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      • May 1990 (Revised September 1994)
      • Background Note

      Note on Financial Reporting Strategy and Analysis When Managers Have Proprietary Information

      By: Krishna G. Palepu
      Provides a framework that helps explain these real-world observations about accounting and financial statement analysis. When managers have superior information on firms' strategies, and when investors suspect that managers have incentives not to fully disclose this... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Reporting; Strategy; Knowledge Management
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      Palepu, Krishna G. "Note on Financial Reporting Strategy and Analysis When Managers Have Proprietary Information." Harvard Business School Background Note 190-188, May 1990. (Revised September 1994.)
      • March 1990 (Revised June 1993)
      • Case

      Analog Devices, Inc.: The Half-Life System

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      The company has committed to major improvements in quality, cost, and on-time delivery performance. Despite strong senior management support, however, the actual rate of improvement was disappointing until a new measurement philosophy was introduced. The new approach... View Details
      Keywords: Quality; Performance Improvement; Earnings Management; Financial Reporting; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Business or Company Management; Cost Management; Measurement and Metrics; Management Teams; Semiconductor Industry
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Analog Devices, Inc.: The Half-Life System." Harvard Business School Case 190-061, March 1990. (Revised June 1993.)
      • January 1990 (Revised March 1991)
      • Case

      American Red Cross Blood Services: Northeast Region

      By: Robert L. Simons
      Recounts the financial difficulties and management changes experienced by American Red Cross Blood Services: Northeast Region (NER) during the 1980s. After summarizing industry-wide changes in the collection, testing, and distribution of blood and blood products, the... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Financial Management; Restructuring; Health; SWOT Analysis; Social Enterprise; Marketplace Matching; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; North and Central America
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      Simons, Robert L. "American Red Cross Blood Services: Northeast Region." Harvard Business School Case 190-078, January 1990. (Revised March 1991.)
      • December 1989
      • Supplement

      People Express Decline: Interview with Don Burr, Video

      By: Michael Beer
      Presents an interview with Don Burr, CEO, as he reviews his account of how and why People Express failed as a corporation and was ultimately sold to Continental Airlines. View Details
      Keywords: Management Teams; Failure; Business Exit or Shutdown; Air Transportation Industry
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      Beer, Michael. "People Express Decline: Interview with Don Burr, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 890-508, December 1989.
      • November 1989 (Revised November 1999)
      • Case

      Automatic Data Processing: The EFS Decision

      By: Robert L. Simons and Hilary Weston
      Illustrates how ADP's top management uses formal planning and control systems to establish strategic boundaries for its business units. Top management has developed a detailed list of strategic criteria that ADP managers use to evaluate products and business units, as... View Details
      Keywords: Business Units; Strategic Planning; Management Systems; Accounting; Acquisition
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      Simons, Robert L., and Hilary Weston. "Automatic Data Processing: The EFS Decision." Harvard Business School Case 190-059, November 1989. (Revised November 1999.)
      • November 1989
      • Teaching Note

      H.J. Heinz Co.: The Administration of Policy (A), (B), (C), and (D), Teaching Note

      By: Kenneth E. Goodpaster and Thomas R. Piper
      Teaching Note for (9-382-034, 035, 036, and 037). View Details
      Keywords: Business Earnings; Management Practices and Processes; Motivation and Incentives; System; Ethics; Policy; Business Divisions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Food and Beverage Industry
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      Goodpaster, Kenneth E., and Thomas R. Piper. "H.J. Heinz Co.: The Administration of Policy (A), (B), (C), and (D), Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 390-045, November 1989.
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      Productivity Measurement and Management Accounting

      By: R. Banker, S. Datar and Robert S. Kaplan
      Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Management; Accounting
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      Banker, R., S. Datar, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Productivity Measurement and Management Accounting." Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance 4, no. 4 (Fall 1989): 528–554.
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      Management Accounting in Advanced Technological Environments

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Keywords: Management; Accounting; Technology
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Management Accounting in Advanced Technological Environments." Science 245, no. 4920 (August 25, 1989): 819–823.
      • July 1989 (Revised August 1993)
      • Supplement

      Kanthal (B)

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Describes actions taken by senior management of Kanthal after seeing the results of the newly installed account management system. Designed as a class handout. A rewritten version of an earlier case by the same author. View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Management Systems; Management Teams
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Kanthal (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 190-003, July 1989. (Revised August 1993.)
      • July 1989 (Revised April 2001)
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      Kanthal (A)

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Multinational company needs an improved cost system to determine the profitability of individual customer orders. Its strategy is to have significant sales and profitability growth without adding additional administrative and support people. The new cost system... View Details
      Keywords: Cost Accounting; Earnings Management; Cost Management; Financial Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Business or Company Management; Customer Relationship Management; Sales; Business Strategy; Profit; Electronics Industry
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Kanthal (A)." Harvard Business School Case 190-002, July 1989. (Revised April 2001.)
      • March 1989 (Revised March 1999)
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      Metabo GmbH & Co. KG

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      A privately owned German power tool company was dissatisfied with its existing cost system. The system could not produce timely accurate reports on cost center operations, and newly purchased automated machines were attracting large overhead costs. A new, highly... View Details
      Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost; Budgets and Budgeting; Capital Budgeting; Cost Management; Reports; Private Ownership; Business or Company Management; Consumer Products Industry; Germany
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Metabo GmbH & Co. KG." Harvard Business School Case 189-146, March 1989. (Revised March 1999.)
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      Capital Allocation Hurdle Rates, Budgets or Both?

      By: W. C. Kester and R. Taggart
      Keywords: Resource Allocation; Capital; Budgets and Budgeting
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      Kester, W. C., and R. Taggart. "Capital Allocation Hurdle Rates, Budgets or Both?" MIT Sloan Management Review 30, no. 3 (Spring 1989): 83–90.
      • January 1989 (Revised April 1991)
      • Case

      General Electric: Valley Forge (A)

      By: Robert L. Simons
      A series of eight vignette cases designed to be taught in one classroom session. This case describes a potential problem in the way that General Electric has billed the government under a large defense contract. Designed to allow students to discuss what actions top... View Details
      Keywords: Government Administration; Contracts; Policy; Accounting; Management Teams; Business and Government Relations; Industrial Products Industry
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      Simons, Robert L. "General Electric: Valley Forge (A)." Harvard Business School Case 189-009, January 1989. (Revised April 1991.)
      • 1988
      • Chapter

      Originality in Management Accounting Systems: Field Studies of the Processes

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Keywords: Accounting; Innovation and Management
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Originality in Management Accounting Systems: Field Studies of the Processes." In New Directions in Creative and Innovative Management, edited by Y. Ijiri and R. L. Kuhn, 103–114. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1988.
      • fall 1988
      • Article

      Analysis of the Organizational Characteristics Related to Tight Budget Goals

      By: R. Simons
      Keywords: Organizations; Budgets and Budgeting; Goals and Objectives
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      Simons, R. "Analysis of the Organizational Characteristics Related to Tight Budget Goals." Contemporary Accounting Research 5, no. 1 (fall 1988): 267–283.
      • August 1988
      • Background Note

      Close Encounters of the Four Kinds: Managing Customers in a Rapidly Changing Environment

      By: Benson P. Shapiro
      Describes four kinds of selling: 1) transaction, 2) systems, 3) major account management, and 4) strategic account relationships. Explains the advantages, disadvantages, and risks of each. The second half is devoted to a discussion of strategic account relationships... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Psychology
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      Shapiro, Benson P. "Close Encounters of the Four Kinds: Managing Customers in a Rapidly Changing Environment." Harvard Business School Background Note 589-015, August 1988.
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      Management by Accounting is Not Management Accounting

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Keywords: Management; Accounting
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Management by Accounting is Not Management Accounting." Forum. CFO 4, no. 7 (July 1988).
      • 1988
      • Article

      Relevance: Putting 'Management' Back into Management Accounting

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Keywords: Management; Cost Accounting
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Relevance: Putting 'Management' Back into Management Accounting." Consultants Forum 5, no. 2 (1988): 6–11.
      • November 1987
      • Background Note

      The Magic Matrix: Products and Accounts

      By: Benson P. Shapiro
      Describes an interfunctional approach to product mix management and account selection. The approach uses a matrix of products and accounts. Also describes the concepts and implementation of the approach. View Details
      Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Customers
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      Shapiro, Benson P. "The Magic Matrix: Products and Accounts." Harvard Business School Background Note 588-006, November 1987.
      • 1987
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      Research Cultures in Management Accounting: Empirical Research

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Keywords: Cost Accounting; Research
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Research Cultures in Management Accounting: Empirical Research." In Accounting and Culture, edited by Barry E. Cushing, 78–87. Sarasota: American Accounting Association, 1987.
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