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- January 1996
- Case
Transportation Displays Incorporated (C): The Case for a Preemptive Restructuring
By: Stuart C. Gilson, Joel T. Schwartz, Steve Silver and David Stemerman
A company nears the end of a long multiyear turnaround and now must consider how to "cash out" so its management can realize a financial return on investment. The privately held company has several options, including a leveraged ESOP and a leveraged recapitalization.
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Gilson, Stuart C., Joel T. Schwartz, Steve Silver, and David Stemerman. "Transportation Displays Incorporated (C): The Case for a Preemptive Restructuring." Harvard Business School Case 296-035, January 1996.
- August 1995 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Cricket Road, 503
By: William J. Poorvu and Donald A. Brown
In September 2003, Mason Sexton, a young, inexperienced developer, was making plans to replace a rooming house he had inherited next to the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville with a new 14-unit, 5-story apartment house. His attempts to assemble the...
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Keywords:
Property;
Entrepreneurship;
Housing;
Buildings and Facilities;
Construction;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Management Practices and Processes;
Real Estate Industry;
United States
Poorvu, William J., and Donald A. Brown. "Cricket Road, 503." Harvard Business School Case 396-001, August 1995. (Revised December 2003.)
- July 1995 (Revised April 1999)
- Case
Becton Dickinson (E): An Assessment of Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling
By: Michael Beer and Pamela J. Maus
This case presents an assessment of the strategic human resource management (SHRM) profiling process implemented at Becton Dickinson. It explores the questions the assessment raised about the viability of the process and what aspects might be changed if the process is...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Human Resources;
Management Practices and Processes;
Strategic Planning;
Health Industry
Beer, Michael, and Pamela J. Maus. "Becton Dickinson (E): An Assessment of Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling." Harvard Business School Case 496-007, July 1995. (Revised April 1999.)
- January 1995 (Revised June 1997)
- Case
Walt Disney Company, 1994: A Tumultuous Year
By: David J. Collis and Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Focuses on a six-month period in 1994, during which the company experienced a series of dramatic upheavals. The events described include: 1) the sudden death of company president Frank Wells; 2) a health crisis facing Chairman Michael Eisner; 3) the "departure" of...
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Keywords:
Business Divisions;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Business Startups;
Resignation and Termination;
Crisis Management;
United States
Collis, David J., and Elizabeth Wynne Johnson. "Walt Disney Company, 1994: A Tumultuous Year." Harvard Business School Case 395-109, January 1995. (Revised June 1997.)
- January 1994
- Case
National Convenience Stores, Inc.
By: Steven R. Fenster, Stuart C. Gilson and Roy Burstin
National Convenience Stores seeks to emerge from Chapter 11. Central to the nature of the reorganization plan is the company's determining enterprise value. The various constituencies (secured debt, unsecured debt, etc.) will seek to find an enterprise value that...
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Keywords:
Capital Structure;
Valuation;
Restructuring;
Strategic Planning;
Borrowing and Debt;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Texas
Fenster, Steven R., Stuart C. Gilson, and Roy Burstin. "National Convenience Stores, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 294-068, January 1994.
- July 1993
- Article
Compensation Plans for Single- and Multi-Product Salesforces: An Application of the Holmstrom-Milgrom Model
By: R. Lal and V. Srinivasan
Lal, R., and V. Srinivasan. "Compensation Plans for Single- and Multi-Product Salesforces: An Application of the Holmstrom-Milgrom Model." Management Science 39, no. 7 (July 1993).
- April 1993 (Revised November 1994)
- Case
Chiron Corp.
Pablo Valenzuela, vice president of R&D at Chiron Corp., faces several choices for how to allocate scarce resources across several promising projects. These choices will determine Chiron's position in several emerging biotechnology and diagnostic markets, including...
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Keywords:
Health Testing and Trials;
Research and Development;
Failure;
Business Strategy;
Joint Ventures;
Strategic Planning;
Opportunities;
Product Development;
Biotechnology Industry;
California
Wheelwright, Steven C. "Chiron Corp." Harvard Business School Case 693-052, April 1993. (Revised November 1994.)
- January 1993 (Revised August 2003)
- Case
Sally Jameson: Valuing Stock Options in a Compensation Package
By: Peter Tufano
Details a thinly disguised situation faced by a recent Harvard MBA graduate who was forced by a prospective employer to place a dollar value on a grant of stock options. There are two objectives: 1) Serves as an introduction to option valuation, in which students have...
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Tufano, Peter, and Michael Lewittes. "Sally Jameson: Valuing Stock Options in a Compensation Package." Harvard Business School Case 293-053, January 1993. (Revised August 2003.)
- October 1991 (Revised January 2000)
- Case
Workplace Safety at Alcoa (A)
By: Kim B. Clark and Joshua D. Margolis
Examines the challenge facing the managers of a large aluminum manufacturing plant in its drive to improve workplace safety. The CEO of the company has made safety a top priority. The plant has made good progress in reducing the injury rate, but now confronts the need...
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Keywords:
Working Conditions;
Safety;
Problems and Challenges;
Change Management;
Operations;
Resignation and Termination;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States
Clark, Kim B., and Joshua D. Margolis. "Workplace Safety at Alcoa (A)." Harvard Business School Case 692-042, October 1991. (Revised January 2000.)
- September 1991 (Revised January 1992)
- Case
Allegheny Ludlum: Research and Engineering Resource Allocation
By: Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Geoffrey K. Gill
Allegheny Ludlum's (AL) technical vice president, Jack Shilling faces the task of determining how to allocate engineering resources among five areas of technology. AL's technology organization has great strategic importance and has therefore been untouched by the...
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Keywords:
Engineering;
Resource Allocation;
Information Technology;
Policy;
Leadership;
Decisions;
Competency and Skills;
Projects;
Joint Ventures;
Strategy;
Electronics Industry;
Technology Industry
Leonard-Barton, Dorothy, and Geoffrey K. Gill. "Allegheny Ludlum: Research and Engineering Resource Allocation." Harvard Business School Case 692-027, September 1991. (Revised January 1992.)
- June 1991 (Revised April 1993)
- Case
General Electric: Jack Welch's Second Wave (A)
By the mid 1980's Jack Welch had completely transformed General Electric with more than 300 divestitures and acquisitions since the beginning of the decade. Welch insisted that his business units be number one or number two in their markets, and have the strength of...
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Keywords:
Business Conglomerates;
Transformation;
Employee Relationship Management;
Planning;
Corporate Strategy
Bartlett, Christopher A. "General Electric: Jack Welch's Second Wave (A)." Harvard Business School Case 391-248, June 1991. (Revised April 1993.)
- June 1991 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Becton Dickinson (D): Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling
By: Michael Beer
Describes a strategic human resource management process applied at the business unit and corporate level. The purpose of the process is to provide a means for aligning human resource management policies and practices with strategy and to hold managers accountable for...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Human Resources;
Business or Company Management;
Strategic Planning;
Corporate Strategy;
Health Industry
Beer, Michael. "Becton Dickinson (D): Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling." Harvard Business School Case 491-155, June 1991. (Revised March 1995.)
- June 1991 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Willow Creek Community Church (A)
Describes the historic evolution and current positioning of a Christian church which focuses on the attraction of "unchurched" individuals. Describes the church's strategic service vision and its current growth and leadership problems.
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Keywords:
Mission and Purpose;
Strategic Planning;
Social Enterprise;
Marketing Strategy;
Growth Management;
Religion;
Service Industry
Schlesinger, Leonard A. "Willow Creek Community Church (A)." Harvard Business School Case 691-102, June 1991. (Revised February 1999.)
- June 1991 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Becton Dickinson (C): Human Resource Function
By: Michael Beer
The new vice president of Human Resources (HR) for Becton Dickinson must develop a strategy to reconceptualize the HR function as mandated by the CEO who has introduced formal strategic planning procedures in the organization. The teaching objective is to understand...
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Beer, Michael. "Becton Dickinson (C): Human Resource Function." Harvard Business School Case 491-154, June 1991. (Revised March 1995.)
- 1991
- Article
How Management Bonus Plans Affect Reported Earnings
By: Paul M. Healy
Healy, Paul M. "How Management Bonus Plans Affect Reported Earnings." CPE Program Lesson 90-11. Accounting Today (1991).
- fall 1990
- Article
A Preface to Payment: Designing a Sales Compensation Plan
Cespedes, Frank V. "A Preface to Payment: Designing a Sales Compensation Plan." MIT Sloan Management Review 32, no. 1 (fall 1990): 59–69.
- April 1990 (Revised November 1992)
- Case
Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh (Abridged)
By: James E. Austin
Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an...
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Keywords:
Conferences;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Information Publishing;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Social Marketing;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Product;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Bangladesh;
Washington (state, US)
Austin, James E. "Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 590-061, April 1990. (Revised November 1992.)
- January 1990 (Revised March 1991)
- Case
American Red Cross Blood Services: Northeast Region
By: Robert L. Simons
Recounts the financial difficulties and management changes experienced by American Red Cross Blood Services: Northeast Region (NER) during the 1980s. After summarizing industry-wide changes in the collection, testing, and distribution of blood and blood products, the...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Financial Management;
Restructuring;
Health;
SWOT Analysis;
Social Enterprise;
Marketplace Matching;
Management Style;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Health Industry;
North and Central America
Simons, Robert L. "American Red Cross Blood Services: Northeast Region." Harvard Business School Case 190-078, January 1990. (Revised March 1991.)
- February 1989
- Background Note
Note on Attracting Stakeholders
By: Amar Bhide and Howard H. Stevenson
Acquiring resources--or to put it more broadly, attracting stakeholders--is a basic entrepreneurial task. While every enterprise needs employees, customers, suppliers, and financiers who are willing to risk their time and money, attracting these "stakeholders" to an...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Customers;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Human Resources;
Organizational Design;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Risk and Uncertainty
Bhide, Amar, and Howard H. Stevenson. "Note on Attracting Stakeholders." Harvard Business School Background Note 389-139, February 1989.
- 1989
- Book
Planning and Power in Iran: Ebtehaj and Economic Development under the Shah
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book provides a biography of Abol Hassan Ebtehaj, who headed Iran's central bank and Plan Organization during the 1940s and 1950s. It provides a wide-ranging survey of the problems of modernization and economic planning in Iran. Ebtehaj was at the center of...
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Keywords:
Crime and Corruption;
Decision Making;
Economics;
Central Banking;
Policy;
Political History;
Resignation and Termination;
Biography;
Books;
Surveys;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Planning;
Iran
Jones, Geoffrey. Planning and Power in Iran: Ebtehaj and Economic Development under the Shah. London: Frank Cass, 1989.