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- March 1997 (Revised April 2001)
- Supplement
Microsoft in the People's Republic of China: 1998 Update
By: Tarun Khanna and Danielle J. Melito
Provides an update to Microsoft in the People's Republic of China--1993. View Details
- March 1997
- Article
Transactions Costs and Capital Structure Choice: Evidence from Financially Distressed Firms
By: S. C. Gilson
This study provides evidence that transactions costs discourage debt reductions by financially distressed firms when they restructure their debt out of court. As a result, these firms remain highly leveraged and one-in-three subsequently experience financial distress.... View Details
- February 1997 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
Walden Woods
By: William J. Poorvu and Arthur I Segel
In 1984, Mortimer Zuckerman and Ed Linde, through their firm, Boston Properties (BP), acquired land in Concord, MA to build a 147,000-square-foot, first-class suburban office building. BP proceeded to go through the permitting and approval process with the town and was... View Details
- February 1997 (Revised April 1997)
- Case
Harrington Financial Group
By: Robert C. Merton and Alberto Moel
In early 1997, Harrington Bank, a small Indiana savings and loan (thrift) wondered what its next move should be. Harrington was acquired in 1988 by the principals of Smith Breeden Associates, a money-management and consulting firm specializing in the application of... View Details
- February 1997 (Revised December 2012)
- Case
Jim Sharpe: Extrusion Technology, Inc. (B)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Barbara Feinberg
Jim Sharpe, 11 years after receiving his MBA from Harvard and working for others, has finally become his own boss and 100% owner of manufacturer of aluminum extrusions. After 10 months of an unfunded search, he acquires the business in an LBO and prepares to face his... View Details
- February 1997 (Revised September 1998)
- Case
American Management Systems, Inc.: The Knowledge Centers
By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Sylvia Sensiper
Senior management at AMS, a business and information technology consulting company, is growing at 28% annually and assimilating 1,800 new hires a year. AMS has recently instituted a new knowledge management strategy, a group of six knowledge centers (virtual... View Details
- 1997
- Chapter
Winners and Losers--Industry Structure in the Converging World of Telecommunications, Computing, and Entertainment
By: D. J. Collis, P. W. Bane and S. P. Bradley
- January 1997 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
IBM and Siemens: Revitalizing the Rolm Division (A)
By: Ashish Nanda, Antonio Davila and Georgia Levenson
The case opens with a discussion of the evolution of the private branch exchange industry in the 1970s and 1980s. It follows the path of Rolm from an independent company to an IBM acquisition and its problem as an IBM division. Then describes Siemens' growing interest... View Details
- January 1997
- Exercise
Negotiating Corporate Change: Confidential Information, David Carlson, VP, Management Information Systems
This case provides the confidential role information necessary for one person in a four-person negotiation simulation about a major corporate change. Specifically, it describes the role of David Carlson as he attempts to negotiate a new uniform corporate information... View Details
- January 1997
- Exercise
Negotiating Corporate Change: Confidential Information, Helen Freeman, VP, Small Appliances Division
This case provides the confidential role information necessary for one person in a four-person negotiation simulation about a major corporate change. Specifically, it describes the role of Helen Freeman as she attempts to negotiate a new uniform corporate information... View Details
- January 1997
- Exercise
Negotiating Corporate Change: Confidential Information, Jack Morris, VP, Food Division
This case provides the confidential role information necessary for one person in a four-person negotiation simulation about a major corporate change. Specifically, it describes the role of Jack Morris as he attempts to negotiate a new uniform corporate information... View Details
- January 1997
- Exercise
Negotiating Corporate Change: Confidential Information, Paul Stokes, VP, Health and Beauty Aids Division
This case provides the confidential role information necessary for one person in a four-person negotiation simulation about a major corporate change. Specifically, it describes the role of Paul Stokes as he attempts to negotiate a new uniform corporate information... View Details
- January 1997 (Revised June 1997)
- Case
Southwire: Beyond 2000
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
Southwire, based in Carrollton, GA, was the leading producer of aluminum and copper rod, wire, and cable for the transmission and distribution of electricity. In one decade, CEO Roy Richards, Jr. grew annual sales from $500 million in 1985 to $1.9 billion in 1995, an... View Details
- 1997
- Chapter
Discussion of "Microeconomic Policy, Technological Change, and Small Business" by Edwin Mansfield
By: Joshua Lerner
Edwin Mansfield’s thoughtful review of the literature on the economics of technological change raises a variety of interesting issues, far too many to address in a few pages. Consequently I will focus my discussion on the section that I found most challenging and... View Details
- December 1996 (Revised June 1998)
- Case
Midnight Networks, Inc.
By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
Midnight Networks, Inc., is a small computer network validation company. This case describes how the five founders built their business from operations earnings and how they established "best practices" operational processes to run their firm successfully. Operational... View Details
- December 1996 (Revised July 2002)
- Background Note
Note on Marketing and the Internet
By: John A. Deighton, Alison Berkley and John Barabino
The World Wide Web is new, a comprehensive marketing environment. It is a medium for direct marketing, for retailing and distribution, for the delivery of service and product elements, for marketing research, and even for posting and testing prices. This note explores... View Details
- November 1996 (Revised December 1996)
- Case
Rogers Communications, Inc.: The Wave
By: John A. Deighton, Karsten Voermann and Reginal Gilyard
Rogers Communications, Inc., Canada's largest cable television provider, is deciding how it should respond to developments that appear to portend the convergence of its industry with the computing and telecommunications industries. In particular, it is investigating... View Details
- November 1996 (Revised July 1997)
- Case
Alexander Plaza
By: Arthur I Segel and William J. Poorvu
In May 1996, Henry Bower, an asset manager for a real estate adviser, Medcem, has to negotiate the details of a lease after signing a letter of intent with a high technology company, Defentek, Inc. Defentek, Inc. is a fast-growing company with limited net worth that is... View Details
- November 1996 (Revised June 1999)
- Case
Living on Internet Time: Product Development at Netscape, Yahoo!, NetDynamics, and Microsoft
By: Marco Iansiti and Alan D. MacCormack
Describes how four companies in the Internet software market approach product development. Drawing upon short case studies of three recent projects, students are invited to synthesize the common attributes of development practice in turbulent environments. View Details
- November – December 1996
- Article
What Is Strategy?
By: M. E. Porter
Today's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity, quality, and speed, managers have embraced tools such as TQM, benchmarking, and reengineering. Dramatic operational... View Details
Keywords: Strategy