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  • 2015
  • Report

Clusters and Regional Economies: Implications for the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Region

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Region, covering eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces located around the lakes and waterways that have given this region its name, is what economic developers call a 'macro region'. It is an area of intensive economic interaction... View Details
Keywords: Clusters; Regional Policy; Great Lakes; Economic Development; Industry Clusters; Economy; Canada; United States
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  • September 2017 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

Great Lakes Banking Group: Data Management

By: Shane Greenstein and Christine Snively
In May 2016, Michael Rechtin, an expert in international data center law, advised global financial services firm Great Lakes Banking Group (GLBG) on its plans to upgrade its data centers. The bank’s data processing and storage systems were in need of an update, and... View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Infrastructure; Operations; Information Management
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  • May 1974
  • Case

Great Lakes Clinic Foundation (A)

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  • January 1995 (Revised January 1995)
  • Case

USAA: Business Process Review for the Great Lakes Region (Abridged)

By: James L. Heskett
Presents the results of a service process analysis of USAA's claims processing activity in its Great Lakes Region. Explores not only issues of redesigning the process but also the organizational implications of various alternatives. View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Mortgages; Management Practices and Processes; Business Processes; Organizational Design; Mathematical Methods; Real Estate Industry; North America
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  • December 1988
  • Case

Great Lakes Diversified Corp.: The Detroit Plant--1980

By: Roy D. Shapiro
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Planning; Production; Strategy; Michigan
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  • May 1979 (Revised April 1987)
  • Case

Great Lakes Diversified Corp.: The Detroit Plant

By: W. Earl Sasser and David C. Rikert
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Planning; Production; Strategy; Michigan
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  • September 1982 (Revised March 1986)
  • Teaching Note

Great Lakes Diversified Corp.: The Detroit Plant (TN)

By: W. Earl Sasser
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  • January 1990 (Revised February 1990)
  • Teaching Note

Great Lakes Diversified Corp.: The Detroit Plant--1980, Teaching Note

By: Roy D. Shapiro
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  • August 1993
  • Case

USAA: Business Process Review for the Great Lakes Region

By: James L. Heskett and Roger H. Hallowell
USAA proposes to develop a new set of processes for its property and casualty division. The case focuses on processes used in automobile claims. View Details
Keywords: Business Processes; Insurance Industry; United States
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  • February 1987 (Revised April 1989)
  • Case

Great Lakes Forest Products Ltd.: Process Control in the Dryden Paper Mill

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  • October, 2023
  • Article

Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: Housing Market Impacts of Removing Legacy Pollutants

By: Alecia Cassidy, Robyn C. Meeks and Michale R. Moore
The Great Lakes and their tributaries make up the largest freshwater system on the planet, providing drinking water and recreational value to millions of people. Yet manufacturing plants left a legacy of toxic pollutants in the region, tarnishing it as part of the... View Details
Keywords: Valuation Of Environmental Effects; Housing Demand; Water Pollution; Water Quality; Infrastructure; Pollution; Consumer Behavior
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  • 29 Mar 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

An Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania

Keywords: by Diego A. Comin; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 23 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 04 May 2021
  • Book

Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

asked to think of an inspiring friend in their lives. “For me, it’s my brother Philippe,” Joly says. “He is such a generous soul and a great life coach, always focused on finding the best in you and bringing joy to life.” Sales associates... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

relationship that many scholars have claimed could greatly improve governance in many third world nations: the United States ran the currency, provided aid, posted an official inside the Panamanian government, and operated one of the View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
  • 14 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

Meet Cheryl Andrus: Manager. Survivor. A vice president responsible for corporate and product marketing at FranklinCovey in Salt Lake City, Andrus was asked in August 2002 to also take charge of one of the company's business lines. Along... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 08 Feb 2021
  • Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

over where to go to dinner and what movie to see, they could both leave feeling unsatisfied. If, on the other hand, the person who cares more strongly about dinner gets to choose the restaurant, and the film buff gets to pick the movie, they could both end up feeling... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

A pall hangs over Sochi. Not since the bribery scandal overshadowed the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City has an Olympic Winter Games been so fraught with controversy. Fears of a terrorist attack by Islamic extremists; outrage over Russia's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising
  • 07 Sep 2019
  • Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

over the last 20 years), their positions on the Great Lakes (which hold much of the fresh water in the world), temperate climate, and a welcoming attitude to people fleeing flood-prone areas. It’s too soon... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

funded initiatives by Land O' Lakes in some twenty-three poor countries. In Albania, for example, Land O' Lakes has organized 8,000 women into cooperatives for the production of dairy products, providing... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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