Publications

Educators

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April 2002
Teaching Note

Anagene, Inc. TN

Teaching Note for (9-102-030). View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Public Ownership; Sales; Production; Forecasting and Prediction; Volume; Governing and Advisory Boards; Cost Accounting; Business or Company Management; Financial Reporting; Strategy; Performance Capacity; Biotechnology Industry

Purchase

January 1988
Teaching Note

Ingersoll Milling Machine Co., Teaching Note

Keywords: Teaching; Information

October 2001
Exercise

Liability Problems

This case provides three examples of the recognition and measurement of liabilities. The first focuses on recognizing when employees have rendered services for which future period benefits have been earned, that is, whether unused vacation, sick, and personal days at... View Details

Keywords: Cash; Annuities; Interest Rates; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Wages; Problems and Challenges; Value

January 1972
Article

Stochastic Growth Models

Keywords: Growth and Development

May 1987 (Revised November 1998)
Case

John Deere Component Works (A)

The division has recognized the inadequacies of its existing, traditional cost system for estimating product costs. Describes the innovative activity-based system that was developed to more accurately trace overhead costs to individual products. Provides students with... View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Cost vs Benefits; Production; Budgets and Budgeting; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Consumer Products Industry

Educators

Purchase

January 2006
Article

Hospital Integration and Vertical Consolidation: An Analysis of Acquisitions in New York State

Keywords: Integration; Health; Consolidation; Theory; Mergers and Acquisitions

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1976
Report

Tax Policies of U.S. and Foreign Nations in Support of R&D and Innovation

Keywords: Taxation; Policy; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention

2002
Working Paper

The Utilization of Competing Technologies within the Firm: Evidence from Cardiac Procedures

TeachingInterests

Technology and Operations Management - MBA Required Curriculum

This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its... View Details

Web

Books - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Elizabeth Teisberg show how to move health care toward positive-sum competition that delivers lasting benefits for all. Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler and More Powerful Path to Higher Profits Robert View Details

Apr 11 2019
Interview

Navigating Rapid Change and Uncertainty

01 Dec 2001
News

A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire

Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness), a new book by HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow, presents fascinating biographical essays of seven men whose products and practices have... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Apr 1998
News

New Releases

service, and knowledge management in examining the implications of this paradigm shift for managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. Cost & Effect by Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper (Harvard Business... View Details

Article

Formal Measures in Informal Management: Can a Balanced Scorecard Change a Culture?

By: Robert Gibbons and Robert S. Kaplan

Agency theorists, historically, have analyzed what kinds of performance measures should be used in formal incentive contracts. For example, after Kaplan-Norton proposed a balanced scorecard of both financial and non-financial measures, some envisioned its role only in... View Details

Keywords: Relational Contracts; Performance Measurement; Informal Management; Balanced Scorecard; Economics; Mathematical Methods

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01 Jun 2006
News

Faculty Books

Create Corporate Synergies by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (DBA ’73) (HBS Press) Professor Kaplan and his colleague apply their Balanced Scorecard management system to corporate-level strategy,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Apr 1999
News

Alumni Career Services Update

With his enthusiasm and expertise in helping others polish their résumés, plot job search strategies, and execute savvy career moves, Robert S. ("Bob") Gardella has become a popular contact for HBS alumni... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

Research Summary

Consumerism and the Distributed Delivery of Health Care