This book takes an entirely new look at how companies ought to be managed. It argues that managers need to focus on how corporate decisions affect the firm's cash. The author, who is well known in the fields of management and crisis management, suggests that companies that follow the paradigm presented in the book are more likely to survive tumultuous times, provide higher returns to their investors, and have a conducive work environment.

A case study of a company that exemplified the 80s.

A helpful tool for business students studying turnaround management and corporate renewal.
"A Casebook on Corporate Renewal "spans a variety of business areas relevant to corporate renewal and turnaround management. Corporate renewal, as a topic taught and discussed in business schools, has surged in the past decade. The cases in this book were selected to cover the knowledge and skills needed by successful turnaround managers, including ethical and legal issues; developing a plan of reorganization; and defining problems and their solutions, including strategic, financial, and operating issues.
The cases challenge students to actively engage in the decision-making process in order to learn how corporate renewal is practiced in real business settings. The Casebook is meant to accompany the second edition of "Principles of Corporate Renewal" by Harlan D. Platt, but it can be adopted separately or used with other management textbooks.
Harlan D. Platt and Marjorie B. Platt are professors of business at Northeastern University in Boston.

Unintended consequences affect people's lives, happiness, and fortunes. They arise from every action and decision. This provocative book presents many unintended consequences and ultimately explains how their impact can be reduced. Chapters in this fascinating book describe unintended consequences caused by governments, people, science, technology, companies, and medicine. Readers learn how unintended consequences can be controlled. The world will never be free of them. However, it is possible to control the biggest perpetrator of the most damaging unintended consequences - the government. Discussions of unintended consequences are well documented, informative and written in a comfortable style. This is a book that will be read, reread, and shared with others.

Platt (finance, Northeastern U.) chronicles the growth, decline, and restructuring of oil and gas company Texas International Inc. in the 1980s and the criminal involvement of Drexel Lambert investment house banker, Michael Milken. To draw lessons from this case, the author interviews a fund manager

A Casebook on Corporate Renewal spans a variety of business areas relevant to corporate renewal and turnaround management. Corporate renewal, as a topic taught and discussed in business schools, has surged in the past decade. The cases in this book were selected to cover the knowledge and skills needed by successful turnaround managers, including ethical and legal issues; developing a plan of reorganization; and defining problems and their solutions, including strategic, financial, and operating issues. The cases challenge students to actively engage in the decision-making process in order to learn how corporate renewal is practiced in real business settings. The Casebook is meant to accompany the third edition of Principles of Corporate Renewal by Harlan D. Platt, but it can be adopted separately or used with other management textbooks.