by Robert Pozen - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jun 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Entrepreneurial Gap: How Managers Adjust Span of Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy

09 Dec 2009
News

Robert Pozen's new book Too Big to Save?

30 Oct 2014
Blog Post

Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Robert Leke...

Africa clearly places one at the forefront of the socio-economic difficulties confronting the region today. However, I continue to be amazed by the profound determination and optimism which I discover in the people I meet: hope for a... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

09 Nov 2016
HBS Seminar

Robert A. Miller, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

20 Dec 2006
Working Paper Summaries

The Demise of Cost and Profit Centers

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

now possible through an approach that we call time-driven ABC, which we have successfully helped more than 100 client companies implement, including those described in this article. In the revised approach, managers directly estimate the resource demands imposed View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

16 Sep 2015
Op-Ed

The Real Duty of the Board of Directors

capital. These rights are free from the burdens of ownership. Shareholders thus become temporary, while the corporation is permanent—controlled not by shareholders, but by the board of directors. Under a... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans

23 May 2011
Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

Editor's note: Please see related story, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective. To what extent companies contribute to a sustainable society is a question increasingly important, not only to the companies themselves, but also to investors, the countries... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

20 Nov 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Reverse the Curse of the Top-5

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Education

17 Nov 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket

Keywords: by Robert Simons

23 Mar 2010
News

Robert Huckman on the Passage of U.S. Healthcare Reform Legislation

01 Dec 2004
News

A Life by Design

As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

but they will inform the process by asking questions like "How do we keep suppliers from accessing the payroll data?" Just as companies keep an eye on their equipment and supplies by conducting... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Keeping Your Balance With Customers

A successful CM strategy must address each of the following processes. (Typical objectives and measures for customer management are shown in Figure 1.) 1. Customer selection. The customer selection process begins with an understanding of the customer, first View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

by themselves. They need contributions—actions and ideas—from everyone. Individuals far from corporate and regional headquarters create considerable value by finding new and improved ways of doing business.... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

08 May 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan

Keywords: by Robert Dujarric & Andrei Hagiu

Article

Adding Value by Talking More

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Derek A. Haas and Jonathan Warsh

The prevailing fee-for-service payment model has led health care administrators and physician practices to impose severe constraints on the time physicians spend talking, for which they are reimbursed poorly or not at all. New value-based reimbursement models, however,... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Cost Management; Health Care and Treatment; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Industry

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01 Jun 2017
News

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productivity. Professor Emeritus Robert S. Kaplan explain how he uses action research to lower the cost of health care. Professor Mihir Desai talk about his research and his testimony before Congress on international tax reform. View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

Will the real Robert Kinloch Massie (DBA '89) please stand up? Priest. Politician. University lecturer. Medical marvel. Social activist. Prize-winning historian. Environmentalist. Executive. While Bob Massie is justified in rising to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

24 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

corporate policies that will be administered by corporate support units. Corporate office to business units: The corporate priorities are cascaded into business unit strategies. Business units to support units: The strategic priorities of... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail

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