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- August 1998
- Case
HIMSCORP, Inc.
By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz
Himscorp is an industry consolidation of records storage companies providing management and retrieval services of active medical records to healthcare institutions. Kent Dauten, a former general partner at Madison Dearborn Partners with 15 years of venture capital and... View Details
- August 1998
- Case
Record Masters
By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz
Kent Dauten, a former general partner at the Chicago private equity firm of Madison Dearborn Partners, has engaged in a search to personally sponsor a buyout in which he can play an active management role. He has received a selling memorandum for Record Masters, a... View Details
- August 1998 (Revised June 2013)
- Case
Business Plan for Room For Dessert: Adding Unique Ingredients to Life's Balancing Act
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Michael J. Roberts
Summarizes the business plan for a concept restaurant focused on late evening dessert service as well as its subsequent rollout plan. View Details
- July 1998 (Revised April 2002)
- Case
Tobacco Negotiations
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Georgia Levenson
Chronicles the negotiation of the proposed national settlement between the states and the five major U.S. tobacco companies. View Details
- July 1998 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Champion International
By: Michael Beer and James Weber
Richard Olson, a long-tenured employee, was named CEO of Champion in 1996. Champion had been conducting an organizational transformation since the early 1980s that could be considered successful on most operational and social measures. However, due to industry... View Details
- 1998
- Book
Competing by Design: The Power of Organizational Architectures
By: D. Nadler and Michael Tushman
Keywords: Organizational Design
- June 1998 (Revised February 2017)
- Supplement
Luna Pen (C)
By: Kathleen McGinn and Michael Wheeler
Supplements the (A) and (B) cases. View Details
- June 1998 (Revised January 2000)
- Teaching Note
Asda (A), (A1), (B) & (C) TN
By: Michael Beer and James Weber
Teaching Note for (9-498-005), (9-498-006), (9-498-007), and (9-498-008). View Details
- June 1998 (Revised June 1998)
- Background Note
Bankruptcy: A Debtor's Perspective
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
Describes the business and legal context surrounding personal and corporate bankruptcy. View Details
- June 1998 (Revised November 1998)
- Case
TNT Limited's Logistics Services in Asia (D): Managing the "Asian Contagion"
By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- June 1998
- Background Note
The Indian Software Industry
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Avnish S. Bajaj, Michael V. Kadyan, Devtosh K Khare and Suvir S Sujan
The increasing focus in the Western World on outsourcing has fueled the growth of the Indian software export industry. This note gives background on this phenomenen. View Details
- June 1998
- Article
The Coevolution of Community Networks and Technology: Lessons From the Flight Simulation Industry
By: L. Rosenkopf and Michael Tushman
- May 1998
- Case
Negotiating the Right to Know: Rhone-Poulenc and Manchester, Texas (A-2)
Supplements the (A1) case. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
- March 1998 (Revised December 2005)
- Case
Beta Golf
By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz
The Beta Group is a technology incubator in Menlo Park, CA that has successfully built a portfolio of businesses in the medical, consumer products, and industrial technology sectors by systematically matching proprietary technologies to unmet market needs. Beta has... View Details
- March 1998 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
Egon Zehnder International: Implementing Practice Groups
By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
Since its creation in 1964, executive search firm Egon Zehnder International (EZI) marketed its consultants as "generalists." As searches became more global and industry-specific in the 1990s, CEO Daniel Meiland decided the firm needed to offer specialized services. By... View Details
- March 1998 (Revised May 1998)
- Case
Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (Abridged)
By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
Describes the privatization of YPF Sociedad Anonima and the company's dilemma of whether to acquire a troubled U.S. oil company as a way of becoming a global oil company. View Details
- March 1998 (Revised July 2000)
- Case
InPart
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Michael J. Roberts and Jon Biotti
Stacey Lawson, HBS 1996, started a CAD parts representations database company to help designers and engineers with the design process. The company has completed its product and is starting to sell it. The case examines issues involving the organization of the sales... View Details