Publications

Teaching Note for (9-102-040). View Details

Keywords: Distribution Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

August 2002 (Revised February 2018)
Teaching Note

Customer Profitability and Customer Relationship Management at RBC Financial Group

Teaching Note for 102-043 and 102-072. View Details

Keywords: Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Canada

12 Oct 2011
First Look

CEO Compensation at GE: A Decade with Jeff Immelt V.G. Narayanan and Lisa BremHarvard Business School Case 112-003 When ISS, a large shareholder advisory group, recommended a "no" vote on Jeff... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Teaching Interest

Accounting for Managers

I teach financial and managerial accounting to executives and MBA students. View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Managerial Accounting; Financial Accounting

1994
Article

An Analysis of Auditor Liability Rules

Keywords: Accounting Audits

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September 2014
Case

Balanced Scorecard at Delta/Signal Corp.

This auto parts company has just ousted its longtime CEO and founder, and the new, professional CEO is badly in need of a coherent strategy, clear objectives and metrics, and initiatives that are aligned with the strategy and objectives. Will the balanced scorecard... View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Business Strategy; Financial Reporting; Leading Change; Performance Evaluation; Growth and Development Strategy; Web Services Industry; Auto Industry

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June 2010
Tool

Strategy Map Tool

Keywords: Strategy

December 2007
Teaching Note

Executive Remuneration at Reckitt Benckiser plc (TN)

Teaching Note for [104-062]. View Details

Keywords: Retail Industry

August 2002 (Revised April 2003)
Teaching Note

Delays At Logan Airport, TN

Teaching Note for (9-102-011). View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation Industry

August 2002 (Revised May 2003)
Teaching Note

Supply Chain Close-Up: The Video Vault TN

Teaching Note for (9-102-070). View Details

Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry

August 2002 (Revised November 2003)
Teaching Note

Activity-Based Management at W.S. Industries (TN) (A) and (B)

Teaching Note for (9-101-062) and (9-102-063). View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management

June 2003
Article

Activity Based Pricing in a Monopoly

Keywords: Price; Monopoly

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Research Summary

Cost Management and Management Control Systems in Hospitals

Hospitals tend not to have very good cost accounting and control systems. More broadly, there is enormous opportunity for managing costs and aligning incentives in the health care industry. I am studying how cost accounting methods can be used to... View Details

January 2016
Teaching Note

Nalli Silk Sarees (A) & (B)

June 2003
Module Note

Design and Implementation of Activity-Based Cost Systems

Describes the main themes of the module on the design and implementation of an activity-based costing (ABC) system. Instructors can teach this module to second-year MBA students who have been exposed to activity-based costing in their first-year core accounting... View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting

May 2003
Background Note

How to Induce Retailers to Reduce Stockouts?

Describes how the lack of incentive alignment between retailers and their vendors can lead to stockouts. Also describes various means to reduce incentive misalignment and hence stockouts. View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Supply Chain Management; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution; Alignment; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Retail Industry

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