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- March 1990 (Revised June 1991)
- Case
IBM Corp.: ""Make It Your Business"" (A)
By: Robert L. Simons
In 1987, IBM changed its strategy in an attempt to become a market-driven company rather than a product-driven company. The case begins with a description of the new strategy and the reasons for the change and then describes the top-down sales planning and quota system...
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Keywords:
Commercialization;
Competitive Advantage;
Business Strategy;
Goals and Objectives;
Strategic Planning;
Motivation and Incentives;
Sales;
Volatility;
System;
Information Technology Industry
Simons, Robert L. IBM Corp.: ""Make It Your Business"" (A). Harvard Business School Case 190-137, March 1990. (Revised June 1991.)
- August 2021
- Teaching Note
Ready for Take-Off at Jet It
By: Gary P. Pisano, Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- Third Quarter 2011
- Article
You Can't Take It With You
By: Boris Groysberg
Groysberg, Boris. "You Can't Take It With You." IESE Insight, no. 10 (Third Quarter 2011): 6.
- June 2003 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Nehemiah Strategy, The: Bringing it to Boston
By: Diana Barrett, Arthur I Segel and Sheila McCarthy
In 2003, Lee Stuart, who had successfully used the Nehemiah Strategy to create thousands of units of affordable housing in the South Bronx, was working with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization to implement the strategy in Boston. She and her colleagues faced a...
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Barrett, Diana, Arthur I Segel, and Sheila McCarthy. "Nehemiah Strategy, The: Bringing it to Boston." Harvard Business School Case 303-130, June 2003. (Revised December 2003.)
- August 2004
- Article
The Gastroenterology Fellowship Match: How It Failed, and Why It Could Succeed Once Again
By: Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth
Niederle, Muriel, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Gastroenterology Fellowship Match: How It Failed, and Why It Could Succeed Once Again." Gastroenterology 127, no. 2 (August 2004): 658–666.
- May 2018 (Revised January 2019)
- Teaching Note
Nashton Partners and Its Search Fund Process
By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS No. 212-006. In 2008, Jay Davis (HBS’ 08) and Jason Pananos (HBS’ 08) formed Nashton Partners and raised $500,000 from investors to fund their search. After 30 months of searching, and exhausting the money they raised to fund their search, Davis...
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- April 2001 (Revised March 2003)
- Background Note
Web and IT Hosting Facilities: Technology Note
Introduces students to the data centers where IT infrastructure is increasingly physically housed. These centralized hosting facilities represent in the information age the equivalent of power utilities in the industrial age. Students are introduced to issues of...
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Austin, Robert D. "Web and IT Hosting Facilities: Technology Note." Harvard Business School Background Note 601-134, April 2001. (Revised March 2003.)
- September 2017
- Article
It Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Question-asking Increases Liking
By: K. Huang, M. Yeomans, A.W. Brooks, J. Minson and F. Gino
Conversation is a fundamental human experience, one that is necessary to pursue intrapersonal and interpersonal goals across myriad contexts, relationships, and modes of communication. In the current research, we isolate the role of an understudied conversational...
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Keywords:
Question-asking;
Liking;
Responsiveness;
Conversation;
Natural Language Processing;
Interpersonal Communication;
Behavior
Huang, K., M. Yeomans, A.W. Brooks, J. Minson, and F. Gino. "It Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Question-asking Increases Liking." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 113, no. 3 (September 2017): 430–452.
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
you can in other markets," says HBS professor emeritus Walter J. Salmon, a specialist in consumer marketing and retail distribution. He cites "cultural sensitivity"—the ability to know what consumers will want before they know View Details
- July 2011 (Revised September 2018)
- Case
Nashton Partners and Its Search Fund Process
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Nashton Partners was a search fund founded by two HBS MBA's that raised $500,000 to finance a search for a company that they could purchase and then run for the next five to ten years. The case examines the search fund structure, the two-year search, and two potential...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Capital Structure;
Financing and Loans;
Investment Funds;
Partners and Partnerships
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Nashton Partners and Its Search Fund Process." Harvard Business School Case 212-006, July 2011. (Revised September 2018.)
- November 2015 (Revised December 2016)
- Case
Omada Health: Riding the Clinical and Regulatory Waves
By: Robert F. Higgins and Lisa Zhou
Keywords:
Healthcare Industry;
Healthcare Innovation;
Healthcare IT;
Wellness;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation and Invention;
Health Industry
Higgins, Robert F., and Lisa Zhou. "Omada Health: Riding the Clinical and Regulatory Waves." Harvard Business School Case 816-063, November 2015. (Revised December 2016.)
- September 22, 1981
- Article
Exchange Rates: Floating Does It Better
By: Amar Bhidé and Tino Puri
Bhidé, Amar, and Tino Puri. "Exchange Rates: Floating Does It Better." Wall Street Journal (September 22, 1981).
- March 2016
- Teaching Note
adidas Group: IT Multi-Sourcing at adidas
By: Lynda Applegate, Carol Saunders, Grandon Gill and Martin Wiener
- Winter 2002
- Article
Patent Policy Reform and Its Implications
By: Josh Lerner
Lerner, Josh. "Patent Policy Reform and Its Implications." NBER Reporter (Winter 2002), 17–19.
- September 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- Supplement
Bain & Company's IT Practice (C)
McAfee, Andrew P. "Bain & Company's IT Practice (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 606-012, September 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
- April 1988 (Revised June 1988)
- Case
J.B. Ivey & Co.: IT Squared
Vitale, Michael R. "J.B. Ivey & Co.: IT Squared." Harvard Business School Case 188-057, April 1988. (Revised June 1988.)
- July 1987 (Revised August 1988)
- Case
ESAB AB: Toughing It Out (A)
Mead, Melissa J. "ESAB AB: Toughing It Out (A)." Harvard Business School Case 188-005, July 1987. (Revised August 1988.)
- June 2003
- Article
Let's Hear It for B Players
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
DeLong, Thomas J., and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan. "Let's Hear It for B Players." Harvard Business Review 81, no. 6 (June 2003).
- 2000
- Working Paper
It Takes Two: Improvisations in Negotiations
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Angela Keros
- September 2004 (Revised June 2005)
- Case
Otis Elevator: Accelerating Business Transformation with IT
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Brian DeLacey
Focuses on a major transformation of Otis Elevator's infrastructure. Led by the CEO, this transformation represents a remarkable long-term reengineering of all the processes of the firm to drive its operating costs down and service image up. The transformation is the...
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Keywords:
Transformation;
Cost Management;
Infrastructure;
Business Processes;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Information Technology
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Brian DeLacey. "Otis Elevator: Accelerating Business Transformation with IT." Harvard Business School Case 305-048, September 2004. (Revised June 2005.)