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

By February 2002, it was apparent that, by all metrics, Tata Tea's acquisition of Tetley was not going well. Tetley's failure to meet the required cash-flow targets and the high debt burden forced Tata Tea to make some changes. The B case highlights some of the steps taken by the newly appointed...

Cisco Systems' relentless pace of acquisitions between 1993 and 2000 ground to a halt in 2001: Cisco bought only two businesses that year. By September 2002, it had acquired Hammerhead Networks and Navarro Networks for $258 million in stock, and planned to buy Andiamo Systems for up to $2.5...

In the B case, students discover the organizational structure chosen for the combined companies and learn that the leadership has changed since the announcement. Eleven days after the announcement of the acquisition of Sundstrand by Hamilton Standard, Raymond Kurlak of Hamilton stepped down and...

The F case discusses Tom Stark's meeting with Shilo's chairman and the reorganization of OSIM Group management that followed. See also the A, B, C, D, E, and G cases (UVA-BP-0399 through UVA-BP-0403 and UVA-BP-0405)

This case follows the A case (UVA-BP-0253) by three years, chronicling the indigestion Dollar General suffers after the acquisition of the Eagle Store chain. The Dollar General organization, originally held together by a strong sense of quot;rural Americanquot; values, deteriorates because of...