Senior managers AES Corp, an independent power producer, must decide whether to drop the company's emphasis on corporate values and rebuild organizational management to report investment analysts and external consultants. The company is recovering from the incident environmental fraud at one of its plants, where decentralized innovative "honeycomb" structure was put in place. Some believe that the structure is too decentralized, and that the lack of supervision contributed to the incident. "Hide
by Lynn Sharp Paine, Sarah Mavrinac Source: Harvard Business School 28 pages. Publication Date: December 9, 1994. Prod. #: 395132-PDF-ENG
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