This note on warfare summarizes treatises by Chinese (e.g., Sun Tzu, The Art of War, ca. 500 BC) and Japanese (e.g., Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, 1643 AD) warriors, reviews their philosophies and leadership lessons, and offers modern applications.ExcerptUVA-S-0304Rev. Nov. 7,...

This case follows BP-0546, which is designed to allow two integration teams, each representing one of two different companies, to construct a joint post-acquisition-integration plan. The confidential background about one of the companies is provided in this case for one of the teams. BP-0547...

This case follows BP-0546, which is designed to allow two integration teams, each representing one of two very different companies, to construct a joint post-acquisition-integration plan. Some of the issues addressed by BP-0456 included (1) organization of Schuler, (2) staffing of management...

The night before she assumes her new role as vice chairman of Rodale Press, Maria Rodale prepares her "coming-out" speech and polishes her 90-day plan for how she will "make her mark." Recent financials indicate positive results, causing Maria to wonder how she will be able to imbue the firm...

The Bosco chairman realizes that Bosco and Zeta have different work cultures and to make the integration a success, it was imperative to create a new unique identity for the new company Bosco-Zeta Pharma. He decides that the goal is to retain the best elements of the existing social capital from...

The integration team had planned and implemented the changes. The two goals to maintain momentum and keep the core value of Golden West operations in place were accomplished. From the time the deal was announced, Wachovia and Golden West had been cross-selling each other's products. Much time...

Having taken over as first CEO of Lucent, Henry Schact enrolls COO Rich McGinn as a partner in transforming the former Bell Labs and Western Electric into a high-growth, high-tech stock market star. The case traces Schact's fist nine months' activities in launching and transforming the new...

The case is intended for use with Lucent Technologies (A), which ends with Henry Schacht about to meet with Rich McGinn, his newly-appointed COO, who had hoped to get the CEO position. In the B case, Schact opens the meeting with McGinn with a promise to turn the CEO job to him quickly. Rather...

Archived 9/11/03 at author's request.This note is a worksheet to guide the student or manager through an exercise in forecasting general political, social, economic, demographic, and technological trends