Management Mistakes and Successes 9e
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Bob Hartley is Professor Emeritus at Cleveland State University's College of Business Administration. There he taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in management, marketing, and ethics. Prior to that he was at the University of Minnesota and George Washington University. His MBA and Ph.D. are from the University of Minnesota, with a BBA from Drake University.

Before coming into academia, he spent 13 years in retailing with the predecessor of Kmart (S. S. Kresge). J.C. Penney, and Dayton-Hudson and its Target Subsidiary. Positions held included store management, central busying, and merchandise management.

His first textbook, Marketing: Management and Social Change, was published in 1972. It was ahead of its time in introducing social and environmental issues to the study of marketing, Other books, Marketing Fundamentals, Retailing, Sales Management , and Marketing Research, followed.

In 1976, the first Marketing Mistakes book was published, and it brought a new approach to case studies, making them student-friendly and more relevant to career approach to case studies, making them student-friendly and more relevant to career enhancement than existing books. In 1983, Management Mistakes was published. These books are now in the tenth and ninth editions respectively, and have been widely translated. In 1992, Professor Hartley wrote Business Ethics: Violations of the Public Trusts, and Business Ethics Mistakes and Successes was published in 2005. He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.

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Chapter 1  Introduction.

Part I  Managing Ebbing Performance and Crisis.

Chapter 2  Tough Love -- Dunlap's Approach to Troubled Companies.

Chapter 3  Perrier -- Overreacting to a Crisis.

Chapter 4  Ford Explorers with Firestone Tires:  Ill-Handling a Killer Scenario.

Part II Great Comebacks.

Chapter 5  Continental Air -- Salvaging From the Ashes.

Chapter 6  Harley-Davidson -- A Long-Overdue Revival.

Chapter 7  IBM -- A Fading Giant Rejuvenates.

Part III  Merger Pitfalls.

Chapter 8  Snapple:  Quaker's Reckless Acquisition.

Chapter 9  Newell's Acquisition of Rubbermaid Becomes an Albatross.

Chapter 10  DaimlerChrysler -- Blatant Misrepresentation.

Part IV   Planning.

Chapter 11 Euro Disney -- Bungling a Successful Format.

Chapter 12 Boeing -- Losing, Then Regaining, Dominance vs. Airbus.

Chapter 13 Vanguard -- Success in Taking the Road Less Traveled.

Chapter 14  A Hedge Fund Manager Finds Opportunity in Two Faltering Firms -- Kmart and Sears.

Part V  Leadership and Execution.

Chapter 15  Hewlett-Packard Under Carly Fiorina, and After Her.

Chapter 16  Wal-Mart -- A Tottering Giant.

Chapter 17  Southwest Airlines:  "Try to Match Our Prices".

Chapter 18  Herman Miller:  A Beleagured Role Model in Leadership.

Part VI  Controlling.

Chapter 19  UnitedWay -- A Not-for-Profit Also Needs Controls and Oversight.

Chapter 20  Maytag -- Incredibly Loose Supervision Over a Foreign Subsidiary.

Chapter 21  MetLife -- Poorly Controlled Sales Practices.

Part VII  Entrepreneurial Adventures.

Chapter 22  Boston Beer:  Is Greater Growth Possible?

Chapter 23  OfficeMax -- To the End.

Chapter 24  Gateway Computer's Efforts to Stay Alive.

Chapter 25 Conclusions -- What Can Be Learned?

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