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  • April 1998 (Revised May 2000)
  • Case

Guidant Corporation: Shaping Culture Through Systems

By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
Guidant is a successful IPO start-up selling pacemakers and defibrillators. The case describes how managers install systems to balance innovation and control. Three parts of a shareholder value strategy are described. Controls include incentive systems, beliefs... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Planning; Risk Management; Management Systems; Business Strategy; Value Creation; System; Service Industry; Financial Services Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • March 1998 (Revised April 1998)
  • Case

Lehigh Steel

By: V.G. Narayanan and Laura Donohue
Lehigh Steel is a specialty steel manufacturer that plummeted from record profits to record losses in less than three years, driven by an inability to distinguish between profitable and unprofitable business. The scale and growth of service activities and overhead... View Details
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Product; Cost; Activity Based Costing and Management; Profit; Accounting; Corporate Finance; Steel Industry
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  • March 1998
  • Teaching Note

Chemical Bank: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard TN

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Kenneth A. Merchant
Teaching Note for (9-195-210). (Not listed on case). View Details
Keywords: Banking Industry
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  • March 1998
  • Teaching Note

Del Norte Paper Co. (A) TN

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Kenneth A. Merchant
Teaching Note for (9-177-034). View Details
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  • March 1998
  • Teaching Note

Incident at Waco Manufacturing, The TN

By: Kenneth A. Merchant and Krishna G. Palepu
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Manufacturing Industry
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  • March 1998
  • Teaching Note

McMullen and Worby (A) (Abridged) TN

By: Kenneth A. Merchant and Krishna G. Palepu
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  • March 1998
  • Teaching Note

Provigo, Inc. TN

By: Kenneth A. Merchant and Krishna G. Palepu
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  • March 1998
  • Teaching Note

Roy Rogers Restaurants TN

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Kenneth A. Merchant
Teaching Note for (9-189-100). View Details
Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry
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  • March 1998
  • Teaching Note

Shell Brasil S.A.: Performance Evaluation in the Oil Products Division TN

By: Kenneth A. Merchant and Krishna G. Palepu
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Energy Industry
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  • March 1998 (Revised October 2015)
  • Case

Hamptonshire Express

By: V. G. Narayanan and Ananth Raman
Presents a series of problems that face a newspaper publisher, including inventory level, effort level, subsidy for unsold inventory, and commission for sales. Each problem is accompanied by one or more spreadsheets. Students must make various operational decisions. View Details
Keywords: Marketing Channels; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Decision Making; Sales; Demand and Consumers; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; United States
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  • February 1998 (Revised September 1998)
  • Case

Insteel Wire Products: ABM at Andrews

By: V.G. Narayanan and Ratna G. Sarkar
Insteel implements an activity-based costing (ABC) system in 1996. It finds pallet nails to be its most profitable product and decides to expand the number of cells making pallet nails from two to four. A repeat of the ABC study in 1997 shows pallet nails have become... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Expansion; Resource Allocation; Activity Based Costing and Management
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  • February 1998 (Revised April 2003)
  • Teaching Note

Colorscope, Inc. TN

By: V.G. Narayanan
Teaching Note for (9-197-040). View Details
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  • February 1998 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

House of Tata, 1995: The Next Generation (A)

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Danielle Melito Wu
The Tata Group began the 1990s as a confederation of loosely coupled firms. This case considers the rise to prominence of the new CEO of Tata Group, Ratan Tata, and his attempts to strengthen the inter-relationships among the group companies at a time when critics... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Business Conglomerates; Organizations; Corporate Strategy; Consolidation; Business Strategy; Alignment; Consumer Products Industry; Service Industry
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  • January 1998 (Revised July 2019)
  • Case

Cafes Monte Bianco: Building a Profit Plan

By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
Alert: This case has been revised since its original publication; all amounts have been converted to euros and the dates have been updated to 2020. If you’ve taught with this case in the past, please note that changes may affect teaching plans and classroom use. Using... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Cash Flow; Investment Return; Profit; Financial Statements; Food and Beverage Industry; Italy
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  • January 1998
  • Teaching Note

Chemical Bank TN

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-195-210). View Details
Keywords: Banking Industry
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  • 1998
  • Book

Advanced Management Accounting

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anthony A. Atkinson
Keywords: Management; Cost Accounting
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  • 1998
  • Book

Understanding Costs

By: W. J. Bruns Jr., R. S. Kaplan, R. Cooper, A. Schleifer Jr. and Donella Marie Rapier
Keywords: Cost
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  • 1998
  • Book

Cost and Effect: Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits
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  • January – February 1998
  • Article

How High Is Your Return on Management?

By: R. Simons and Antonio Davila
Keywords: Management
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  • 1998
  • Article

Innovation Action Research: Creating New Management Theory and Practice

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Research; Management; Theory; Practice
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