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- January 1989 (Revised March 1991)
- Case
General Electric Canada: Designing a New Organization
By: Lynda M. Applegate and James I. Cash Jr.
General Electric Canada used sociotechnical design techniques to restructure its financial, administrative, facilities, and information technology service from a decentralized, hierarchical organization to a centralized organization composed of self-managing,...
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Keywords:
Organizational Design;
Information Technology;
Groups and Teams;
Change;
Communication;
Information;
Industrial Products Industry;
Canada
Applegate, Lynda M., and James I. Cash Jr. "General Electric Canada: Designing a New Organization." Harvard Business School Case 189-138, January 1989. (Revised March 1991.)
- 16 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
On The General Relativity of Fiscal Language
Keywords:
by Jerry Green & Laurence J. Kotlikoff
- June 1991 (Revised April 1993)
- Case
General Electric: Jack Welch's Second Wave (A)
By the mid 1980's Jack Welch had completely transformed General Electric with more than 300 divestitures and acquisitions since the beginning of the decade. Welch insisted that his business units be number one or number two in their markets, and have the strength of...
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Keywords:
Business Conglomerates;
Transformation;
Employee Relationship Management;
Planning;
Corporate Strategy
Bartlett, Christopher A. "General Electric: Jack Welch's Second Wave (A)." Harvard Business School Case 391-248, June 1991. (Revised April 1993.)
- October 1969 (Revised April 1980)
- Case
General Public Utilities Corp. (B)
By: John H. McArthur and William E. Fruhan Jr.
Keywords:
Utilities Industry
McArthur, John H., and William E. Fruhan Jr. "General Public Utilities Corp. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 213-119, October 1969. (Revised April 1980.)
- 1991
- Book
The Craft of General Management
By: J. L. Bower
Keywords:
Managerial Roles
Bower, J. L., ed. The Craft of General Management. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1991.
- 1999
- Book
Innovation and the General Manager
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Keywords:
Innovation and Management
Christensen, Clayton M. Innovation and the General Manager. Homewood, IL: Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 1999.
- January 2000 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
Alloy.com: Marketing to Generation Y
By: John A. Deighton and Gil McWilliams
A profitable dot com company? Alloy.com retails clothing to teens by catalog. Alloy uses a Web site to convert prospects and build community. The result is a business with the economics of a direct marketer and the market capitalization of an Internet start-up. The...
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Keywords:
Marketing Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Business and Community Relations;
Partners and Partnerships;
Customer Relationship Management;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Business Startups;
Information Technology Industry;
Consumer Products Industry
Deighton, John A., and Gil McWilliams. "Alloy.com: Marketing to Generation Y." Harvard Business School Case 500-048, January 2000. (Revised June 2000.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- January 1989
- Case
General Foods Corp.: Local Marketing
By: John A. Quelch
Quelch, John A. "General Foods Corp.: Local Marketing." Harvard Business School Case 589-029, January 1989.
- November 1985 (Revised August 1986)
- Case
General Motors Acceptance Corp. (A)
By: John A. Quelch
Quelch, John A. "General Motors Acceptance Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 586-063, November 1985. (Revised August 1986.)
- April 1964 (Revised January 1977)
- Case
General Foods: Post Division (A)
Brown, Milton P. "General Foods: Post Division (A)." Harvard Business School Case 510-008, April 1964. (Revised January 1977.)
- 1996
- Article
Country Managers: The Next Generation
By: Jon I. Martinez and John A. Quelch
Martinez, Jon I., and John A. Quelch. "Country Managers: The Next Generation." International Marketing Review 13, no. 3 (1996): 43–55.
- January 1989 (Revised October 1989)
- Case
General Aviation Industry in 1982
Rukstad, Michael G. "General Aviation Industry in 1982." Harvard Business School Case 389-088, January 1989. (Revised October 1989.)
- February 1988
- Teaching Note
General Electric Co.--1984, Teaching Note
By: Francis Aguilar
Teaching Note for (9-385-315).
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- October 1986 (Revised September 1987)
- Background Note
General Management in Diversified Firms
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "General Management in Diversified Firms." Harvard Business School Background Note 387-064, October 1986. (Revised September 1987.)
- August 1985 (Revised September 1986)
- Background Note
Role of the General Manager
Pearson, Andrall E. "Role of the General Manager." Harvard Business School Background Note 386-041, August 1985. (Revised September 1986.)
- August 2008 (Revised May 2009)
- Background Note
Note on Generic Drugs in the European Union
By: Robert C. Pozen and Elizabeth M. Leonard
Rules governing the introduction of generic drugs in U.S. and EU have some similarities but significant differences because of the Hatch-Waxman Act in the U.S.
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Keywords:
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Government Legislation;
Health Care and Treatment;
Trademarks;
Brands and Branding;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
European Union;
United States
Pozen, Robert C., and Elizabeth M. Leonard. "Note on Generic Drugs in the European Union." Harvard Business School Background Note 309-019, August 2008. (Revised May 2009.)
- October 1991 (Revised June 1992)
- Case
Nigel Andrews and General Electric Plastics (A)
Describes some critical challenges involved in creating employee empowerment. In the context of General Electric's efforts to debureaucratise the company, employees were encouraged to become more "self-confident". This effort, called "Workout," was introduced all over...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Organizational Culture;
Employees;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States
Jick, Todd D. "Nigel Andrews and General Electric Plastics (A)." Harvard Business School Case 492-020, October 1991. (Revised June 1992.)
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Wade Test: Generative AI and CEO Communication
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Bart S. Vanneste and Amirhossein Zohrehvand
Can generative artificial intelligence (AI) transform the role of the CEO by effectively automating CEO
communication? This study investigates whether AI can mimic a human CEO and whether employees’
perception of the communication’s source matter. In a field...
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Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Bart S. Vanneste, and Amirhossein Zohrehvand. "The Wade Test: Generative AI and CEO Communication." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-008, August 2024.
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
charity care to uninsured patients. "It's a Robin Hood story," Heese says. "These hospitals overbill the insured patients to generate money to pay for the uninsured." (Heese's research was done before the enactment of...
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by Michael Blanding
- 2009
- Chapter
On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language
By: Jerry R. Green and Lawrence Kotlikoff
A century ago, everyone thought time and distance were well defined physical concepts. But neither proved absolute. Instead, measures/reports of time and distance were found to depend on one's reference point, specifically one's direction and speed of travel, making...
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