Publications

February 1976 (Revised November 1983)
Case

EG&G, Inc. (B)

By: Michael E. Porter

Raises the dilemmas of making strategic decisions within an organizational construct. The divestment of a division of the company raises not only strategic issues but organizational and interpersonal ones as well. The decision is framed through the strategic planning... View Details

Keywords: Business Divisions; Decisions; Business or Company Management; Organizations; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Service Industry

1976
Book

Organizational Behavior and Administration: Cases and Readings

By: Paul R. Lawrence, Louis B. Barnes and Jay W. Lorsch

Keywords: Organizations; Behavior

01 Dec 1975
Conference Presentation

Appropriate and Applicable Technology: The Indonesian Case Study

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Technology; Indonesia

July 1975
Background Note

Introduction to the Case Method

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Guidelines to aid the student in analyzing a case situation by casting himself or herself in the role of protagonist, developing criteria for alternative decisions, and generalizing to other situations. View Details

Keywords: Cases

1975
Text Book

Operations Management: Text and Cases

By: Paul Marshall, William Abernathy, Jeffrey G. Miller, Richard P. Olsen, Richard S. Rosenbloom and D. Daryl Wyckoff

Keywords: Management; Information; Cases

June 1975 (Revised September 2004)
Case

Angus Cartwright III

By: Kenneth J. Hatten, William J. Poorvu, Howard H. Stevenson, Arthur I. Segel and John H. Vogel, Jr.

Judy and John DeRight, looking to diversify their investment portfolios, have retained Angus Cartwright, Jr. to identify prospective real estate acquisitions. Mr. Cartwright has four potential properties that he feels merit an in-depth financial analysis. The case... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Cash Flow; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Taxation; Balanced Scorecard; Valuation

May 1975 (Revised October 1985)
Case

Marks and Spencer Ltd.

By: Joseph L. Bower

This business policy and retailing strategy case focuses on the unique corporate strategy and philosophy of a leading English retailer. Emphasizes expansion plans. View Details

Keywords: Learning; Policy; Management; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Retail Industry

September 1974
Article

Repeated Games of Incomplete Information: The Symmetric Case

By: Elon Kohlberg and Shmuel Zamir

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Information

August 1974 (Revised November 1974)
Case

Reynolds Construction Company

By: Paul W. Marshall

Deals with the use of critical path method for the construction of remote control building, which is part of a water purification system. Discusses the necessity of determining the shortest possible time in which a job could be done without spending more money. Case... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Construction; Cost Management; Time Management; Wastes and Waste Processing; System; Construction Industry

1974
Chapter

Management Accounting in Hospitals: A Case Study

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Accounting; Health Industry

Article

Population and Nutrition: A Case for Integration

By: James E. Austin and F. James Levinson

Keywords: Nutrition; Integration; Groups and Teams

1974
Book

Organizational Change: An Exploratory Study and Case History

By: Michael Tushman

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Cases

1974
Book

Agribusiness in Latin America: A Case Book on Agribusiness Management

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Agribusiness; Management; Books; Latin America

1974
Article

The Distribution of Fiscal Burdens and Benefits

By: Dutch Leonard, Richard A. Musgrave and Karl E. Case

Keywords: Finance; Distribution

1973
Text Book

Managerial Economics: Text and Cases

By: Paul Marshall, Charles J. Christenson and Richard F. Vancil

Keywords: Management; Economics; Information; Cases

1972
Book

Managers and Their Careers: Cases and Readings

By: J. W. Lorsch and Louis B. Barnes

Keywords: Personal Development and Career

September 1971 (Revised September 1983)
Case

Gentle Electric Co.

By: W. Earl Sasser

Designed to illustrate various levels of complexity in determining optimum order sizes for a single item inventory policy. Students are asked to evaluate the impact of recent operational changes on the firm's ordering policy. Intended to follow the students' initial... View Details

Keywords: Change; Policy; Supply Chain; Complexity; Electronics Industry

Article

Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Investment