In my strategic management course in the MBA program, I came across Dow
Corning's case on the silicone breast implants. Obviously, it appears that
the management had failed to correctly assess or predict the impact of the
silicone implants to the recepients as well as the magnitude of the
liability. Although Dow Corning was seemingly sophisticated in its
organizational skills, matrix/multi-dimensional structure was featured in
HBR, I am uncertain whether they are some kind of LO. Could the problem,
unprecedented liability settlement todate, have been avoided? Could LO
help in the strategies developed after the crisis, to control costs and
avoid a recurrence?
-- Thanks and regards to all. Arsenio Roldan III Office of the Director of Accounting Services University of California at Berkeley 433 University Hall, MS# 1100 TEL:(510)643-2465 | FAX:(510)643-7628 EMAIL:roldan@uclink.berkeley.edu