Journal of Business Strategy articles from May 1994

Journal of Business Strategy archives from May 1994

Living the law of the jungle. (corporate success through cooperative team work) (Business Policy)
May 1, 1994... In a Washington Post column, Secretary of Labor Robert Reich wrote that he had found an excellent indicator of companies with good prospects. If the employees said, "we" are introducing a new production system, the innovation was likely to...

Finding your strategic heartbeat. (Corporate Strategies)
May 1, 1994... What makes a company pursue the products, customers, market segments, and geographic areas that it. does? The answer is the Most important element of planning--it's the strategic heartbeat. The problem is that few executives can put their finger...

In the company of thieves. (white collar crime)(includes related article) (Cover Story)
May 1, 1994... IN NOVEMBER 1989, RONALD W. SKEDDLE, chief executive of Libbey-Owens-Ford Co., stood before a group of financial executives and delivered a sobering speech about business ethics. Four years later, he was standing before his own board members...

Uncovering hidden costs. (includes related articles) (Cost Reduction)
May 1, 1994... Paper costs represent a whopping 2% to 4% of corporate revenues, reports Comvestrix, a computer output and distribution service in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. What's more, predicts Joel Carton, Comvestrix CEO, There's going to be an explosion of...

General Electric works it all out. (Cost Reduction: Case Study)
May 1, 1994... IN 1991, GENERAL ELECTRIC'S AIRCRAFT ENGINES PLANT IN LYNN, Massachussets, needed new protective shields for its grinding machines. No problem, right? Find some outside vendor to do the job and pay the price. But that didn't happen. The...

Learned responses. (executive education)(includes related article and samples of executive programs)
May 1, 1994... SEVERAL YEARS AGO, BOB PRESCOTT WAS DRIVEN TO THE SIDE of Shaker's Creek in a rugged park in the middle of Pennsylvania's Happy Valley region and told to figure out a way to get to the other side. The then-human resources director for Bell...

Tricks in the trade. (business executives with a passion for magic) (Out-of-Pocket)
May 1, 1994... Give Gene Anderson a newspaper and he probably won't head for the business section or the op-ed page. Instead, the senior project manager at Dow Chemical Co. is more likely to snip it into little squares and then--presto!--restore it to...