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- December 1998 (Revised June 1999)
- Case
STT Aerospace
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Jeremy Dann
Experienced entrepreneur Charles Damon conducted a "roll-up" from 1987-1994 within the commercial airliner interior products industry. Damon's company, STT Aerospace, took advantage of an industry-wide recession in the early 1990s by buying when asset prices were low.... View Details
- November 1998 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Explo Leisure Products
Tim Trowac and Dave Rahall, two former investment bankers, skillfully execute the leveraged buyout of a golf ball recycling company after working intensely on their due diligence, writing a business and financial plan, and developing the investment memorandum. Six... View Details
- August 1998
- Case
Electronic Commerce at Air Products
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
In 1998,chief information officers (CIOs) in the highly competitive international gases and chemicals business faced the reality that electronic commerce capability was a strategic necessity. The results of annual surveys of technology officers in the chemical industry... View Details
- July 1998 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Champion International
By: Michael Beer and James Weber
Richard Olson, a long-tenured employee, was named CEO of Champion in 1996. Champion had been conducting an organizational transformation since the early 1980s that could be considered successful on most operational and social measures. However, due to industry... View Details
- January 1998 (Revised November 2003)
- Case
Morgan Stanley and S.G. Warburg: Investment Bank of the Future (A)
By: James K. Sebenius and David T. Kotchen
Describes secretive negotiations that took place between the top executives of Morgan Stanley and S.G. Warburg in the fall of 1994, when the two firms were contemplating a merger that would create one of the world's most powerful investment banks. By December, in order... View Details
- 1998
- Article
Looking Inside the Fishbowl of Creativity: Verbal and Behavioral Predictors of Creative Performance
By: J. Ruscio, D. M. Whitney and T. M. Amabile
This study set out to identify specific task behaviors that predict observable product creativity in three domains and to identify which of those behaviors mediate the well-established link between intrinsic motivation and creativity. One-hundred fifty-one... View Details
- September 1997
- Case
Siam Cement Group, The: Corporate Philosophy (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Prompilai Khunaphante
In 1996, senior executives of Thailand's Siam Cement Group must decide whether to apply its management philosophy and code of ethics when doing business outside of Thailand. The status of the code in joint ventures and contractual relationships is of particular... View Details
- September 1997
- Case
Siam Cement Group, The: Corporate Philosophy (C)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Prompilai Khunaphante
In November 1996, the board of directors of Thailand's Siam Cement Group approves a policy spelling out the extent to which code of ethics shall be applied in joint venture and contractor relationships. View Details
- January 1997
- Background Note
Conducting a Performance Appraisal Interview
By: Michael Beer
Discusses typical problems experienced by managers in conducting performance appraisal interviews. The underlying causes of these problems are analyzed and ideas are presented that might help managers overcome these problems. A rewritten version of an earlier note. View Details
- December 1996 (Revised June 1998)
- Case
Midnight Networks, Inc.
By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
Midnight Networks, Inc., is a small computer network validation company. This case describes how the five founders built their business from operations earnings and how they established "best practices" operational processes to run their firm successfully. Operational... View Details
- November 1995
- Technical Note
Analyzing Standard Costs: Technical Note
By: V.G. Narayanan
Explains variance analysis. Concepts of price variance and quantity variance are introduced to analyze prime cost variances. Spending variance and capacity variance are used to analyze overhead variance. Consistent with conducting variance analysis in an activity-based... View Details
- July 1995 (Revised October 1995)
- Background Note
Electronic Commerce: Trends and Opportunities
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Janis Lee Gogan
In a 1966 Harvard Business Review article, Felix Kaufman implored general managers to think beyond their own organizational boundaries to the possibilities of interorganizational systems (IOS)--networked computers that enable companies to share information and... View Details
- November 1994 (Revised December 1995)
- Case
Scripps Research Institute, The: November 1993 (Abridged)
By: Josh Lerner
In November 1993, Dr. Richard Lerner, president of the Scripps Research Institute, faces the challenge of maintaining his organization's financial and scientific vitality. A proposed cooperative venture with Sandoz has attracted considerable criticism. Meanwhile, a new... View Details
- June 1994 (Revised September 1994)
- Background Note
Commercializing Technology: Imaginative Understanding of User Needs
The transformation of technology into commercially successful products is a process fraught with risk and uncertainty, and increasing pressure on time to market is exacerbating the difficulties. This note first describes a study conducted by Hewlett-Packard to improve... View Details
- February 1994 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
Competitive Information Policy at Pratt & Whitney
By: Lynn S. Paine
Officials at United Technologies Corp. (UTC) must decide on an ethics policy to govern competitive intelligence gathering. The flow of competitor information into the Pratt & Whitney division has declined sharply since adoption of UTC's code of ethics. A rewritten... View Details
- November 1993 (Revised May 1994)
- Supplement
Dow Corning Corporation: Business Conduct and Global Values (A), Supplement
By: Lynn S. Paine
Describes the 1988 amendments to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977. View Details
- September 1993
- Case
Manufacturing at ALZA: The Right Prescription? (A)
ALZA, a company specializing in drug delivery systems such as transdermal patches, considers manufacturing its own products. Until now, the company has conducted research and development on its patented system but has then licensed the technology to client-partner... View Details
- September 1992 (Revised August 2004)
- Supplement
Martin Marietta: Managing Corporate Ethics (C-1)
By: Lynn S. Paine
The division human resources officer must decide whether an older employee should be disciplined for misusing company time and for improperly filling out time cards for his work on government contracts. Intended to focus on the various factors relevant to disciplining... View Details
- September 1992 (Revised August 2004)
- Supplement
Martin Marietta: Managing Corporate Ethics (C2)
By: Lynn S. Paine
A jury must decide whether an employee, discharged for misusing company time and filling out false time cards for work on U.S. government contracts, has been wrongfully terminated. Designed to show how the human resource manager's perspective on employee discipline... View Details
- March 1991 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Chevron Corp.: Corporate Image Advertising
By: John A. Quelch
Describes a series of advertising research studies conducted by Chevron to monitor the effectiveness of its corporate advertising. Specific research approaches covered include the McCollum-Spielman and Communications Techniques. The Vals Typology developed by Stanford... View Details