This case presents information regarding the store’s financial position, environmental constraints, and retailing mix, and may focus on promotion, financial analysis, or retail planning.
Source: Submitted by author and selected for use by Pinnacle Editorial Board. Copyright 1989.
Courses: Advertising; Marketing; Retail Management
Topics: Advertising; Business Policy/Strategy; Marketing; Retail Management
Describes 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.
Source: Harvard Business School. Copyright 1983, Revised 1986.
Courses: Business Policy/Strategy; Management; Organizational Behavior
Topics: Business Policy/Strategy; Decentralization; Organizational Culture
The main issue has to do with the 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 the forced solution.
Source: Harvard Business School. Copyright 1983, Revised 1986.
Courses: Business Policy/Strategy; Management
Topics: Business Policy/Strategy; Channels; Decentralization; Management of Change; Organizational Culture
This case describes the evolution of Johnsonville Sausage through a generation of management and from a small operation to a large concern of more than 500 employees.
Source: Harvard Business School. Copyright 1986.
Courses: Entrepreneurship; Organizational Behavior
Topics: Entrepreneurship; Food Processing Industry; Organizational Development; Organizational Structure