Publications

February 1996
Case

TRW's Information Services Division: Strategic Human Resource Management

By: Michael Beer and Gregory C. Rogers

Looks at a change effort initiated by a human resources manager within a division of TRW. The effort utilizes a change process to try to deal with some of the division's issues around organizational effectiveness, especially that of a long-term strategy. In so doing,... View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Managerial Roles; Strategy; Problems and Challenges

April 1995 (Revised November 1995)
Supplement

Human Resources at Hewlett-Packard (B)

By: Michael Beer and Gregory C. Rogers

Designed as an in-class handout as a source of further discussion of the issues. View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Computer Industry

April 1995 (Revised November 1995)
Case

Human Resources at Hewlett-Packard (A)

By: Michael Beer and Gregory C. Rogers

Provides an overview of the human resource policies and practices applied by Hewlett-Packard (HP). Discusses HP's reactions as an organization to changes in its business environment. As such, it is an opportunity to analyze HP's practices, and how they have been... View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Policy; Computer Industry

March 1993
Teaching Note

John A. Clendenin and Managing Xerox's Multinational Development Center TN

By: Michael Beer and Russell A. Eisenstat

Teaching Note for John A. Clendenin (9-490-028) and Managing Xerox's Multinational Development Center (9-490-029). View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management

October 1986
Supplement

Colonial Foods: Performance Appraisal Interview, Video Transcript

By: Michael Beer and James G. Clawson

Transcript for Video (9-884-518). View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Job Interviews; Food and Beverage Industry

September 2003
Article

Why Hard-Nosed Executives Should Care About Management Theory

By: C. M. Christensen and Michael Raynor

Keywords: Management; Theory

2002
Other Teaching and Training Material

Mediating in the Wake of Disaster

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris

Keywords: Crisis Management

1982
Book

The Crocodile Man: A Case of Brain Chemistry and Criminal Violence

By: Andre Mayer and Michael A. Wheeler

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Health

August 1996 (Revised August 1997)
Case

TNT Limited's Logistics Services in Asia (A): The Strategy

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Meredith Hellicar's mission as general manager of corporate development is to make TNT Ltd. one of the biggest and most diverse transport and logistic companies in the world, with approximately $5 billion in turnover in 1993, a leading provider of logistics services in... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Managerial Roles; Distribution; Logistics; Mission and Purpose; Partners and Partnerships; Strategy; Diversification; Transportation Industry; Asia; China; Indonesia; Thailand

2002
Other Unpublished Work

What's a Director to Do?

By: Michael C. Jensen and Joseph Fuller

Keywords: Decision Making

SSRN

September 1995 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (B)

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop

YPF, a recently privatized and restructured Argentine-based oil company now turns its attention to international expansion and faces an opportunity to acquire Maxus, a troubled U.S. oil company. The case discusses whether the company should go ahead with the proposed... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Non-Renewable Energy; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Privatization; Natural Environment; Expansion; United States; Argentina

May 1995
Background Note

Note on Industry Self-Regulation and U.S. Antitrust Laws

By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro

Describes the purpose and nature of industry self-regulation and outlines the factors self-regulatory groups must consider to avoid infringing U.S. antitrust laws. Several examples of industry self-regulation are discussed. View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Knowledge; Law

1998
Working Paper

The Cyclical Behavior of Price and Costs

By: Julio J. Rotemberg and Michael Woodford

2001
Working Paper

Measuring the 'Ideas' Production Function: Evidence from International Patent Output

By: Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern

July 1993 (Revised December 2003)
Case

Sears Auto Centers (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro

The CEO of Sears must decide how to respond to allegations that the company's auto repair division has been misleading consumers and charging them for unnecessary repairs. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Compensation and Benefits; Management Teams; Employees; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Improvement; Auto Industry

March 1991 (Revised May 1992)
Case

Great Northern Nekoosa vs. Georgia-Pacific: Check Paper

By: Michael E. Porter and Garth Saloner

Keywords: Pulp and Paper Industry

November 1986
Background Note

U.S. Television Set Market, Prewar to 1970 (Condensed)

By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Michael E. Porter

September 24, 2014
Article

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

By: Auden Schendler and Michael W. Toffel

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September–October 2013
Article

The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring

By: Lamar Pierce and Michael W. Toffel

Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and... View Details