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- April 2007 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
M-TRONICS (A)
By: Joseph L. Bower and Lynda M. Applegate
The new CEO of a small manufacturing firm pursues growth through the launch of Entrepreneurial Subsidiaries. While the firm grows revenues from $600 million to over $2 billion in 10 years, problems surface as the subsidiaries are integrated into the established... View Details
- April 2007 (Revised November 2007)
- Background Note
M-TRONICS (B)
By: Joseph L. Bower and Lynda M. Applegate
- February 2007
- Article
How Managers' Everyday Decisions Create—or Destroy—Your Company's Strategy
By: Joseph L. Bower and Clark Gilbert
- 2007
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Interview with Stuart Rose, CEO, Marks & Spencer
By: Joseph L. Bower
Keywords: Leadership
- September 2006
- Supplement
Brainard, Bennis & Farrell (B)
By: Joseph L. Bower
Brainard, Bennis and Farrel is a short case designed to explore the challenge of establishing appropriate compensation from a general management/CEO perspective. Brainard (B) is a one-page handout that is designed to show how an already difficult problem is made more... View Details
- September 2006
- Case
5 Years On The Job: Interview with Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman & CEO, GE March 24, 2006
By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout
- 2006
- Working Paper
Manage Resource Allocation to Craft Strategy
By: Joseph L. Bower and Clark Gilbert
- March 2006
- Teaching Note
Entrepreneurial Insights (TN)
By: Joseph L. Bower
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- March 2006 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
Entrepreneurial Insights
By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonya Hout
Presents a matrix of 42 video clips of interviews with seven entrepreneurial managers answering the same six questions about their experiences building their companies. The individual entrepreneurs (Vittorio Merloni, Merloni Elettrodomestici; Alex d'Arbeloff, Teradyne,... View Details
- 2005
- Working Paper
A Revised Model of the Resource Allocation Process
By: Joseph L. Bower and Clark Gilbert
- March 2005
- Class Lecture
Leadership is a Choice: The General Manager in the Middle (FSS)
By: Joseph L. Bower
- September 2004
- Supplement
Allianz-Dresdner Merger, The: An Interview with Dr. Holger Hatje
By: Joseph L. Bower
- August 2004 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
Allianz (D1): The Turnaround
By: Joseph L. Bower, Anders Sjoman and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Examines the acquisition of Dresdner Bank by Allianz--the deal of the year in 2002. Examines some of the challenges posed by the turnaround of Dresdner as seen by Michael Diekmann, the new CEO of Allianz. In working with Dresdner, Allianz needed to figure out what it... View Details
- August 2004 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
Allianz (A1): An Insurer Acquiring a Bank?
By: Joseph L. Bower, Marc L. Bertoneche, Anders Sjoman and Sonja Ellingson Hout
The deal of the year in 2002, was the acquisition of Dresdner Bank by Allianz. Written from the perspectives of Allianz's CEO, Henning Schulte-Noelle, before and after the deal and a regional manager implementing the concept of a full-line financial service provider.... View Details
- April 2004
- Teaching Note
Marks & Spencer: The Phoenix Rises (Multi-Media Case)
By: Joseph L. Bower
Teaching Note to (9-304-034). View Details
- April 2004
- Case
Marks & Spencer: The Phoenix Rises - A Multimedia Case Study
By: Joseph L. Bower
Enables students to interactively research the steps Marks & Spencer's top executives took to restore prosperity and explore in depth the major issues remaining. The perspective is that of Luc Vandevelde, who arrived at the venerable U.K. retailer in 2001, and that of... View Details