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- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
overlapping geographic layers—from local to global—and the idea is to focus not on one layer but on many. Doing so fosters flexibility by helping companies adapt ideas about regional strategies to different... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 14 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
"It'll All Work Out": Two Alumni Discuss Balancing Marriage and Markets
keeping the geographic restraint ended up being really helpful." Charlie agrees. "While we were in school, we looked at so many things. But one of the biggest takeaways we learned was to make one decision that could serve as a... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
disentangle two distinct consequences of the geographic co-location of competitors in the same industry. Geographic co-location increases the ease with which "communities of practice" can form, and... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
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
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
exacerbated by the workplace flexibility of the COVID era has put increasing demands on businesses to offer or expand benefits that support family schedules. In this episode of Skydeck, contributor April White talks to Stephen Kramer (MBA... View Details
- 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
- Blog
When Generations Learn Together
experience and geographic exposure, and the preparation and insight from the professors and discussion leaders exceeded my expectations. Beyond the specifics of a case or technical skill improvement, I take away broad themes and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
difficult to manage and prone to conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. An inherent lack of flexibility compounds these challenges, because most projects involve binary “go/no-go” decisions. Esty uses the forthcoming... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
employees will protest or leave if they tried to do that. And a lot of companies were able to hire from a broad geographic scope that they wouldn’t have otherwise done outside of the pandemic. What do you even do about people who are in... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
research suggests that the random coefficients logit is a highly flexible model that overcomes the problems of the homogeneous logit by allowing for differences in tastes across individuals. The purpose of this paper is to show that this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
reliability and value. Advertising professionals carefully crafted their copy. Nathaniel Fowler advised in his 1897 publicity manual. “There are some advertising lines, old as they may be, that will always live. . . . As the shortest distance between two View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
enhanced creativity and reduced intergroup bias. In contrast, the present work uncovers a potential downside of foreign experiences: increased immoral behavior. We propose that broad foreign experiences (i.e., experiences in multiple foreign countries) foster not only... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
corruption geographic segments. In contrast, there is no relation between residual anticorruption ratings, sales growth, and changes in profitability in low corruption geographic segments. The net effect on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
give, and they avoid the ask itself. In this paper, we examine whether a reluctance to give may arise even when such explicit flexibility is absent. We investigate whether merely alerting individuals to an upcoming prosocial ask—that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
the world that will exist at that time. The navy is clear eyed about the challenges climate change poses. It knows that the effects of a warmer world will expand the geographic scope of its mission and increase demand for its military and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
reimagine an MBA Program that both embraces and overcomes a geographically dispersed class. The hybrid capabilities we developed in 2021 will serve as the foundation to our efforts, and we’ll explore how we might leverage our regional... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
range of industries continue to implement radically flexible work practices, allowing most, if not all, of their employees to work from anywhere. Why? They understand that geographic View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
down, it is likely that hybrid remote arrangements will become the norm at workplaces globally. It is important to design hybrid-remote work arrangements that also allow for geographic flexibility and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries