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- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
control, and it’s up to you to optimize those factors. Planning ahead, communicating, anticipating, and being flexible are all important. “The importance of building teams and relationships that stay calm during crises. I remember during... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
equity is a very good business to be in. I think finance generally provides an enormous number of opportunities for young people. It’s a business that highly rewards and appreciates very smart, very analytic, very driven, and highly articulate people. In finance, 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
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
Project. "In order to innovate in our educational programs to develop the next generation of leaders," Hess said, "the school requires flexible funding to invest in innovation. That's an important part of what this campaign will help to... 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
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
greater flexibility in her work as well as in her lifestyle. One of her clients, General Electric, soon hired her as a program manager in the Corporate Environmental Programs department at its Fairfield, Connecticut, headquarters. During... View Details
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
Leaders of publicly held companies are required to exercise their best judgment in pursuit of the interests of the business, and this gives them enormous flexibility to make whatever choice they see fit. This a test that cannot be... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
terms "a culture unfiltered by economic scarcity." In the Long Tail, money is made by such things as avoiding inventory, producing to order, letting customers do the work, pricing creatively and flexibly to various customers,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
“Business as Usual, In a Different Way” – Creating an Impactful Remote Internship at Actis
filled with unexpected wins. “We wouldn’t choose to make the program virtual because of the value of face-to-face trainings and engagement, but now we have a degree of flexibility we can work with,” said Mason. “Summer Associates were... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
flexibility afforded by a smaller community with dedicated facilities (September entry MBA students didn't return to campus until mid-January) allowed us to experiment," Schlesinger says. Students were also exposed to a broader array of... 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
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
knows they stem from financial and strategy decisions, but also decisions the company is 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... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- Profile
Ben Faw
“Maybe some people can chart their lives five, ten, fifteen years out,” Ben says. “But me? I think some of the most exciting opportunities come as a surprise. Flexibility is one of the virtues of the HBS approach. I’m comfortable not just... View Details
- 30 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Reflecting on my service
early weeks of March, I found myself drawing on lessons learned from the Marines: adapting to continuously shifting circumstances, seizing the initiative to combat the evolving virus, building and leading teams to flexibly solve the... View Details