Business Horizons articles from September 1994

Business Horizons archives from September 1994

Is business ethics an oxymoron? (Editorial) (Cover Story)
September 1, 1994... Is "business ethics" an oxymoron? Are doing business and being ethical so contradictory that it is impossible to be both an effective business manager and an ethical individual? No doubt many--perhaps most--would answer "yes" to both these...

Sleeping with the enemy: doing business with a competitor.
September 1, 1994... Imagine having to call one of your fiercest competitors to order parts critically needed for one of your products. This is the situation in which IBM finds itself with Intel. Despite IBM's decision to manufacture its own microprocessor chips,...

Teams and TQM. (total quality management) (includes related articles)
September 1, 1994... At a place most North Americans can't locate on a world map, on the other side of the world from us, just north of the equator, lies Kuala Lumpur, a bustling city of 1.2 million people. In the city streets one can hear a variety of languages,...

Gagging on chaos. (innovation in large corporations)
September 1, 1994... In his recent bestseller, Thriving on Chaos (1989), Tom Peters decries the lack of product innovation in the typical North American corporation. There is good reason for Peters and the rest of us to be concerned, if not alarmed: Innovation is...

Vision: how leaders develop it, share it, and sustain it. (includes related articles)
September 1, 1994... Although the concept of vision is highly topical, not one in 20 corporations has what could pass as a vision statement inside or outside the company. Fewer than one in 100 has a vision statement that has been effectively communicated to its...

The myth of the forever leader: organizational recovery from broken leadership.
September 1, 1994... Consider the arrival of your company's CEO. How did the press react? What did stockholders and insiders expect? How was he or she received by the work force and executive team? Were the firm's expectations rub filled? How long did the CEO stay...

Flextime: myth or reality? (fewer corporations offer flexible working programs than media suggests)
September 1, 1994... Managing the balance of work and family is of continued interest to employers and employees alike. Recent research suggests that this issue is no longer just a women's issue. Men's attitudes are becoming more like women's in that they too are...

Measuring global practices: global strategic planning through company situational analysis. (includes diagnostic questionnaire)
September 1, 1994... According to Peter Drucker (1989), within five years there will be two kinds of managers--those who think in terms of a world economy and those who are unemployed. The trend toward globalization is now widely recognized, and customers, not...

The six shopping worlds of baby boomers. (spending habits)
September 1, 1994... Baby boomers have dominated American culture for nearly five decades. Likened by demographers to a pig moving through a python, boomers account for one-third of Americans80.6 million of the 250 million U.S. residents. They are the children born...

Evaluating the performance of venture capital investments.
September 1, 1994... One of the most successful investment advisers in the United States was recently asked his "formula" for successful investing. After a moment's thought, he replied, "Buy low, sell high." Venture capitalists strive for a target return for a...

Focusing the factory: eight lessons. (includes related article)
September 1, 1994... In 1982, management at the Copeland Corporation contemplated shutting down its noncompetitive manufacturing plant in Sidney, Ohio. The plant manufactured compressors for commercial and residential refrigeration and air conditioning products and...