Publications

April 1998 (Revised August 2008)
Teaching Note

Lincoln Electric: Venturing Abroad TN

Teaching Note for (9-398-095). View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; Ohio

April 1998
Teaching Note

Skandia AFS: Developing Intellectual Capital Globally TN

Teaching Note for (9-396-412). View Details

March 1998
Teaching Note

ABB's Relays Business: Building and Managing a Global Matrix TN

Teaching Note for (9-394-016). View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry

March 1998
Teaching Note

Komatsu Ltd: Project G's Globalization and Komatsu and Project G (A-C) TN

Teaching Note for (9-398-016), (9-395-001), (9-395-002), and (9-395-003). View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; Japan

January 1998 (Revised October 1998)
Teaching Note

3M Optical Systems: Managing Corporate Entrepreneurship TN

Teaching Note for (9-395-017). View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products Industry

January 1998 (Revised April 2001)
Case

Acer America: Development of the Aspire

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Anthony St. George

Follows the development, national launch, and global rollout of the Aspire, Acer's first new product developed outside of Taiwan. Implementing a very promising new PC concept proves challenging to Mike Culver and his U.S. team, who are plagued by coordination problems... View Details

Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Design; Supply Chain; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business Subsidiaries; Product Launch; Computer Industry; United States; Taiwan

January 1998 (Revised April 1998)
Case

Lincoln Electric: Venturing Abroad

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Jamie O'Connell

Lincoln Electric, a 100-year-old manufacturer of welding equipment and consumables based in Cleveland, Ohio, motivates its U.S. employees through a culture of cooperation between management and labor and an unusual compensation system based on piecework and a large... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Restructuring; Transformation; Construction; Compensation and Benefits; Management; Market Entry and Exit; Labor and Management Relations; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Manufacturing Industry; Ohio

December 1997 (Revised October 2012)
Teaching Note

McKinsey & Company: Managing Knowledge and Learning (TN)

Teaching Note for (9-396-357). View Details

Keywords: Consulting Industry

October 1997 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Komatsu Ltd.: Project G's Globalization

This case describes the major strategic and organizational transformation at Komatsu aimed at changing it from a Japan-based producer of construction equipment to a truly global company with the ability to leverage its groupwide portfolio of resources and capabilities... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Construction; Asset Pricing; Investment Portfolio; Global Strategy; Leadership; Resource Allocation; Risk Management; Expansion; Manufacturing Industry; Japan

1997
Chapter

Managing Innovation in the Transnational Corporation

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Multinational Firms and Management

1997
Book

The Individualized Corporation

1997
Book

The Individualized Corporation

By: Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher A. Bartlett

July 1996
Background Note

The GM's Leadership Challenge: Building a Self-Renewing Institution

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Ashish Nanda

Highlights the general manager's role in building a self-renewing organization. View Details

Keywords: Management Skills; Leadership Development; Managerial Roles; Management Teams; Organizational Structure

July 1996
Case

Trans National Group

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Takia Mahmood

Starting as a classic entrepreneur,Steve Belkin, CEO of Trans National (TN), drives the company through two businesses--one in group travel and another in financial services--before deciding to step back and act as a general manager whose focus and attention is on... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Management; Growth Management

July 1996
Background Note

The GM's Organizational Challenge: Embedding and Leveraging Capability

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Ashish Nanda

Describes how general managers can build organizational capability in their firms. View Details

Keywords: Management Skills; Managerial Roles; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy

June 1996 (Revised January 2000)
Case

McKinsey & Co.: Managing Knowledge and Learning

Describes the development of McKinsey & Co. as a worldwide management consulting firm from 1926 to 1996. In particular, it focuses on the way in which McKinsey has developed structures, systems, processes, and practices to help it develop, transfer, and disseminate... View Details

Keywords: Management; Managerial Roles; Management Practices and Processes; Competitive Advantage; Global Range; Knowledge Dissemination; Business Processes; Consulting Industry