational Change; Human Resource Management; Process Improvement; Performance Measurement; Transparency; Southern United States; Retailing; Department Stores; System Outsourced Services; Employee Relationship Management; Selection and Staffing; Change Management; Governance Controls; Resource Allocation; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Applications and Software; Family Business; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Bernstein, Ethan, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats, and Luke Hassall. "Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling." Harvard Business School Case 415-023, September 2014. (Revised February 2017.)