Publications

August 2005
Supplement

Moneyball (B): Do You Get What You Pay For?

By: Frances X. Frei, Dennis Campbell and Eliot Sherman

Keywords: Sports; Sports Industry

August 2005 (Revised April 2006)
Case

Kemps LLC: Introducing Time-Driven ABC

Kemps is making a strategy shift: from being focused on fulfilling customer requests to becoming the best cost dairy producer in the industry. Its existing manufacturing cost system, however, fails to capture the costs associated with handling special flavors, small... View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Customer Relationship Management; Cost Accounting; Managerial Roles; Cost Management; Earnings Management; Business Strategy; Time Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Decisions; Food and Beverage Industry

July 2005
Case

Leading Anadarko

By: Nitin Nohria, Krishna G. Palepu and David Lane

Describes the challenges facing Jim Hackett, the newly appointed CEO of Anadarko Petroleum, an independent oil and gas exploration company. In addition to strategic and organizational issues, Hackett must address concerns about proper disclosure of the company's oil... View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Strategy; Organizations; Corporate Disclosure; Problems and Challenges; Mining Industry; Energy Industry

Article

Accounting Standards and the Globalisation of Indian Businesses

By: Gregory S. Miller and V.G. Narayanan

Keywords: Standards; Globalization; Business Ventures; India

July – August 2005
Article

Designing High-Performance Jobs

By: Robert Simons

Keywords: Performance; Jobs and Positions; Design

2005
Book

Levers of Organization Design: How Managers Use Accountability Systems for Greater Performance and Commitment

By: R. Simons

Keywords: Organizations; Design; Management; System; Performance

June 2005
Teaching Note

Midwest Office Products (TN)

Teaching Note to (9-104-073). View Details

Keywords: Computer Industry; Service Industry

June 2005
Teaching Note

Accounting Fraud at WorldCom (TN)

Teaching Note to (9-104-071). View Details

Keywords: Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Accounting; Crime and Corruption; Governing and Advisory Boards; Telecommunications Industry

June 2005 (Revised September 2005)
Case

Accounting at MacCloud Winery

By: David F. Hawkins, Robert S. Kaplan and Gregory S. Miller

Uses a fictional new winery to introduce accounting concepts and practices such as assets, liabilities, expenses, the matching principle, and contingent activities. Designed to approach the subject at a conceptual level, allowing class discussion to focus on the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; Theory; Accounting

June 2005 (Revised March 2017)
Teaching Note

Siebel Systems: Organizing for the Customer

By: Robert Simons

Teaching Note to (103-014). The Siebel Systems case describes the unusual accountability and organizing choices made by managers of a successful, rapidly growing software development company. The case is set in 2002, but details the critical decisions made by founder... View Details

Keywords: Management Control Systems; Execution; Organization Design; Structure; Job Design; Diagnostic Control Systems; Customers; Strategy; Organizational Design

June 2005 (Revised March 2006)
Case

Domestic Auto Parts

Describes a meeting of an executive team to discuss strategy for a company turnaround. The exercise is to construct a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard to capture the new strategy. View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Strategy; Business Strategy

June 2005
Article

How the Balanced Scorecard Complements the McKinsey 7-S Model

By: R. S. Kaplan

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard

June 2005
Article

Strategies That Fit Emerging Markets

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Jayant Sinha

Keywords: Strategy; Emerging Markets

2005
Chapter

The Evolution of Concentrated Ownership in India: Broad Patterns and a History of the Indian Software Industry

By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu

Keywords: History; Ownership; Information Technology Industry; India

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April 2005 (Revised May 2005)
Case

Executive Compensation at General Electric (A)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Michele Jurgens

Faced with falling share prices and the critical eye of the media focused on Jack Welch's retirement plan, newly appointed CEO Jeff Immelt had the challenge of reassessing GE as a leader of corporate integrity and good governance. Presents the changes Immelt initiated... View Details

Keywords: Executive Compensation; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Governing and Advisory Boards; Media; Governance; Corporate Accountability

April 2005 (Revised May 2005)
Supplement

Executive Compensation at General Electric (B)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Michele Jurgens

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Executive Compensation; Electronics Industry

2005
Working Paper

Creating the Office of Strategy Management

By: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton

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March 2005
Case

Henkel Iberica (A)

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem

In 2002, Esteban Garriga, customer service director at Henkel Iberica, questions whether Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) would help manage retail promotions and limit their impact on the stock-outs and obsolete inventory. Describes the... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Forecasting and Prediction; Price; Distribution Channels; Strategic Planning; Commercialization; Valuation; Rail Industry; Germany; Spain

March 2005
Supplement

Henkel Iberica (B)

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Rail Industry; Germany; Spain