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  • June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Tough Choices for the Illinois Pension System

By: Robert C. Pozen and Brij S. Khurana
This case describes the precarious fiscal situation of the Illinois public pension system in the spring of 2009 and the accounting of pension plans by non-federal municipalities more generally. In February 2009, in the midst of a recession, recently-appointed Governor... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Financial Crisis; Financial Liquidity; Annuities; Financial Management; Financing and Loans; Taxation; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Illinois
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Pozen, Robert C., and Brij S. Khurana. "Tough Choices for the Illinois Pension System." Harvard Business School Case 311-139, June 2011. (Revised September 2011.)
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

has been divided by both worldview and practice. Why, in the face of the common challenge of dependence on imported Russian gas, have national reactions to such vulnerability varied so dramatically across the continent? And why have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March–April 2024
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Retailers and Health Systems Can Improve Care Together

By: Robert S. Huckman, Vivian S. Lee and Bradley R Staats
Health systems are struggling to address the many shortcomings of health care delivery: rapidly growing costs, inconsistent quality, and inadequate and unequal access to primary and other types of care. However, if retailers and health systems were to form strong... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Retail; Retailers; Consumer; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Consumer Behavior; Business Model; Partners and Partnerships; Health Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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Huckman, Robert S., Vivian S. Lee, and Bradley R Staats. "Retailers and Health Systems Can Improve Care Together." Harvard Business Review 102, no. 2 (March–April 2024): 120–127.
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

on Balanced Scorecard Commentaries Author:Robert S. Kaplan Publication:Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 8, no. 4 (2012) Abstract This paper provides the author's insights about five papers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

market-type dispersion by decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Placing the Normative Logics of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

The Creative Consulting Company

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Richard Nolan and David P. Norton
During the past 50 years, several consulting companies introduced important new ideas that extended management theory and improved management practice. This paper draws upon public sources and the authors’ personal experiences to describe how three management... View Details
Keywords: Management; Theory; Practice; Performance Improvement; Innovation and Management; Consulting Industry
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Kaplan, Robert S., Richard Nolan, and David P. Norton. "The Creative Consulting Company." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-001, July 2018.
  • 03 May 2011
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proposition. It aims to explore effective curricular and programmatic responses as opportunities for MBA programs to innovate. The paper also aims to call for collective action across the business school field to effectively address these challenges. The Hollow Science... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 1984 (Revised February 1986)
  • Case

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.: Titanium Dioxide

By: W. Carl Kester, Robert R. Glauber, David W. Mullins Jr. and Stacy S. Dick
Disequilibrium in the $350 million TiO2 market has prompted Du Pont's Pigments Department to develop two strategies for competing in this market in the future. The growth strategy has a smaller internal rate of return than the alternative strategy due to large capital... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Investment Return; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Projects; Chemical Industry
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Kester, W. Carl, Robert R. Glauber, David W. Mullins Jr., and Stacy S. Dick. "E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.: Titanium Dioxide." Harvard Business School Case 284-066, February 1984. (Revised February 1986.)
  • 05 Apr 2011
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this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711486-PDF-ENG Volkswagen do Brasil: Driving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard Robert S. Kaplan and Ricardo Reisen de... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

low (-0.16 and 0.006) and decrease over time as network effects become increasingly important. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-035.pdf The Demise of Cost and Profit Centers Author:Robert S. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 8, 2022
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Time-Driven Activity-Based Cost Comparison of Treating Five Acute, Low-Severity Conditions

By: Alan Yang, Andy Hung-Yi Lee, Joseph W. Kopp, Katherine D. Rose, Adam M. Licurse, Philip D. Anderson and Robert S. Kaplan
In 2017, patients made 145 million visits to emergency departments (EDs), generating $76.3 billion in charges. About a third of ED visits, however, were for conditions that were treatable in lower-resourced settings. We used time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven ABC; Health Care Costs; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment
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Yang, Alan, Andy Hung-Yi Lee, Joseph W. Kopp, Katherine D. Rose, Adam M. Licurse, Philip D. Anderson, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Time-Driven Activity-Based Cost Comparison of Treating Five Acute, Low-Severity Conditions." NEJM Catalyst (February 8, 2022).
  • 20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54267 February 6, 2018 Harvard Business Review What Could Amazon's Approach to Health Care Look Like? By: Huckman, Robert S. Abstract—No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January–February 1988
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One Cost System Isn't Enough

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Cost; System
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Kaplan, Robert S. "One Cost System Isn't Enough." Harvard Business Review 66, no. 1 (January–February 1988): 61–66.
  • 1990
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Measures for Manufacturing Excellence

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry
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Kaplan, Robert S., ed. Measures for Manufacturing Excellence. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1990.
  • 1988
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Originality in Management Accounting Systems: Field Studies of the Processes

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Accounting; Innovation and Management
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Kaplan, Robert S. "Originality in Management Accounting Systems: Field Studies of the Processes." In New Directions in Creative and Innovative Management, edited by Y. Ijiri and R. L. Kuhn, 103–114. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1988.
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Yesterday's Accounting Undermines Production

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Accounting; Production
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Kaplan, Robert S. "Yesterday's Accounting Undermines Production." Harvard Business Review 62, no. 4 (July–August 1984): 95–101.
  • 1979
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A Comparison of Rates of Return to Social Security Retirees under Wage and Price Indexing

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Retirement; Investment Return; Wages; Price; United States
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Kaplan, Robert S. "A Comparison of Rates of Return to Social Security Retirees under Wage and Price Indexing." In Financing Social Security, edited by Colin D. Campbell, 119–144. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1979.
  • December 1998 (Revised February 1999)
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City of Charlotte (A)

By: Robert S. Kaplan
The city manager's office in Charlotte, North Carolina, is attempting to align and focus the city's programs and operating departments. City managers, working collaboratively with the elected mayor and city council, have identified five strategic themes to make... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Government Administration; City; Growth and Development Strategy; Adoption; Public Sector; Management Teams; Programs; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Public Administration Industry; North Carolina
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Kaplan, Robert S. "City of Charlotte (A)." Harvard Business School Case 199-036, December 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
  • August 1998
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Pillsbury: Customer Driven Reengineering TN

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-195-144). View Details
Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry
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Kaplan, Robert S. "Pillsbury: Customer Driven Reengineering TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 199-021, August 1998.
  • November 1997 (Revised May 1998)
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Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (A) and (B) TN

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-196-115) and (9-196-117). View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; City
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Kaplan, Robert S. "Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (A) and (B) TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 198-066, November 1997. (Revised May 1998.)
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