Business Horizons articles from September 1999

Business Horizons archives from September 1999

The Editor's Chair.(failure management)(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... "To be successful as a relief pitcher," suggested Braves announcer (and former starting pitcher) Don Sutton, "you need to have good stuff and a bad memory." Sutton made this comment as Atlanta closer Mark Wohlers made his way to the mound in...

EXECUTIVE BRIEFING: FAMILY BUSINESS SUCCESSION PLANNING.
September 1, 1999... Family businesses are a vital part of the American economy. Since our nation's founding, companies that began as entrepreneurial ventures have developed into some of the largest corporations in the world, including Ford, IBM, and Microsoft....

Creating the Boundaryless Organization.(innovations in business management)
September 1, 1999... What makes a company great? For most of the twentieth century, the factors that drove success were size, role clarity, specialization, and control. The larger a company was, the more efficiencies it was able to attain, the greater its ability...

The American Quest for Quality.
September 1, 1999... Twenty years ago, industry in America and Europe was taking a beating from the competition of Japanese defect-free products, which could not be matched. Western autos and trucks, construction equipment, industrial machinery, and consumer...

HH&A: How Leaders Learn From Failure.(hubris, hamartia, and anagnorisis)
September 1, 1999... The survival of an enterprise depends on the ability of its leaders to shape its destiny. When an organization flounders, the CEO is the one most likely to receive the lion's share of the blame. Stockholders start to analyze the failure, often...

Different Service Firms, Different Core Competencies.
September 1, 1999... Businesses in the growing service industry cannot and must not all be managed or treated alike. This model describes four types. Service businesses are dominating most industrialized economies, but without a satisfactory way to describe the...

At the Crossroads of Distribution Reform: China's Recent Ban on Direct Selling.
September 1, 1999... The gradual liberalization of China's distribution system since the adoption of its open-door policy in late 1978 has introduced a new dynamism to the country and reshaped the channel structure of its domestic market. New players, particularly...

Dog Strategies in the Transition Economies.(Eastern Europe)
September 1, 1999... Much is at stake for Eastern Europe and other former Soviet bloc countries as they make the difficult transition to a free market. To help provide a window on the process, BH is collaborating with the Management Development Centre at the...

Yield Management: Filling Buckets, Papering the House.
September 1, 1999... Many years ago, one of my foreign students told me he would be going home to Europe as soon as exams were finished later that day. When I asked him what airline he would take, he said he wouldn't know until just minutes before departure. He...

Financial Management and Planning with the Product Life Cycle Concept.
September 1, 1999... Modern firms are confronted with intensifying global competition, rapidly evolving technology, rising costs, and mercurial customer preferences. Demands for risk reduction, quality improvement, efficiency, and continued growth have greatly...

virtual@virtual.org.(outsourcing and temping in today's workplace)
September 1, 1999... Two phenomena are becoming more and more commonplace in today's business environment: outsourcing (virtual organizations) and temping (virtual workers). Outsourcing, as defined by Quinn and Hilmer (1994), is "the purchase of a good or service...

Arthur Yeung.(human resource professional)
September 1, 1999... "All my experiences reinforce my belief that one must 'define or be defined. 'I also deeply believe that I cannot say 'impossible' until I have proven it to be so. Many so-called career obstacles are self-imposed or socially assumed." -...

Management Challenges for the 21st Century.(Review)
September 1, 1999... The reviewer, Stuart Rosenberg, is an adjunct professor of business at Dowling College, Oakdale, New York. Peter Drucker is arguably the most important writer on management of our time. He is the Marie Rankin Clarke Professor of Social...

Reverse Marketing in Asia: A Korean Experience.
September 1, 1999... A buyer that takes an active role in leading, guiding, and convincing its suppliers to develop new capabilities and manufacture new parts is practicing a form of supplier development known as reverse marketing, according to Leenders and...