Howard Feldman

• University of Portland

Case description This case features a county planning director as he approves or turns down a permit application for the Harvest Wind Farm Project, located in Klickitat County on the Columbia Plateau in Washington State. The utilities involved and Klickitat County stood to benefit through new revenue generation and a favorable federal construction...

This article attempts to examine the role of management capabilities and their relationship with the form of growth chosen by high-growth businesses using a resource based view perspective. The results of the analysis show that when selecting the type of strategy to achieve high growth, not all the capabilities of management are important. In order...

This book has been a long time in the making from the initial conception of the idea many years ago, through the planning, and finally, the implementation. During that period of time, the unflagging optimism of George Vozikis has kept us going. To a great extent, this book reflects George's passion for this project. We have been privileged to share...

This article synthesizes previous research on the interaction between product and production process, and the impact of that interaction on the evolution of strategic response. This interaction has major implications for the competitiveness and productivity of the firm. The authors identify characteristics of the interaction that allow a more compl...

John Caldwell, president of Kio-Tek (KT), presents his company's business plan to a group of 30 venture capitalists at the November 2001 annual meeting of the Portland Venture Group. John's presentation is included in the case as an exhibit. The case begins with a brief overview of the meeting and John's presentation. The body of the case describes...

Starting an actual business is difficult to do in most entrepreneurship classes. Thus educators must find ways to model the entrepreneurial process. Total enterprise simulations can play a role in the entrepreneurship classroom by adding value to conventional methods of instruction. For example, students can practice more complex skills and higher...

“Living dead” investments represent the middle ground of venture capital investing outcomes, lying between “winners” that produce adequate multiples of return on investment and “losers” that result in loss of invested funds. Living dead investments are typically mid- to later-stage ventures that are economically self-sustaining, but that fail to ac...

In the last few years bipartisan support for legalizing drugs has grown to a surprising level. Because of the lack of involvement of the business community in this debate, we surveyed the human resource managers of 127 firms about their perceptions of the effects of legalization. Their responses were uniformly negative, with expectations that drug...

The medical practice is by definition a business, albeit a business that is guided by a unique set of professional and ethical standards. Within those standards, there is a legitimate - and critical - role for entrepreneurial activities. By providing a more contemporary definition of entrepreneurism as the creation of social as well as economic val...

This article discusses the major issues surrounding the teaching of business ethics and reports on a study conducted on business school sophomores and seniors. On the one hand, the results showed little change over time in students' attitudes towards corporate social responsibility and suggest that a specific course in business ethics has minimal i...

127 human resource managers completed questionnaires on the extent of the drug problem in their workplaces and the policies and practices their companies used to deal with this problem. Ss estimated that 14% of their employees were drug users. The average estimate of the percentage of drug use on the job was 6%, and the average estimate of employee...

As entrepreneurship courses become more popular, an increasing number of institutions are turning to practising entrepreneurs as a source of classroom instructors. Bringing such people into the classroom, however, generates an entirely new set of questions for a college and its faculty. Four issues that schools should consider in attempting to recr...

Senior production managers are placed in a network of relationships which both influence and are influenced by the responsibilities of their jobs. The results are reported of a study of the difficulties of the relationship demands imposed by the job requirements of 16 senior production managers. In addition, similarities and differences among their...

Little is known about the actual job activities of the individual in charge of an organization's production function. This role has changed dramatically in recent years, and with these changes the successful operation of a manufacturing department has become increasingly difficult. This study attempts to provide the reader with a better understandi...

Periodically the management science profession prognosticates about its importance to management and its future. Also periodically, critics become outspoken about management science's lack of relevance to management. Just as major innovation typically comes from outside an industry, so are the threats to the management science profession coming fro...

Past empirical research in manufacturing strategy has resulted in relatively few substantive findings. One of the reasons may be in the way that the strategy concept is defined at the outset. This paper proposes a research methodology developed by Henry Mintzberg be used in the study of this concept. Mintzberg's methodology overcomes past problems...

Typescript (photocopy). Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 1983. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 289-294).