Publications

1994
Chapter

Companies as Laboratories

Keywords: Business Ventures

June 1994
Article

Flexible Budgeting in an Activity-Based Costing Framework

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Framework

winter 1990
Article

Accounting for Technology Costs

Keywords: Accounting; Information Technology; Cost

Article

Contribution Margin Analysis: No Longer Relevant/Strategic Cost Management: The New Paradigm

Keywords: Accounting; Cost; Management; Finance

Article

Keeping Score on Community Investment

Keywords: Civil Society or Community; Investment

1976
Report

Financial Crisis in the Social Security System

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Insurance; Public Sector

01 Oct 1998
News

Merton Named University Professor

In a prestigious appointment with strong HBS overtones, Professor Robert C. Merton has been named the first incumbent of a new Harvard University Professorship named for John and Natty McArthur, the former Dean of HBS and his wife.... View Details

March 16, 2003
Article

Footnote Reporting Distorts Impact of Stock Options

By: Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan and Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Financial Instruments; Reports; Stocks

01 Dec 1997
News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details

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Management, Entrepreneurial Management Michael S. Kaufman , Andy Pforzheimer Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Accounting & Management, General Management Robert... View Details

Article

Why Does Business Need a Balanced Scorecard? Part II

By: Robert S. Kaplan and David Norton

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard

February/March 1997
Article

Why Does Business Need a Balanced Scorecard? Part I

By: Robert S. Kaplan and David Norton

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard

August 3, 2022
Article

How Will Amazon Approach U.S. Primary Care?

By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley Staats

Amazon has a playbook for reinventing businesses that it enters. It includes simplifying processes, experimenting to determine which new approaches work best, and continuously recombining its existing assets to come up with a better way to do things. It is likely to... View Details

Keywords: Amazon; Health Care; Technology; Primary Care; Health Care and Treatment; Information Infrastructure; Health Industry; Technology Industry; United States

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August 2017
Case

Infection Control at Massachusetts General Hospital (Abridged)

By: Robert S. Huckman and Nikolaos Trichakis

The case explores the challenges facing Massachusetts General Hospital concerning the adoption of a new infection control policy, which promises to improve operational performance, patient safety, and profitability. The new policy requires coordination between... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Integration; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Health Industry; Boston

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Risk Management—The Revealing Hand

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes

Many believe that the recent emphasis on enterprise risk management function is misguided, especially after the failure of sophisticated quantitative risk models during the global financial crisis. The concern is that top-down risk management will inhibit innovation... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management