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  • April 2015 (Revised June 2016)
  • Case

The Transformation of NCR

By: David Collis, Raffaella Sadun and Matthew Shaffer
During his tenure as CEO since 2005, Bill Nuti had moved NCR Corporation (originally National Cash Register) from its historical competence in hardware to become a provider of hardware and software for managing transactions across a range of industries and payments... View Details
Keywords: NCR; Hardware; Software; Acquisitions; Financial Services; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Transformation; Acquisition; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry
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Collis, David, Raffaella Sadun, and Matthew Shaffer. "The Transformation of NCR." Harvard Business School Case 715-438, April 2015. (Revised June 2016.)
  • February 1976
  • Case

NCR Corp.

By: Thomas R. Piper
Keywords: Information Technology Industry
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Piper, Thomas R. "NCR Corp." Harvard Business School Case 276-178, February 1976.
  • June 1995
  • Case

AT&T's Acquisition of NCR

Dennis R. Beresford, Chairman of the FASB, reflects on the AT&T and NCR merger and AT&T's desire to qualify the transaction for pooling of interest treatment, an accounting method allowing companies to record assets acquired in business combinations at historical cost... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Accounting; Telecommunications Industry
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Barth, Mary E., and Dale Coxe. "AT&T's Acquisition of NCR." Harvard Business School Case 195-239, June 1995.
  • 1987
  • Other Unpublished Work

Creating Stakeholder Value: NCR Annual Report

By: R. M. Kanter
Keywords: Value Creation; Ownership Stake
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Kanter, R. M. "Creating Stakeholder Value: NCR Annual Report." January 1987. (Reprinted in The Corporate Social Challenge, edited by J.E. Stacey & F. Sturdivant Homewood, Ill.: Irwin, 1989.)
  • 21 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

new drug markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49384   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-438 The Transformation of NCR During his tenure as CEO since 2005, Bill Nuti... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2004
  • Book

Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America

By: Walter A. Friedman
This book chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and... View Details
Keywords: Sales; Employees; Transformation; United States
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Friedman, Walter A. Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

    Birth of a Salesman

    This book chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and... View Details

    • 19 Apr 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Birth of the American Salesman

    rebuild them as good agents or executives for NCR. But he was influential. He was a great promoter of himself and of the idea that sales management had to be handled systematically, even "scientifically." He attracted many talented people to View Details
    Keywords: by Laura Linard

      John H. Patterson

      After somewhat hastily purchasing a small cash register company, Patterson devoted the rest of his life to promoting and improving upon the cash register technology, revolutionizing commercial business transactions and making NCR into the... View Details
      Keywords: Computers & Electronics
      • 18 May 2011
      • News

      U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?

      in a decade. And BCG notes that heavy equipment maker Caterpillar is moving jobs from abroad to Texas, and NCR has brought cash machine production to Georgia. Interviewed by the Economist, HBS Professor Gary Pisano expressed cautious... View Details
      Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing
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      Durdana Achakzai

      interested in how the business we do today affects future generations – how we ensure sustainable development for years to come." Durdana will spend her summer in New York interning with the Market Intelligence Division of NCR... View Details
      • 03 Mar 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

      complete, fixed description of each side's obligations. Not all breaches need be fatal; how they are handled can strengthen or rupture the social contract.—Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax, and James K. Sebenius Consider how cultural expectations damaged relationships at... View Details
      Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius
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