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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Coney Island Prep Connecticut Office of the Governor Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Detroit Economic Growth Corporation Dillard University Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Endeavor Global Environmental Defense Fund Equal Justice...
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Partners - Case Method Project
Boquiren Preuss School La Jolla, CA Subjects: AP U.S. History, Western Civilization and Culture CA 6 of 65 Steven Chai Bakersfield Christian High School Bakersfield, CA Subjects: AP US History, AP US Government CA 7 of 65 Sabrina Chase...
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- March 2001 (Revised August 2003)
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Wilkerson Company
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The president of Wilkerson, faced with declining profits, is struggling to understand why the company is encountering severe price competition on one product line while able to raise prices without competitive response on another product line. The controller proposes...
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Keywords:
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Competition;
Profit;
Product;
Consumer Products Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Wilkerson Company." Harvard Business School Case 101-092, March 2001. (Revised August 2003.)
- January 2003 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Zipcar: Refining the Business Model
By: Myra M. Hart, Michael J. Roberts and Julia Stevens
Zipcar is a start-up organized around the idea of "sharing" car usage via a membership organization. This case describes several iterations of the Zipcar business model and financial plan. These iterations include a very early version and a version developed just prior...
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Keywords:
Service Operations;
Renting or Rental;
Business Model;
Business Plan;
Entrepreneurship;
Economic Growth;
Management Skills;
Transportation;
Business Startups;
Financial Strategy;
Corporate Finance;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Transportation Industry;
Service Industry
Hart, Myra M., Michael J. Roberts, and Julia Stevens. "Zipcar: Refining the Business Model." Harvard Business School Case 803-096, January 2003. (Revised May 2005.)
- May 2022
- Article
Variance Analysis: New Insights from Health Care Applications
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Susanna Gallani
We use a health care application to illustrate how variance analysis can be used to benchmark costs across similar service delivery sites. Variances for personnel costs, typically the largest cost component in service organizations, are calculated for price, quantity,...
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Keywords:
Variance Analysis;
Benchmarking;
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing;
Health Care;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Service Delivery;
Service Industry
Kaplan, Robert S., and Susanna Gallani. "Variance Analysis: New Insights from Health Care Applications." Issues in Accounting Education 37, no. 2 (May 2022): 27–36.
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Reimagining the Balanced Scorecard for the ESG Era
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David McMillan
Companies are increasingly aware that their customers and society in general expect businesses to adopt and work towards social and environmental objectives as well as the traditional financial ones. This involves not only re-evaluating firms’ models but re-imagining...
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Keywords:
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Business Ecosystems;
Balanced Scorecard;
Adaptation;
Business Model;
Business and Stakeholder Relations
Kaplan, Robert S., and David McMillan. "Reimagining the Balanced Scorecard for the ESG Era." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (February 3, 2021).
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
High School New Haven, CT Subjects: US History, Government and Politics, AP Government and Politics MD Steven Bellizzi Annapolis High School Annapolis, MD Subjects: AP US Government MA Don Benson Weston High School Weston, MA Subjects: AP...
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
policy agenda for free and open source software , Report, Brookings Institution, 2022. Census II of Free and Open Source Software – Application Libraries , Report, The Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative, 2022. With James Dana, Jennifer Hoffman, View Details
- 06 Jan 2015
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Fostering discussion in the MBA classroom
Robert Steven Kaplan (MBA 1983), a former HBS professor who now serves as president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, has a passion for teaching that inspires his...
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Dean LeBaron | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content HBS Entrepreneurs Collection Profiles About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Search Paul Baier PurchasingCenter.com/Excara Frank Batten Weather Channel Steven B. Belkin Trans National Group (TNG) Hakeem...
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- 1984
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Restoring our Competitive Edge: Competing Through Manufacturing
By: Robert H. Hayes and Steven C. Wheelwright
Hayes, Robert H., and Steven C. Wheelwright. Restoring our Competitive Edge: Competing Through Manufacturing. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1984.
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Past Issues - Alumni
Goldberg and Visiting Lecturer Michael Kaufman Prognosis Professor Robert S. Huckman and Peter Slavin, president of Massachusetts General Hospital, on how the pandemic will transform the delivery of care Homeschooled Senior Lecturer John...
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- 2015
- Working Paper
What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?
By: Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
We survey 79 private equity investors with combined assets under management (AUM) of over $750 billion about their practices in firm valuation, capital structure, governance, and value creation. Investors rely primarily on internal rate of return (IRR) and multiples to...
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Keywords:
Governance;
Value Creation;
Private Equity;
Capital Structure;
Valuation;
Management Practices and Processes
Gompers, Paul A., Steven N. Kaplan, and Vladimir Mukharlyamov. "What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-081, April 2015.
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
and Valuation Using Financial Statements Joseph Pacelli Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under General Management and Organizational Behavior) Robert Simons Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0...
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- 1998
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Advanced Management Accounting
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anthony A. Atkinson
Kaplan, Robert S., and Anthony A. Atkinson. Advanced Management Accounting. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.
- April 1998 (Revised September 1998)
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Classic Pen Company, The: Developing an ABC Model
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Classic Pen has diversified from its core blue and black pen business by introducing new specialized colors. But costs have risen and margins on blue and black pens are decreasing. The controller turns to activity-based costing (ABC) for an explanation.
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Kaplan, Robert S. "Classic Pen Company, The: Developing an ABC Model." Harvard Business School Case 198-117, April 1998. (Revised September 1998.)
- November 2018
- Case
Swissgrid: Enterprise Risk Management in a Digital Age
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes
Kurt Meyer, chief risk officer of Swissgrid, the Swiss national electricity transmission system operator, reflects on the risk management system he installed after the deregulation and liberalization of the European energy market. With 41 connections to other European...
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Keywords:
Enterprise Risk Management;
Energy Transmission;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Risk Management;
Energy;
Energy Industry;
Utilities Industry;
Switzerland
Kaplan, Robert S., and Anette Mikes. "Swissgrid: Enterprise Risk Management in a Digital Age." Harvard Business School Case 119-045, November 2018.
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
Downstream Emissions By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna July–August 2024 | Article | Harvard Business Review An increasing number of companies are using the E-liability carbon-accounting method as an...
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
(MD/MBA 2022) Sajad Mousavi Social Enterprise Track Crowd Favorite Offering AI-based analysis of cardiac arrhythmias to expedite clinical decision making. Alumni Track, 2022 fleetzero Steven Henderson (MBA 2016) Alumni Track Winner Ocean...
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Events - Business History
Presentations by Justene Hill Edwards (University of Virginia), Bronwen Everill (Cambridge University), Leigh Gardner (LSE), Nicholas Radburn (Lancaster), Carolyn Roberts (Yale), Klas Rönnbäck (Gothenburg), Anne Ruderman (LSE), Filipa...
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