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- November 1999
- Background Note
Recognizing Revenues and Expenses: Realized and Earned
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Describes a key concept in financial accounting: choosing an appropriate revenue recognition point. The accrual process requires revenue recognition and expense matching for reporting on the value creation process of companies. Describes the two key criteria for... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Accrual Accounting; Cost Accounting; Budgets and Budgeting; Revenue; Profit; Cost Management; Value Creation; Competitive Strategy; Financial Statements; Accounting Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Recognizing Revenues and Expenses: Realized and Earned." Harvard Business School Background Note 100-050, November 1999.
- winter 1989
- Article
Split-Awards Procurement and Innovation
By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
In many procurement settings, it is possible for a buyer to split a production award between suppliers. In this article, we develop a model of split-award procurement auctions in which the split choice is endogenous. We characterize the set of equilibrium bids and... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Cost; Supply Chain; Investment; Balance and Stability
Anton, James J., and Dennis A. Yao. "Split-Awards Procurement and Innovation." RAND Journal of Economics 20, no. 4 (winter 1989): 538–552. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
- February 1994 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
Manville Corp. Fiber Glass Group (C)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Sarah Gant
Manville Corp.'s senior managers are surprised when Japanese government officials advise them not to go forward with their plan to add a cancer warning label to diatomaceous earth (DE) products sold in Japan. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has ruled... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Ethics; Conflict of Interests; Health; Safety; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Policy; Japan
Paine, Lynn S., and Sarah Gant. "Manville Corp. Fiber Glass Group (C)." Harvard Business School Case 394-116, February 1994. (Revised May 1999.)
- 10 Jan 2012
- News
How to Become Your Company's Storyteller
- 19 Feb 2014
- News
Choosing the Right Customer
- 01 Jul 2021
- News
Off the Shelf: Recent Books with Harvard Connections
- 12 Apr 2021
- News
Healthier by Design
- Research Summary
Overview
My work examines the social and economic processes that generate innovation and distribute its rewards in society, in the context of the United States over the past twenty years. For isntance, I have shown that in recent decades product innovations have... View Details
How to Build a Digital Brand That Lasts
What makes a brand durable even as business models, technology and consumer behavior radically change? They key is that durable brands are adaptable brands — even legacy ones. To create durability, apply the MACE framework: 1) Mastery: Give your consumers... View Details
- 21 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers
curbing spending habits just as the number of defaults on BNPL loans creep higher. Add in a potential recession and the authors question whether the model might prove to be riskier for consumers, investors, and retailers in the future. “The View Details
- August 2000 (Revised February 2001)
- Case
Plum Creek Timber (A)
By: Max H. Bazerman, Hannah Bowles, Dov Brachfeld and Jack Troast
Plum Creek Timber Co., the nation's sixth largest private timberland owner and forest products company, must decide whether to enter negotiations with the U.S. government to establish a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) on its Pacific Northwest properties for a... View Details
Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Government Relations; Forest Products Industry; United States
Bazerman, Max H., Hannah Bowles, Dov Brachfeld, and Jack Troast. "Plum Creek Timber (A)." Harvard Business School Case 801-131, August 2000. (Revised February 2001.)
- March 1997 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
Business Teams at Rubbermaid, Inc.
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Dean Whitney
Rubbermaid, a consumer-products company widely praised for its innovation, has instituted a company-wide experiment to stimulate innovation even further. The experiment consists of creating small cross-functional business teams within each division, with each team... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Innovation Strategy; Groups and Teams; Innovation and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products Industry; United States
Amabile, Teresa M., and Dean Whitney. "Business Teams at Rubbermaid, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 897-165, March 1997. (Revised March 1997.)
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
Brian J. Hall
Brian J. Hall is the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He served as the Unit Head for the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets (NOM) Unit for 14 years. Previously, he was an assistant professor of economics in the... View Details
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Effectiveness (63) Performance Efficiency (6) Performance Evaluation (19) Performance Expectations (6) Performance Improvement (20) Performance Productivity (41) Performance (196) Personal Characteristics (77) Personal Development and... View Details
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector
and partners about their technologies can increase innovation and speed the introduction of new products. Specifically, the study finds evidence that openness—in this case, via the use of open-source software drivers—improves supplier autonomy and new View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Decision-Making by Precedent and the Founding of American Honda (1948–1974)
- Research Summary
By: Srikant M. Datar
Datar's research interests are in the cost management and management control areas. He
has published his research on activity-based management, quality, productivity, time-based
competition, new product development, bottleneck management, incentives and
... View Details
- January 2008 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: A Global Company's China Strategy
By: William C. Kirby, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Wong
After fifty-five years in the semiconductor industry, Morris Chang, founder and Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), was seeing a change. After four decades of regular double-digit growth the industry was still growing-but now at a much slower... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Globalized Firms and Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Expansion; Semiconductor Industry; Shanghai; Taiwan
Kirby, William C., Michael Shih-Ta Chen, and Keith Wong. "Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: A Global Company's China Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 308-057, January 2008. (Revised October 2015.)