Strategic Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

September–October 1996
Article

A Strategic Approach to Managing Product Recalls

By: N. Craig Smith, Robert J. Thomas and John A. Quelch

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Sep 26 2018
Testimonial

Making Sales Team Management A Strategic Priority

February 1996
Case

TRW's Information Services Division: Strategic Human Resource Management

By: Michael Beer and Gregory C. Rogers

Looks at a change effort initiated by a human resources manager within a division of TRW. The effort utilizes a change process to try to deal with some of the division's issues around organizational effectiveness, especially that of a long-term strategy. In so doing,... View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Managerial Roles; Strategy; Problems and Challenges

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July 1995 (Revised April 1999)
Case

Becton Dickinson (E): An Assessment of Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling

By: Michael Beer and Pamela J. Maus

This case presents an assessment of the strategic human resource management (SHRM) profiling process implemented at Becton Dickinson. It explores the questions the assessment raised about the viability of the process and what aspects might be changed if the process is... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Human Resources; Management Practices and Processes; Strategic Planning; Health Industry

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January–February 1996
Article

Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System

By: Robert S. Kaplan and David Norton

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Strategy; Management; System

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1990
Manual

Instructor's Manual for Strategic Management in Developing Countries

By: J. E. Austin and T. Kohn

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Management; Strategy

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Winter 2014
Article

The Influences of Strategic Management on Antitrust Discourse

By: Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao

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1994
Working Paper

Industrial Governance and the Strategic Management of Firms

By: Malcolm S. Salter

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Other Article

Strategic Complexity? Using Experiments to Understand and Overcome Obfuscation

By: Michael Luca, Ginger Zhe Jin and Daniel Martin

Credit card companies must decide what product features to disclose to consumers, such as payment schedules, penalties, and fees--and also whether to present them clearly or bury them in the fine print. Firms face similar choices in settings ranging from privacy... View Details

Keywords: Obfuscation; Credit Cards; Strategic Incentives; Complexity; Agreements and Arrangements; Customers; Consumer Behavior; Financial Services Industry

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April 2008 (Revised July 2011)
Background Note

Strategic Decline

By: David J. Collis and Jan W. Rivkin

This note first documents the facts around the sustainability of competitive advantage. It then observes that the demise of a previously successful strategy, in the first instance, often comes from some change in the external environment. It, therefore, characterizes... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Strategy; Situation or Environment; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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April 1970
Background Note

Strategic Scanning: Some Practical Considerations for Top Management

By: Francis Aguilar

Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

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01 Jan 1983
Conference Presentation

Frontiers for Strategic Human Resource Planning and Management

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Planning; Management; Human Resources; Strategy

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Article

Strategic Performance Measurement and Management in Nonprofit Organizations

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Performance; Measurement and Metrics; Strategy; Management; Nonprofit Organizations

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July 1991 (Revised September 1995)
Case

Eastman Kodak Co.: Managing Information Systems Through Strategic Alliances

By: Lynda M. Applegate

In January 1988, Colby Chandler, Kodak CEO, created the Corporate Information Systems (CIS) and appointed Katherine Hudson head. She at once became the first head of IT and first woman corporate vice president in the company. Throughout 1989, Hudson inaugurated a... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Partners and Partnerships; Organizational Structure; Success; Trends; Information Management; Service Operations; Manufacturing Industry

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2018
Chapter

The Strategic Imperative of Psychological Safety and Organizational Error Management

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Paul Verdin

Despite discussion in the management literature about agile organizations or learning organizations, many large organizations are top-down, slow to change, and fraught with obstacles to learning. We describe “strategy-as-learning” to contrast with the traditional... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Learning; Safety; Organizational Culture; Performance Consistency

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July 1996 (Revised January 1997)
Case

Northwest Airlines: Strategic Alliance and Strategic Position--May 1996

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Davis Dyer

Describes the strategic position of Northwest Airlines in 1996 and discusses its financial rebound and changes and improvements since the 1993 restructuring agreement. Describes the company's new strategy and its management of principal strategic assets, focusing at... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Restructuring; Alliances; Competitive Strategy; Government Administration; Cooperation; Business Strategy; Air Transportation Industry; United States; Netherlands

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1995
Chapter

Strategic Change: A New Dimension of Human Resource Management

By: R. A. Eisenstat, M. Beer and R. Biggadike

Keywords: Human Resources; Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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Program

Strategic Negotiations

Summary The planning and strategizing process behind complex, high-stakes deals and major disputes can be even more important than your performance at the bargaining table. In this business negotiation strategy program, you will learn how... View Details