AT&T Consumer Products Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

Describes the factors, AT & T Consumer Products managers consider in deciding whether to find a new factory at the answering machine in the U.S., Asia and Mexico. Describes in depth restructuring of AT & T in the 1980s, the competition faced by its consumer products division, foreign manufacturing unit strategy, the Mexican economy, and the country macquilodora program. Encourages students to analyze where the company and the executive responsibilities lie in the creation of complex plant placement decisions related to operations overseas, and in making decisions regarding wages, benefits, bribery, gender employment, waste management, etc. operating in developing countries. "Hide
by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr., Wilda L. White Source: Harvard Business School 27 pages. Publication Date: March 12, 1992. Prod. #: 392108-PDF-ENG

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