CISR Working Paper Series: Recent submissions

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    • Plenia Locatel Group: Globalizing from Venezuela 

      Gibson, Cyrus; Levy, Ari (Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA, 2009-05-01)
      In 2009 the founders and top executives of Plenia Locatel Group, a retail business in Venezuela specializing in health care products and services, were planning a global expansion of the business. Founded by two close ...

    • Developing a Common Language About IT Risk Management 

      Westerman, George; Hunter, Richard (Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA, 2009-06-01)
      Although IT risks can have wide-ranging business consequences, few executives feel comfortable discussing IT risk management. It doesn’t have to be this way. Executive-level tradeoffs around IT risk are managerial, not ...

    • EMC Corporation: Managing IT M&A Integrations to Enable Profitable Growth by Acquisitions 

      Tanriverdi, Hüseyin; Du, Kui (Alfred P. Sloan School of Management; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2011-08-01)
      EMC Corporation is one of the fastest profitably growing public companies in the United States. It pursues both organic and acquisitive growth. Between 2005 and 2010, it acquired over 50 companies. EMC used to be a vendor ...