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- July 1989 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
Kanthal (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Multinational company needs an improved cost system to determine the profitability of individual customer orders. Its strategy is to have significant sales and profitability growth without adding additional administrative and support people. The new cost system... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Earnings Management; Cost Management; Financial Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Business or Company Management; Customer Relationship Management; Sales; Business Strategy; Profit; Electronics Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Kanthal (A)." Harvard Business School Case 190-002, July 1989. (Revised April 2001.)
- May 1989
- Teaching Note
MRC, Inc. (Consolidated), Teaching Note
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-277-123). View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry
- May 1989
- Teaching Note
Tektronix: Portable Instruments Division (B), Teaching Note
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-188-143). View Details
- April 1989 (Revised January 1990)
- Case
Texas Instruments: Cost of Quality (B)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
A division questions whether to retain, modify, or abandon its cost of quality system now that more direct measures of quality have been adopted. Discusses the role of quality cost measurement in a mature quality management system. View Details
Kaplan, Robert S. "Texas Instruments: Cost of Quality (B)." Harvard Business School Case 189-111, April 1989. (Revised January 1990.)
- April 1989
- Teaching Note
Texas Instruments: Cost of Quality (A) and (B), Teaching Note
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-189-029) and (9-189-111). View Details
Keywords: Texas
- March 1989 (Revised March 1999)
- Case
Metabo GmbH & Co. KG
By: Robert S. Kaplan
A privately owned German power tool company was dissatisfied with its existing cost system. The system could not produce timely accurate reports on cost center operations, and newly purchased automated machines were attracting large overhead costs. A new, highly... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost; Budgets and Budgeting; Capital Budgeting; Cost Management; Reports; Private Ownership; Business or Company Management; Consumer Products Industry; Germany
Kaplan, Robert S. "Metabo GmbH & Co. KG." Harvard Business School Case 189-146, March 1989. (Revised March 1999.)
- March 1989
- Article
Connecting the Research-Teaching-Practice Triangle
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert S. "Connecting the Research-Teaching-Practice Triangle." Accounting Horizons (March 1989): 129–132.
- November 1988
- Teaching Note
American Bank, Teaching Note
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-187-194). View Details
- 1988
- Chapter
Originality in Management Accounting Systems: Field Studies of the Processes
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert S. "Originality in Management Accounting Systems: Field Studies of the Processes." In New Directions in Creative and Innovative Management, edited by Y. Ijiri and R. L. Kuhn, 103–114. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1988.
- September–October 1988
- Article
Measure Costs Right: Make the Right Decisions
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Cooper, Robin, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Measure Costs Right: Make the Right Decisions." Harvard Business Review 66, no. 5 (September–October 1988): 96–103.
- August 1988 (Revised November 1988)
- Case
Texas Instruments: Cost of Quality (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Texas Instruments implements a Cost of Quality (COQ) system as part of a company-wide "Total Quality Thrust." After several years of operation, group management questions whether or not the COQ system should be updated to make it more useful in identifying areas for... View Details
Kaplan, Robert S. "Texas Instruments: Cost of Quality (A)." Harvard Business School Case 189-029, August 1988. (Revised November 1988.)
- July 1988 (Revised January 1989)
- Case
Mueller-Lehmkuhl GmbH (Abridged)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert S. "Mueller-Lehmkuhl GmbH (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 189-008, July 1988. (Revised January 1989.)
- July 1988 (Revised January 1989)
- Case
Wilmington Tap and Die (Abridged)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Industrial Products Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Wilmington Tap and Die (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 189-032, July 1988. (Revised January 1989.)
- Article
Management by Accounting is Not Management Accounting
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert S. "Management by Accounting is Not Management Accounting." Forum. CFO 4, no. 7 (July 1988).
- January–February 1988
- Article
One Cost System Isn't Enough
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert S. "One Cost System Isn't Enough." Harvard Business Review 66, no. 1 (January–February 1988): 61–66.
- December 1987 (Revised May 1999)
- Teaching Note
John Deere Component Works (A) and (B), Teaching Note
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-187-107) and (9-187-108). View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry
- 1987
- Book
Accounting and Management: Field Study Perspectives
By: Robert S. Kaplan and William J. Bruns
Kaplan, Robert S. and William J. Bruns, eds. Accounting and Management: Field Study Perspectives. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987.