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      • February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
      • Case

      Microsoft Latin America

      By: Robert S. Kaplan, Alberto Ballve and Antonio Davila
      Mauricio Santillan, regional vice president for the Latin American division of Microsoft, has introduced a new performance measurement system to help his country managers formulate and control strategy. Microsoft Latin America's priorities are rolling out of an... View Details
      Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Applications and Software; Emerging Markets; Crime and Corruption; Motivation and Incentives; Management Skills; Global Strategy; Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Latin America
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      Kaplan, Robert S., Alberto Ballve, and Antonio Davila. "Microsoft Latin America." Harvard Business School Case 100-040, February 2000. (Revised August 2000.)
      • January 2000 (Revised October 2002)
      • Case

      Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network - The Primary Care Unit

      By: V.G. Narayanan, Lisa Brem and Ryan Moore
      The Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network needed to gain a better understanding of its unit-of-service costs, which had been rising at a rate of 10% per year. The network's step-down costing system gave only aggregate costing information, and there was some... View Details
      Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Accounting; Cost; Network Effects; Health Industry; Service Industry; Massachusetts
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      Narayanan, V.G., Lisa Brem, and Ryan Moore. "Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network - The Primary Care Unit." Harvard Business School Case 100-054, January 2000. (Revised October 2002.)
      • December 1999 (Revised September 2004)
      • Case

      Hermes Systems

      By: Michael L. Tushman and Daniel Radov
      Covers the history of Hermes, a large telecommunications and network equipment company, as it grows from a single business firm to a diversified firm from 1980-95. Examines the use of entrepreneurial subsidiaries for product development and fast growth. Other issues... View Details
      Keywords: History; Leadership; Business Subsidiaries; Diversification; Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Divisions; Problems and Challenges; Product Development; Technology Industry
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      Tushman, Michael L., and Daniel Radov. "Hermes Systems." Harvard Business School Case 400-056, December 1999. (Revised September 2004.)
      • August 1999 (Revised February 2000)
      • Case

      Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)

      By: Steven C. Wheelwright, Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest and Christian G. Kasper
      Describes the procedures and processes used by Cisco Systems in its acquisition of high-technology firms. Its goal is to retain key engineering talent and to leverage existing product development efforts, but to quickly merge acquired companies its own systems and... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Leveraged Buyouts; Acquisition; Integration; Mergers and Acquisitions; Production; Activity Based Costing and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; England
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      Wheelwright, Steven C., Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest, and Christian G. Kasper. "Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 600-015, August 1999. (Revised February 2000.)
      • June 1999 (Revised May 2017)
      • Teaching Note

      Guidant Corporation: Shaping Culture Through Systems

      By: Robert Simons and Antonio Dávila
      Teaching Note for (9-198-076). View Details
      Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Risk And Uncertainty; Service Industry; Financial Services Industry
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      Simons, Robert, and Antonio Dávila. "Guidant Corporation: Shaping Culture Through Systems." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 199-056, June 1999. (Revised May 2017.)
      • March 1999 (Revised April 2017)
      • Teaching Note

      Citibank: Performance Evaluation

      By: Robert Simons and Antonio Dávila
      Teaching Note for (9-198-048). View Details
      Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Performance Measures; Performance Evaluation; Balanced Scorecard; Banking Industry
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      Simons, Robert, and Antonio Dávila. "Citibank: Performance Evaluation." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 199-047, March 1999. (Revised April 2017.)
      • January 1999
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      State Street Corporation: Leading with Information Technology (B)

      By: Stephen P. Bradley and Kelley Porter
      With Multi-currency HORIZON, a real-time multi-currency accounting system that replaced the traditional batch-oriented single-currency accounting system, successfully launched, State Street Corp. (State Street) began to focus on growing the scope of its business... View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Trends; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry
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      Bradley, Stephen P., and Kelley Porter. "State Street Corporation: Leading with Information Technology (B)." Harvard Business School Case 799-034, January 1999.
      • December 1998
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      Cash Management Practices in Small Companies

      By: H. Kent Bowen, Andrew R. Jassy, Laurence E. Katz, Kevin E. Kelly and Baltej Kochar
      Most small business managers claim that cash management is their leading concern. Often walking a tightrope between growth and illiquidity, small business managers face different cash management challenges than their counterparts in larger companies. Compared to larger... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Working Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Cash; Forecasting and Prediction; Policy; Business Strategy
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      Bowen, H. Kent, Andrew R. Jassy, Laurence E. Katz, Kevin E. Kelly, and Baltej Kochar. "Cash Management Practices in Small Companies." Harvard Business School Background Note 699-047, December 1998.
      • 1998
      • Working Paper

      CEO Incentives and Firm Size

      By: Brian Hall and George P. Baker
      What determines CEO incentives? A confusion exists among both academics and practitioners about how to measure the strength of CEO incentives, and how to reconcile the enormous differences in pay sensitivities between executives in large and small firms. We show that... View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Size; Management Systems
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      Hall, Brian, and George P. Baker. "CEO Incentives and Firm Size." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 6868, December 1998.
      • June 1998 (Revised March 2017)
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      Chemalite, Inc. (B): Cash Flow Analysis

      By: Robert Simons and Antonio Davila
      Teaching Note for (9-195-130). View Details
      Keywords: Execution; Management Control Systems; Cash Flow Analysis; Profit Planning; Strategy
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      Simons, Robert, and Antonio Davila. "Chemalite, Inc. (B): Cash Flow Analysis." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 198-120, June 1998. (Revised March 2017.)
      • June 1998
      • Article

      Using Delegation and Control Systems to Mitigate the Trade-off between the Performance-Evaluation and Belief-Revision Uses of Accounting Standards

      By: V.G. Narayanan and A. Davila
      Keywords: System; Performance Evaluation; Accounting
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      Narayanan, V.G., and A. Davila. "Using Delegation and Control Systems to Mitigate the Trade-off between the Performance-Evaluation and Belief-Revision Uses of Accounting Standards." Special Issue on Mastering Finance Series. Journal of Accounting & Economics 25, no. 3 (June 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. View Details
      Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Manufacturing Industry
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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.)
      • April 1998 (Revised May 2000)
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      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; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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      Simons, Robert L., and Antonio Davila. "Guidant Corporation: Shaping Culture Through Systems." Harvard Business School Case 198-076, April 1998. (Revised May 2000.)
      • February 1998
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      Creating the International Trade Organization

      By: David A. Moss, George R. Appling and Andrew D Archer
      In the late 1940s, officials at the U.S. State Department began campaigning for the creation of an International Trade Organization (ITO). This new organization would oversee global negotiations on trade liberalization, foreign direct investment, cartels, and commodity... View Details
      Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Agreements and Arrangements; Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Systems; International Relations
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      Moss, David A., George R. Appling, and Andrew D Archer. "Creating the International Trade Organization." Harvard Business School Case 798-057, February 1998.
      • February 1998 (Revised September 1998)
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      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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      Narayanan, V.G., and Ratna G. Sarkar. "Insteel Wire Products: ABM at Andrews." Harvard Business School Case 198-087, February 1998. (Revised September 1998.)
      • December 1997 (Revised May 2017)
      • Teaching Note

      Kidder, Peabody & Co.: Creating Elusive Profits

      By: Robert Simons and Antonio Dávila
      Teaching Note for (9-197-038). View Details
      Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Internal Controls; Risk Management; Risk And Uncertainty; Risk Assessment; Profit
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      Simons, Robert, and Antonio Dávila. "Kidder, Peabody & Co.: Creating Elusive Profits." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 198-036, December 1997. (Revised May 2017.)
      • November 1997
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      Colly Cotton Ltd.

      By: Ray A. Goldberg and Tom Clay
      Colly Farm is an entrepreneurial cotton farm complex that has to compete on a world market. In going public it has to satisfy the market that it can remain profitable in volatile times. View Details
      Keywords: Earnings Management; Entrepreneurship; Going Public; Balance and Stability
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      Goldberg, Ray A., and Tom Clay. "Colly Cotton Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 598-052, November 1997.
      • November 1997 (Revised April 2017)
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      Compagnie du Froid, S.A.

      By: Robert Simons, Antonio Dávila, Kathryn Rosenberg and Jennifer Packard
      Teaching Note for (9-197-085). View Details
      Keywords: Management Control Systems; Strategy And Execution; Variance Analysis; Performance Measurement; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe
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      Simons, Robert, Antonio Dávila, Kathryn Rosenberg, and Jennifer Packard. "Compagnie du Froid, S.A." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 198-035, November 1997. (Revised April 2017.)
      • November 1997 (Revised April 2017)
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      Purity Steel Corporation, 2012

      By: Robert Simons and Antonio Dávila
      Teaching Note for (9-197-082). View Details
      Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Performance Measurement; ROI; Transfer Pricing; Steel Industry
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      Simons, Robert, and Antonio Dávila. "Purity Steel Corporation, 2012." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 198-038, November 1997. (Revised April 2017.)
      • November 1997 (Revised February 1998)
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      WESCO Distribution, Inc.

      By: Das Narayandas
      In 1996, WESCO, a national distributor of electrical equipment and supplies, charted out a growth of 6 to 8 percent in sales, and 12 to 16 percent in profitability over the next five years. The centerpiece of this growth strategy is the National Accounts (NA) program... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Customer Satisfaction; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Distribution; Sales; Balance and Stability; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry
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      Narayandas, Das. "WESCO Distribution, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 598-021, November 1997. (Revised February 1998.)
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