Computer Services Industries - Publications - Faculty & Research

Describes a specific opportunity to seek financing from AT&T as part of a proposed technological joint venture. Students must consider the price paid and control rights attached to a large block of shares and outline a negotiating position for each side. View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Stock Shares; Financing and Loans; Price; Governance Controls; Rights; Negotiation; Opportunities; Computer Industry

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June 1990 (Revised August 1990)
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Sun Microsystems, Inc.--1987 (C)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Outlines the financing agreement reached by Sun and AT&T in early 1988. View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry; United States

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June 1990 (Revised October 1991)
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Lake Pleasant Bodies Case (A)

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Presents a classic dilemma in legal ethics--the conflict between an attorney's obligations as an attorney, in this case to protect a client's confidentiality, and his or her own moral obligations as a person. An attorney must decide how to respond to the father of a... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Moral Sensibility; Questionnaires; Attorney and Client Relationships; Social Psychology; Conflict Management; Legal Services Industry

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May 1990 (Revised August 1990)
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Campbell Soup Co.

By: Steven C. Wheelwright

Describes the engineering effort at Campbell Soup Co. to develop a microwavable package and product for the growing convenience segment. Focuses on the role of engineering services in developing the production process, acquiring and installing equipment, and getting... View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Production; Engineering; Strategy; Business Processes; Innovation and Management; Planning; Competitive Advantage; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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April 1990 (Revised June 1993)
Teaching Note

Understanding the U.S. Dollar in 1985 & 1987, Teaching Note

By: W. Carl Kester

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Agreements and Arrangements; Computer Industry

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April 1990 (Revised November 1992)
Case

Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh (Abridged)

By: James E. Austin

Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an... View Details

Keywords: Conferences; Developing Countries and Economies; Information Publishing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Agreements and Arrangements; Product; Nonprofit Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Bangladesh; Washington (state, US)

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April 1990
Case

Mexico and the Microcomputers (A) (Abridged)

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Information Technology; Computer Industry; Mexico

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April 1990
Case

What Is Done Is Dun . . . & Bradstreet

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein

Keywords: Crisis Management; Financial Services Industry

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March 1990
Case

Lehrer McGovern Bovis, Inc. (Abridged)

By: Steven C. Wheelwright

Describes the growth of a construction management company and the operating problems it now encounters. Designed to introduce students to the value of competition in the construction industry, to show how the techniques of value analysis can be used to strategic... View Details