Publications

April 1994 (Revised January 1995)
Case

Buck & Pulleyn

A woman CEO believes that industry and organizational conditions require for a reengineering/restructuring job her company. However, she wants to gain maximum commitment and buy-in form the entire company. She does this by setting up employee task forces and teams, but... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring

January 1994
Case

Transportation Displays, Incorporated (B)

Transportation Displays, Inc. has gone through a series of restructurings. This case describes the last few stages, which substantially reduced debt and increased the ownership of management. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring

01 Dec 2007
News

A View from the Top

he cited the restructuring of WPP in 1991 and 1992 as a difficult time. Sahlman then noted that Zobel had guided his firm through volatile markets in the Philippines. “It’s easy to discount bad times,” Zobel observed. “Make the assumption... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

restructuring as the process through which a company radically changes the contractual relationships that exist among its creditors, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders. The goal of restructuring... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Article

The Dynamics of Reorganization in Matching Markets: A Laboratory Experiment Motivated by a Natural Experiment

By: John H. Kagel and A. E. Roth

Keywords: Markets; Restructuring

January 2023
Teaching Note

Bankruptcy in the City of Detroit

By: Kristin Mugford and Annelena Lobb

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 215-070. View Details

Keywords: Finance; Restructuring

December 2009 (Revised April 2010)
Teaching Note

GlaxoSmithKline: Reorganizing Drug Discovery (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Robert S. Huckman

Teaching Note for [605074] and [605075]. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Health; Pharmaceutical Industry

May 1992 (Revised August 1999)
Case

Pinkerton (B)

The CEO of Pinkerton, a security guard service firm, is considering options to alter the company's current restrictive and expensive capital structure. A leveraged recap and initial public offering are considered. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Service Industry

27 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 27

PublicationsThe Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators Authors:Jeffrey H. Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract Some people are just natural... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 1995 (Revised August 1995)
Case

Siemens Rolm Communications Inc.: Integrated Logistics Core Process Redesign (ILCPR)

In the late 1990s, Rolm realized significant losses and needed to significantly reduce its costs and redesign its logistics process. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Logistics; Telecommunications Industry

01 Sep 2009
News

Noted & Quoted

Tom Coburn (R-OK), writing on health-care reform (Huffington Post, April 27, 2009). “True reform will require both moving toward universal insurance coverage and restructuring the care delivery system. These two components are profoundly... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

July 1989 (Revised November 1992)
Supplement

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: MIS Reorganization (B)

Describes the vice president of Management Information Services (MIS) Division's response to the dilemma facing him. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Decision Making

July 1989 (Revised October 1992)
Case

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: MIS Reorganization (A)

As a part of the Management Information Services (MIS) Division's evolution, it was planned to distribute all systems development and applications (SD&S) activities and resources (assets and personnel) from the central MIS Division to the operating areas by October... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Decision Making

December 2009 (Revised July 2010)
Teaching Note

Jones Lang LaSalle: Reorganizing around the Customer (2005) (TN)

By: Ranjay Gulati, Lucia Menzer Marshall and Patrick Cullen

Teaching Note for [410007]. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Customers

June 1990 (Revised August 1990)
Case

IBM Canada Ltd.: Reorganizing for the 1990s

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Restructuring; Organizational Design; Computer Industry; Canada

July 1995
Background Note

Reengineering Design Is Radical; Reengineering Change Is Not!

Discusses the two stages of an organization's reengineering effort--the design and implementation. While the design phase needs to be revolutionary, an organization must assess whether the appropriate path to implementation should be evolutionary or revolutionary.... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Restructuring

August 1994
Case

Higashimaru Shoyu Company, Ltd. (B): Revitalizing the Organization

Documents how Higashimaru's plant manager converted a reluctant workforce into one that was open to change. Illustrates "human reengineering" and shows how the plant manager prepared workers for a factory modernization program. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Employees