Publications

Keywords: Consulting Industry

November – December 1969
Article

Systems Analysis for Social Decisions

Keywords: Decision Making; Society; Theory

March 1969 (Revised January 2000)
Case

Industrial Products, Inc.

By: Joseph L. Bower and John W. Rosenblum

Involves the decision of whether to construct a new plant in another part of the country for a line of fire protection equipment. Capital funds set aside for the construction are blocked by Fireguard's continued record of substantial operating losses and divisional... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Capital; Construction; Financing and Loans; Expansion; Business Earnings; Markets; Product; Manufacturing Industry

March 1968 (Revised July 2010)
Case

Basic Industries

By: Joseph L. Bower and John W. Rosenblum

Policy problems, mainly organizational issues, face a young middle manager in the context of capital budgeting in a highly technological conglomerate firm with high market uncertainty. View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Capital Budgeting; Policy; Managerial Roles; Risk and Uncertainty

Educators

Purchase

1968
Chapter

Descriptive Decision Theory from the 'Administrative' Viewpoint

Article

Investment in Commercial Construction

Keywords: Investment; Construction; Construction Industry

Article

The Role of Conflict in Economic Decision-Making Groups: Some Empirical Results

Keywords: Conflict and Resolution; Economics; Decision Making; Groups and Teams; Information

1965
Article

Group Decision Making: A Report of an Experimental Study

When a group of people must decide on some one action, such as where shall we go out to dinner, or in an investment club which stock shall we buy, how do the individual members come to a decision that affords the best resolution of the question at hand for the group as... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Conflict Management

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Investment in United States Government Securities by State Governments

Keywords: Investment; Financial Instruments; Government and Politics

Research Summary

Creating Corporate Value Added

In response to dramatic changes in the business environment--hypercompetition in many traditional industries, short product life cycles, and new competitors based in emerging nations--successful companies have responded by repositioning themselves in the global markets... View Details

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Management of Succession

An outgrowth of the work on the corporate office has been a more focused study on the management of succession. This work identified the reasons why the management of CEO succession has proved so difficult for so many companies as well as the way the best companies are... View Details

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The Future of Market Capitalism