Publications

March 1974 (Revised June 1995)
Case

First National City Bank Operating Group (B)

Growth in demands on the bank's "back office" required a totally new approach to management. New stress on systems orientation, objectives, measurement, process design and control has resulted in lower costs, fewer people, and higher quality. Also resulted in fear,... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transition; Banks and Banking; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Production; Outcome or Result; Banking Industry

Educators

Purchase

March 1974 (Revised June 1996)
Case

First National City Bank Operating Group (A)

Growth in the banking field has produced new demands on the "back office." Traditional management practices in check processing and paper handling operations have resulted in ten years of cost increases and quality loss. New manager of the operating group faces an... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transition; Banks and Banking; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Production; Banking Industry

Educators

Purchase

February 1974 (Revised November 1977)
Case

Perkins Engines (A)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and John Raticheck

Keywords: Industrial Products Industry

December 1973 (Revised November 1993)
Case

Cooper Industries, Inc.

By: Thomas R. Piper

The executive president of a major industrial company must decide 1) whether to acquire a small hand tool company and, if so, 2) the value and form that the acquisition package should take. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Valuation; Acquisition; Management Teams; Consumer Products Industry

Educators

Purchase

November 1973
Article

Men and Machines in Indonesia's Light Manufacturing Industry

By: Louis T Wells Jr

Keywords: Production; Machinery and Machining; Manufacturing Industry; Indonesia

01 Oct 1971
Conference Presentation

La Modernizacion de la Produccion y los Ajustes en el Sistema de Mercadea: El Caso de la Industria Arrocera Nicaraguense

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Production; Marketing; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nicaragua

April 1971 (Revised April 1983)
Case

General Electric Co.--1970

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry

January 1971 (Revised March 1972)
Case

Holiday Greetings, Inc.

By: Fred K. Foulkes and William E. Fruhan Jr.

Keywords: Consumer Products Industry

December 1970 (Revised April 1983)
Case

Product Management at United Brands

Keywords: Product; Management; Consumer Products Industry

March 1969 (Revised January 2000)
Case

Industrial Products, Inc.

By: Joseph L. Bower and John W. Rosenblum

Involves the decision of whether to construct a new plant in another part of the country for a line of fire protection equipment. Capital funds set aside for the construction are blocked by Fireguard's continued record of substantial operating losses and divisional... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Capital; Construction; Financing and Loans; Expansion; Business Earnings; Markets; Product; Manufacturing Industry

February 1963
Case

Markham Instrument Co. (A)

Keywords: Machinery and Machining; Industrial Products Industry

December 1961 (Revised January 1994)
Case

Plowman Poultry Farm

By: Samuel L. Hayes III

A poultry farmer wanted to expand production greatly and sought a large extension of his line of credit from his bank in addition to his existing loan on which he had not made payment. The Board of Directors must review a detailed account of events leading to this... View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financing and Loans; Commercial Banking; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

Other Unpublished Work

Cross Sectional Analysis of Phantom Products at Retail Stores

By: Zeynep Ton and Ananth Raman

Keywords: Distribution; Logistics; Retail Industry