Publications

April 1985 (Revised March 1987)
Background Note

Organizing and Controlling MNCs

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management

February 1985 (Revised January 2024)
Case

Health Stop (A): What Type of Innovation Is It? And Six Factors Alignment

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Joyce Lallman, Nancy Kane, Jefferson C. Grahling and James Wallace

How can we evaluate if innovative health care ventures can do good—benefit society—and do well—become financially viable? This question is the topic of the first module in the Innovating In Health Care course book. This note and case series enables readers to conduct... View Details

Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Valuation; Health Industry; Retail Industry

January 1985 (Revised February 1997)
Case

Lotus Development Corp.

By: William A. Sahlman

Contains a description of the history and venture capital financing of Lotus Development. Focuses on issues related to the possible terms of investment in Lotus by a major venture capital firm. The pedagogic objectives in the case are: to explore the elements of the... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Venture Capital; Organizational Structure; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Outcome or Result; Corporate Finance; Planning; Computer Industry

January 1985 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Turner Construction Co.

By: Frank V. Cespedes

In June, 1984, a vice president at Turner Construction Co. must decide whether to approve a construction project being considered by one of Turner's territorial offices and how to manage that territory general manager's apparent reluctance to pursue another account... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Projects; Market Entry and Exit; Integration; Contracts; Marketing Strategy; Sales; Business or Company Management; Business Offices; Geographic Location; Construction Industry

1985
Article

Executive Succession, Strategic Reorientation and Organization Evolution

By: Michael Tushman, B. Virany and E. Romanelli

Keywords: Management Succession; Strategy; Organizations

1985
Article

Measuring and Reporting the Financial Condition of Public Organizations

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Finance; Organizations

1985
Article

Organizational Evolution: A Metamorphosis Model of Convergence and Reorientation

By: M. Tushman and E. Romanelli

Keywords: Organizations

1985
Chapter

The Use of Market Research in Industrial Organizations

By: Rohit Deshpandé and G. Zaltman

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October 1984 (Revised July 1988)
Case

Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc.

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Describes the history, management, and organization of an extremely successful bank holding company. The company has had a very charismatic chairman, has made MBAs bank presidents at very early ages, and has a long record of innovation. Now deregulation and a coming... View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Financial Services Industry

1984
Chapter

Variations in Managerial Career Structures in High Technology Firms: The Impact of Organizational Characteristics on Internal Labor Market Patterns

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Organizational Design; Technology Industry

September 1984 (Revised September 1993)
Case

Nestle S.A.: International Marketing (A)

By: John A. Quelch

A senior manager at Nestle's headquarters is reviewing the role of the central marketing staff with respect to Nestle's operating companies around the world. Two specific examples of the role of the central staff in guiding the advertising and packaging decisions of... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Marketing; Operations; Advertising; Management Teams; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Switzerland

September 1984 (Revised March 1993)
Background Note

Marketing Planning and Organization

By: Robert J. Dolan

Presents guidelines for effective marketing planning. Provides a general outline of the contents of a typical marketing plan, the process by which the plan is developed, and considers the benefits successful firms reap from their planning efforts and the problems that... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Planning; Design

1 Sep 1984
Conference Presentation

Ensuring Minority Achievement in Corporations: The Importance of Structural Theory and Structural Change

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Diversity; Success; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation

August 1984 (Revised June 1985)
Teaching Note

Antitrust Movement: Symbolic Politics and Industrial Organization Economics, Teaching Note

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Monopoly; Government and Politics

July 1984 (Revised August 1985)
Background Note

Inertial Forces Within Organizations

By: Richard R. Ellsworth and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Keywords: Organizations

1984
Chapter

Managing Transitions in Organizational Culture: The Case of Participative Management at Honeywell

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Transition

May 1984 (Revised August 1995)
Teaching Note

Organized Labor and the Worker, Teaching Note

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Teaching Note for (9-391-256). View Details

Keywords: Labor Unions

February 1984
Case

Megalith, Inc. -- Hay Associates (B)

By: D. Quinn Mills and George W. Baird

Describes Hay Associates Climate Survey Questionnaire and the eight dimensions of organizational climate. Rewritten by G.W. Baird, company partner. View Details

Keywords: Surveys; Organizations; Human Resources