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- December 1990
- Case
Allen-Bradley's ICCG: Repositioning for the 1990s
By: Nitin Nohria
Allen-Bradley's Industrial Computer and Communication Group (ICCG) underwent a period of rapid transformation in the 1980s, instituting a wide array of innovations from product development to information systems. In 1990 the Ohio-based group announced a major... View Details
- November 1990 (Revised March 1994)
- Case
Digital Equipment Corp.: The Kodak Outsourcing Agreement (A)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Herminia M. Ibarra
Describes grassroots effort which culminated in Digital's winning a competitive bid for the outsourcing of Kodak's internal telecommunications business. Describes the "Telstar" project, from the initial identification of the business opportunity to the process of... View Details
- November 1990 (Revised April 1999)
- Case
General Motors: Packard Electric Division
Packard Electric is the division of General Motors (GM) that does all of the electrical wiring and cabling for GM automobiles. They developed a new approach for passing the cables through the firewall between the engine and passenger compartments. The new technology... View Details
- 1990
- Chapter
Application Work in Group Dynamics Instruction
By: D. A. Thomas
Keywords: Groups and Teams
- September 1990 (Revised March 1991)
- Case
Mod IV Product Development Team
By: Anne Donnellon and Joshua D. Margolis
Focuses sharply on a crossfunctional product development team at Honeywell's Building Controls Division. Traces the history of teams at the division, which introduced them as a response to intensifying competition and the need for faster development. Reveals the... View Details
- July 1990 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
John M. Case Company
The owner of a small, privately held company decides to sell out, and a group of the company's top managers structures a leveraged buyout. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
- July 1990 (Revised August 1995)
- Case
Symantec--1982-90
By: Nitin Nohria
As Symantec grew from a small, upstart software development company to a major player in the software development industry, the channels of information flow and the internal communication needs of the company became more complex. The geographically-dispersed structure... View Details
- June 1990 (Revised April 1991)
- Case
Deutsche Bank Group
- May 1990
- Case
PepsiCo and Madonna
By: John A. Quelch
In 1989, PepsiCo withdrew an advertising campaign featuring Madonna following complaints from religious groups regarding the content of a Madonna video. View Details
- May 1990 (Revised August 1990)
- Case
Campbell Soup Co.
Describes the engineering effort at Campbell Soup Co. to develop a microwavable package and product for the growing convenience segment. Focuses on the role of engineering services in developing the production process, acquiring and installing equipment, and getting... View Details
- April 1990 (Revised January 1993)
- Case
Ad Council's AIDS Campaign (A): Advertising Strategy
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Janet Montgomery
Ad Council wished to run an educational campaign aimed at preventing the spread of AIDS. They were challenged to find acceptable ways to address this very sensitive subject matter--ways that the media and the public would approve. One of the big challenges was to make... View Details
- April 1990
- Case
Perrier Recall: A Source of Trouble
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
When a laboratory discovered traces of the carcinogen benzene in bottles of Perrier, Group Perrier of America immediately announced a voluntary U.S. recall of all Perrier brand imported water. This case describes press coverage of the U.S. recall and the worldwide... View Details
- January 1990 (Revised November 1992)
- Case
The Carnegie Group
By: Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Paul Sagawa
- 1990
- Article
Social Influences on Creativity: Evaluation, Coaction, and Surveillance
By: T. M. Amabile, P. Goldfarb and S. C. Brackfield
Two experiments examined the effects of evaluation expectation and the presence of others on creativity. In both experiments, some subjects expected that their work would be evaluated by experts, and others expected no evaluation. Evaluation expectation was crossed, in... View Details
- November 1989 (Revised February 1991)
- Case
British Petroleum Co.: Engineering Group (A) (Condensed)
By: D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen
- 01 Oct 1989
- Conference Presentation
Organization Decision Support: An Interacting Team Perspective
By: L. M. Applegate and J. C. Henderson
- June 1989 (Revised July 1993)
- Case
CIGNA Worldwide
By: John A. Quelch
A CIGNA Worldwide (CWW) task group of European country directors and key functional managers is meeting in November 1988 to discuss how CWW should respond to the European Community's plan to remove existing internal barriers and restrictions to the free flow of goods... View Details
- February 1989
- Case
British Petroleum Co.: Engineering Group (A)
By: D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen
Keywords: Energy Industry