Publications

Keywords: Management; Cost Accounting

November 2012
Case

New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. (Abridged)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Robert S. Huckman, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Matthew Preble

Considers whether New Balance, one of the world's five largest manufacturers of athletic footwear, should respond to Adidas' planned acquisition of Reebok—a transaction that would join the second- and third-largest companies in the industry. Highlights the unique... View Details

Keywords: Production; Competitive Strategy; Supply Chain; Brands and Branding; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry; Retail Industry; Asia; United States

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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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

05 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 5

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

January–February 1988
Article

One Cost System Isn't Enough

Keywords: Cost; System

1990
Book

Measures for Manufacturing Excellence

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry

1988
Chapter

Originality in Management Accounting Systems: Field Studies of the Processes

Keywords: Accounting; Innovation and Management

Article

Yesterday's Accounting Undermines Production

Keywords: Accounting; Production

1979
Chapter

A Comparison of Rates of Return to Social Security Retirees under Wage and Price Indexing

Keywords: Retirement; Investment Return; Wages; Price; United States

December 1998 (Revised February 1999)
Case

City of Charlotte (A)

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

August 1998
Teaching Note

Pillsbury: Customer Driven Reengineering TN

Teaching Note for (9-195-144). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

November 1997 (Revised May 1998)
Teaching Note

Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (A) and (B) TN

Teaching Note for (9-196-115) and (9-196-117). View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; City

June 2013
Supplement

Boston Children's Hospital Assignment Worksheet

Keywords: Health Care; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Costing; Hospitals; Activity Based Costing and Management

June 2011 (Revised June 2011)
Teaching Note

Volkswagen do Brasil: Driving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard (TN)

Teaching Note for 111-049. View Details

Keywords: Auto Industry; Germany; Brazil

2010
Working Paper

Accounting Scholarship that Advances Professional Knowledge and Practice

Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The research has studied the interface among accounting information, capital markets, standard setters, and... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Business Education; Information; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Measurement and Metrics; Business Processes; Performance Improvement; Practice

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Article

Management Accounting in Advanced Technological Environments

Keywords: Management; Accounting; Technology

May 2007 (Revised June 2007)
Teaching Note

Sippican Corporation (TN) (A) and (B)

October 1989 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Texas Eastman Co.

The company as part of a commitment to Total Quality Management has installed a computer system that accumulates 30,000 observations on its processes every 2-4 hours. Operating people have found the monthly summaries of financial performance not too useful in this... View Details

Keywords: Quality; Information Technology; Reports; Business or Company Management