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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
support, guidance, and encouragement. Biederman is the cofounder and CEO of the Boston-based business agility software company Catalant Technologies. Additionally, he is the coauthor of Reimagining Work: Strategies to Disrupt Talent, Lead Change, and Win with a View Details
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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
be flexible in terms of structure and duration, according to each business’ needs. Ideal candidates for investment have at least $250,000 in revenues. At the present time, our geographic focus is primarily...
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- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
Public Architecture together force the entire organization to the least common denominator or would it provide them with a flexible platform for creating social change? These questions have important implications for Public's growth...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
wage comparisons affect firm policies on executive pay? This paper explores that question using a 1992 SEC proxy disclosure rule that mandated increased disclosure of executive pay. We argue that this rule differentially increased wage comparisons within firms with...
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Anna Secino
- 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
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by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Lingo 101
industry focused clubs to recreational/sports clubs to geographical interest clubs. These clubs host over 25 conferences a year and bring extraordinary speakers to the school. COLD CALL: At the beginning of each class the professor cold...
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
Dany Bahar, Do Yoon Kim, and Wesley W. 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 View Details
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Negotiating - Alumni
standards/goals Geographic flexibility Office space Paid travel Ownership options Professional training +–Negotiate The following tactics can help you conduct productive negotiations. Speak with the hiring...
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- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
The American workforce has always migrated, moving wherever the jobs took them—traditionally, away from small towns and toward big cities. Now, as an increasing number of workplaces embrace remote work and allow people the flexibility to...
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by Kara Baskin
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
demonstrated that Unilever could make a hostile acquisition, while the acquisition of Chesebrough-Pond's two years later showed that Unilever could move quickly and decisively if it wished. Effective procedures were put in place to absorb acquired firms, which were...
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- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
engage employees. Workplace changes prompted by the pandemic have made employees more adaptable and flexible than before; however, persistent change without time to absorb and process causes fatigue. Leaders who are numb to fatigue make...
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by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Geographic Flexibility." Prithwiraj Choudhury: Finalist for the 2020 HBR McKinsey Award for the best article of the year in Harvard Business Review for “Our Work-from-Anywhere Future” (November–December 2020). Prithwiraj Choudhury: Winner...
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
will learn how to build systems that incorporate flexibility of strategy implementation through a structured empowerment model, promote critical thinking and innovation, and emphasize a common purpose throughout a growing organization....
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
systems of adherence. Case 1: Learn and deploy new information Geographic diversification is often seen by managers as a useful way to tap into new sources of growth. In case of a pandemic, a specific form of View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
me the opportunity to constantly strive to be a citizen of the world. At this moment, I’m still not sure where I’ll be after graduation. But I do know that wherever I’ll be, whatever I’ll do, I will try my best to leverage my multi-cultural background to connect with...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Valleydene provided Barford with the flexibility he needed to spend more time with his ailing wife (who died in 1991 after a long struggle with multiple sclerosis) and six children. Beyond the boardroom, Barford has been associated in...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
workplace friendships, firms can minimize the psychological costs of homesickness, which increase depending on how far the employee is from home, according to Choudhury’s study, Social Attachment to Place and Psychic Costs of Geographic...
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by Kristen Senz
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
effects of organizations allowing employees to “work from anywhere” and why geographic mobility has led to increased innovation. The movement of employees, Choudhury found in one study, promoted tacit knowledge transfer across...
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April White
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
School, studies how location and geographic mobility affect worker productivity and innovation. His research also examines how companies benefit by allowing employees to work remotely. Choudhury answered questions from participants in a...
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by Kristen Senz
- 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...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat