Publications

Educators

05 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

occurred—across four experiments, we find that revealing both successes and failures encountered on the path to success (compared to revealing only successes) decreases observers’ malicious envy. This effect holds regardless of the discloser’s status and cannot be... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

October 1971 (Revised September 1983)
Case

Sturdivant Electric Corp.

A unit manager on a field computer installation job is faced with recurring conflict between a programmer and his immediate supervisor. View Details

Keywords: Planning; Rank and Position; Problems and Challenges; Conflict and Resolution; Attitudes; Jobs and Positions; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Public Relations Industry; Computer Industry

Educators

September 1995
Teaching Note

Mrs. Fields' Cookies TN

Teaching Note for (9-189-056). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Information Technology Industry

June 2001
Background Note

Dot com Business Models

Describes dot com business models. Intended to be used as a handout with a case about dot com companies following case discussion. View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business or Company Management; Web Sites; Web Services Industry

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November 2000
Teaching Note

Novell: World's Largest Network Software Company TN

Teaching Note for (9-300-038). View Details

Keywords: Information Technology Industry

August 2000 (Revised September 2002)
Exercise

Working with Your Shadow Partner in Analyzing IT Strategic Partnering

A team-based exercise allowing students to conduct a strategy analysis of the leading companies in the IT business. Involves searching on the web for both public information sources and company information sources. The teams work together to analyze the information and... View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry

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November 1999
Teaching Note

drugstore.com TN

Teaching Note for (9-300-036). View Details

Keywords: Information Technology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

25 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

grow and become successful, they are often marked by the negative stigma associated with size and power, which elicits anticorporate sentiment from consumers. An underdog brand biography can be strategically wielded to prevent or offset... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2006
Teaching Note

Harley-Davidson: Preparing for the Next Century (TN)

By: Richard L. Nolan and Suresh Kotha

Keywords: Motorcycle Industry

2003
Working Paper

Information Technology Consulting

By: Richard L. Nolan and Larry Bennigson

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1995
Working Paper

IT Architectures and Organizational Information Processing Capacity: A Synthesis and Illustration

By: Chiara Francalanci and Richard L. Nolan

March 1993
Background Note

Note on Information Technology and Strategy

By: Richard L. Nolan and Katherine Seger

Provides a context for the evolution of information technology in business organizations, explains the emergence of information as an important resource to be managed, and provides a framework for assessing the strategic potential of information in the firm. View Details

Keywords: Information; Information Management; Information Technology; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Adoption; Body of Literature; Archives; Annual Reports; Information Technology Industry

Educators

01 Dec 2008
News

Use bailout money for new ventures, not old ones

October 2005
Article

Information Technology and the Board of Directors

By: Richard Nolan and F. Warren McFarlan

Keywords: Information Technology; Governance

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17 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 17

valuations in first financing rounds. Further econometric tests suggest that, as predicted by the theory, this effect is driven by unobservable heterogeneity, and it is more pronounced in teams that make... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2021
Article

Perceptions on Undertaking Regular Asymptomatic Self-testing for COVID-19 Using Lateral Flow Tests: A Qualitative Study of University Students and Staff

By: Marta Wanat, Mary Logan, Jennifer A. Hirst, Charles Vicary, Joseph J. Lee, Rafael Perera, Irene Tracey, Gordon Duff, Peter Tufano, Thomas Fanshawe, Lazaro Mwandigha, Brian D. Nicholson, Sarah Tonkin-Crine and Richard Hobbs

Objectives: Successful implementation of asymptomatic testing programmes using lateral flow tests (LFTs) depends on several factors, including feasibility, acceptability and how people act on test results. We aimed to examine experiences of university students... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Self-testing; Health Pandemics; Health Testing and Trials; Behavior