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- 2006
- Case
Empowering Nurses at University College London Hospitals
By: Julie Battilana, A.-M., Cagna, T., D'Aunno and M.J., Gilmartin
- August 2005 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
McKinsey and the Globalization of Consultancy
By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Alexis Lefort
Considers McKinsey's strategy during the first stage of the globalization of the management consultancy industry between the 1950s and 1973. Briefly reviews the history of management consulting before considering the factors that led McKinsey to open its first... View Details
- August 2004
- Teaching Note
Accel Partners' European Launch (TN)
By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note to (9-803-021). View Details
- November 2003 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
'Walking on a Tightrope': Maintaining London as a Financial Center
By: Geoffrey Jones and Meghan Gallagher-Kernstine
Focuses on the development of London as a leading international financial center and the difficulties it faces maintaining its status. Examines London's history as a financial center from Roman times to the present day. London's position in the 19th century rested on... View Details
- 20 Jun 2003
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness Towards an Agenda for London
Regional competitiveness presentation delivered in London, U.K. View Details
- 2003
- Report
UK Competitiveness: Moving to the Next Stage
By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
In October 2002, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) appointed Professor Michael Porter and his team to conduct a brief, three-month review of the existing evidence on UK competitiveness. The effort was funded jointly by the ESRC and the Department of... View Details
- February 2003 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Accel Partners' European Launch
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Josh Lerner
In spring 2001, with the venture market crashing all around, the London office of Accel Partners, a major west coast venture capital firm, needs to make a decision about investing in an Irish software company. As the first investment of the new European operation, the... View Details
- April 2001 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
UNext: Business Education and e-Learning
By: Michael G. Rukstad, David J. Collis and Tyrell Levine
UNEXT has signed agreements with Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, and the London School of Economics to create online business courses. The company is backed by Michael Milken and Larry Ellison and has four Nobel laureates on its advisory board. Describes... View Details
- March 2001 (Revised March 2006)
- Teaching Note
Dogfight Over Europe: Ryanair (A), (B), and (C) TN
By: Jan W. Rivkin
Teaching Note for (9-700-115), (9-700-116), and (9-700-117). View Details
- June 2000 (Revised October 2000)
- Supplement
Dogfight over Europe: Ryanair (B)
By: Jan W. Rivkin
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- June 2000 (Revised March 2006)
- Supplement
Dogfight over Europe: Ryanair (C)
By: Jan W. Rivkin
Presents a follow-up to the (A) and (B) cases. View Details
- Article
Wealth-Making in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain: Industry v. Commerce and Finance
By: Tom Nicholas
This paper refutes the hypothesis put forward by W.D. Rubinstein that a disproportionately large share of Britain's wealth makers were active in commercial and financial trades in London. We use a data set of businessmen active in nineteenth- and early... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Finance; Commercialization; Mathematical Methods; Wealth and Poverty; Great Britain; London
- July 1995
- Teaching Note
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: MIS Reorganization (A) and Project ICON (A), (Abridged) TN
Teaching Note for (9-193-008). View Details
- September 1994
- Case
Marks & Spencer: Sir Richard Greenbury's Quiet Revolution
By: Joseph L. Bower and John B. Matthews Jr.
Marks & Spencer (M&S) is one of the world's greatest companies. In 1994, its management was chosen the most admired in Europe by 637 peers. The case explores how Sir Richard Greenbury, appointed the new chairman of the company in 1991, transformed his inheritance into... View Details
- October 1993
- Case
Wertheim Schroder/Schroders
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Kalman D. Applbaum, Lisa Gabriel and Pamela A. Yatsko
In 1986, Wertheim & Co. of New York entered into a joint venture with Schroders plc of London to form the investment bank Wertheim Schroder. By 1993, there were numerous successes as the partners pursued joint opportunities, but there were also areas in which... View Details
- September 1991 (Revised February 1993)
- Case
Burroughs Wellcome and AZT (A)
Burroughs Wellcome Co., developer of AZT, the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), finds itself under siege in September 1989 by AIDS activists and various segments of the U.S.... View Details
- Research Summary
The Individualized Corporation
Christopher A. Bartlett has recently concluded (with Sumantra Ghoshal of the London Business School) a study of changing organizational processes and management roles in twenty diverse companies in various stages of corporate transformation. The research is expected... View Details