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    Saab’s Questionable Turnaround Practice

    A short drive through the landscape of turnaround efforts conducted by Saab’s top management in order to face the challenges of a troubled economy, mysterious strategies and a secret balance sheet.

    The once so proud Swedish company Saab filed for bankruptcy this month and is faced with very little support from its stakeholders. That was once different, in Saab’s early years, the automobile producer was able to gain and maintain a loyal customer base of clients looking for a car that is special, a car that one cannot see on every street corner and a car that distinguishes itself from its competitors, not only by a unique design, but also by innovation and love to detail. Originating out of a company that has produced airplanes, Saab was the only company …

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Featured Authors

Viktor Becher, MA, PhD Candidate

Viktor Becher has studied Applied Linguistics, English and Phonetics in Hamburg ("Magister Artium"). He is currently working on the project ...

Alessa Witt, PhD-Candidate

Alessa Witt has studied Business Administration at the Munich Business School in Germany as well as Economics & Ethics. Her ...

Christoph Lymbersky, MAcc, MBA, PhD Candidate

Christoph Lymbersky has lived, worked and done research in Germany, France, Australia and the United States. He holds a Master ...

Dipl.-Kfm. Carsten Ovens, MIB

Carsten Ovens has lived, studied, and worked in Australia, Germany and the United Arab Emirates. With a strong background in ...

Strategic Management

Lessons from Japan

In 1978 my company was invited to create a management development programme for one of Honda’s overseas subsidiaries, so I set out to learn about the Honda culture. My job was to embed the core culture of Honda into a training and development programme that fitted into the local culture. I found it a fascinating [...]

New Articles

Interview with Christoph Lymbersky

Interviewed 8th July, 2010 by Samantha Heys from Entrepreneurial Spirits
Mr. Lymbersky is director of the Turnaround Management Society

Mr. Lymbersky, thank you for taking the time for this interview. I know you are very busy and have a flight in two hours, therefore let me get right to the point: You are quite young [...]

Change Management

Transformational Leadership Theory – By Attila the Hun – How NOT to Apply It to Change Management

Transformational leadership theory is all about leadership that creates positive change in thefollowers whereby they take care of each other’s interests and act in the interests of the group as a whole. James MacGregor Burns first brought the concept of transformational leadership to prominence in his book Leadership [1978]:
“Essentially the leader’s task is consciousness-raising on a wide plane. The [...]

Finance & Accounting

Online Lecture about Financial Markets

In cooperation with YALE the Turnaround Management Society and the Management Laboratory offer you this online course which is very helpful for the CFMP (Certified Financial Markets Practitioner) Certification, but you can of course, also watch it for free if you are simply interested in financial markets. You will find everything that is discussed in [...]