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      • February 1989 (Revised October 1994)
      • Case

      Asahi Breweries Ltd.

      By: Malcolm S. Salter
      Focuses on competitive repositioning, organizational renewal, and personal leadership. Describes how Asahi Breweries was faced with a major capacity expansion decision after succeeding in increasing market share dramatically in the traditionally stable Japanese beer... View Details
      Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Leadership; Organizational Structure; Product Launch; Management Teams; Business or Company Management; Marketing Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Mission and Purpose; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan
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      Salter, Malcolm S. "Asahi Breweries Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 389-114, February 1989. (Revised October 1994.)
      • 1989
      • Book

      Planning and Power in Iran: Ebtehaj and Economic Development under the Shah

      By: Geoffrey Jones
      This book provides a biography of Abol Hassan Ebtehaj, who headed Iran's central bank and Plan Organization during the 1940s and 1950s. It provides a wide-ranging survey of the problems of modernization and economic planning in Iran. Ebtehaj was at the center of... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Making; Economics; Central Banking; Policy; Political History; Resignation and Termination; Biography; Books; Surveys; Growth and Development Strategy; Planning; Iran
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      Jones, Geoffrey. Planning and Power in Iran: Ebtehaj and Economic Development under the Shah. London: Frank Cass, 1989.
      • January 1989
      • Background Note

      Managing Information Technology: Organization and Leadership

      By: James I. Cash Jr. and Thomas H. Davenport
      Describes the organizational components of the typical IT organization in a large corporation. Points out common problems and issues for each component of the organization. Also addresses the leadership issues for the IT function, and focuses specifically on the Chief... View Details
      Keywords: Information Management; Organizational Design; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Information Technology; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology Industry
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      Cash, James I., Jr., and Thomas H. Davenport. "Managing Information Technology: Organization and Leadership." Harvard Business School Background Note 189-133, January 1989.
      • January 1989 (Revised March 1991)
      • Case

      General Electric Canada: Designing a New Organization

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and James I. Cash Jr.
      General Electric Canada used sociotechnical design techniques to restructure its financial, administrative, facilities, and information technology service from a decentralized, hierarchical organization to a centralized organization composed of self-managing,... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Design; Information Technology; Groups and Teams; Change; Communication; Information; Industrial Products Industry; Canada
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and James I. Cash Jr. "General Electric Canada: Designing a New Organization." Harvard Business School Case 189-138, January 1989. (Revised March 1991.)
      • September 1988 (Revised September 1993)
      • Case

      Mrs. Fields Cookies

      By: James I. Cash Jr.
      Mrs. Fields Cookies is a small company selling freshly baked goods through privately owned specialty stores (each store sells only Mrs. Fields products). The company has about 8,000 employees worldwide and less than 150 information systems people for a unique leverage... View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Information Management; Organizational Structure; Customer Relationship Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Networks; Internet and the Web; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
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      Cash, James I., Jr. "Mrs. Fields Cookies." Harvard Business School Case 189-056, September 1988. (Revised September 1993.)
      • August 1988 (Revised March 1990)
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      Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (A), (B), and (C), Teaching Note

      By: Lynda M. Applegate
      Keywords: Information Technology; Organizations; Manufacturing Industry
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      Applegate, Lynda M. "Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (A), (B), and (C), Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 189-060, August 1988. (Revised March 1990.)
      • August 1988 (Revised March 1990)
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      Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (C)

      By: Lynda M. Applegate
      Keywords: Banks and Banking; Information Technology; Banking Industry
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      Applegate, Lynda M. "Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (C)." Harvard Business School Case 189-051, August 1988. (Revised March 1990.)
      • August 1988 (Revised April 1998)
      • Case

      IBM 360: Giant as Entrepreneur

      By: Joseph L. Bower
      Presents the ingredients that went into a major entrepreneurial shift by IBM--investing $5 billion into a new product line that would obsolete any existing computer product line offered by the competition, or by IBM itself. The economic and technical challenges of this... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Investment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry
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      Bower, Joseph L. "IBM 360: Giant as Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Case 389-003, August 1988. (Revised April 1998.)
      • July 1988 (Revised March 1990)
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      Grumman Corp.: Business Information System

      By: Lynda M. Applegate
      Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Design; Aerospace Industry
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      Applegate, Lynda M. "Grumman Corp.: Business Information System." Harvard Business School Case 188-061, July 1988. (Revised March 1990.)
      • March 1988
      • Background Note

      Leadership and the Information Technology Organization

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Donna B. Stoddard
      Keywords: Leadership; Information Technology; Organizations
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and Donna B. Stoddard. "Leadership and the Information Technology Organization." Harvard Business School Background Note 188-114, March 1988.
      • December 1987 (Revised March 1990)
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      Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (A)

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Donna B. Stoddard
      Keywords: Banks and Banking; Information Technology; Banking Industry
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and Donna B. Stoddard. "Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (A)." Harvard Business School Case 188-037, December 1987. (Revised March 1990.)
      • December 1987 (Revised March 1990)
      • Case

      Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (B)

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Donna B. Stoddard
      Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Structure
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and Donna B. Stoddard. "Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (B)." Harvard Business School Case 188-038, December 1987. (Revised March 1990.)
      • July 1987 (Revised October 1995)
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      Phillips 66: Controlling a Company Through Crisis

      By: Lynda M. Applegate
      The downstream operations subsidiary of a major U.S. petroleum company is faced with major restructuring decisions and responds by developing an Executive Information System (EIS) which allows for increased responsiveness, wider span of control, and higher levels of... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Information Management; Governance Controls; Organizational Design; Crisis Management; Communication; Management Teams; Growth Management; Mining Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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      Applegate, Lynda M. "Phillips 66: Controlling a Company Through Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 189-006, July 1987. (Revised October 1995.)
      • April 1987
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      Joint Ventures, Technology Transfer and Technocratic Organization in Nationalist China

      By: William C. Kirby
      Keywords: Joint Ventures; Information Technology; Organizations; China
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      Kirby, William C. "Joint Ventures, Technology Transfer and Technocratic Organization in Nationalist China." Republican China 12, no. 2 (April 1987).
      • April 1987 (Revised January 1988)
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      Managing Information Technology: IT Organization and Leadership

      By: Lynda M. Applegate
      Keywords: Information Technology; Management; Infrastructure; Leadership
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      Applegate, Lynda M. "Managing Information Technology: IT Organization and Leadership." Harvard Business School Background Note 187-150, April 1987. (Revised January 1988.)
      • September 1986
      • Article

      Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments

      By: Michael Tushman and Philip Anderson
      Keywords: Information Technology; Organizations
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      Tushman, Michael, and Philip Anderson. "Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments." Administrative Science Quarterly 31, no. 3 (September 1986): 439–465.
      • August 1986 (Revised February 1991)
      • Supplement

      Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh, Video

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan
      Population Services International, a not-for-profit agency founded to promote family planning information and to market birth control products, had an agreement with the government of Bangladesh to conduct a social marketing program using modern marketing techniques to... View Details
      Keywords: Social Marketing; Health; Advertising; Marketing; Nonprofit Organizations; Government and Politics; Agreements and Arrangements; Health Industry; Bangladesh
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 887-506, August 1986. (Revised February 1991.)
      • 1986
      • Book

      Organization: Text, Cases, and Readings on the Management of Organizational Design and Change

      By: J. P. Kotter, L. A. Schlesinger and V. Sathe
      Keywords: Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Cases
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      Kotter, J. P., L. A. Schlesinger, and V. Sathe. Organization: Text, Cases, and Readings on the Management of Organizational Design and Change. 2nd ed. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, 1986.
      • 1986
      • Article

      Research and Control in Complex Organizations: An Overview

      By: R. Simons and Kenneth A. Merchant
      Keywords: Research; Organizations; Information
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      Simons, R., and Kenneth A. Merchant. "Research and Control in Complex Organizations: An Overview." Journal of Accounting Literature 5 (1986): 183–203.
      • September 1985 (Revised July 2007)
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      Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan
      Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an... View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Business and Government Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Bangladesh
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh." Harvard Business School Case 586-013, September 1985. (Revised July 2007.)
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