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- January 1989 (Revised July 1991)
- Case
Bank for International Development, Software Case
By: W. Carl Kester and Timothy A. Luehrman
A hypothetical case in which an assistant treasurer of a supranational bank is asked to determine in which currencies it has been cheaper ex post to borrow. An integral part of the case is a Lotus 1-2-3 worksheet containing monthly data on yen and dollar interest... View Details
- January 1989 (Revised March 1990)
- Case
Xerox Corp.: Executive Support Systems
Keywords: Information Technology Industry
- December 1988
- Article
Strategic Responses to Automobile Emissions Control: A Game-Theoretic Analysis
By: Dennis Yao
This paper examines the dynamics of standard-setting regulation under technological uncertainty and asymmetric information about technological capability. A two-period model which allows fully strategic action is developed and applied to the regulation of automobile... View Details
- Article
Computer-Aided Deliberation: Model Management and Group Decision Support
By: J. F. Nunamaker, L. M. Applegate and B. R. Konsynski
- Article
Computer-Aided Deliberation: Model Management and Group Decision Support
By: J. F. Nunamaker, L. M. Applegate and Benn R Konsynski
- November–December 1988
- Article
Information Technology and Tomorrow's Manager
By: L. M. Applegate, J. I. Cash and Q. D. Mills
Keywords: Information Technology
- October 1988 (Revised May 1998)
- Teaching Note
Lotus Development Corp.: Entering International Markets, Note on Comparative Advantage, & Note on Sources of Comparative Advantage, TN
By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching Note for (9-387-034), (9-387-023), and (9-387-024). View Details
- October 1988
- Case
Agrico, Inc.: A Software Dilemma
An information systems vice president has one hour to make an ethical decision: should a software program, left inadvertently on the company's computer, be copied and stored? Copying the program would protect clients' assets, but it seems to violate the vendor... View Details
- October 1988 (Revised November 1988)
- Case
NutraSweet Co.: Technology to Tailor-Make Foods
By: Ray A. Goldberg
- September 1988 (Revised December 1998)
- Case
Donner Co.
By: Roy D. Shapiro
The management of a small manufacturer of circuit boards faces a number of production and operations management problems. The first day on this case is used to analyze the production capacity of various stages in the process and to examine bottlenecks and key... View Details
- September 1988 (Revised May 1990)
- Teaching Note
Smartwave (B): Implementing an Expert System at Digital Equipment Corp., Teaching Note
Keywords: Technology Adoption
- September 1988 (Revised September 1993)
- Case
Mrs. Fields Cookies
Mrs. Fields Cookies is a small company selling freshly baked goods through privately owned specialty stores (each store sells only Mrs. Fields products). The company has about 8,000 employees worldwide and less than 150 information systems people for a unique leverage... View Details
- September 1988
- Case
Frontier Airlines, Inc. (A) (Condensed)
Describes a regional airline that is on the losing end of a strategic application of information technology. Management is focusing on internal data processing issues while its principal, and larger, competitor is using its computerized reservations system to gain... View Details
- September 1988 (Revised September 1995)
- Teaching Note
Xerox Corp.: Leadership of the Information Technology Function (A) and (B), Teaching Note
- August 1988 (Revised May 1990)
- Teaching Note
Lockheed-Georgia Co.: Executive Information Systems, Teaching Note
Keywords: Information Technology
- August 1988 (Revised March 1990)
- Teaching Note
Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (A), (B), and (C), Teaching Note
- August 1988 (Revised March 1990)
- Case
Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (C)
- August 1988 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
IBM 360: Giant as Entrepreneur
By: Joseph L. Bower
Presents the ingredients that went into a major entrepreneurial shift by IBM--investing $5 billion into a new product line that would obsolete any existing computer product line offered by the competition, or by IBM itself. The economic and technical challenges of this... View Details
- July 1988 (Revised July 1990)
- Case
Xerox Corp.: Information Technology Support of Product Development
By: James I. Cash Jr. and Donna B. Stoddard
- July 1988 (Revised March 1990)
- Case