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Case | HBS Case Collection | December 1980 (Revised February 1981)

Allied Stores Corp. (B)

by Milton P. Brown and Jay W. Lorsch

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Keywords: Retail Industry;

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Brown, Milton P., and Jay W. Lorsch. "Allied Stores Corp. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 381-087, December 1980. (Revised February 1981.)

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Jay W. Lorsch
Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations
Organizational Behavior

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