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      • April 1998 (Revised June 1999)
      • Case

      Bausch & Lomb, Inc.: Pressure to Perform

      By: Robert L. Simons, Alex C. Sapir '97 and Indra Reinbergs
      Bausch & Lomb is the subject of press attacks and experiences a sharp fall in stock price when management practices are exposed. Aggressive goal setting, supported by financial market expectations, is discussed as a precursor to a series of events that results in... View Details
      Keywords: Performance Expectations; Management Practices and Processes; Ethics; Financial Markets; Financial Statements; Business and Shareholder Relations
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      Simons, Robert L., Alex C. Sapir '97, and Indra Reinbergs. "Bausch & Lomb, Inc.: Pressure to Perform." Harvard Business School Case 198-009, April 1998. (Revised June 1999.)
      • March 1998 (Revised March 1999)
      • Case

      Dell Online

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
      Dell started online commerce for its PCs in 1996, and by 1997 had achieved a sales rate of $3 million a day. The case describes the internal process that led to these dramatic results and poses the question of how the firm should leverage this activity to meet Michael... View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Market Transactions; Goals and Objectives; Business Processes; Distribution Channels; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Competitive Advantage; Computer Industry; Retail Industry
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "Dell Online." Harvard Business School Case 598-116, March 1998. (Revised March 1999.)
      • February 1998 (Revised November 1998)
      • Case

      Novartis (A): Being a Global Leader

      By: Srikant M. Datar and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      For the Novartis leaders, the decision to "use stretch budgets again next year" highlights the tension between candor and empowerment and command-and-control, between the new and the old, between high performance and business as usual, between Ciba and Sandoz.... View Details
      Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Performance; Budgets and Budgeting
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      Datar, Srikant M., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Novartis (A): Being a Global Leader." Harvard Business School Case 198-041, February 1998. (Revised November 1998.)
      • January 1998 (Revised March 1998)
      • Case

      Staples (C)

      By: Myra M. Hart, Marco Iansiti and Barbara Feinberg
      The search for appropriate hardware and software to support the launch of a new large-scale retail operation forces the management team to define their goals at a very detailed level and to make all underlying assumptions explicit. View Details
      Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Management Teams; Retail Industry
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      Hart, Myra M., Marco Iansiti, and Barbara Feinberg. "Staples (C)." Harvard Business School Case 898-159, January 1998. (Revised March 1998.)
      • January 1998 (Revised May 1999)
      • Case

      General Scanning, Inc. (B)

      By: H. Kent Bowen, Sean McClenaghan and Charles Tillen
      After meeting with a mediator, Montagu and Davis decided their goals were not in accordance, and Davis left General Scanning. Montagu and Brosens wrote three-year objectives for the company and proceeded to search for a new professional manager. Chuck Winston took on... View Details
      Keywords: Business Units; Restructuring; Change; Business or Company Management; Ownership Stake; Strategic Planning; Hardware
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      Bowen, H. Kent, Sean McClenaghan, and Charles Tillen. "General Scanning, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 698-037, January 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
      • January 1998 (Revised February 2002)
      • Case

      Funai Consulting Company, Ltd. (A)

      By: Lynn S. Paine and Tomoya Nakamura
      In the summer of 1997, a consultant at Japan's Funai Consulting Co. Ltd., must decide how to respond to a client's proposal to offer "open pricing" (based on willingness to pay) to customers unable to pay the standard price for the client's product. The client, Akita... View Details
      Keywords: Business or Company Management; Price; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decisions; Agribusiness; Management Practices and Processes; Business Ventures; Consulting Industry; Japan
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      Paine, Lynn S., and Tomoya Nakamura. "Funai Consulting Company, Ltd. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 398-017, January 1998. (Revised February 2002.)
      • 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
      Keywords: Negotiation; Investment Banking; Mergers and Acquisitions; Consolidation; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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      Sebenius, James K., and David T. Kotchen. "Morgan Stanley and S.G. Warburg: Investment Bank of the Future (A)." Harvard Business School Case 898-140, January 1998. (Revised November 2003.)
      • January 1998
      • Article

      Tradeoffs within Costing Systems between Incentives and Measurement Objectives

      By: M. Alles, S. Datar and M. Gupta
      Keywords: System; Motivation and Incentives; Measurement and Metrics; Goals and Objectives
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      Alles, M., S. Datar, and M. Gupta. "Tradeoffs within Costing Systems between Incentives and Measurement Objectives." Managerial Finance 24, no. 1 (January 1998): 1–18.
      • September 1997 (Revised February 2000)
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      Exercises in Option Pricing and Real Option Analysis

      By: Benjamin C. Esty
      Contains five problems, one each on basic option pricing, abandonment value, the value of waiting to invest, contingent claims analysis (equity as a call option), and strategic decision making in an option framework. The goal is for students to recognize option value... View Details
      Keywords: Stock Options; Price
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      Esty, Benjamin C. "Exercises in Option Pricing and Real Option Analysis." Harvard Business School Exercise 298-053, September 1997. (Revised February 2000.)
      • May 1997
      • Teaching Note

      Product Development Process, Organization and Improvement, Instructor's Note

      By: Marco Iansiti
      Explores how development projects fit (or do not fit) within a firm's development strategy and its wider competitive goals. Module materials, and this note, focus on two broad approaches to process design (sequential and flexible) that were originally introduced in the... View Details
      Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Competition
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      Iansiti, Marco. "Product Development Process, Organization and Improvement, Instructor's Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 697-106, May 1997.
      • February 1997 (Revised September 1998)
      • Case

      American Management Systems, Inc.: The Knowledge Centers

      By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Sylvia Sensiper
      Senior management at AMS, a business and information technology consulting company, is growing at 28% annually and assimilating 1,800 new hires a year. AMS has recently instituted a new knowledge management strategy, a group of six knowledge centers (virtual... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Management; Management Teams; Business Strategy; Consulting Industry; United States
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      Leonard, Dorothy A., and Sylvia Sensiper. "American Management Systems, Inc.: The Knowledge Centers." Harvard Business School Case 697-068, February 1997. (Revised September 1998.)
      • November 1996
      • Case

      Del Webb Corporation (C), The

      By: Jay W. Lorsch and Samanta Graff
      Dion and the other Del Webb directors were open to having Industrial Equity Pacific (IEP) and Webcott Holdings representation on the board. The IEP representative was perceived as reserved and lacking in sophistication. Cotter of Webcott, however, struck the directors... View Details
      Keywords: Crisis Management; Management Succession; Strategic Planning; Governing and Advisory Boards; Horizontal Integration; Conflict Management
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      Lorsch, Jay W., and Samanta Graff. "Del Webb Corporation (C), The." Harvard Business School Case 497-019, November 1996.
      • May 1996 (Revised March 2005)
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      Bombardier TEG (A)

      By: Stephen P. Bradley and Takia Mahmood
      Bombardier, a Canadian manufacturer of passenger railcars and market leader in the United States, faces aggressive competition from a new entrant, U.S.-owned Morrison Knudsen, that has come into the industry with closely related capabilities in engineering and... View Details
      Keywords: Technological Innovation; Goals and Objectives; Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Rail Transportation; Manufacturing Industry; Rail Industry; Canada; United States
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      Bradley, Stephen P., and Takia Mahmood. "Bombardier TEG (A)." Harvard Business School Case 796-002, May 1996. (Revised March 2005.)
      • May 1996 (Revised November 1997)
      • Case

      Northeast Ventures: January 1996

      By: Josh Lerner and Eric K. Jackson
      Northeast Ventures, a venture capital fund focusing on the development of northeastern Minnesota, seeks to combine social goals with financial returns. This marriage poses several challenges. View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Social Enterprise; Investment Funds; Minnesota
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      Lerner, Josh, and Eric K. Jackson. "Northeast Ventures: January 1996." Harvard Business School Case 296-093, May 1996. (Revised November 1997.)
      • February 1996 (Revised June 1997)
      • Case

      Northern Telecom (B)

      By: Robert J. Dolan and Sylvie Ryckebusch
      Documents two problems in the product development process of Northern Telecom's new Greenwich key systems product line. These problems are due to the conflicting goals of the marketing, design, and manufacturing groups in the product development team. A rewritten... View Details
      Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Product Development; Goals and Objectives; Telecommunications Industry
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      Dolan, Robert J., and Sylvie Ryckebusch. "Northern Telecom (B)." Harvard Business School Case 596-064, February 1996. (Revised June 1997.)
      • January 1996 (Revised September 1997)
      • Case

      Scott Paper Company

      By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jeremy Cott
      A professional turnaround manager attempts to implement a massive global downsizing program at the world's largest producer of consumer tissue products. The plan involves laying off almost one third of the company's 34,000 hourly and salaried employees and dramatically... View Details
      Keywords: Assets; Global Strategy; Resignation and Termination; Goals and Objectives; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Sales; Value Creation; Pulp and Paper Industry
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      Gilson, Stuart C., and Jeremy Cott. "Scott Paper Company." Harvard Business School Case 296-048, January 1996. (Revised September 1997.)
      • November 1995
      • Background Note

      Reengineering a Business Process

      By: Richard L. Nolan and Thomas H. Davenport
      Describes the six steps included in most reengineering initiatives: selecting the processes for reengineering; identifying change enablers; developing a business vision of process objectives; understanding and measuring existing processes; designing and prototyping the... View Details
      Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Change Management; Measurement and Metrics
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      Nolan, Richard L., and Thomas H. Davenport. "Reengineering a Business Process." Harvard Business School Background Note 396-054, November 1995.
      • July 1995
      • Background Note

      Managerial Duties and Business Law

      By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
      Consists of excerpts from Principles of Corporate Governance, a set of legal guidelines that enumerates the principal duties of corporate managers and directors, including fiduciary duty, duty of care, and duty of fair dealing. Also addresses legal obligations relating... View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Corporate Governance; Retention; Common Law; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Managerial Roles
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      Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and Jerry Useem. "Managerial Duties and Business Law." Harvard Business School Background Note 395-244, July 1995.
      • March 1995
      • Case

      Donald Salter Communications, Inc.

      By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jeremy Cott
      A new CEO is hired to manage the turnaround of a family-owned newspaper publisher. In a departure from previous management, he implements a new compensation scheme that explicitly ties executive pay to market-value-based measures of firm performance. Because the... View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Transformation; Asset Management; Wages; Balanced Scorecard; Family Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Valuation; Journalism and News Industry
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      Gilson, Stuart C., and Jeremy Cott. "Donald Salter Communications, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 295-114, March 1995.
      • 1995
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      Constraints or Catalysts? Reexamining Goal Setting Within the Context of Negotiation

      By: J. Polzer and M. Neale
      Keywords: Negotiation; Goals and Objectives
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      Polzer, J., and M. Neale. "Constraints or Catalysts? Reexamining Goal Setting Within the Context of Negotiation." Human Performance 8, no. 1 (1995): 3–26.
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