Anne Mulcahy: Leading Xerox Through the Perfect Storm (A)
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Cross-functional management
Jim Sharpe: Extrusion Technology, Inc. (A)
Jim Sharpe, 11 years after receiving his MBA from Harvard and working for others, is finally his own boss and 100% owner of a manufacturer of aluminum extrusion profiles. After 10 months of unfunded search, he acquires the company in an LBO and prepares to face his employees on the first day.
Intermountain Health Care
Intermountain Health Care (IHC), a Utah-based comprehensive care system, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care. The approach focuses management attention not only on the facilities where care is performed, but also on the physician’s decision-making and the care process itself, with the aim of increasing the productivity of physicians and the quality …
Seeking Alpha in the Afterlife: CMG Life Services and the Life Settlement Industry
CMG Life Services’ work provides insight into the life settlement industry and shows the difficulties a young company faces in solving a market failure. This case takes advantage of CMG’s strategic dilemma to shed light on the mechanics of a small, inefficient market and how the success or failure of a market can sometimes hinge …
Financing the Mozal Project
It’s June 1997 and a team from International Finance Corp. (IFC) recommends that the board approve a $ 120 million investment in a $ 1.4 billion aluminum smelter in Mozambique, known as Project Mozal. Four factors make the investment controversial: it would be the largest IFC investment in the world, the total investment is almost …
The Whiz Kids
In October 1945, at his Ford Motor Company office in Dearborn, Michigan, Henry Ford II received a telegram from Charles “Tex” Thornton, a colonel in the United States Air Force. The telegram gave Ford the opportunity to employ a statistical control system that had been developed and successfully applied in the management of the Army …
Transforming Verizon: A Platform for Change
A new CEO is following in the footsteps of his long-term predecessor, who created the US telecommunications giant through a series of acquisitions and initiated the company’s strategic repositioning before leaving. The new CEO reflects on Verizon’s recent accomplishments, some of which he led, and how the team could continue to meet new challenges. He …
HgCapital and the Visma Transaction (B-2): Oystein Moan
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Asea Brown Boveri (Condensed)
The merger of Asea AB and BBC Brown Boveri required the restructuring of operations and the change of organizational cultures. Competitive success also required the advantages of size for political reasons and for reasons of customer orientation, while remaining “local”. The case describes this competitive pressure, which led to the decision in favor of a …
The Case of the Unidentified Industries – 2013
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