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- August 1996 (Revised December 1996)
- Case
Veraguas (A): System of Poverty
By: George C. Lodge
Lodge, George C. "Veraguas (A): System of Poverty." Harvard Business School Case 797-005, August 1996. (Revised December 1996.)
- April 1996 (Revised June 1996)
- Background Note
Cleveland Turnaround (C), The: Facts and Figures
By: James E. Austin and Jaan Elias
Traces the Cleveland community's efforts to move the city from economic, social, and political crisis in the late 1970s into revitalization and progress in the 1980s and 1990s. Special attention is given to the role of business leaders and the public-private...
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Keywords:
Leading Change;
Analytics and Data Science;
Economic Growth;
Business and Community Relations;
Cleveland
Austin, James E., and Jaan Elias. "Cleveland Turnaround (C), The: Facts and Figures." Harvard Business School Background Note 796-153, April 1996. (Revised June 1996.)
- April 1996 (Revised May 2008)
- Exercise
Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1978 Negotiation, Baxter Management Confidential Information
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Victoria Medvec
Includes a series of three negotiation exercises portraying management/labor relations at ABC over a period of seven years. ABC, initially a family-owned business, had prided itself on its cooperative relationship with its union, Local 190. With the skyrocketing...
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Keywords:
Inflation and Deflation;
Compensation and Benefits;
Wages;
Working Conditions;
Management;
Negotiation Process;
Labor and Management Relations
McGinn, Kathleen L., and Victoria Medvec. "Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1978 Negotiation, Baxter Management Confidential Information." Harvard Business School Exercise 396-318, April 1996. (Revised May 2008.)
- April 1996 (Revised May 2008)
- Exercise
Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1978 Negotiation, Local 190 Confidential Information
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Victoria Medvec
Includes a series of three negotiation exercises portraying management/labor relations at ABC over a period of seven years. ABC, initially a family-owned business, had prided itself on its cooperative relationship with its union, Local 190. With the skyrocketing...
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Keywords:
Inflation and Deflation;
Compensation and Benefits;
Labor Unions;
Wages;
Working Conditions;
Negotiation Process;
Labor and Management Relations
McGinn, Kathleen L., and Victoria Medvec. "Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1978 Negotiation, Local 190 Confidential Information." Harvard Business School Exercise 396-319, April 1996. (Revised May 2008.)
- April 1996 (Revised May 2008)
- Exercise
Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1983 Negotiation, Baxter Management Confidential Information
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Victoria Medvec
Includes a series of three negotiation exercises portraying management/labor relations at ABC over a period of seven years. ABC, initially a family-owned business, had prided itself on its cooperative relationship with its union, Local 190. With the skyrocketing...
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Keywords:
Inflation and Deflation;
Compensation and Benefits;
Wages;
Working Conditions;
Management;
Negotiation Process;
Labor and Management Relations
McGinn, Kathleen L., and Victoria Medvec. "Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1983 Negotiation, Baxter Management Confidential Information." Harvard Business School Exercise 396-322, April 1996. (Revised May 2008.)
- April 1996 (Revised May 2008)
- Exercise
Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1983 Negotiation, Local 190 Confidential Information
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Victoria Medvec
Includes a series of three negotiation exercises portraying management/labor relations at ABC over a period of seven years. ABC, initially a family-owned business, had prided itself on its cooperative relationship with its union, Local 190. With the skyrocketing...
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Keywords:
Inflation and Deflation;
Compensation and Benefits;
Labor Unions;
Wages;
Working Conditions;
Negotiation Process;
Labor and Management Relations
McGinn, Kathleen L., and Victoria Medvec. "Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1983 Negotiation, Local 190 Confidential Information." Harvard Business School Exercise 396-321, April 1996. (Revised May 2008.)
- April 1996 (Revised May 2008)
- Exercise
Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1985 Negotiation Baxter Management Confidential Information
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Victoria Medvec
ncludes a series of three negotiation exercises portraying management/labor relations at ABC over a period of seven years. ABC, initially a family-owned business, had prided itself on its cooperative relationship with its union, Local 190. With the skyrocketing...
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Keywords:
Inflation and Deflation;
Compensation and Benefits;
Wages;
Working Conditions;
Management;
Negotiation Process;
Labor and Management Relations
McGinn, Kathleen L., and Victoria Medvec. "Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1985 Negotiation Baxter Management Confidential Information." Harvard Business School Exercise 396-324, April 1996. (Revised May 2008.)
- April 1996 (Revised May 2008)
- Exercise
Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1985 Negotiation, Local 190 Confidential Information
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Victoria Medvec
Includes a series of three negotiation exercises portraying management/labor relations at ABC over a period of seven years. ABC, initially a family-owned business, had prided itself on its cooperative relationship with its union, Local 190. With the skyrocketing...
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Keywords:
Inflation and Deflation;
Compensation and Benefits;
Labor Unions;
Wages;
Working Conditions;
Negotiation Process;
Labor and Management Relations
McGinn, Kathleen L., and Victoria Medvec. "Adam Baxter Company/Local 190: 1985 Negotiation, Local 190 Confidential Information." Harvard Business School Exercise 396-325, April 1996. (Revised May 2008.)
- March 1996 (Revised February 1997)
- Case
Change Agent Program at Siemens Nixdorf, The
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, John F. McGuire and Afroze A Mohammed
To change its culture, the German computer giant Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems launched a program to train 21 "change agents" who would lead entrepreneurial projects designed to get results and to serve as models of a new style.
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Organizational Culture;
Training;
Leadership Development;
Programs;
Human Resources;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Business Model;
Computer Industry;
Germany
Kanter, Rosabeth M., John F. McGuire, and Afroze A Mohammed. "Change Agent Program at Siemens Nixdorf, The." Harvard Business School Case 396-203, March 1996. (Revised February 1997.)
- February 1996 (Revised November 2003)
- Case
Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
A new administration in the City of Indianapolis is initially determined to privatize many municipal services. Before taking this action, however, the city managers want to know the current cost of performing these services with the municipal workers. Existing...
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Keywords:
Cost Management;
Public Sector;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Service Delivery;
Privatization;
City;
Indianapolis
Kaplan, Robert S. "Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (A)." Harvard Business School Case 196-115, February 1996. (Revised November 2003.)
- January 1996 (Revised July 1996)
- Case
Rabobank Nederland
By: Kenneth A. Merchant and Robert S. Kaplan
Describes the account manager's role and the history of one credit application. The purpose is to evaluate various methods the bank uses to influence account managers' behaviors. Also describes some alternatives being considered to improve the information systems used...
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Keywords:
Financial Management;
Managerial Roles;
Accounting;
Information Management;
Banks and Banking;
Power and Influence;
Banking Industry;
Netherlands
Merchant, Kenneth A., and Robert S. Kaplan. "Rabobank Nederland." Harvard Business School Case 196-119, January 1996. (Revised July 1996.)
- November 1995 (Revised April 1996)
- Case
ENTel and the Privatization of Argentine Telecommunications
Growing fiscal deficits, persistent economic recession, and underinvestment in the nation's telecommunications infrastructure lead the Argentine government to privatize its state-owned monopoly provider of telecommunications services, ENTel, in late 1990. The...
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Keywords:
Opportunities;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Communication Technology;
Privatization;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Competition;
Development Economics;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Performance Effectiveness;
Telecommunications Industry;
Argentina
Emmons, Willis M., III. "ENTel and the Privatization of Argentine Telecommunications." Harvard Business School Case 796-065, November 1995. (Revised April 1996.)
- Article
Pricing and Financial Resources: An Analysis of the Disk Drive Industry, 1980-88
By: J. Lerner
Lerner, J. "Pricing and Financial Resources: An Analysis of the Disk Drive Industry, 1980-88." Review of Economics and Statistics 77, no. 4 (November 1995): 585–598. (Symposium on Hedonic Methods in Industrial Economics.)
- October 1995
- Case
Singapore TradeNet: Beyond TradeNet to the Intelligent Island
By: Lynda M. Applegate, John L. King and Soon-Siong Neo
Describes the actions taken by the government of Singapore to enable the country to survive and prosper after it achieved independence in the late 1960s. Recognizing that its small size, limited natural resources, but excellent location placed it in a vulnerable...
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Keywords:
Transition;
Communication Technology;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Digital Platforms;
Information Technology;
Technology Adoption;
Information Technology Industry;
Singapore
Applegate, Lynda M., John L. King, and Soon-Siong Neo. "Singapore TradeNet: Beyond TradeNet to the Intelligent Island." Harvard Business School Case 196-105, October 1995.
- fall 1995
- Article
Standard Setting Consortia, Antitrust, and High-Technology Industries
By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
Examines the antitrust treatment of private-sector standard setting in the U.S. Applicability of law and decision-making issues in high technology industries; Examination of cost-based facilitating theory; Approach to evaluate the reasonableness of a standard.
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Keywords:
Private Sector;
Information Technology;
Law;
Decision Making;
Cost;
Theory;
Performance Evaluation;
Standards;
United States
Anton, James J., and Dennis A. Yao. "Standard Setting Consortia, Antitrust, and High-Technology Industries." Antitrust Law Journal 64, no. 1 (fall 1995): 247–265. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
- September 1995
- Case
Ares-Serono
By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Jean-Pierre Jeannet and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Ares Serono, a medium-size Swiss pharmaceutical company, is the global leader in the field of fertility drugs. The company has successfully transformed into one of the very few biotech firms in Europe. The case treats a set of major strategic and organizational...
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Keywords:
Geographic Location;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Asset Management;
Balance and Stability;
Expansion;
Digital Platforms;
Leadership Development;
Health Care and Treatment;
Transformation;
Family Business;
Problems and Challenges;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Switzerland;
Europe
Yoshino, Michael Y., Jean-Pierre Jeannet, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Ares-Serono." Harvard Business School Case 396-035, September 1995.
- August 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Case
CIGNA Property and Casualty Reengineering (A)
By: Richard L. Nolan, Donna B. Stoddard, Chiara Francalanci and Elise C Martin
Reengineering was introduced at CIGNA Corp. in 1988. CIGNA entered a second wave reengineering effort through a major project at CIGNA P&C, one of CIGNA's larger businesses. P&C was in financial crisis and as a result brought in a new executive team in 1991 to head the...
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Keywords:
Transformation;
Cost vs Benefits;
Design;
Growth and Development;
Analytics and Data Science;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Balanced Scorecard;
Financial Crisis;
Crisis Management;
Projects;
Information Technology;
Insurance Industry
Nolan, Richard L., Donna B. Stoddard, Chiara Francalanci, and Elise C Martin. "CIGNA Property and Casualty Reengineering (A)." Harvard Business School Case 196-059, August 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
- July 1995 (Revised October 1995)
- Background Note
Electronic Commerce: Trends and Opportunities
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Janis Lee Gogan
In a 1966 Harvard Business Review article, Felix Kaufman implored general managers to think beyond their own organizational boundaries to the possibilities of interorganizational systems (IOS)--networked computers that enable companies to share information and...
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Applegate, Lynda M., and Janis Lee Gogan. "Electronic Commerce: Trends and Opportunities." Harvard Business School Background Note 196-006, July 1995. (Revised October 1995.)
- June 1995
- Case
Northern Telecom and Netas (A): Turkey's Telecommunications Team
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Kalman D. Applbaum and Pamela A. Yatsko
The Turkish general manager of a successful telecommunications equipment-manufacturing joint venture between the Canadian company Northern Telecom and local partners in Turkey reviews the solutions to a crisis in 1989 and wonders whether the company will be able to...
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Keywords:
Joint Ventures;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Crisis Management;
Problems and Challenges;
Change Management;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Political Elections;
Telecommunications Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Turkey;
Canada
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Kalman D. Applbaum, and Pamela A. Yatsko. "Northern Telecom and Netas (A): Turkey's Telecommunications Team." Harvard Business School Case 395-087, June 1995.
- June 1995
- Case
Northern Telecom and Netas (B): Transferring Technology to Central Asia
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Kalman D. Applbaum and Pamela A. Yatsko
In the early 1990s, the Turkish telecommunications firm, Netas, established joint ventures in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan as miniature replications of Netas's own experience on the receiving end of technology transfer with Netas's 51% owner, Northern Telecom. This case...
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Keywords:
Joint Ventures;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Change Management;
Transition;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Learning;
Technology Adoption;
Telecommunications Industry;
Turkey;
Kazakhstan;
Azerbaijan
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Kalman D. Applbaum, and Pamela A. Yatsko. "Northern Telecom and Netas (B): Transferring Technology to Central Asia." Harvard Business School Case 395-088, June 1995.