Publications

In response to dramatic changes in the business environment--hypercompetition in many traditional industries, short product life cycles, and new competitors based in emerging nations--successful companies have responded by repositioning themselves in the global markets... View Details

June 1972
Case

Design and Manufacturing Co.

Keywords: Design

March 2001
Article

Not All M&As Are Alike--and That Matters

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions

1965
Article

Group Decision Making: A Report of an Experimental Study

When a group of people must decide on some one action, such as where shall we go out to dinner, or in an investment club which stock shall we buy, how do the individual members come to a decision that affords the best resolution of the question at hand for the group as... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Conflict Management

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January 2019 (Revised August 2019)
Teaching Note

JPMorgan Chase: Invested in Detroit (A), (B), and (C)

Teaching Note includes a link to C-case supplemental videos for instructor use during class. View Details

2019
Chapter

The Case Method

The case method was developed concurrently with the emergence of business schools as a way of teaching future executives evidence-based problem solving in the classroom. Harvard Business School faculty led in developing the method. A particular challenge in the writing... View Details

Keywords: Case Method; Case Studies; Case Teaching; Problem-based Learning; Cases; Learning; Teaching

February 2011 (Revised June 2011)
Teaching Note

Leaders Who Make a Difference: Sam Palmisano's Smarter IBM: Day 1 (TN)

Teaching Note for 311030. View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Information Technology Industry

2008
Other Teaching and Training Material

Interview with Jack Rivkin

Keywords: Leadership

spring 1977
Article

A Managerial View of Compliance

Keywords: Management

1973
Chapter

Strategy Determination in Long-Range Planning

Keywords: Strategic Planning; Decision Making

April – May 2008
Article

The Leader Within: The Best CEO Succession Plans Groom Independent-minded Insiders for the Top Job

Keywords: Leadership; Management Succession; Jobs and Positions

December 2007
Article

Il leader interno che guarda all'esterno

August 2000
Case

Belmont Industries, Inc. (D)

Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. View Details

Keywords: Wages; Managerial Roles; Management Practices and Processes; Performance; Goals and Objectives; Labor and Management Relations

August 2000 (Revised August 2018)
Case

The Atchison Corporation (A)

A new general manager uses a profit-center-based system to shake up an old line company. He then faces the task of placating a board member upset by the human consequences. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Profit; Human Resources; Change Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Design

2005
Class Lecture

Leadership Is a Choice: The General Manager in the Middle

Keywords: Leadership; Managerial Roles

May 1997 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Teradyne: Managing Disruptive Change

Three cases deal with the introduction of a new product to Teradyne's line of semiconductor test equipment. Teradyne: Managing Strategic Change provides historic and administrative background for the other two cases. Teradyne: The Aurora Project deals with the problems... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Disruption; Management; Market Entry and Exit; Product; Product Development; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Technology

February 1996 (Revised November 1998)
Case

Brown Group, Inc.--The Dividend Decision

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Restructuring; Investment Return

February 1996 (Revised April 2003)
Case

WPP--Integrating Icons to Leverage Knowledge

Martin Sorrell has used WPP to acquire a large portfolio of marketing service firms including J. Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather. How did he make this minnow-swallows-many-whales trick work, and can he make the whole into something bigger than the parts? View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership; Marketing; Networks; Diversification