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- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
and have more time and flexibility for her family. Once priorities are clear, it becomes much easier to look for work/family combinations that will be satisfying now and will provide the platform for different options in the future.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
supports strategic initiatives such as MBA innovation and new course development, lifelong learning for alumni, and new AI tools to enhance student learning) or the new Presidential Priorities Fund (that provides flexible support to meet... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
HBS classroom experience and use HBS Online’s platform, giving the participants flexibility to fit the weekly coursework into their schedules. Those who take all four courses will earn a certificate of completion from HBS/HGSE. “We have... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
pursue the opportunities available to her. I recently had dinner with the se-nior vice president of human resources at a large Fortune 500 company. He said, “Everything that the women employees want are things that I want, too, in View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
professor Sumantra Ghoshal. In The Differentiated Network: Organizing Multinational Corporations for Value Creation, Nohria and Ghoshal assert that the traditional, hierarchical "spoke-and-hub" forms of organization do not provide the View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
pursued a looser, more flexible organizational strategy drawing on employees' experience with previous generations of products rather than formal training. Although these differences became more pronounced between 1985 and 1995, the... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Tyler Teykl (MBA 2017)
the academic mindset to be competitive with the GMAT and my application, and 2) it provided clarity on my career planning for the next 4-5 years. How long was your deferral (2,3, or 4 years)? I chose to defer for three years. The View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
and entertainment had to broaden their searches.” To support students facing this uncertainty, the flexible resources of the HBS Fund enabled the School to triple funding for its Summer Fellowship Program and open it up to graduating as... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
parent partners, and community volunteers have been working so many hours and going above and beyond to meet the needs of families and seniors. They have been flexible and understanding and creative, whether it is delivering diapers and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
strong as ever, even if their lives have shifted focus. Kim Ulrich Whelan (MBA '84), who heads the Boston office of a consulting company that places people in flexible work arrangements, seemed to sum it up for many: "I want to make a... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
as follows: First, bumping of applicants occurs when one job seeker is slotted into a lower-paying job or pushed into unemployment by another applicant who is more skilled. Second, less able workers are more likely to be unemployed because high-ability workers are more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
constraints and fears that prevent executives from taking a big-picture, strategic view. Alumni Bulletin: There are some strong generational differences at play, with younger generations prioritizing flexibility over almost anything else.... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
first demonstrate that such a model is flexible enough to capture a wide range of heterogeneity structures (both linear and non-linear), thus being applicable to a variety of behaviors and contexts. We also demonstrate the model's ability... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
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
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
HBS Fund for Leadership & Innovation Annual giving to the HBS Fund is a critical source of flexible funding that has an immediate impact on the School's priorities. This collective support, led by HBS Fund Chairs Judy (MBA 1983) and Steve... View Details
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College Students | MBA
every career, every industry, and every passion. Take the next step in exploring business and sign up for Peek into Business. Peek into Business (virtual experience) Thinking About an MBA? An MBA degree equips you with the skills and View Details
- 27 Apr 2018
- News
Placing Nurses Where They Are Needed
Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) is CEO of Nightingale Nurses, a service that provides traveling nurses to hospitals and health care facilities across the United States. In this interview, he talks about the advantages of flexibility and the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers
alienated from the organization and may leave. The lack of policies to support employees' personal lives in this new model, such as high-quality on-site day care, also has negative consequences. Remote workers who may have been willing to trade View Details