Publications

January 1993 (Revised April 1993)
Case

Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard

The pharmaceutical division of a diversified company has been asked to develop a Balanced Scorecard. Research and development projects take about ten years to bring a new product to the marketplace and the division depends on good relations and active feedback from its... View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Performance Evaluation; Customer Relationship Management; Goals and Objectives; Customer Satisfaction; Research and Development; Marketplace Matching; Financial Condition; Product Launch; Pharmaceutical Industry

Educators

November 1992 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Euclid Engineering

Keywords: Engineering

April 2010
Module Note

Balancing Specialization and Diversification in Operations

This note describes a module—taught as part of Operations Strategy, a second–year MBA elective at Harvard Business School—that helps students understand and manage the tradeoff between specialization and diversification in operations. The module introduces students to... View Details

Keywords: Operations; Diversification; Organizational Design; Curriculum and Courses

April 2010 (Revised July 2010)
Teaching Note

JetBlue Airways: Managing Growth (TN)

Teaching Note for [609046]. View Details

Keywords: Growth Management; Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry

December 2009 (Revised April 2010)
Teaching Note

GlaxoSmithKline: Reorganizing Drug Discovery (TN) (A) and (B)

Teaching Note for [605074] and [605075]. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Health; Pharmaceutical Industry

September 1990 (Revised May 1999)
Teaching Note

Texas Eastman Co., Teaching Note

Teaching Note for (9-190-039). View Details

Keywords: Texas

November – December 2009
Article

Risk Management and the Strategy Execution System

Keywords: Risk Management; Strategy; System

October 1973
Article

Variable and Self-Service Costs in Reciprocal Allocation Models

Keywords: Cost

April 2006 (Revised November 2020)
Background Note

Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

Introduces the role for time-driven activity-based costing. Identifies the value from an accurate costing model, describes the difficulties of traditional ABC, and illustrates how time-driven ABC provides a simpler and more powerful method. View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Value

Educators

June 2005
Teaching Note

Midwest Office Products (TN)

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

Keywords: Computer Industry; Service Industry

January 2005
Tutorial

Buying Time

Managers must frequently make decisions involving trade-offs between cash flows to be paid or received at different points in time. Accountants, in turn, must describe transactions that involve the payment and/or receipt of cash far in the future. This interactive... View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Value; Interest Rates; Financial Statements

June 2004
Teaching Note

First Commonwealth Financial Corporation (TN)

Teaching Note to (9-104-042). View Details

Keywords: Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Pennsylvania

spring 1973
Article

A Stochastic Model for Auditing

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Accounting Audits

July 1988 (Revised January 1989)
Case

Mueller-Lehmkuhl GmbH (Abridged)

November 2002 (Revised August 2003)
Case

MedSource Technologies

Considers the issues facing Richard Effress, MedSource's chairman and CEO, as the firm approaches the Precision Cut project--the first test of MedSource's capabilities as an integrated, contract manufacturer in the medical device industry. MedSource Technologies was... View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Production; Mergers and Acquisitions; Product Design; Supply Chain Management; Management Teams; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

Educators

April 2002
Teaching Note

Anagene, Inc. TN

Teaching Note for (9-102-030). View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Public Ownership; Sales; Production; Forecasting and Prediction; Volume; Governing and Advisory Boards; Cost Accounting; Business or Company Management; Financial Reporting; Strategy; Performance Capacity; Biotechnology Industry

January 1988
Teaching Note

Ingersoll Milling Machine Co., Teaching Note

Keywords: Teaching; Information

October 2001
Exercise

Liability Problems

This case provides three examples of the recognition and measurement of liabilities. The first focuses on recognizing when employees have rendered services for which future period benefits have been earned, that is, whether unused vacation, sick, and personal days at... View Details

Keywords: Cash; Annuities; Interest Rates; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Wages; Problems and Challenges; Value