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      • May 1993 (Revised January 1994)
      • Case

      Cummins Engine Company, The: Starting Up "B" Crankshaft Manufacturing at the San Luis Potosi Plant

      By: Robert H. Hayes
      Cummins Engine Co. is starting up production of diesel engine crankshafts in its plant in central Mexico. This operation requires much tighter tolerances than any product previously produced at the plant, and the young (recent MBA) manager who is in charge of the... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Production; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges; Industrial Products Industry; Mexico; Alabama
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      Hayes, Robert H. Cummins Engine Company, The: Starting Up "B" Crankshaft Manufacturing at the San Luis Potosi Plant. Harvard Business School Case 693-121, May 1993. (Revised January 1994.)
      • May 1993
      • Case

      Alan Stein

      By: Carl S. Sloane, Shoshana Zuboff and R.Keith Giarman
      Deals with issues of adult and career development at mid-life. Describes the career and personal history of an adult male, choice points in his life, and how he made critical career and personal choices. Focuses in on his decision to "retire" from Goldman, Sachs at an... View Details
      Keywords: Transition; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Development and Career; Retirement; Satisfaction
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      Sloane, Carl S., Shoshana Zuboff, and R.Keith Giarman. "Alan Stein." Harvard Business School Case 493-088, May 1993.
      • April 1993 (Revised October 1995)
      • Case

      ALZA and Bio-Electro Systems (A): Technological and Financial Innovation

      By: Josh Lerner and Peter Tufano
      To develop the next generation of risky products, ALZA, a mature and profitable biotechnology firm specializing in drug delivery systems, must raise $40 million. Organizational constraints and competitive concerns demand that the work be done inside the firm. However,... View Details
      Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Technological Innovation; Business Subsidiaries; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Finance; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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      Lerner, Josh, and Peter Tufano. "ALZA and Bio-Electro Systems (A): Technological and Financial Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 293-124, April 1993. (Revised October 1995.)
      • March 1993 (Revised April 1995)
      • Case

      Singapore

      By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Edward Prewitt
      Since winning independence in 1965, Singapore achieved some of the world's highest rates of economic growth. A large part of GDP and employment came from direct investment by multinational companies in low-cost assembly work, but in the 1990s Singapore's rising wage... View Details
      Keywords: Transition; Decision Choices and Conditions; Development Economics; Economic Growth; Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Employment; Wages; Singapore
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      Reinhardt, Forest L., and Edward Prewitt. "Singapore." Harvard Business School Case 793-096, March 1993. (Revised April 1995.)
      • 1993
      • Chapter

      Managing Default: Some Evidence on How Firms Choose between Workouts and Chapter 11

      By: S. C. Gilson
      Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Decision Choices and Conditions
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      Gilson, S. C. "Managing Default: Some Evidence on How Firms Choose between Workouts and Chapter 11." In The New Corporate Finance: Where Theory Meets Practice, edited by D. Chew. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
      • December 1992
      • Exercise

      Negotiation Exercise on Tradeable Pollution Allowances: Group B, Utility #1

      By: Willis M. Emmons III
      Describes the position of Utility #1 in negotiating Group B with respect to 1) its SO emissions reduction requirements; 2) the costs of its alternative compliance strategies; and 3) the nature of its state regulatory environment. View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Negotiation; Pollutants; Strategy; Utilities Industry
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      Emmons, Willis M., III. "Negotiation Exercise on Tradeable Pollution Allowances: Group B, Utility #1." Harvard Business School Exercise 793-077, December 1992.
      • October 1992 (Revised September 1993)
      • Case

      L.L. Bean, Inc.: Item Forecasting and Inventory Management

      By: Arthur Schleifer Jr.
      L.L. Bean must make stocking decisions on thousands of items sold through its catalogs. In many cases, orders must be placed with vendors twelve or more weeks before a catalog lands on a customer's doorstep, and commitments cannot be changed thereafter. As a result,... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Risk Management; Cost Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Demand and Consumers; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Retail Industry; United States
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      Schleifer, Arthur, Jr. "L.L. Bean, Inc.: Item Forecasting and Inventory Management." Harvard Business School Case 893-003, October 1992. (Revised September 1993.)
      • September 1992 (Revised October 1992)
      • Case

      Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (B)

      By: Forest L. Reinhardt
      In addition to the issues of expected cost minimization elucidated in Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (A), problems involving regulatory uncertainty are critical to the firm's Clean Air Act compliance strategy. The regulatory uncertainty affects, and is affected by, the... View Details
      Keywords: Energy Generation; Business Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Cost vs Benefits; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategic Planning; Investment Return; Government Legislation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Government Relations; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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      Reinhardt, Forest L. "Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 793-040, September 1992. (Revised October 1992.)
      • September 1992 (Revised November 1996)
      • Case

      Royal Automobile Club Rescue Services Division: Transformation Through Technology

      By: W. Earl Sasser and Roger H. Hallowell
      The Royal Automobile Club uses a new computer and telephone system to improve its service standards and profitability. After the initial impact of changes from technology, the organization faces a need to choose between future technological development or... View Details
      Keywords: Technological Innovation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Corporate Strategy; Service Industry; Auto Industry; United Kingdom
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      Sasser, W. Earl, and Roger H. Hallowell. "Royal Automobile Club Rescue Services Division: Transformation Through Technology." Harvard Business School Case 693-029, September 1992. (Revised November 1996.)
      • July 1992
      • Article

      New Product Channel Choice: A Framework, a Method and an Application

      By: V. K. Rangan, M. Menezes and E. P. Maier
      Keywords: Product; Decision Choices and Conditions; Framework
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      Rangan, V. K., M. Menezes, and E. P. Maier. "New Product Channel Choice: A Framework, a Method and an Application." Journal of Marketing 56, no. 3 (July 1992): 69–82.
      • summer 1992
      • Article

      Capital Choices: Changing the Way America Invests in Industry

      By: M. E. Porter
      Keywords: Change; Business Ventures; Investment; Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital; United States
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      Porter, M. E. "Capital Choices: Changing the Way America Invests in Industry." Continental Bank Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 5, no. 2 (summer 1992): 4–16.
      • June 1992
      • Article

      Reversals of Preference in Allocation Decisions: Judging an Alternative Versus Choosing Among Alternatives

      By: M. H. Bazerman, G. F. Loewenstein and S. B. White
      Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments
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      Bazerman, M. H., G. F. Loewenstein, and S. B. White. "Reversals of Preference in Allocation Decisions: Judging an Alternative Versus Choosing Among Alternatives." Administrative Science Quarterly 37, no. 2 (June 1992): 220–240.
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      Brand Choice, Purchase Incidence, and Segmentation: An Integrated Modeling Approach

      By: Randolph E. Bucklin and Sunil Gupta
      Keywords: Brands and Branding; Decision Choices and Conditions; Sales; Segmentation
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      Bucklin, Randolph E., and Sunil Gupta. "Brand Choice, Purchase Incidence, and Segmentation: An Integrated Modeling Approach." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 29, no. 2 (May 1992): 201–215. (Finalist for the 1997 O'Dell Award, Journal of Marketing Research.)
      • April 1992 (Revised July 1993)
      • Case

      Conoco's: "Green" Oil Strategy (A)

      By: Malcolm S. Salter and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
      Conoco faces challenges in formulating a proactive environmental strategy for its proposed oil development in Ecuador's pristine tropical rain forest region. The case outlines the innovative process in which Conoco collaborated with a wide range of often conflicting... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Conflict Management; Ecuador
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      Salter, Malcolm S., and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. Conoco's: "Green" Oil Strategy (A). Harvard Business School Case 392-133, April 1992. (Revised July 1993.)
      • March 1992 (Revised March 1995)
      • Case

      Kevin Simpson

      By: Linda A. Hill
      Follows Kevin Simpson, a second-year Harvard Business School 1990 student, through his job search to his final decision between two very attractive but different job offers: a job as an international marketing manager at Eli Lilly and Co., a leading multinational... View Details
      Keywords: Job Offer; Race; Job Search; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decision Making
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      Hill, Linda A. "Kevin Simpson." Harvard Business School Case 492-041, March 1992. (Revised March 1995.)
      • 1992
      • Article

      Making Choices: Aspects of the History of the Harvard Business School MBA Program

      By: Nancy F. Koehn, Thomas R. Piper, V. Kasturi Rangan and Richard S. Tedlow
      Keywords: Higher Education; History; Decision Choices and Conditions; Boston
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      Koehn, Nancy F., Thomas R. Piper, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Richard S. Tedlow. "Making Choices: Aspects of the History of the Harvard Business School MBA Program." MBA Leadership and Learning (1992).
      • 1992
      • Other Unpublished Work

      Values in Transition: The Choices Embodied in State and Local Spending

      By: Dutch Leonard and Monica E. Friar
      Keywords: Decision Making; Spending; Government and Politics
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      Leonard, Dutch, and Monica E. Friar. "Values in Transition: The Choices Embodied in State and Local Spending." Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Boston, MA, January 1992.
      • November 1991 (Revised August 1994)
      • Background Note

      Relevant Costs and Revenues

      By: Arthur Schleifer Jr.
      Develops the idea that the relevance of costs and revenues depends on what decisions are under consideration. Revenues and costs are relevant if they would be different under one decision choice than under the other. Teaching purpose: Basic background material for... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Cost; Revenue; Framework; Managerial Roles; Risk and Uncertainty
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      Schleifer, Arthur, Jr. "Relevant Costs and Revenues." Harvard Business School Background Note 892-010, November 1991. (Revised August 1994.)
      • November 1991
      • Case

      Magic Johnson: Endorsements ""After""...?

      By: Stephen A. Greyser
      On Thursday, November 7, 1991, Los Angeles Lakers star Earvin "Magic" Johnson announced his retirement from basketball in the wake of having tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Magic Johnson was one of the most popular figures in sports, both... View Details
      Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Value; Sports; Advertising; Alliances; Problems and Challenges; Decision Choices and Conditions; Brands and Branding; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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      Greyser, Stephen A. Magic Johnson: Endorsements ""After""...? Harvard Business School Case 592-057, November 1991.
      • November 1991 (Revised December 1996)
      • Case

      Pressco, Inc.--1985

      By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
      A capital budgeting problem is viewed from the context of a marketing representative attempting to make a sale of energy saving heavy industrial equipment. Tax law changes promise to have a significant impact on the customer's decision process. Teaching purpose: To... View Details
      Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Machinery and Machining; Valuation; Taxation; Customer Value and Value Chain; Cost vs Benefits; Inflation and Deflation; Cost Management; Product Marketing; North and Central America
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      Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Pressco, Inc.--1985." Harvard Business School Case 292-085, November 1991. (Revised December 1996.)
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