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Competition and Cost Accounting

By: V.G. Narayanan and Michael Smith

The central theme of Competition and Cost Accounting is that strategic considerations may make it desirable for a firm to have divisions and product managers internalize something other than their true costs. In the case of transfer prices, a high transfer price... View Details

Keywords: Cost Allocation; Transfer Pricing; Decentralization; Bertrand And Cournot Competition; Cost Accounting

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examining several options for expansion and growth. International Hopital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners in Health in Haiti The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery Teaching Cases, Vol. 1 Robert S. Kaplan, Bipin Mistry View Details

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outcomes for every patient. January 2018 HBS Case Collection Medtronic: Navigating a Shifting Healthcare Landscape by Robert S. Kaplan, Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley and Alee Hernandez Medtronic is adapting its strategy to changes... View Details

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A Strategic Rationale for Having Overconfident Managers, 2004

We analyze whether it might be desirable for a firm to hire an overconfident manager for strategic reasons. We analyze a tournament type version of Bertrand competition and a linear demand Cournot model. In each case there is an R&D stage where firms can invest in cost... View Details

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Ten new MBAs have taken positions with nonprofit and public-sector organizations with the help of the School’s Leadership Fellows program. Now in its sixth year, the program provides fellows with one-year appointments at a View Details

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