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...

This note is a brief description of various organizational-structure alternatives appropriate to different business strategies. It complements "Organization Structure" (OB-0361) in that it relates design decisions to strategy and to organizational evolution