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  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Gompers, Merton Honored

The 2002 Geewax, Terker & Company Prize in Investment Research, offered by the Rodney L. White Center at The Wharton School, has gone to Professor Paul A. Gompers and coauthors Joy Ishii and Andrew Metrick... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • May 1992 (Revised January 2000)
  • Case

Asea Brown Boveri

By: Robert L. Simons and Christopher A. Bartlett
In 1987, two European rivals--Asea AB of Sweden and BBC Brown Boveri Ltd. of Switzerland--merged to form Asea Brown Boveri. The new company employed 150,000 employees in 850 legal entities operating in 140 countries. The case describes the challenges facing Percy... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Globalization; Problems and Challenges; Leadership Style; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Structure; Reports
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  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample evidence, though, that people misuse care for a different reason: mistakes or "behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Faculty News

by Rufus W. Lumry III (MBA 1974) to further research in the field of information technology. Others receiving chairs for the first time are Max Bazerman (Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration); John A. Deighton (Harold... View Details
Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • Web

Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

H. Lavalle, Ralph T. Linsalata, Charles L. Parker, James C. Pigott. The Commercial Development and Application of Laser Technology. New York: Hobbs, Dorman, 1965. Table of Contents Introductory and Summary of Conclusions View Details
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Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

H. Lavalle, Ralph T. Linsalata, Charles L. Parker, James C. Pigott. The Commercial Development and Application of Laser Technology. New York: Hobbs, Dorman, 1965. Table of Contents Introductory and Summary of Conclusions View Details
  • June 2018
  • Case

Verona Group

By: Robert L. Simons and Sarah Abbott
Are a salesperson's struggles her own fault or the result of a problematic job design? Anna George works as a salesperson at Verona Group, a company that designs and wholesales high-end women's apparel. She had spent nearly 20 years in sales with another fashion label... View Details
Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Design; Analysis; Performance; Measurement and Metrics; Salesforce Management; Organizational Design
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  • April 1998 (Revised May 2000)
  • Case

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; Service Industry; Financial Services Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • June 1998 (Revised July 1999)
  • Teaching Note

Asea Brown Boveri: The ABACUS System TN

By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
Teaching Note for (9-192-140). View Details
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  • August 1994 (Revised July 1995)
  • Background Note

Financial Reporting and Control, Course Overview

By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
Keywords: Financial Reporting
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  • November 1997 (Revised June 1999)
  • Teaching Note

Becton Dickinson: Designing the New Strategic, Operational, and Financial Planning Process TN

By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
Teaching Note for (9-197-014). View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Planning; Finance
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  • May 2010 (Revised June 2010)
  • Supplement

Pfizer: Letter from the Chairman (B)

By: Robert L. Simons and Kathryn Rosenberg
This case continues the story begun in "Pfizer: A Letter from the Chairman" (HBS No. 110-003), revealing the letter Chairman and CEO Jeff Kindler wrote for the 2008 Annual Report. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Annual Reports; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

with a suboptimal start--which could be reduced by additional upfront provider counseling. Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Identify Value Improvement Opportunitues in Healthcare JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT... View Details
  • 11 May 2015
  • News

Washington, DC Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

region to reconnect with classmates and meet other alumni in the region, as well as with HBS faculty members and administrators. The evening featured remarks by Dean Nitin Nohria, Professor Robert Steven... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

World Economic Forum

Those who attended a Harvard Dinner at the Davos conference included (top) Dean Clark and Michael Bloomberg (MBA '66), and (bottom) Bruno L. Schroder (MBA '60), Yoh Kurosawa (83rd AMP), and Yasko Kurosawa. Photographs View Details
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Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Course Number 1350 Baker Foundation Professor Robert Simons Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Paper This course is designed as a... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

Alumni Books

out in India over the next few decades. Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms by Abbie Griffin (MBA 1981), Raymond L. Price, and Bruce A. Vojak... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Involved Videos Books Teaching Cases Publications: Cases Teaching Cases Domestic Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski and Jessica A. Hohman The case... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

HBS Press Books in Brief

The Weather Channel: The Impossible Rise of a Media Phenomenon, by Frank Batten (MBA '52) with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (51st PMD), is the story of a cable network that succeeded when all the experts predicted... View Details
Keywords: Harvard Business School Press; books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • November 2021
  • Article

Determining Variable Costs in the Acute Urolithiasis Cycle of Care Through Time-driven Activity-based Costing

By: Tyler R. McClintock, David F. Friedlander, Aiden Y. Feng, Mahek A. Shah, Daniel J. Pallin, Steven L. Chang, Angela M. Bader, Thomas W. Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan and George E. Haleblian
Objective. To characterize full cycle of care costs for managing an acute ureteral stone using time-driven activity-based costing.
Methods. We defined all phases of care for patients presenting with an acute ureteral stone and built an... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Activity Based Costing and Management
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