Publications

Educators

Purchase

fall 1990
Article

Measures for Manufacturing Excellence: A Summary

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Production; Information

September–October 1994
Article

Devising a Balanced Scorecard Matched to Business Strategy

Keywords: Strategy; Balanced Scorecard

2006
Working Paper

The Demise of Cost and Profit Centers

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1975
Article

Sample Size Computations in Dollar Unit Sampling

Keywords: Information

March 1985 (Revised November 1985)
Case

Wilmington Tap and Die

The general manager of a division manufacturing taps and dies must decide whether to continue a major capital investment program. The program was designed to replace aging mechanical machines with modern, electronically controlled equipment. A post-audit, after an... View Details

Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Investment; Accounting Audits; Cost Management; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Production; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Manufacturing Industry

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

Article

Megastudies Improve the Impact of Applied Behavioural Science

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Dena Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Pepi Pandiloski, Yeji Park, Aneesh Rai, Max Bazerman, John Beshears, Lauri Bonacorsi, Colin Camerer, Edward Chang, Gretchen Chapman, Robert Cialdini, Hengchen Dai, Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Ayelet Fishbach, James J. Gross, Samantha Horn, Alexa Hubbard, Steven J. Jones, Dean Karlan, Tim Kautz, Erika Kirgios, Joowon Klusowski, Ariella Kristal, Rahul Ladhania, Jens Ludwig, George Loewenstein, Barbara Mellers, Sendhil Mullainathan, Silvia Saccardo, Jann Spiess, Gaurav Suri, Joachim H. Talloen, Jamie Taxer, Yaacov Trope, Lyle Ungar, Kevin G. Volpp, Ashley V. Whillans, Jonathan Zinman and Angela L. Duckworth

Policy-makers are increasingly turning to behavioural science for insights about how to improve citizens’ decisions and outcomes. Typically, different scientists test different intervention ideas in different samples using different outcomes over different time... View Details

Keywords: Policy Making; Behavioral Science; Behavior; Change; Decision Making; Policy

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October 2009
Article

Managing Risk in the New World

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Anette Mikes, Robert Simons, Peter Tufano and Michael Hofmann Jr.

Five experts gathered recently to discuss the future of enterprise risk management: Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, who with his colleague David Norton developed the balanced scorecard; Mikes, an assistant professor at HBS who studies... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Risk Management