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      • February 1996 (Revised August 1998)
      • Exercise

      Process Flow Design Exercise (C)

      By: Janice H. Hammond
      Provides detailed instructions for auditors to help them prepare for the factory demonstration day. Each audit position is described and a time line outlining responsibilities for the four phases of the simulation is provided. View Details
      Keywords: Business Processes
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      Hammond, Janice H. "Process Flow Design Exercise (C)." Harvard Business School Exercise 696-085, February 1996. (Revised August 1998.)
      • November 1995
      • Background Note

      Reengineering a Business Process

      By: Richard L. Nolan and Thomas H. Davenport
      Describes the six steps included in most reengineering initiatives: selecting the processes for reengineering; identifying change enablers; developing a business vision of process objectives; understanding and measuring existing processes; designing and prototyping the... View Details
      Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Change Management; Measurement and Metrics
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      Nolan, Richard L., and Thomas H. Davenport. "Reengineering a Business Process." Harvard Business School Background Note 396-054, November 1995.
      • October 1995
      • Teaching Note

      Procter & Gamble: Improving Consumer Value Through Process Design TN

      By: F. Warren McFarlan
      Teaching Note for (9-195-126). View Details
      Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Focus and Relationships; Distribution Channels; Information Technology; Value Creation; Logistics; Management Practices and Processes; Consumer Products Industry
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      McFarlan, F. Warren. "Procter & Gamble: Improving Consumer Value Through Process Design TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 396-083, October 1995.
      • October 1995
      • Case

      Centex Telemanagement, Inc. (A)

      By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
      Contains a description of the events surrounding the financing of Centex Telemanagement, Inc. by Sierra Ventures, a venture capital fund. The case is written from the perspective of the venture capitalists and is designed to teach students about the process of venture... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans
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      Sahlman, William A., and Andrew S. Janower. "Centex Telemanagement, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 396-101, October 1995.
      • October 1995
      • Case

      Centex Telemanagement, Inc. (B)

      By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
      Contains a description of the events surrounding the financing of Centex Telemanagement, Inc. by Sierra Ventures, a venture capital fund. The case is written from the perspective of the venture capitalists and is designed to teach students about the process of venture... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Financial Institutions; Business Startups
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      Sahlman, William A., and Andrew S. Janower. "Centex Telemanagement, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 396-102, October 1995.
      • October 1995
      • Background Note

      Coordination: An Overview

      By: Ananth Raman
      Designed to accompany Module II of the first-year required course on Technology and Operations Management. Particularly useful in conjunction with Corning Glass Works: Erwin Automotive Plant, Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc., Johnson Controls, Automotive... View Details
      Keywords: Management; Operations; Technology; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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      Raman, Ananth. "Coordination: An Overview." Harvard Business School Background Note 696-001, October 1995.
      • August 1995 (Revised September 1995)
      • Background Note

      Designing and Managing the Information Age IT Architecture

      By: Lynda M. Applegate
      The co-evolution of technology, work, and the workforce over the past 30 years has dramatically influenced our concept of organizations and the industries within which they compete. No longer simply a tool to support "back-office" transactions, IT has become a... View Details
      Keywords: Design; Management; Organizations; Information Technology
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      Applegate, Lynda M. "Designing and Managing the Information Age IT Architecture." Harvard Business School Background Note 196-005, August 1995. (Revised September 1995.)
      • August 1995
      • Background Note

      Managing in an Information Age: IT Challenges and Opportunities

      By: Lynda M. Applegate
      The co-evolution of technology, work, and the workforce over the past 30 years has dramatically influenced our concept of organizations and the industries within which they compete. No longer simply a tool to support "back-office" transactions, IT has become a... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Information Management; Restructuring; Technological Innovation; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology Industry
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      Applegate, Lynda M. "Managing in an Information Age: IT Challenges and Opportunities." Harvard Business School Background Note 196-004, August 1995.
      • August 1995 (Revised August 1995)
      • Case

      CIGNA Property and Casualty Reengineering (A)

      By: Richard L. Nolan, Donna B. Stoddard, Chiara Francalanci and Elise C Martin
      Reengineering was introduced at CIGNA Corp. in 1988. CIGNA entered a second wave reengineering effort through a major project at CIGNA P&C, one of CIGNA's larger businesses. P&C was in financial crisis and as a result brought in a new executive team in 1991 to head the... View Details
      Keywords: Transformation; Cost vs Benefits; Design; Growth and Development; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Balanced Scorecard; Financial Crisis; Crisis Management; Projects; Information Technology; Insurance Industry
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      Nolan, Richard L., Donna B. Stoddard, Chiara Francalanci, and Elise C Martin. "CIGNA Property and Casualty Reengineering (A)." Harvard Business School Case 196-059, August 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
      • August 1995 (Revised December 2006)
      • Case

      Stonehaven, Inc.

      By: H. Kent Bowen and Ramchandran Jaikumar
      Stonehaven is a disguised version of a shoe factory located in Central Europe that must respond quickly to mix and volume changes for the U.S.-based company. Shoemaking involves several distinctly different processes, which must be designed and managed in a way to give... View Details
      Keywords: Operations; Business Processes; Performance Capacity; Change Management; Design; Consumer Products Industry; Europe; United States
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      Bowen, H. Kent, and Ramchandran Jaikumar. "Stonehaven, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 696-048, August 1995. (Revised December 2006.)
      • July 1995 (Revised September 1995)
      • Background Note

      Technology for Teams

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Geoffrey Bock
      The importance of groups in organizations has long been recognized but, until recently, groups were always "tacked onto" organizations that were designed around individuals. It was not just the logic of classical organizational theory that perpetuated this focus on the... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Groups and Teams
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and Geoffrey Bock. "Technology for Teams." Harvard Business School Background Note 196-008, July 1995. (Revised September 1995.)
      • 1995
      • Dissertation

      The Economics of Experimentation in the Design of New Products and Processes

      By: Stefan Thomke
      Keywords: Economics; Research and Development; Operations; Product Launch
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      Thomke, Stefan. "The Economics of Experimentation in the Design of New Products and Processes." Diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1995.
      • January 1995 (Revised January 1995)
      • Case

      USAA: Business Process Review for the Great Lakes Region (Abridged)

      By: James L. Heskett
      Presents the results of a service process analysis of USAA's claims processing activity in its Great Lakes Region. Explores not only issues of redesigning the process but also the organizational implications of various alternatives. View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Mortgages; Management Practices and Processes; Business Processes; Organizational Design; Mathematical Methods; Real Estate Industry; North America
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      Heskett, James L. "USAA: Business Process Review for the Great Lakes Region (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 395-026, January 1995. (Revised January 1995.)
      • November 1994
      • Background Note

      Why Bad Things Happen to Good Companies

      By: Benson P. Shapiro, Adrian J. Slywotsky and Richard S. Tedlow
      Describes the Darwinian internal and external processes that lead to poor performance from a previously well performing company. Demonstrates why any business design eventually fails and the role of organizational calcification and poor leadership in the failure. Also... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Failure; Performance
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      Shapiro, Benson P., Adrian J. Slywotsky, and Richard S. Tedlow. "Why Bad Things Happen to Good Companies." Harvard Business School Background Note 595-045, November 1994.
      • August 1994 (Revised May 2001)
      • Case

      ITT Automotive: Global Manufacturing Strategy (1994)

      By: Gary P. Pisano and Sharon L. Rossi
      ITT Automotive is in the process of developing a new-generation antilock brake system (ABS), designated the MK-20. The case focuses on the level of automation to be used in the production of this new system, and whether all plants should use the same process... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Innovation Strategy; Production; Product Development; Globalized Firms and Management; Performance Productivity; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Belgium; Germany; United States
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      Pisano, Gary P., and Sharon L. Rossi. "ITT Automotive: Global Manufacturing Strategy (1994)." Harvard Business School Case 695-002, August 1994. (Revised May 2001.)
      • July 1994
      • Case

      Microsoft: Multimedia Publications (A)

      By: Marco Iansiti and Ellen Stein
      Microsoft Corp. has built a highly successful business around computer software (both applications and system software) using a particular organizational structure. Now that the company has chosen to enter the consumer market with a CD-ROM product, how should Microsoft... View Details
      Keywords: Product Development; Organizational Structure; Applications and Software; Design; Expansion; Consumer Products Industry; Information Technology Industry; Washington (state, US)
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      Iansiti, Marco, and Ellen Stein. "Microsoft: Multimedia Publications (A)." Harvard Business School Case 695-005, July 1994.
      • June 1994 (Revised September 1994)
      • Background Note

      Commercializing Technology: Imaginative Understanding of User Needs

      By: Dorothy A. Leonard
      The transformation of technology into commercially successful products is a process fraught with risk and uncertainty, and increasing pressure on time to market is exacerbating the difficulties. This note first describes a study conducted by Hewlett-Packard to improve... View Details
      Keywords: Transformation; Communication Strategy; Customers; Design; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Research; Risk and Uncertainty; Commercialization; Technology Adoption
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      Leonard, Dorothy A. "Commercializing Technology: Imaginative Understanding of User Needs." Harvard Business School Background Note 694-102, June 1994. (Revised September 1994.)
      • March 1994 (Revised October 1994)
      • Case

      Reading Energy

      By: Forest L. Reinhardt
      Reading Energy builds facilities that produce energy from nontraditional fuels. A privately held, entrepreneurial organization, it has spent six years developing a plan to build a waste-to-energy plant in the town of Robbins, Illinois. The plant would burn municipal... View Details
      Keywords: Energy Generation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Community Relations; Business Plan; Agreements and Arrangements; Contracts; Risk and Uncertainty; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Illinois
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      Reinhardt, Forest L. "Reading Energy." Harvard Business School Case 794-102, March 1994. (Revised October 1994.)
      • September 1993 (Revised August 2011)
      • Supplement

      ExtendSim® Simulation Exercises in Process Analysis, User's Guide

      By: Roy D. Shapiro and Ann E. Gray
      Designed to be used with ExtendSim Simulation Exercises in Process Analysis (A) and (B). Unadvertised per Case Records. View Details
      Keywords: Management Practices and Processes
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      Shapiro, Roy D., and Ann E. Gray. "ExtendSim® Simulation Exercises in Process Analysis, User's Guide." Harvard Business School Supplement 694-043, September 1993. (Revised August 2011.)
      • April 1993 (Revised May 1994)
      • Case

      General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (A)

      By: F. Warren McFarlan and Katherine Seger
      Designed to generate discussion on the issues of outsourcing from the perspective of a firm thinking about turning over its IS activities to a third-party vendor. View Details
      Keywords: Management Systems; Management Style; Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Business Strategy; Economic Systems; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Processes; Employment; Emerging Markets; Activity Based Costing and Management; Information Technology Industry; Consulting Industry
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      McFarlan, F. Warren, and Katherine Seger. "General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (A)." Harvard Business School Case 193-144, April 1993. (Revised May 1994.)
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