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Case
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Reference no. 9-183-058
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: Neil C Churchill (INSEAD); Edmund M Goodhue (Harvard Business School); Kenneth A Merchant (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 1982
Version: 28 January 1988
Length: 32 pages
Data source: Field research
Topics: Aircraft; Control systems; Decentralization; Entrepreneurship; Information systems; Management accounting; Profit centers
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Abstract

Two young and inexperienced MBAs buy a virtually bankrupt company. They design a decentralized control system organized around profit centers. The teaching purpose is to discuss design issues, control of independent profit centers, and details about decentralized control.
Location:
Texas
Industry:
Aircraft sales and service
Size:
Small, USD1 million sales
Other setting(s):
1971-1972
Teaching note
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Reference no. 5-183-059
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: Kenneth A Merchant (Harvard Business School); Neil C Churchill (Harvard Business School); Edmund M Goodhue (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 1982
Version: 16 August 1982
Length: 9 pages
Data source: Field research
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Abstract

Two young and inexperienced MBAs buy a virtually bankrupt company. They design a decentralized control system organized around profit centers. The teaching purpose is to discuss design issues, control of independent profit centers, and details about decentralized control.

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Location:
Texas
Industry:
Aircraft sales and service
Size:
Small, USD1 million sales
Other setting(s):
1971-1972

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Teaching note
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Reference no. 5-183-059
Subject category: Finance, Accounting and Control
Authors: Kenneth A Merchant (Harvard Business School); Neil C Churchill (Harvard Business School); Edmund M Goodhue (Harvard Business School)
Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Originally published in: 1982
Version: 16 August 1982
Length: 9 pages
Data source: Field research
View full details