Publications

September 1972 (Revised August 1989)
Background Note

Simple Economic Tools for Strategic Analysis

Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

December 1971
Case

Tappan Co.

February 2011 (Revised June 2011)
Teaching Note

Leaders Who Make a Difference: Sam Palmisano's Smarter IBM: Day 2 (TN)

Teaching Note for 311031. View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Information Technology Industry

December 2008
Article

The Teaching of Strategy: From General Manager to Analyst and Back Again?

Courses in strategy are an outgrowth of the business policy course first taught at Harvard Business School in 1912. This article examines how the teaching of a course concerned with the development and implementation of the goals and policies of a firm changed during... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Policy; Business History; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy

winter 1982
Article

Solving the Problems of Business Planning

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Planning

Article

Avoiding a Succession Crisis

Keywords: Management Succession; Crisis Management

Article

A Head Start on Succession

Our studies of CEO succession over the past several years have shown some improvements in the trends in CEO turnover, often resulting from outside pressures for improved oversight and better corporate governance. The next step in improving CEO succession—and ultimately... View Details

Keywords: Investment Return; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations

April 2004
Teaching Note

Marks & Spencer: The Phoenix Rises (Multi-Media Case)

Teaching Note to (9-304-034). View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Brands and Branding; Perspective; Segmentation; Management Teams

March 2002
Supplement

Sir Richard Greenbury-Events Leading to Succession

August 2000
Supplement

Belmont Industries, Inc. (B)

Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. View Details

August 2000
Case

Belmont Industries, Inc. (A)

A new general manager has to propose a salary structure for the top 20 managers. His task is complicated as he learns about past performance, ambitions, interpersonal relations, and market conditions. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Executive Compensation; Goals and Objectives; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits

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