The Bosco chairman realizes that Bosco and Zeta have different work cultures and to make the integration a success, it was imperative to create a new unique identity for the new company Bosco-Zeta Pharma. He decides that the goal is to retain the best elements of the existing social capital from...

The integration team had planned and implemented the changes. The two goals to maintain momentum and keep the core value of Golden West operations in place were accomplished. From the time the deal was announced, Wachovia and Golden West had been cross-selling each other's products. Much time...

Having taken over as first CEO of Lucent, Henry Schact enrolls COO Rich McGinn as a partner in transforming the former Bell Labs and Western Electric into a high-growth, high-tech stock market star. The case traces Schact's fist nine months' activities in launching and transforming the new...

The case is intended for use with Lucent Technologies (A), which ends with Henry Schacht about to meet with Rich McGinn, his newly-appointed COO, who had hoped to get the CEO position. In the B case, Schact opens the meeting with McGinn with a promise to turn the CEO job to him quickly. Rather...

Archived 9/11/03 at author's request.This note is a worksheet to guide the student or manager through an exercise in forecasting general political, social, economic, demographic, and technological trends

This note is a brief description of various organizational-structure alternatives appropriate to different business strategies. It complements "Organization Structure" (OB-0361) in that it relates design decisions to strategy and to organizational evolution

The C case describes Tom Stark's state of mind after his meeting with the OSIM Group's chairman of the board. See also the A, B, D, E, F, and G cases (UVA-BP-0399, UVA-BP-0400, and UVA-BP-0402 through UVA-BP-0405)