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- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
are younger. Most of the women I have interviewed say, "The time that I most want flexibility in my work, the time I most want to be staying at home instead of traveling, is when my children are teenagers." And so you can see,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
and wanted to provide new hires with leadership opportunities. Equally important, the limited partners could now have some flexibility in their commitments. At about the same time, the firm confronted the problem of sustaining Greylock's... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
The founders envisioned extending their matching solutions to help enterprises staff projects with a mix of current employees and external experts, hypothesizing that the “future of work” would involve more flexible employment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
engine for the extraordinary motivation and commitment demanded by creativity. As organizations become increasingly diverse and their boundaries flexible and amorphous, the notion of what brings people together to act as one body becomes... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
that are calling themselves the longevity pledge, pledging that you're not going to use ageist stereotypes in your marketing, that you're going to integrate older workers into your workforce and not have mandatory retirement. They may want more View Details
- 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
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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
taking place around them,” Jay contends. 50 Patriotic subjects (frequently seen on clipper ship trade cards) featured images of the American eagle and Uncle Sam; the latter often played the part of the highly energetic American salesman. “The graphic View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
education at that point. There were certainly more lucrative offers to consider, a return to McKinsey among them, but Singer opted instead for a part-time position with a kids’ online storytelling startup that gave him the mobility and View Details
- 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
- First Look
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
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
steady stream both of new courses and of new materials. We've built a significant degree of flexibility into our curriculum and thus see less of a need for large-scale change. I think the biggest issue and opportunity is globalization.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
and our profit centers to be as flexible as the small companies they’re competing against. So that led to a system where we operate more like a partnership than a very structured, bureaucratic company. It’s a very flat organization where... View Details
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2.4 Disciplinary Process | MBA
senior staff member, and one administrator to the Board (the Administrator), who is a non-voting member. The individuals who serve in these roles may change from case to case as there are more standing members of the CRB available. This allows for View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
motivation (Study 3) and greater ability to justify their dishonest behavior (Study 4). Finally, a field study constructively replicates these effects and demonstrates that individuals who work in more creative positions are also more morally View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
and moving some activities online when the virus becomes more widespread (as happened in early November). We also transitioned many of our Executive Education programs into a virtual delivery model leveraging the Live Studio technology pioneered by HBX. The operating... 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
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
Motor Company was founded in 1903. Ford was not a young man. At 40, he was the same age that Watson was when he took control of C-T-R. Ford exhibited the same future-mindedness, resilience, and flexibility during the remarkable first... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
incurring around mentors in the workplace, any of their subsequent supportive hours that they're required, flexibility on the credentials that someone might have. Piece two is helping universities. We provide considerable technical... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
says. “It was a fun, dynamic way to help evolve Utah, which Forbes Magazine has ranked first on their Best State for Business list six times in the last seven years.” Frey left the government role to be an angel investor, allowing him more View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken