Publications

February 1994
Case

Kathryn McNeil (A)

Charles Foley, vice president of the computer retailing firm Sayer MicroWorld, must decide whether or not to fire his employee, Kathryn McNeil, a 37-year-old product manager who has been unable to work as many hours as her colleagues due to her status as a single... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Employees; Work-Life Balance; Resignation and Termination; Mergers and Acquisitions; Retail Industry

October 1993 (Revised April 1994)
Case

Jack Welch: General Electric's Revolutionary

By: Joseph L. Bower and Jay Dial

Describes the work of Jack Welch as CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 1992, focusing particularly on his transformation of the company's portfolio through extensive dispositions and acquisitions and the company's culture through a mandated process called "work out."... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Transformation; Investment Portfolio; Leadership Style; Management; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career

1993
Other Unpublished Work

Catching the Next Wave: Why Good Customers Make It Hard

By: Joseph L. Bower and C. M. Christensen

September 1992
Background Note

Executive Compensation Debate

December 1991
Case

Reinventing an Italian Chemical Company: Montedison

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Chemical Industry; Italy

1991
Working Paper

The Organization of Markets

fall 1991
Article

Can Big Stories Be Told?

July 1991
Case

Finland--1991

Keywords: Finland

summer 1991
Article

The Advantage of Cooperation

Keywords: Cooperation

February 1991 (Revised August 2001)
Case

Ann Hopkins (A)

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Ilyse Barkan

Intended to help students understand the many barriers organizations face as their members and their management ranks grow more diverse. As a case on business ethics, it encourages students to discuss what "fairness" and "diversity" mean when an organization is also... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams

January 1991 (Revised January 1992)
Supplement

IBM-Fujitsu Settlement

Describes the decision by the arbitrators chosen to resolve the intellectual property dispute between IBM and Fujitsu. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Intellectual Property; Business or Company Management; Conflict Management

October 1990
Case

Deming's Demons

October 1990 (Revised April 1991)
Case

RU 486 (A)

Describes the factors faced by Roussel UCLAF, a French drug company, in deciding whether and how to market a controversial new drug, RU 486, which is often called "the French abortion pill." Roussel's decision involved its relations with the French government, its... View Details

Keywords: Judgments; Ethics; Product Launch; Negotiation; Outcome or Result; Performance; Business and Government Relations; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; France; Germany; United States

July 1990
Case

Montedison Portfolio--1986

July–August 1990
Book Review

Business and Battles: Lessons from Defeat

Keywords: Learning

June 1990 (Revised November 1991)
Case

Morality and Consequences

Consists mainly of excerpts from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill. Mill explains what utilitarianism is and gives his rationale for accepting it as a moral philosophy. View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Outcome or Result; Value