Robert Burgelman
1985
Started as a small computer company in 1957, Control Data had by 1983 become a $4.6 billion company of mainframe computers, computer services, computer peripherals, and financial services. One of the few companies to diversify away from mainframes during…
Macon Finley, J Michael Harrison
1984
Hewlett-Packard (HP) was founded in 1939 by William Hewlett and David Packard, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. The company developed, manufactured, and marketed precision electronic equipment. In 1983 HP had 30 plants and 200 sales offices…
Robert Burgelman
1983
In January 1977, Daniel Burns, the newly appointed Director of Gamma Corporation’s New Venture Division, was preparing for a meeting with Dr. Franz Korbin, the new business development manager. Burns had asked Korbin to come to the meeting with…
E. Abell, C. Johnson
1978
Andrea Frazzini;Lasse Heje Pedersen;David Kabiller
1975
Here is the abstract.
Myra Strober
1974
This case deals with the efforts of the Peabody Soap Company to effect affirmative action/equal employment opportunities for women and its problems in doing so. Specifically, it deals with the resignation, and the reasons for that resignation, of the…
Charles Bonini
1972
Football Concessions had the franchise to sell ice cream, soft drinks, hot dogs, etc., at Stanford University home football games. This was a profitable operation since crowds could be estimated reasonably accurately and the right amount of food purchased…
Charles Holloway
1969
Process design describes the efforts made by an organization to identify and establish the most efficient method of producing the valuable output which it offers for sale or use. In manufacturing situations, it extends from the design of an assembly…
Charles Holloway
1969
It is the purpose of this note to introduce and define the subject
of operations management, and to discuss the relationship between
it and the other areas which collectively provide the expertise of an
efficient organization.
Adler, S. Wheelwright
1969
Robert Wilson
1965
A simple example of a production planning problem amenable to analysis using linear programming.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Jack Valenti, long time Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Motion Picture Association, was renowned for his shaping of the American film and television industry around the world. Born and raised in Texas, Valenti served in the Army Air Corps in…
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Part I: Being An Effective Leader (2005)
Laura Esserman, a surgeon and faculty member at the University of California at San Francisco, is engaged in a major effort to change the delivery of breast cancer services and the information systems used to…
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Laura Esserman, a surgeon and faculty member at the University of California at San Francisco, is engaged in a major effort to change the delivery of breast cancer services and the information systems used to support both research and patient care. In…
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Rudy Crew, former chancellor of New York public schools and current Miami-Dade County school superintendent, speaks about his experience as NYC chancellor. Crew discusses viewing NYC as made of many small pieces in order to make the change, breaking…
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Rudy Crew, former chancellor of New York public schools and current Miami-Dade County school superintendent, speaks about his path to power, what drives him, and his views of leadership. He discusses his choice to be the voice for urban schooling and his…
Jeffrey Pfeffer
Rudy Crew, former chancellor of New York public schools and current Miami-Dade County school superintendent, talks about his views on conflict. Crew discusses his strategy of “make peace but be prepared for war” and the importance of both establishing a…
Ilya Strebulaev, Theresia Gouw Ranzatta, David Hoyt
When entrepreneurs are successful in convincing venture capital firms that they are an attractive potential investment, they are presented with offers detailing many terms of the investment agreement. These are described in term sheets. Sorting through…