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- February 2004
- Case
Bradman and Tendulkar, LLC
By: Ananth Raman and Vishal Gaur
An investment firm is trying to project inventory turns for Radio Shack, a chain of consumer electronics stores. The investment firm has access to public financial data but not to internal operational metrics. It needs to project inventory turns because inventory... View Details
- January 2004 (Revised July 2007)
- Case
Lumen and Absorb Teams at Crutchfield Chemical Engineering, The
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Elizabeth Schatzel
Large discrepancies have developed between two elite technology development teams at Crutchfield Chemical Engineering in terms of motivation and creativity. To investigate, Paul Burke, director of corporate technology development, commissioned a study of the day-by-day... View Details
- January 2004
- Case
Macroeconomic Policy and the State of the U.S. Economy, 2003
By: David A. Moss
Based on excerpts from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on July 16, 2003, as well as economic data that were available to Chairman Greenspan at the time. Taken together, the text... View Details
- January 2004 (Revised February 2005)
- Background Note
A Note on Methodological Fit in Management Field Research
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Stacy McManus
To use in doctoral-level management courses on the design of field research methods. Advocates the importance of fit, or internal consistency, among the different elements of a field research project. Although the scientific method provides an essential framework for... View Details
- 2004
- Case
Learning to Manage with Data in Duval County Public Schools: Lake Shore Middle School (A)
By: Allen Grossman, James P. Honan and Caroline Joan King
- 2004
- Teaching Note
Learning to Manage with Data in Duval County Public Schools: Lake Shore Middle School (A) and (B) Case Series, Teaching Note
By: Allen Grossman, James P. Honan and Caroline Joan King
- 2004
- Case
Learning to Manage with Data in Duval County Public Schools: Lake Shore Middle School (B)
By: Allen Grossman, James P. Honan and Caroline Joan King
- 2004
- Article
Sources of Structural Inequality in Managerial Labor Markets
By: Rakesh Khurana and Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
This article proposes two mechanisms that allow actors to obtain unearned advantages in labor markets. The first mechanism is consistent with collusive closure arguments. However, it questions the assumption that those who seek to benefit from collusive closure will... View Details
- December 2003
- Case
Manville Corporation Fiber Glass Group (C) (Abridged)
By: Lynn S. Paine
Manville Corp.'s senior managers are surprised when Japanese government officials advise them not to go forward with their plan to add a cancer warning label to diatomaceous earth (DE) products sold in Japan. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has ruled... View Details
- November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Teledesic (Abridged)
Describes plans for a failed project that proposed the use of 288 satellites to deliver high-speed data communications services anywhere in the world. View Details
- October 2003 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Managing a 401(k) Fund
By: Richard S. Ruback and Kathleen Luchs
Focuses on an individual's decision to participate in his firm's 401(k) plan and how to invest his contributions. Plan participants have a choice of 10 mutual funds with different investment strategies. Includes data from Morningstar on the composition and performance... View Details
- September 2003
- Case
Nelson Mandela, Turnaround Leader
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Euvin Naidoo
Nelson Mandela was the first democratically elected president of South Africa. He had to shift the culture of a country after the end of the apartheid regime, which enforced separation of the races and stifled freedom of the press. He established more open dialogue,... View Details
- September 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Compilation
Time Distribution and Interaction Patterns for PEARL Project Team: Work Patterns at Ditto (D)
By: Leslie A. Perlow
Provides data to enable students to analyze how software engineers spend their time. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
- August 2003
- Case
Mercury Computer Systems: The Evolution from Integrated Technology to Open Standard
By: Rebecca Henderson and Nancy Confrey
For 20 years, Mercury Computer Systems has thrived, providing products and services that support ultrafast processing of real time data. Now Jay Bertelli, the CEO, faces a critical question: How can the firm compete once the standards on which its products are based... View Details
- April 2003 (Revised October 2004)
- Case
Novartis: The Challenge of Success (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus
Preliminary results from Phase 1 clinical trials of a newly developed compound, STI571, showed that 31 out of 31 patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) had their blood counts return to normal. In the world of oncology, this was unheard of. This was the... View Details
- February 2003 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
Cable Data Systems
By: Paul W. Marshall and Todd H Thedinga
Describes the operating challenges of Cable Data Systems (CDS), a minority-owned cable installation company with a dual mission of maximizing profits and providing employment opportunities to minorities in urban markets. Following the merger of two cable installation... View Details
- February 2003
- Supplement
The Baseball Strike
By: Anita M. McGahan and Jan W. Rivkin
Data spreadsheet for use with case (9-796-059), The Baseball Strike. Download Only. (Exhibits 8 and 10). View Details
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling
- January 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Army Crew Team, The
By: Scott A. Snook and Jeffrey T. Polzer
The coach of the varsity Army crew team at West Point assembled his top eight rowers into the first crew team and the second tier of rowers into the second team using objective data on individual performance. As the second boat continually beat the first boat in races,... View Details
- January 2003 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
Endeavor-Determining A Growth Strategy
By: William A. Sahlman and Michael J. Roberts
Describes the progress of a nonprofit organization, Endeavor, focused on nurturing entrepreneurship in emerging markets. At the time of the case, it has successfully expanded to five Latin American countries and is contemplating the next phase in its growth.... View Details
- January 2003 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Zipcar: Refining the Business Model
By: Myra M. Hart, Michael J. Roberts and Julia Stevens
Zipcar is a start-up organized around the idea of "sharing" car usage via a membership organization. This case describes several iterations of the Zipcar business model and financial plan. These iterations include a very early version and a version developed just prior... View Details