Downsizing - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021

if employees have the psychological safety to reflect on these close calls, says research by Amy C. Edmondson, Olivia Jung, and colleagues. 5. How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves Aggressive downsizing at... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Mar 2021
What Do You Think?

What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

defensive for years. Organizations have been delayering—eliminating middle management jobs—to try to be more agile, with faster decision making and execution. Downsizing in the name of economies of scale has hit middle management hard.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2008
News

You Only Thought You Were Republican

care will they enjoy if you need to downsize and lay some of them off? I know you. You care about these things. It concerns you that the gap between upper-class Americans and everyone else has grown so gapingly wide. I know none of us... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias; national debt; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

phones, computers/tablets, and investment advice are three such categories today. The Future Of Retail Clearly, this is a new world for store retailers. To compete with online competitors, retailers will need to be agile both in eliminating or View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Under pressure to break-up IBM, Gerstner instead went against the tide of expectation and kept IBM in one piece. He went on to make IBM more competitive by announcing downsizing and a new vision for the company called network... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

01 Oct 1997
News

New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence

Cockerham agrees. "All of us have had to deal with restructuring, pay-for-performance, and personnel issues in a downsized or downsizing environment," she says. "We didn't need to have any background on... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

Edgar S. Woolard, Jr.

Upon becoming CEO of duPont, Woolard oversaw a massive downsizing and focused the company on its core products. In addition to drastically cutting costs, Woolard restructured duPont into twenty semi-autonomous units and expanded duPont... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

01 Oct 1996
News

The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

not-too-distant future. Those kinds of questions were very real for Cummins in the last decade as the company was forced by global competition to undergo considerable change. Amid downsizing and restructuring, how do you maintain the work... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring

downsizing at the Scott Paper Company under "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap and the merger of Chase Manhattan Bank with Chemical Bank. Based on interviews with CEOs, managers, investors, bankers, management consultants, and attorneys, the cases look... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Aug 2010
News

You Can’t Take It with You

money left over for personal spending. But does that make their decision any less significant? It doesn’t feel right to quantify it that way. What do you think? Do you ever seriously consider downsizing your lifestyle, material... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Apr 1998
News

Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges

next day, three major buildings lay in ruins, and some three thousand workers faced the prospect of losing their jobs. But not only did Malden Mills' CEO Aaron Feurstein vow to rebuild his facility, he also promised to pay his workers full salaries for three months. At... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

17 Dec 2015
News

Examining Global Workforce Management

they implement their approaches in all the countries in which they operate. The research was sparked by a discussion of layoffs in the required MBA course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Sucher was initially surprised to discover no clear academic consensus... View Details

29 Jun 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

crisis that will minimize damage from restructuring and downsizing and maintain employee dignity and commitment. My Organization Doesn't Have The Fire It Needs. What Can I Do? Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency Urgency can be a positive... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation

ideas for systemic change that private enterprises are uniquely qualified to contribute. As government downsizes and the public expects the private sector to step in to help solve community problems, it is important that businesses... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

01 Mar 2018
News

Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres

01 Apr 1998
News

Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO

about reducing the company's work force; most downsizing was achieved through attrition and early retirement incentives. "This is not an earthshaking turnaround," notes the straight-talking DiCamillo during an interview in his modest... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

09 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands

structure) or you have to cut distribution to restore the exclusivity of the brand. Expect the 600 store closings to be the first of a series of downsizing announcements. Sometimes, in the world of marketing, less is more. Schultz sought,... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

14 Mar 2007
Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

and Forstmann Little & Co., have dramatically downsized or announced their intention to cease operations after experiencing investment missteps and succession problems. Meanwhile, new organizations have amassed enormous sums of... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

needed to develop intellectual capital and things like continuity of employment, organization structure, and incentives equivalent to the synapses by which information is exchanged and knowledge created, how many (if any) cells are destroyed in the "corporate... View Details