Information Processing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1997
News

Manager's Notebook

In this new series, the Bulletin will feature occasional reports on faculty research in progress. Who Has Your Number? Customer information is the lifeblood of business. Indeed, a company's success often hinges on how well it understands... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

Manufacturing and information technology these days go together like bread and butter. But it wasn't always so. As Professor David Upton pointed out in a Global Alumni Conference panel titled "E-Commerce and the New Operations,"... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

01 Oct 1998
News

A Message from Dean Clark

is a particular need for managers to be entrepreneurial in spirit, to view business from a global perspective, and to know how to use information technology to their companies' best advantage. To meet this challenge, in the past few years... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Breakthrough International Negotiation

negotiations and to respond appropriately, bringing about a desired outcome in a wide range of scenarios. "The ultimate goal of learning breakthrough negotiation is to be an architect of structure and process and not a passive participant... View Details

Keywords: Michael Watkins; Susan Rosegrant; Information; Information

01 Mar 2005
News

Facing Ambiguity

role-play the Day 8 MMT meeting. Because students only receive information pertinent to their role, they have a partial picture of what has occurred. “We wanted the students to feel like part of the action, to experience the pressures and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Space Research and Technology; Government

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

same time remain flexible enough to source new expertise and knowledge from outside the company." The planned termination of the lowest performing employees was characterized as a way "to forget things we no longer need to know," a View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Oct 2019
News

Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method

During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work in teams to design and implement a complex process to produce electronic circuit boards. During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work in teams to design and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Innovation

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

processes used by many firms to develop a workable strategy often feel overly bureaucratic and behind the curve. There is no question that strategic decision-making has become more challenging and complex. In fact, many companies seem to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Information; Information

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

collected information from some 300 large American firms, focusing primarily on the period between 1986 and 1999. By evaluating a combination of confidential compensation surveys, public accounting records, and technology investment data,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2009
News

Faculty Books

essential relationship, including strategies for determining how your boss prefers to process information and make decisions, tips for communicating mutual expectations, and tactics for negotiating... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information; Information; Information

06 Dec 2021
News

3-Minute Briefing: Bonnie Kintzer (MBA 1987)

the turnaround. I knew the brands were still very strong in the mind of the consumer and, with the right team, that we could rebuild the company. I was very clear in the interview process that the name of the company had to change. If... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; publishing; digital transformation; change management; leadership; Information; Information

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a hospital safety improvement program... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

01 Mar 2004
News

Alumni Bookshelf

organizational behavior and management at Rider University’s College of Business Administration. A Journey through Grief by James McGee (PMD 22, 1971) (1stBooks Library) With the subtitle Notes from a Foreign Country, McGee takes the reader through the grief View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 1998
News

Short Takes

explains, "the 1980s were very challenging times for the U.S. textile industry. They enabled us to see clearly which companies did smart things in response to adverse conditions and which did not." Coding this information for ownership... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

September 2015
Case

Connective Mobility

By: Nitin Nohria, Christopher Payton and Ali Huberlie

Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Culture; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Performance Productivity; Problems and Challenges; Management Practices and Processes; Business Divisions; Information Management; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States

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March 1994
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Intel Corp.: Leveraging Capabilities for Strategic Renewal

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Ashish Nanda

Traces the history of Intel from its earliest days as a technology-driven memory company to its emergence as an increasingly market-focused microprocessor company with emerging systems capabilities. The focus is on the strategic, organizational, and management... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Adaptation; Management Skills; Management Practices and Processes; Strategy; Organizations; Information Technology Industry

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01 Dec 2010
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Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings

and rational process but through a subjective process. Launching Technology Ventures is for students who plan to work at start-ups and at established companies launching information technology products.... View Details

Keywords: curriculum

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?

Ernst & Young. Love was preparing an important bid for a large industrial manufacturer that needed help installing an enterprise resource planning system. He had already directed projects for implementing information systems for... View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria & Thomas Tierney; Consulting

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

and retain some of their knowledge. It's not rocket science." Among more specific proposals, Sharon Richmond suggests an antidote to the Violette objection by suggesting that "Rather than relying only on private, one-to-one transmission of the View Details