Publications

September 14, 2009
Article

The Lessons of Lehman: Do the Opposite

Keywords: Learning

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June 2001
Exercise

Strategic Human Resource Management Applications Exercise

Overview of a method for diagnosing and developing an organization's capability to achieve its goals and implement its strategy, with exercises for application. A rewritten version of an earlier exercise. View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Strategy

August 1999
Supplement

ASDA: Company Video

December 1989
Supplement

People Express Decline: Interview with Don Burr, Video

Presents an interview with Don Burr, CEO, as he reviews his account of how and why People Express failed as a corporation and was ultimately sold to Continental Airlines. View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Failure; Business Exit or Shutdown; Air Transportation Industry

February 1984
Supplement

Office Technology, Inc.: Members of the OEM Group, Video

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June 1992
Article

Strategic Change Research: An Urgent Need for Usable Rather than Useful Knowledge

By: M. Beer

Keywords: Strategy; Change; Research; Knowledge

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2005
Working Paper

Transforming Organizations: Embrace the Paradox of E and O

July 1997 (Revised December 1997)
Case

Allentown Materials Corporation: The Electronic Products Division (A)

A division of Allentown Materials Corp. has financial and organizational problems. Conflict and lack of coordination exist between functional groups. Employees do not have a sense of direction, and morale is low. The cause of these problems is found in a change in... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Employees; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Electronics Industry

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June 1991 (Revised June 1993)
Supplement

Becton Dickinson (D1): Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling, Update

Describes reactions to the strategic human resource management process and allows an evaluation of prospects for the future. View Details

Keywords: Human Resources

June 1991 (Revised March 1995)
Case

Becton Dickinson (D): Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling

Describes a strategic human resource management process applied at the business unit and corporate level. The purpose of the process is to provide a means for aligning human resource management policies and practices with strategy and to hold managers accountable for... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Human Resources; Business or Company Management; Strategic Planning; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry

Educators