Lockheed Aircraft Corporation: case studies in management
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Authors
Cox, Landon G., Jr.
Subjects
Lockheed
Management
JetStar
Management
JetStar
Advisors
Darbyshire, Leslie
Date of Issue
1974-06
Date
June 1974
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
The Lockheed Aircraft Corporation emerged from World War II a financially sound organization enjoying a reputation as one of the leading U.S. manufacturers of military and civilian aircraft. However, by 1971 Lockheed had amassed debts of over $700 million and claimed it would be forced into bankruptcy unless federal loan guarantees were granted to its creditors. This paper consists of three independent case studies intended for use In the Management curriculum at the Naval Postgraduate School. The cases lend themselves to utilization in courses devoted to general management but have generally financial overtones. Information for writing the cases was obtained from periodicals in the public domain which were published during the period relevant to each case. For this reason, some of the financial figures may be in error in the light of information published at a later date. No attempt was made by the author to reconcile any such errors in financial data. Rather, the estimates made of losses, costs and profit are those which were published in the public domain at the time of the case.
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Department of Operations Research and Administrative Sciences
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.