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- March 2005 (Revised March 2006)
- Background Note
Activity-Based Costing and Capacity
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Discusses the use of budgeted rather than historical data in an activity-based costing (ABC) model and argues for calculating rates using practical capacity, not actual utilization. An ABC model need not be limited to analysis of historical data. When cost driver rates... View Details
Kaplan, Robert S. "Activity-Based Costing and Capacity." Harvard Business School Background Note 105-059, March 2005. (Revised March 2006.)
- Article
Measuring and Managing Customer Profitability
By: Robert S. Kaplan and V.G. Narayanan
Kaplan, Robert S., and V.G. Narayanan. "Measuring and Managing Customer Profitability." Cost Management 15, no. 5 (September–October 2001): 5–15.
- February 1997 (Revised July 2001)
- Background Note
Introduction to Activity-Based Costing
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Introduces the fundamental notions of activity-based costing (ABC). Motivates ABC by means of a simple example, a single and a diversified pen factory. Proceeds to show how ABC assigns costs more accurately to products and customers by: 1) identifying the activities... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management
Kaplan, Robert S. "Introduction to Activity-Based Costing." Harvard Business School Background Note 197-076, February 1997. (Revised July 2001.)
- 1974
- Chapter
Management Accounting in Hospitals: A Case Study
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert S. "Management Accounting in Hospitals: A Case Study." In Accounting for Social Goals: Budgeting and Analysis of Nonmarket Projects, edited by J. L. Livingstone and S. Gunn, 131–148. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.
- June 2005
- Teaching Note
Accounting Fraud at WorldCom (TN)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note to (9-104-071). View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Principles and Content for Downstream Emissions Disclosures
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
In a previous paper, we proposed the E-liability carbon accounting algorithm for companies to measure and subsequently reduce their own and their suppliers’ emissions. Some investors and stakeholders, however, want companies to also be accountable for downstream... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Disclosure; Carbon Footprint; Climate Change; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Disclosure; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Kaplan, Robert S., and Karthik Ramanna. "Principles and Content for Downstream Emissions Disclosures." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-050, January 2024.
- Web
Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
of the 2021 Doriot Award for the Best Private Equity Research Paper for “How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?” ( Journal of Financial Economics , January 2020) with William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev. Robin... View Details
- Web
General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
from the Aspen Institute. Peter Tufano : Inducted into the Monticello (NY) Hall of Distinction, 2016. Andy Zelleke : Recipient of the 2016 Robert F. Greenhill Award. 2015 Gerald C. Chertavian : Recipient of the Boston NAACP’s Kivie View Details
- February 2006 (Revised September 2006)
- Case
Sippican Corporation (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Presents a time-driven version of the Wilkerson Co. activity-based costing case (101092). Faced with declining profits, Sippican Corp. is struggling to understand why it is encountering severe price competition on one product line. The controller collects data that... View Details
Keywords: History; Business Model; Strategic Planning; Cost Accounting; Motivation and Incentives; Resource Allocation; Activity Based Costing and Management; Profit; Business Strategy; Budgets and Budgeting
Kaplan, Robert S. "Sippican Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 106-058, February 2006. (Revised September 2006.)
- June 1998 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
Wells Fargo Online Financial Services (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Nicole Tempest
Wells Fargo, the industry leader in electronic banking, has implemented a Balanced Scorecard in its online financial services group (OFS) to track and measure performance. The OFS group develops and supports services that allow existing and future banking customers to... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Internet and the Web; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Finance; Change; Situation or Environment; Measurement and Metrics; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
Kaplan, Robert S., and Nicole Tempest. "Wells Fargo Online Financial Services (A)." Harvard Business School Case 198-146, June 1998. (Revised August 2001.)
- September–October 1993
- Article
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David Norton
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard
Kaplan, Robert S., and David Norton. "Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work." Harvard Business Review 71, no. 5 (September–October 1993): 134–147. (Reprint #93505.)
- Article
Accounting for Climate Change
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
Corporations are facing growing pressure—from investors, advocacy groups, politicians, and even business leaders themselves—to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their operations and their supply and distribution chains. About 90% of the companies in the S&P... View Details
Keywords: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation; Social Accounting; E-liabilities; Business And The Environment; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
Kaplan, Robert S., and Karthik Ramanna. "Accounting for Climate Change." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 6 (November–December 2021): 120–131.
- Article
Transforming the Balanced Scorecard from Performance Measurement to Strategic Management: Part I
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Transformation; Performance; Measurement and Metrics; Strategy; Management
Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. "Transforming the Balanced Scorecard from Performance Measurement to Strategic Management: Part I." Accounting Horizons 15, no. 1 (March 2001): 87–104.
- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
leadership for an organization. Robert Kaplan and David Norton, in their books, The Balanced Scorecard and The Strategy-Focused Organization, have argued for performance measures and reward practices that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Harvard Business School
Crockett Post-Doctoral Fellow, Lecturer 2000 - 2002 Erika Hayes James Visiting Associate Professor 2008 - 2009 Michael D. Kimbrough Assistant, Associate Professor 2002 - 2010 Tsedal Neeley Associate Professor 2007 - present Laura Morgan View Details
- January 2008
- Article
Mastering the Management System
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
Companies have always found it hard to balance pressing operational concerns with long-term strategic priorities. The tension is critical: World-class processes won't lead to success without the right strategic direction, and the best strategy in the world will get... View Details
Keywords: Framework; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Systems; Operations; Performance Improvement; Strategy
Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. "Mastering the Management System." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008): 62–77.
- February 2010 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes
The case, in a non-profit project-oriented setting, introduces fundamental risk management principles and processes that are easily applicable to private sector settings. Gentry Lee, senior systems engineer and de-facto chief risk officer, is applying a new... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Governance; Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Risk Management; Projects; Aerospace Industry; United States
Kaplan, Robert S., and Anette Mikes. "Jet Propulsion Laboratory." Harvard Business School Case 110-031, February 2010. (Revised May 2010.)
- 1999
- Book
Design of Cost Management Systems
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Cooper, Robin, and Robert S. Kaplan. Design of Cost Management Systems. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999.
- September – October 2000
- Article
Having Trouble with Your Strategy? Then Map It
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
Keywords: Strategy
Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. "Having Trouble with Your Strategy? Then Map It." HBR00509. Harvard Business Review 78, no. 5 (September–October 2000): 167–176.