Publications

Teaching Note for (9-187-107) and (9-187-108). View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry

fall 1975
Article

Investigation and the Significance of Cost Variances: Survey and Extensions

Keywords: Cost

November 1999 (Revised July 2001)
Case

New Profit Inc.: Governing the Nonprofit Enterprise

New Profit, Inc. (NPI) is an innovative venture philanthropy fund. Founded by social entrepreneur Venessa Kirsch, NPI intends to raise large donations from individuals who wish to invest in nonprofit enterprises that could have a significant social impact and the... View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Nonprofit Organizations; Venture Capital; Social Entrepreneurship; Corporate Governance; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Service Industry

Educators

June 1987 (Revised May 1990)
Case

John Deere Component Works (B)

Having installed an activity-based system, the division is now exploring the insight provided by that system. In particular, it is studying the economics of lot-size process planning and product mix management. View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Production; Business or Company Management; Planning; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Product Marketing; Management Practices and Processes; Consumer Products Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

Educators

January 1986 (Revised April 1988)
Case

Union Pacific, Introduction

Keywords: Rail Industry

fall 1973
Article

Statistical Sampling in Auditing with Auxiliary Information Estimators

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Information

2003
Class Lecture

Building Strategy-Focused Organizations with the Balanced Scorecard

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Strategy

March 1989
Article

Connecting the Research-Teaching-Practice Triangle

Keywords: Research; Teaching; Practice

1988
Article

Relevance: Putting 'Management' Back into Management Accounting

Keywords: Management; Cost Accounting

01 Dec 1999
News

African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line

Jackson, Sr.; John H. Johnson of Johnson Publishing; Robert Johnson, CEO of Black Entertainment Television; and Stuart Alden Taylor (MBA '87), senior managing director at Bear Stearns. Interactive sessions explored private equity deal... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

2016
Working Paper

Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges

By: Steven N. Kaplan and Josh Lerner

This paper describes the available data and research on venture capital investments and performance. We comment on the challenges inherent in those data and research as well as possible opportunities to do better. View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Analytics and Data Science; Investment

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Article

It Ain't Broke: The Past, Present, and Future of Venture Capital

By: Steven N. Kaplan and Josh Lerner

Keywords: Venture Capital

2017
Chapter

Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges

By: Steven N. Kaplan and Josh Lerner

This paper describes the available data and research on venture capital investments and performance. We comment on the challenges inherent in those data and research as well as possible opportunities to do better. View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Analytics and Data Science; Research

Web

2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

thoughtful practitioners committed to addressing how gender, race, class, and other axes of dominance and oppression reproduce structural inequalities in organizations. To this end, we are excited to bring in the expertise of our esteemed panelists ( Professor View Details

05 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

Balanced Scorecard Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts, with strategy execution lost along the way. A new book by Balanced Scorecard creators Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton aims to make... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

Other Article

My Favorite Slide: The Entrepreneurial Gap Applied to Health Care

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Robert Simons

Value-based health care increases physicians’ accountability for patient outcomes. Many have resisted, claiming that patient outcomes are influenced by many forces outside their control, such as patient’s compliance with post-acute and rehab care. The difference... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Motivation and Incentives

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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