Publications

1995
Report

Lifting All Boats: Increasing the Payoff from Private Investment in the US Economy

By: Michael Porter

Keywords: Investment; Private Sector; United States

August 1995 (Revised December 2003)
Case

Cricket Road, 503

By: William J. Poorvu and Donald A. Brown

In September 2003, Mason Sexton, a young, inexperienced developer, was making plans to replace a rooming house he had inherited next to the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville with a new 14-unit, 5-story apartment house. His attempts to assemble the... View Details

Keywords: Property; Entrepreneurship; Housing; Buildings and Facilities; Construction; Risk and Uncertainty; Management Practices and Processes; Real Estate Industry; United States

August 1995 (Revised March 1996)
Teaching Note

ITT Automotive: Global Manufacturing Strategy (1994) TN

By: Gary P. Pisano

Teaching Note for (9-695-002). View Details

Keywords: Auto Industry; Belgium; Germany; United States

August 1995
Teaching Note

Polaroid Corporation: European Distribution System TN

By: Janice H. Hammond and Afroze A Mohammed

Teaching Note for (9-695-038). View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products Industry; Europe; European Union; United States

August 1995 (Revised September 1995)
Case

Hutton Branch Manager (C)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Jane Palley Katz

Centers on the company's plea of guilty to 2,000 counts of mail and wire fraud in response to the U.S. government's challenge to its cash management practices. Describes the Justice Department's investigations as well as the findings and recommendations of former... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Management; Governance Controls; Crime and Corruption; Governance Compliance; Law Enforcement; Financial Services Industry; United States

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August 1995 (Revised October 1996)
Case

Futures on the Mexican Peso

By: Kenneth A. Froot, Matthew McBrady and Mark Seasholes

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange needs to decide how to design, and whether and when to introduce, a futures contract on the Mexican peso. View Details

Keywords: Exchange Rates; Money Markets; Futures Market; Country Analysis; International Finance; Financial Markets; Futures and Commodity Futures; Financial Services Industry; Chicago; Mexico

1995
Chapter

Investment in Pollution Compliance Options: The Case of Georgia Power

By: F. L. Reinhardt and M. Edleson

Keywords: Pollutants; Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Energy Industry; Georgia (state, US)

1995
Chapter

The Tax Treatment of Interest and the Operations of U.S. Multinationals

By: K. Froot and J. Hines

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Interest Rates; United States

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July 1995
Teaching Note

Sport Obermeyer, Ltd. TN

By: Janice H. Hammond and Ananth Raman

Teaching Note for (9-695-022). View Details

Keywords: Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry; United States; Hong Kong

July 1995 (Revised April 1996)
Case

Cambridge Technology Partners (A)

By: Teresa M. Amabile, George P. Baker III and Michael Beer

Cambridge Technology Partners uses a highly innovative product strategy, supported by a human resources strategy, that has been very successful. However, high growth rates jeopardize product quality while tension about relative compensation levels between sales and... View Details

Keywords: Growth Management; Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Culture; Quality; Human Resources; Relationships; Innovation and Invention; Consulting Industry; Massachusetts

July 1995 (Revised April 1996)
Teaching Note

Patricia Ostrander TN

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Teaching Note for (9-795-016). View Details

Keywords: United States

1995
Chapter

The Information-integrated Channel: A Study of the U.S. Apparel Industry in Transition

By: J. T. Dunlop, J. H. Hammond, F A Abernathy and D. Weil

Keywords: Transition; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States

June 1995 (Revised September 1996)
Case

Union Carbide's Bhopal Plant (A)

By: Debora L. Spar

In December 1984, a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, sprung a leak, releasing thousands of gallons of highly toxic gas into the atmosphere. By the time the leak was sealed, over 2,000 people had died. In a series of three excerpts from published accounts, the case... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Chemicals; Foreign Direct Investment; Chemical Industry; United States; India

June 1995 (Revised April 1996)
Teaching Note

Michael Milken TN

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Teaching Note for (1-793-057). View Details

Keywords: United States