WHAT IS THE U.S. MILITARY TO DO NOW THAT THE SOVIET ENEMY IS GONE? THIS AUTHOR MAKES SOME CONCRETE SUGGESTIONS FOR A dual-use military that would combat external threats like nuclear and biological warfare but, at the same time, help develop struggling nations, provide disaster relief, and deal with inner-city problems.
Only a few years ago we were saying that the “management of change” is the biggest challenge organizational leaders face.
A Fortune “500” company uses discounted cash flow analysis to evaluate investment proposals. The company used the same discount rate from 1973 to 1986.
Organizations increasingly rely on information technology (IT) both to perform their day-today operations and as a source of new products and services.
Italian firms made massive organizational changes during the 1980s with great success. American business scholars have attributed these successes to the propitious conjunction of technological and market factors, the virtues of flexible specialization, and the peculiarities of Italian industrial organization.1
Two very different ways of thinking about investment and risk are headed for a showdown. One emphasizes the financial risk of investing; the other concerns the competitive risk of not investing.
On 19 April 1775, British troops (Redcoats) marched toward Concord, Massachusetts, to destroy military stores that had been collected by the American revolutionaries (Minutemen). At Lexington Green, a large, flat, open area, the Redcoats met the Minutemen in the first battle of the day.
Three professionals — an architect, an accountant, and a human resource professional —were contemplating a profound existential question. What, besides the obvious, was the oldest profession?The architect spoke first: “God created the world in six days, and that took a master design. So, obviously, architecture is the oldest profession.&
About two decades ago, business academics told managers that when it came to organization design, one size did not fit all. Different companies, facing different business demands, needed different kinds of organizations.