Publications

June 1989 (Revised November 1991)
Supplement

Ingersoll-Rand (B): Managing Multiple Channels--1986

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

Peter Baldwin takes over Clabough's job and is charged with the responsibility to improve sales force morale, control expenses, and improve market share. View Details

Keywords: Salesforce Management; Supply and Industry; Management Teams; Industrial Products Industry

May 1983
Article

Curative Factors in Group Psychotherapy: A Review of the Recent Literature

By: Timothy Butler and Adelaide Fuhriman

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information; Groups and Teams

November 2003
Article

Fostering Group Identification and Creativity in Diverse Groups: The Role of Individuation and Self-verification.

By: William B. Swann Jr., Virginia S. Y. Kwan, Jeffrey T. Polzer and Laurie P. Milton

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Creativity; Identity

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01 Mar 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

“invisible handshake” of collaborative networks. The Secret of Teams: What Great Teams Know and Do by Mark Miller (AMP 170, 2006 ) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) What is the secret of high-performance teams? Miller tells a business fable... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

June 2011
Case

Trouble in Islandia; Computer Associates 2001 - 2004

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa Barton

The Board of Directors of Computer Associates deals with pressure from the U.S. Department of Justice as its members try to gain better insight into the accounting practices of the company's top management team. View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Corporate Governance; Management Teams; Ethics; Practice; Florida; United States

November 2010
Article

The Strategy Research Initiative: Recognizing and Encouraging High-quality Research in Strategy

By: Joanne E. Oxley, Jan Rivkin, Michael D. Ryall and the Strategy Research Initiative

The Strategy Research Initiative—a cross-disciplinary group of mid-career, research-oriented faculty—has organized to coordinate activities that promote high-quality research in the field of strategy. This editorial essay summarizes the group's view of the... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Research; Quality; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams

September 2006 (Revised October 2007)
Supplement

BT Plc: The Broadband Revolution (B)

By: Michael L. Tushman, David Kiron and Adam M. Kleinbaum

In early 2003, CEO Ben Verwaayen and Chief Broadband Officer Alison Ritchie of BT Plc. are trying to transform the former British Telecom from a stodgy telephone company into a 21st century broadband company. Their efforts to focus the firm on broadband issues within... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Innovation and Invention; Management Teams; Problems and Challenges; Telecommunications Industry; United Kingdom

August 2003
Case

SEC Proposal for Nomination of Directors by Shareholders

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Ashley Robertson

Describes the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's 2003 proposal to allow shareholders to nominate a "short slate" of directors for the board of listed companies. Includes comment letters for and against the proposal. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States

October 1992 (Revised December 1997)
Case

Sterling Chemicals, Inc.: Quality and Productivity Improvement Program

Describes the design and implemenation of a quality improvement program. Sterling Chemical's management hoped the program would improve teamwork and productivity at the plant. View Details

Keywords: Quality; Groups and Teams; Performance Productivity; Performance Improvement; Chemical Industry

December 1984
Case

Expense Tracking System at Tiger Creek

By: Shoshana Zuboff

Mill manager Carl Adelman learns that a group of senior managers is soon to visit the Tiger Creek mill to learn more about the success of the newly implemented Expense Tracking System. The System had been installed on two paper machines to give workers real time cost... View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Success; Cost Management; Technology; Pulp and Paper Industry

2019
Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 9 Organizing to Rationalize

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

The purpose of this chapter is to explain what the technologies of flow production with stochastic bottlenecks require and reward in organizations. I argue that organizations successfully implementing these technologies are likely to have unified governance and... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Design; Management Teams; Business History

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July 2000
Case

Dawn Riley at America True (C1)

By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty

This version of the (C) case can be taught independently of the (A) and (B) cases. Dawn Riley, CEO/Captain of America True, the first coed syndicate to race for the America's Cup, is based in Auckland, New Zealand, where racing will begin in six weeks. Riley has built... View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Leadership; Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Gender; Management Teams; Sports; Business Startups; New Zealand; North and Central America

December 1973 (Revised November 1993)
Case

Cooper Industries, Inc.

By: Thomas R. Piper

The executive president of a major industrial company must decide 1) whether to acquire a small hand tool company and, if so, 2) the value and form that the acquisition package should take. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Valuation; Acquisition; Management Teams; Consumer Products Industry

2004
Article

Executive Compensation In Entrepreneurial Teams: The Founder Gap, Board Membership, & Pay For Milestones

By: Noam Wasserman

Keywords: Management; Compensation and Benefits; Groups and Teams; Governance

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2002
Case

Creating the Customer-Centric Team: Coordinating Sales and Marketing

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Marketing; Groups and Teams; Sales; Customer Focus and Relationships

September 1992 (Revised January 1994)
Case

Reshaping Apple Computer's Destiny 1992

By: David B. Yoffie and Johanna M. Hurstak

Examines John Sculley's approach toward transforming Apple Computer. Focuses on Sculley's management style, his creation of a new management team, and his efforts to create a professional management system inside Apple. View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Transformation; Management Teams; Management Systems; Computer Industry; California