Publications

April 1982 (Revised September 1986)
Case

Ideal Standard France: Pat Paterson

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

A newly appointed country subsidiary manager must decide on action for an operation losing $1 million per month. He is constrained by price controls on one hand and sensitive union relations on the other. Furthermore a major loss-contributing plant has recently been... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Transition; Cost Management; Management; Crisis Management; Labor and Management Relations

Educators

April 1982 (Revised March 1986)
Case

Standard Fruit Co. in Nicaragua (B)

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nicaragua

March 1982 (Revised October 1984)
Case

Carter, OPEC, and Big Oil

Keywords: Trade; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry

February 1982 (Revised May 1983)
Background Note

Deviations from Purchasing Power Parity and the Implications for the Multinational Business

By: Thomas R. Piper

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Finance

February 1982
Supplement

El Paso Natural Gas Co. and the FPC, Supplement

Keywords: Energy Generation; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry

January 1982
Background Note

Proprietary Hospital Industry, Background Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

1982
Book

Business Policy: Text and Cases

By: C. Roland Christensen, Kenneth R. Andrews, Joseph L. Bower, Richard G. Hamermesh and Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Policy; Information; Cases

November 1981 (Revised May 1985)
Case

General Electric: Business Development

By: Francis Aguilar and Richard G. Hamermesh

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Diversification

November 1981
Supplement

Corning Glass Works International, Part I, Interviews with Division Managers, Video

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Michael Y. Yoshino

Presents tapes of interviews with Forrest Behm (previously president of Corning International), Bill Hudson (ex-country manager, international business manager, world board chairman, and current product division manager), and Van Campbell (corporate treasurer).... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Global Strategy; Consumer Products Industry

November 1981
Case

Butler Manufacturing Co.: Small Components Plant (Abridged)

By: Roy D. Shapiro

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Buildings and Facilities; Manufacturing Industry

November 1981 (Revised January 1983)
Case

Ready to Regulate Ready to Eat (B)

By: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Law

September 1981 (Revised November 1983)
Case

El Paso - PNW Merger (A)

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry

September 1981 (Revised November 1983)
Case

El Paso - PNW Merger (B)

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry

September 1981 (Revised October 1984)
Case

El Paso - PNW Merger (C)

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry

01 Aug 1981
Conference Presentation

The Development and Transmission of New Workplace Structures: Organizational and Market Characteristics of Innovating Corporations

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Markets; Innovation and Invention; Business Ventures; Communication; Organizations

April 1981 (Revised January 1997)
Case

Corning Glass Works: The Z-Glass Project

By: Kim B. Clark

Considers decisions facing the leader of a manufacturing staff project team assigned to a plant where yields have deteriorated sharply. The process is complex: the plant organization is not cooperative and there are deep disagreements about what is wrong and how to fix... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Production; Problems and Challenges; Conflict Management; Performance Productivity; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Groups and Teams; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States

Educators

March 1981 (Revised April 1983)
Background Note

Reflections on Japanese Factory Management

By: Robert H. Hayes

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Japan

March 1981 (Revised October 1998)
Case

Corning Glass Works International (A)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Michael Y. Yoshino

Follows the impact of a change in global strategy on a diversified company's global organization structure. Traces two failed attempts at bringing a business perspective to a geographic organization, and poses the problem of what the international division president... View Details

Keywords: Disruption; Framework; Global Strategy; Organizational Structure; Perspective; Power and Influence

Educators