Job Cuts and Outsourcing - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

librarian challenged him to a duel. Schumpeter won the duel by cutting a small slice out of the librarian's shoulder. The two men later became good friends, and the students got access to the books. Like... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

April 2001
Exercise

Selecting a Hosting Provider

Asks students to develop criteria for selecting a Web hosting company, then to select one of three profiled in case exhibits. In choosing a hosting vendor, students represent one of two companies: one a start-up, the other an industrial-age manufacturer. By assigning... View Details

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Partners and Partnerships; Internet

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1990
Article

Outsourcing: Harbinger of IS's Transformation

By: R. L. Nolan

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Transformation

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June 2004 (Revised December 2005)
Teaching Note

Offshoring at Global Information Systems, Inc. (TN)

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

Teaching Note to (9-204-144). View Details

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing

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07 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

on-the-ground advocacy—to go get a free eye exam or a blood pressure check-up. Easy. Your basic principles of sales and promotion will carry the day. If your charge is minimizing smoking or drug use, well, your View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

April 1995
Case

Montague Corporation (A)

By: Norman A. Berg and James Weber

The Montague Corp. is a small company started in 1987 and owned by David Montague, age 31, and his father. The company designs, manufactures in Taiwan, and sells through distributors worldwide a high-quality "bicycle that folds." The company offices are located in... View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Financial Strategy; Financial Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Globalized Firms and Management; Family Business; Bicycle Industry; Taiwan; Cambridge

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1995
Article

What Downsizing Does to Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile and R. Conti

Keywords: Creativity; Job Cuts and Outsourcing

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1995
Article

Managing Distrust: The Hidden Cost of Downsizing

By: D. Sull and N. Nohria

Keywords: Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Cost; Trust

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09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

product, or service against the best-known similar activity, so that challenging but attainable goals can be set and a realistic course of action implemented to efficiently become and remain best of the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

December 2005
Article

Reducing Slack: The Performance Consequences of Downsizing by Large Industrial Firms, 1977-93

By: E. Geoffrey Love and Nitin Nohria

Keywords: Business Ventures; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Performance; Outcome or Result

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06 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

occupations—management, medicine, law enforcement, and addiction counseling—and noticed three surprising patterns that cut across all four occupations. First, in contrast to the stereotypical image of an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

strikes. It's as if doing so is tantamount to admitting failure as a leader. This tension is not necessarily surprising. Fortune 500 CEOs are some of the most driven, results-oriented people on the planet. Because their jobs compel them... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

four years came along. It brought tax cuts and higher growth. The unemployment rate fell. Wages, particularly for low-income workers, increased. But contrary to Phillips curve thinking, inflation remained... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Discussion of 'The Use of Management Control Mechanisms to Mitigate Moral Hazard in the Decision to Outsource'

By: Dennis Campbell

Keywords: Management; Decision Making; Ethics; Job Cuts and Outsourcing

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20 Apr 2021
Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

design, but just look at their faces, beaming with pride and anticipation! Or online, head over to Facebook and Instagram, where you will see other instances of value creation. Look at the pictures View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

April 2004 (Revised July 2007)
Case

OfficeTiger

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Johanna Regine Naunton Blaxall

OfficeTiger was founded in late 1999 with an innovative approach to global outsourcing. The company's employees, located primarily in India, provided services for corporations, investment banks, and professional services firms throughout the United States, Europe, and... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Globalized Markets and Industries; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; India

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November 2006
Case

Kroger Union Negotiations

By: Dennis A. Yao

A stylized version of the negotiations between Kroger Company and its local unions during the mid-1980s. Management faces a sequence of individual negotiations with local unions during a time of weak economic performance when management is seriously considering... View Details

Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Wages; Management; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics

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05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

developers and 27 percent wanted sales leads, 13 percent were looking for growth marketers and 7 percent wanted front-end developers/UX/designers. Sure, it’s fine to look for a generalist [or augmenting your... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

time? Why is it that even people who care about morality end up behaving unethically? Why is it that people often feel inauthentic at work? What does that imply for their job satisfaction and productivity?”... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

October 2013 (Revised July 2025)
Case

Rhythm & Blues

By: Willy Shih

The bankruptcy filing of Rhythm & Hues, who received an Oscar for the arresting visual effects in Life of Pi, raised questions about the challenges faced by the firms like it as well as the broader post-production industry. The rapid pace of technology certainly... View Details