Publications

July 1999 (Revised May 2003)
Teaching Note

Vivendi: Revitalizing a French Conglomerate (A) & (B) TN

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Elizabeth Gordon

Teaching Note for (9-799-019) and (9-703-418). View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; France

March 1999 (Revised April 2004)
Case

Describes TelePizza, is Spain's leading chain of pizza restaurants and delivery services. TelePizza has experienced rapid growth to 500 stores since its creation in 1987. The company went public on the Spanish stock market in late 1996. Franchising has played an... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Spain

April 1999
Case

French Pension System, The: On The Verge Of Retirement? (Abridged)

By: David A. Moss

Surveys the French pension system, its particular institutional characteristics, and some of the critical challenges and opportunities facing French reformers. Like almost every other industrialized country, France has a large pay-as-you-go public pension system that... View Details

Keywords: Retirement; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Economic Growth; Economics; Capital Markets; Wages; Public Administration Industry; France

September 1997 (Revised October 1997)
Case

French Pension System, The: On the Verge of Retirement?

By: David A. Moss, Anne Dias and Bertrand O. Stephann

Surveys the French pension system, its particular institutional characteristics, and some of the critical challenges and opportunities facing French reformers. Like almost every other industrialized country, France has a large pay-as-you-go public pension system that... View Details

Keywords: Retirement; Compensation and Benefits; Capital Markets; Economic Growth; Labor; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Welfare; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Public Administration Industry; France

1981
Book

Germany and the Two World Wars

By: Andreas Hillgruber and William C. Kirby

Keywords: War; Germany

February 1995 (Revised March 1999)
Case

Duales System Deutschland

By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Keywords: Germany

June 1995 (Revised July 2006)
Supplement

Barilla SpA (B)

By: Janice H. Hammond

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Production; Distribution; Sales; Demand and Consumers; Programs; Food and Beverage Industry; Italy

June 1995
Teaching Note

Barilla SpA (A-D) TN

By: Janice H. Hammond

Teaching Note for (9-694-046), (9-695-064), (9-695-065), and (9-695-066). View Details

Keywords: Sales; Distribution; Demand and Consumers; Italy

June 1992 (Revised January 1994)
Supplement

Coopers & Lybrand in Hungary (C)

Coopers & Lybrand open an office in Hungary. View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Hungary

November 1993
Supplement

OfficePro (C)

By: John A. Quelch

Supplements OfficePro (A). View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Globalized Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Supply Chain Management; Retail Industry; France

1991
Book

Internationale Wettbewerbsvorteile: Ein Strategisches Konzept fur die Schweiz (International Competitive Advantage: A New Strategic Concept for Switzerland)

By: M. E. Porter, S. Borner, R. Weder and M. J. Enright

Keywords: Global Range; Competitive Advantage; Switzerland

September 1984 (Revised September 1993)
Case

Nestle S.A.: International Marketing (A)

By: John A. Quelch

A senior manager at Nestle's headquarters is reviewing the role of the central marketing staff with respect to Nestle's operating companies around the world. Two specific examples of the role of the central staff in guiding the advertising and packaging decisions of... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Marketing; Operations; Advertising; Management Teams; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Switzerland

2004
Other Unpublished Work

Mobilizing the Potential of German Science

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

Keywords: Science; Innovation and Invention; Government and Politics; Germany

Read Now

December 1997
Supplement

Franco Bernabe at ENI (C)

By: Linda A. Hill, Jennifer Suesse and Mara Willard

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Italy

1998
Chapter

Wage Bargaining, Labour Markets and Macroeconomic Performance in the Netherlands

By: Gunnar Trumbull, Anne Wren, Bob Hancke and David Soskice

Keywords: Labor and Management Relations; Macroeconomics; Performance; Netherlands

2004
Book

Silicon and the State: French Innovation Policy in the Internet Age

By: Gunnar Trumbull

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Policy; Internet and the Web; France

April 1988 (Revised July 1989)
Case

Precista Tools AG (A)

A young woman manager in a Swiss family firm finds that her role as a managing director becomes bitterly unpleasant once her older brother decides to leave an engineering career and join the family business. That is what the father, who was head of the business had... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Gender Characteristics; Switzerland

December 1986 (Revised February 1993)
Case

Scandinavian Airlines System

Discusses the fostering of entrepreneurship and innovation in the large corporation. It traces the development and history of Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) from 1946 to the present with particular emphasis on the leadership of Jan Carlzon, CEO from 1981 to the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Innovation and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Air Transportation Industry; Scandinavia