Publications

March 1992 (Revised December 1992)
Case

Salomon and the Treasury Securities Auction

By: Dwight B. Crane

Set in June 1991, two months prior to Salomon Brothers' announcement that the firm had violated the Treasury Department's rules governing the auctions of new Treasury securities. Salomon Vice Chairman John Meriwether must decide how to address problems that continue to... View Details

Keywords: Debt Securities; Managerial Roles; Ethics; Market Transactions; Bonds; Investment Banking; Crisis Management; Auctions; Legal Liability; Banking Industry

1992
Book

Corporate Information Systems Management: Issues Facing Senior Executives

By: J. I. Cash Jr., F. W. McFarlan and J. L. McKenney

Keywords: Information Management; Management Teams

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February 1992
Supplement

New Technologies at Tiner Trucking Co. (B)

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Roger H. Hallowell

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February 1992
Supplement

New Technologies at Tiner Trucking Co. (C)

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Roger H. Hallowell

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February 1992 (Revised March 1993)
Case

Intel Corp.--1992

By: Kenneth A. Froot

Intel Corp., the world's dominant designer and manufacturer of microprocessors (the "brains" of the personal computer), has accumulated a large amount of cash (net of debt). Furthermore, it expects to continue to accumulate cash at an unprecedented rate. Has the... View Details

Keywords: Dividends; Financial Management; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Cash; Technological Innovation; Capital Structure; Investment Return; Equity; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Semiconductor Industry; United States

February 1992 (Revised September 2003)
Case

Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation (A-1)

The CEO of Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. must decide what to do when he receives information that the company's supply of apple juice concentrate may be adulterated. The concentrate is used in many of the company's juice products. It appears that others in the company may... View Details

Keywords: Quality; Law; Ethics; Nutrition; Management Teams; Decisions; Business or Company Management; Communication; Governance Compliance; Information Management; Corporate Finance; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

1 Feb 1992
Conference Presentation

Information Technology and Business Transformation

By: L. M. Applegate

Keywords: Information Technology; Business Ventures; Transformation

January 1992
Teaching Note

Science Technology Company (1985) TN

By: Thomas R. Piper

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Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; Electronics Industry; United States

January 1992 (Revised August 1992)
Case

Lexon Corp. (A)

A general manager at Lexon Computer Corp. must decide whether interception and surveillance of employees' e-mail is acceptable company practice, and whether to follow the advice of his computer operations manager who wants to fire the person who complained that the... View Details

Keywords: Information; Rights; Managerial Roles; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Ethics; Computer Industry

January 1992 (Revised August 1992)
Case

Lexon Corp. (B)

Lexon Corp. lawyers must decide how to respond to two lawsuits challenging the company's interception of electronic mail on privacy grounds. They must also formulate a company policy on e-mail. One suit was filed by an employee dismissed from her job after asking that... View Details

Keywords: Information; Rights; Managerial Roles; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; Computer Industry; California

January 1992 (Revised December 1994)
Background Note

Note on E-Mail and Privacy: U.S. Law and Company Policies