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Reference no. 9-301-020
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Joseph L Bower
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2018
Version: 17 August 2018
Revision date: 07-Sep-2018
Length: 4 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Change management; Hiring; Hiring & employment; Incentives; Management; Organizational change; Organizational design; Organizational structure; Personal transformations; Profit centers; Profitability; Recruitment; Transformations
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Abstract

A new general manager uses a profit-center-based system to shake up an old line company. He then faces the task of placating a board member upset by the human consequences. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
Location:
United States
Industries:
Human resources; Retail trade
Size:
USD2 billion revenues
Other setting(s):
1995
Compact case
Case
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Reference no. 9-309-S24
Spanish language
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Joseph L Bower
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2000
Version: 19 December 2002
Revision date: 11-Apr-2019
Length: 4 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Change management; Hiring; Hiring & employment; Incentives; Management; Organizational change; Organizational design; Organizational structure; Personal transformations; Profit centers; Profitability; Recruitment; Transformations
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Compact case
Supplement
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Reference no. 9-301-021
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Joseph L Bower
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2018
Version: 17 August 2018
Revision date: 12-Sep-2018
Length: 2 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Profit centers; Organizational change; Organizational design; Change management; Incentives
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Compact case
Supplement
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Reference no. 9-301-022
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Joseph L Bower
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2000
Version: 23 August 2000
Length: 2 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Profit centers; Organizational change; Organizational design; Change management; Incentives
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Abstract

A new general manager uses a profit-center-based system to shake up an old line company. He then faces the task of placating a board member upset by the human consequences. A rewritten version of an earlier case.

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Location:
United States
Industries:
Human resources; Retail trade
Size:
USD2 billion revenues
Other setting(s):
1995

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Reference no. 9-309-S24
Spanish language
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Joseph L Bower
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2000
Version: 19 December 2002
Revision date: 11-Apr-2019
Length: 4 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Change management; Hiring; Hiring & employment; Incentives; Management; Organizational change; Organizational design; Organizational structure; Personal transformations; Profit centers; Profitability; Recruitment; Transformations
View full details
Compact case
Supplement
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Reference no. 9-301-021
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Joseph L Bower
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2018
Version: 17 August 2018
Revision date: 12-Sep-2018
Length: 2 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Profit centers; Organizational change; Organizational design; Change management; Incentives
View full details
Compact case
Supplement
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Reference no. 9-301-022
Subject category: Strategy and General Management
Authors: Joseph L Bower
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 2000
Version: 23 August 2000
Length: 2 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
Topics: Profit centers; Organizational change; Organizational design; Change management; Incentives
View full details