Publications

Keywords: Music Industry

June 1970
Background Note

Note on the Light Aircraft Industry

Keywords: Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry

July 2016 (Revised January 2017)
Case

Banking on Change: Aligning Culture and Compensation at Morgan Stanley

This case study was prepared as part of a research project on Culture, Conduct, and Governance in Financial Firms. The objective of this project is to compare and contrast the efforts of U.S. and European banks to induce changes in organization culture in the aftermath... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Corporate Governance; Banks and Banking; United States; Europe

Educators

Purchase

1994
Working Paper

Industrial Governance and the Strategic Management of Firms

1996
Working Paper

Reversing History: The Economics and Politics of Vertical Disintegration at General Motors

1998
Working Paper

Value Creation and Destruction in the Management of Organizations

July 1989 (Revised August 1989)
Teaching Note

U.S. Auto Industry: Scenarios and Choices, Teaching Note

April 1989 (Revised June 1989)
Case

U.S. Auto Industry: Scenarios and Choices

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Situation or Environment; Auto Industry; United States

April 1987 (Revised June 1987)
Background Note

Apparel Industry's Political Profile

January 1986 (Revised March 1986)
Background Note

Note on the Creation of Corporate Wealth

01 Apr 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

capital markets and how entrepreneurial companies can access startup capital and growth financing; Professor Malcolm S. Salter will discuss the "modern industrial revolution" and the tools larger companies... View Details

25 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

asked to consider whether entry into web services by Amazon, which had established its brand in retail, represented a prudent move by the company. The case provides an opportunity to highlight the benefits... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2006
News

Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

AIR AND SPACE: GLF participants enjoyed cocktails and dinner at the popular Washington museum. PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANUTA OTFINOWSKI There has never been a time when there have been as many challenges facing this country as there are now, nor... View Details

08 May 2015
News

A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks

lending rates and economic activity. Prevailing economic theory holds that the cost-of-capital effect is negligible in an ideal market. Malcolm P. Baker, the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration, has investigated this... View Details

November 1993 (Revised September 1995)
Supplement

Block 16: Management's Perspective

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Susan E.A. Hall

Supplements Block 16: Conoco's Green Oil Strategy (A). Reviews the environmental challenges facing the oil industry throughout upstream and downstream operations, and oil companies' competitive responses. Reviews Conoco's and Du Pont's environmental initiatives in more... View Details

Keywords: Local Range; Operations; Environmental Sustainability; Perspective; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy

Purchase

January 1988 (Revised April 1989)
Background Note

Europe's New Industrial Revolution

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Roy V. Eales

April 1985
Background Note

NIKE: International Context

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Michael J. Roberts

Keywords: Apparel and Accessories Industry

05 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 5

and operations theory suggests that the longer people wait, the less satisfied they become; we demonstrate that due to what we term the labor illusion, when websites engage in operational transparency by signaling that they are exerting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 2001
Case

Regal Cinemas LBO (A)

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Daniel Green

This case describes one of the greatest LBO failures of the 1990s. It presents an overview of the difficulties two experienced buyout sponsors were forced to deal with. View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Corporate Governance; Failure