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Johnson & Johnson (A) (Spanish version)
Aguilar, Francis J.; Bhambri, ArvindCase HBS-307S16StrategyDescribes the Johnson & Johnson culture and the corporate systems, structures, and procedures which reflect and promote it. The principal teaching objectives are to gain an understanding of the impact a strong culture can have on strategic decisions and to consider how such cultures might be managed. This case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of...Starting at €8.20
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Hospital Services (Spanish version)
Aguilar, Francis J.; Bhambri, ArvindCase HBS-307S17StrategyThe main issue has to do with the lack of fit or incompatibility between the early environmental requirements for strategy and the cultural constraints on the organization. Describes the internal resistance to the proposed changes and top management's efforts to resolve the contradictory requirements of strategy and culture. A second major issue concerns the challenge facing a general manager who has been given responsibility for operationalizing...Starting at €8.20
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Planning and Control System (Spanish version)
Simons, Robert L.Case HBS-109S05Accounting and ControlDetailed description of the planning and control systems in use at Johnson & Johnson. Focuses on the actions of managers in one subsidiary in revising budget targets. Illustrates intensive strategic planning and financial planning process in a large, decentralized company. Includes interviews with the president and senior executives concerning benefits of the system. Raises issue of the role of formal control systems in decentralized organization...Starting at €8.20
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Nestle Breakfast Cereal (A & B)
J. Peter KillingCase IVEY-9A93M006-EStrategyGeneral Mills and Nestle were meeting to discuss the possibility of cooperation between the two companies in the breakfast cereal business. Executives from General Mills were arriving in a week's time and an executive vice-president at Nestle was charged with preparing a briefing on General Mills before their arrival. The executive vice-president had recently decided that Nestle should consider taking a partner in the breakfast cereal business an...Starting at €8.20
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Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corp. (Spanish version)
Reinhardt, Forest L.; Mandelli, Monica; Burns, JenniferCase HBS-708S37EconomicsChevron Corp., headquartered in San Francisco, manages a worldwide, vertically integrated value chain from the oil well to the gasoline station. Mishandling of oil at any stage of production can damage the natural environment, human health, corporate profitability, or all three. But at the same time Chevron needs to be prudent about the amount of money it spends on measures to manage these risks, and environmental programs within the firm can con...Starting at €8.20
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Airtex Aviation (Spanish version)
Hall, Brian J.; Madigan, CarleenCase HBS-804S03Accounting and ControlTwo young and inexperienced MBAs buy a virtually bankrupt company. They design a decentralized control system organized around profit centers. As a case in control systems, there is ample detail for a discussion of design issues, control of independent profit centers, and details about decentralized control. A rewritten version of an earlier case.Starting at €8.20
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Who Needs Budgets (Spanish version)
Hope, Jeremy; Fraser, RobinArticle HBS-R0302JAccounting and ControlBudgeting, as most corporations practice it, should be abolished. Most other building blocks are in place, but companies continue to restrict themselves by relying on inflexible budget processes and the command-and-control culture that budgeting entails. A number of companies have rejected the foregone conclusions embedded in budgets, and they've given up the self-interested wrangling over what the data indicate. In the absence of budgets, altern...Starting at €8.20
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Rotate the Core (Spanish version)
Stalk, George , Jr.Article HBS-F0503CBy rotating key executives through headquarters, companies can keep corporate lean but still hold sway over the units, says BCG Senior VP George Stalk, Jr.Starting at €8.20
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Procter & Gamble: Organization 2005 (A)
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Spadini, Alessandro L.Case HBS-707519-EStrategyIn response to a huge crisis in 2000, the new CEO of Procter & Gamble has to decide whether to continue with an unusual organizational design or to revert to the old matrix organization. Describes all the organizational designs used by Procter & Gamble from the 1920s onward, including geographic, product, and matrix architectures. Market development organizations, global business units, and global business services unit, each of which is heavily ...Starting at €8.20
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Organization 2005 (A) (Spanish version)
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Spadini, Alessandro L.Case HBS-710S05StrategyIn response to a huge crisis in 2000, the new CEO of Procter & Gamble has to decide whether to continue with an unusual organizational design or to revert to the old matrix organization. Describes all the organizational designs used by Procter & Gamble from the 1920s onward, including geographic, product, and matrix architectures. Market development organizations, global business units, and global business services unit, each of which is heavily ...Starting at €8.20