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  • 20 Oct 2017
  • News

At GE, A New Urgency To Return To Industrial Roots

  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Blog Post

Looking back on 1st semester and looking forward to 2nd semester

In just a couple short weeks, the second semester will have started and for many students, internship recruiting will be underway. It’s almost strange to think of how quickly the first few months went by. Many aspects about the experience... View Details
  • June–July 2019
  • Article

A Methodology for Operationalizing Enterprise IT Architecture and Evaluating Its Modifiability

By: Robert Lagerström, Alan MacCormack, David Dreyfus and Carliss Y. Baldwin
Recent contributions to information systems theory suggest that the primary role of a firm’s information technology (IT) architecture is to facilitate, and therefore ensure the continued alignment of a firm’s IT investments with a constantly changing business... View Details
Keywords: Enterprise Architecture; Modularity; Information Systems; Modifiability; Design Structure Matrix
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  • Research Summary

MBAX2

Research in progress. A study of HBS's dual MBA couples and their family and work decisions. This research continues the observations about the critical dimensions of lasting success identified by Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson in their book, Just Enough: Tools for... View Details
  • 07 Jun 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Important are Big Ideas?

Summing Up Judging from responses to the June column, big ideas rank high on a list including technology and intellectual property as sources of competitive advantage. But they are only a starting point, outweighed by methods and the state of the "managerial... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • December 1993
  • Case

Ford Motor Coompany: Changing the Dealer Culture

Confronted by increasing market emphasis on customer satisfaction coupled with the success of General Motors' Saturn Division with "no haggle" pricing, Ford Motor Co. examines the sales culture within its own dealers and considers how to implement policies that will... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Salesforce Management; Customer Satisfaction; Auto Industry; United States
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  • 21 Aug 2014
  • Blog Post

HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Visits NYC

A lot can be achieved through emails, phone calls, and meetings, but being in the field helps broaden perspectives. The HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) did just that – when Matt Segneri, Director, and Margot Dushin, Director of Programs, took a field trip to New... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 02 Jan 2014
  • News

Nancy Koehn on the Business of Selling Happiness

  • 23 Aug 2011
  • News

How to Stay Engaged (and Employed?) in a Downturn

  • August 2018 (Revised December 2019)
  • Case

Brooklyn Lodgers: 78 South Third St., Brooklyn, NY

By: Charles F. Wu, Jackie Bereiter and Signe Conway
Nathalie Parizat and her husband, Hugo, were contemplating a new real estate investment. For two years they had been frustrated by and lamenting their situation of paying high rents to third parties while the couple had idle cash in the bank. They also were convinced... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate Development; Property; Investment; Management; New York (city, NY); Brooklyn
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  • July 1997
  • Case

Graffs, The (A)

By: Carl S. Sloane and Gregory C. Rogers
Examines dual-career issues and conflicts between spouses' career objectives, personal values, and life structures. It does so by a in-depth examination of the lives and careers of a professional couple (a successful entrepreneur and a lawyer), choice points in their... View Details
Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Conflict Management
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  • 25 Apr 2011
  • News

Why CEOs Should Watch the Royal Wedding

  • June 2001 (Revised May 2002)
  • Case

Tradeoffs: Juggling Careers in Professional Services Firms with Private Life

By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda, Scot Landry and Scott M O'Neil
Balancing professional and private lives continues to challenge single and committed partners alike. Professionals are expected to work long hours. It is simply part of the ethos of professional service firms. This case focuses on the lives of three couples connected... View Details
Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Problems and Challenges; Service Industry
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  • 21 Dec 2016
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CPP Investment Board

engaging students at HBS are coffee chats and student club events such as industry education presentations, conferences and brown bag lunches. We also attend the HBS Company Information Day, including the meet and greet. These events, View Details
  • June 1986 (Revised May 1989)
  • Case

Biltwell Shears, Inc.

By: Thomas R. Piper
A senior loan officer is reviewing the recent performance of a company that has failed to repay its loan as scheduled. The failure results from a cyclical downturn in sales, coupled with a lag in cutting back production. Inventory risk is minimal. This case is an... View Details
Keywords: Financial Condition; Financing and Loans; Corporate Finance; Manufacturing Industry
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  • August 2005 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

Grupo Martica

Grupo Martica commissions a computer security expert to conduct an audit of its systems, network, and processes. This audit reveals that Martica is quite vulnerable, and the company's de facto CIO must decide what steps to take to improve security. He wonders how... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Complexity
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  • 11 Apr 2022
  • News

A Look at Six New Funds Begs the Question: Is a Slowdown Really Coming?

  • 27 Jun 2012
  • News

Real Vacations Are Good for You: Take Them and Turn Off

  • 26 Oct 2009
  • News

There is enough room for optimism

  • 20 Apr 2020
  • News

Why Democrats And Republicans Missed The Story Of 50M Americans