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    Brian K. Baik

    Brian Baik is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.

    Professor Baik studies how information, financial reporting, and... View Details

    Keywords: private equity (LBO funds); venture capital industry
    • 01 Nov 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

    structure, social history, and educational system, companies developed under a system of family management that emphasized personal relationships more than formal structures,... View Details
    Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
    • 01 Sep 2003
    • News

    Incentives and Operational Excellence

    Operational problems can be the cause of an organization’s demise. Often they can be traced to poor controls in interorganizational settings, according to HBS associate professor V.G. Narayanan, a specialist in measurement View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
    • February 1993 (Revised May 1993)
    • Background Note

    Responsibility Centers and Performance Measurement

    By: William J. Bruns Jr.
    Introduces the concepts of responsibility centers and performance measurement. Expense centers, financial responsibilities such as profit centers, and investment centers are introduced, defined, and illustrated with simple examples. View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Management Systems
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    • November 1989 (Revised November 1999)
    • Case

    Automatic Data Processing: The EFS Decision

    By: Robert L. Simons and Hilary Weston
    Illustrates how ADP's top management uses formal planning and control systems to establish strategic boundaries for its business units. Top management has developed a detailed list of strategic criteria that ADP managers use to evaluate products and business units, as... View Details
    Keywords: Business Units; Strategic Planning; Management Systems; Accounting; Acquisition
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    Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    care are widely touted as critical to improving the health outcomes of patients worldwide and controlling runaway health care costs. Value-based health care's central tenant is that the overarching principle... View Details
    • 05 Feb 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

    7, I argued that sponsors of large technical systems (including platform systems) must manage the modular structure of the system and property... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    delivery are widely touted as critical to improving the health outcomes of patients worldwide and controlling runaway health care costs. Value-based health care’s central tenant is that value for patients... View Details
    • September 2022
    • Article

    Regulatory Spillover and Workplace Racial Inequality

    By: Letian Zhang
    This paper suggests that affirmative action bans in the U.S. public sector may influence racial inequality in the private sector. Since the 1990s, nine states have banned affirmative action practice in public universities and state governments. Though these bans have... View Details
    Keywords: Inequality; Regulation; Law; Organizational Norm; CEO; Affirmative Action; Organizations; Private Sector; Equality and Inequality; Diversity; Race; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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    • 19 Feb 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

    Swissgrid: Enterprise Risk Management in a Digital Age Kurt Meyer, chief risk officer of Swissgrid, the Swiss national electricity transmission system operator, reflects on the risk View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Robert S. Kaplan

      Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

      Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry
      • 09 Mar 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Causes and Consequences of Firm Disclosures of Anticorruption Efforts

      Keywords: by Paul Healy & George Serafeim
      • 31 Oct 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

      because it leads to disconnects at two levels: Individually, it can make leaders exhibit more bias. Organizationally, it does not move leaders to confront biased HR systems and corporate cultures. What this... View Details
      Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis
      • 23 Oct 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

      in self-confidence, assessments of others, and behavior in a cooperative game. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55101 forthcoming Management Science Effects of a Tournament... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • 30 Apr 2019
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

      2019 HarperBusiness The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power By: Cusumano, Michael A., Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie Abstract—The Business of... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • January 2023
      • Teaching Note

      The Opioid Settlement and Executive Pay at AmerisourceBergen

      By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No 122-014. In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged... View Details
      Keywords: Opioids; Shareholder Activism; Investment Activism; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Distribution Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; West Virginia; Tennessee; Ohio; Pennsylvania
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      • September 2002 (Revised January 2013)
      • Case

      Siebel Systems: Organizing for the Customer

      By: Robert Simons and Antonio Davila
      Siebel Systems is one of the fastest growing companies in America. Tom Siebel, the company's founder, has organized the business to accommodate growth and focus on the customer. Innovative information technology systems and clear accountability prove to be essential to... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Structure; Applications and Software; Business Growth and Maturation; Information Technology; Performance Evaluation; Performance Expectations; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Management Teams; Information Technology Industry; North and Central America
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      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Structural Closure and Exposure: Formation of Structural Inequality in Managerial Labor Markets

      By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
      Positional advantages arise when actors obtain rewards attached to positions they occupy, but these rewards are not merited by their performance. Existing theory suggests that in competitive markets there should be no positional advantages. This paper proposes a model... View Details
      Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Jobs and Positions; Managerial Roles; Performance Improvement; Alignment; Competitive Advantage; Equality and Inequality
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      • 08 Aug 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

      subsumed by the other three. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53024 August 2017 Obstetrics & Gynecology Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      By: Tatiana Sandino
      In studying management control systems, Professor Sandino aims to understand how different control mechanisms can help lead employees within an organization to achieve common goals. Her work builds on contingency theory by exploring environmental, strategic, and... View Details