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

    This HBS working paper focuses on the relationship between business strategy, organization structure, and diagnostic control systems. The project analyzes data from 75 field studies to illustrate how managers adjust span of accountability and span of control to... View Details

    • May 2017
    • Case

    ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers

    By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
    An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) relocation process, and 5) takeover by new management. At each stage, students must... View Details
    Keywords: Balancing Innovation And Control; Performance Evaluation; Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Risk Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Profit; Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Innovation and Invention; Management Succession; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    Simons, Robert, and Jennifer Packard. "ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers." Harvard Business School Case 117-012, May 2017.
    • 01 Feb 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

    Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy, published by Prentice Hall. Q: What's the context for the development of this book? Simons: My colleagues and I in the School's Accounting and... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
    • November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
    • Module Note

    Strategy Execution Module 13: Identifying Strategic Risk

    By: Robert Simons
    This module reading begins by describing the three sources of strategic risk—operations risk, asset impairment risk, and competitive risk—and demonstrates how these risks can undermine an entire business. To assist in the identification of these risks, the risk... View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Risk Assessment; Operational Control; Asset Impairment; Franchise Risk; Fraud; Strategy; Information Management
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    Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 13: Identifying Strategic Risk." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-113, November 2016. (Revised December 2016.)
    • July 2011
    • Article

    Unexploited Efficiencies in Higher Education

    By: Henry C. Eyring
    In "Unexploited Efficiencies in Higher Education," Henry C. Eyring argues that one way that the U.S. can compete globally in college attainment is to decrease cost-per-graduate. He explains how many stakeholders in higher education stand to benefit from unexploited... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Measurement; Innovation; Control Systems; Education; Performance Evaluation; Innovation and Invention; Education Industry; United States
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    Eyring, Henry C. "Unexploited Efficiencies in Higher Education." Art. 1. Contemporary Issues in Education Research 4, no. 7 (July 2011): 1–18. (Best Paper Award, March 2011 Clute Institute International Economic Conference.)
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Empowering Bureaucracy: Achieving Non-Hierarchical Control and Employee Autonomy Through Dynamic Formal Roles

    By: Michael Lee
    Hierarchy and formal structure are conventionally viewed as two tightly coupled dimensions of organization design. As organizations move from more hierarchical to less hierarchical authority structures, they also tend to reduce formal structure. However, organic... View Details
    Keywords: Organization Design; Autonomy; Decentralization; Self-Managed Organizations; Formalization; Roles; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Management Systems
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    Lee, Michael. "Empowering Bureaucracy: Achieving Non-Hierarchical Control and Employee Autonomy Through Dynamic Formal Roles." Working Paper, August 2017.
    • April 1991 (Revised May 2017)
    • Teaching Note

    Automatic Data Processing: The EFS Decision

    By: Robert Simons
    Teaching Note for (9-190-059). View Details
    Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Boundary Systems; Information Technology; Decision Making
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    Simons, Robert. "Automatic Data Processing: The EFS Decision." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 191-170, April 1991. (Revised May 2017.)
    • June 2010 (Revised May 2017)
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    Sydney IVF: Stem Cell Research

    By: Robert Simons and Kathryn Rosenberg
    Teaching Note for 109017. View Details
    Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Levers Of Control; Strategy; Risk Management; Decisions; Cooperative Ownership; Product Development; Moral Sensibility; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Expansion; Science-Based Business; Research; Management Practices and Processes; Business Subsidiaries; Biotechnology Industry; Sydney
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    Simons, Robert, and Kathryn Rosenberg. "Sydney IVF: Stem Cell Research." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 110-092, June 2010. (Revised May 2017.)
    • February 2022 (Revised October 2022)
    • Supplement

    Henkel: Building a Winning Culture (D)

    By: Robert L. Simons and Carolyn Deller
    This three-page case is the third update to Henkel: Building a Winning Culture (A). In this supplement, dated 2021, a new CEO has taken over Henkel and implemented a new strategy. His changes to the original performance management system are presented as a new... View Details
    Keywords: Execution; Management Control Systems; Performance Goals; Incentives; Levers Of Control; Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance Evaluation
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    Simons, Robert L., and Carolyn Deller. "Henkel: Building a Winning Culture (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 122-055, February 2022. (Revised October 2022.)
    • May 1991 (Revised March 2018)
    • Teaching Note

    Automation Consulting Services

    By: Robert Simons
    Teaching Note for 190-053 View Details
    Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Levers Of Control; Consulting Industry
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    Simons, Robert. "Automation Consulting Services." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 191-030, May 1991. (Revised March 2018.)
    • June 2014 (Revised February 2017)
    • Teaching Note

    Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance

    By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
    This is the teaching note for Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance (HBS No. 114-001) View Details
    Keywords: Execution; Management Control Systems; Risk; Balancing Innovation And Control; Strategy; Risk Management; Education Industry
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    Simons, Robert, and Natalie Kindred. "Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 114-062, June 2014. (Revised February 2017.)
    • March 2014
    • Article

    Choosing the Right Customer

    By: Robert Simons
    Companies that win in competitive markets identify a primary customer and dedicate maximum resources to meeting that customer's needs. This article will show you how to identify the best primary customer for your business by analyzing perspective, capabilities, and... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy Execution; Customer Focus; Organization Design; Accountability; Management Control Systems; Customer Relationship Management; Organizational Design
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    Simons, Robert. "Choosing the Right Customer." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 3 (March 2014): 48–55.
    • June 2017
    • Teaching Note

    Organizing for Performance: Four Vignettes

    By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
    Teaching Note for HBS No. 117-062. View Details
    Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Organization; Span Of Control; Resource Allocation
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    Simons, Robert, and Jennifer Packard. "Organizing for Performance: Four Vignettes." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 117-063, June 2017.
    • January 2009 (Revised April 2017)
    • Teaching Note

    American Cancer Society: Access to Care

    By: Robert Simons
    Teaching Note for [109015]. View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Strategy And Execution; Levers Of Control; Non-profit; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations
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    Simons, Robert. "American Cancer Society: Access to Care." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 109-016, January 2009. (Revised April 2017.)
    • 2021
    • Article

    How Top Managers Use the Entrepreneurial Gap to Drive Strategic Change

    By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
    Prior research provides strong evidence for the association between business strategy and the design and use of management control systems. We complement this research by examining the role of management control systems in situations of strategic change. We report the... View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Accountability; Strategic Change; Organization Change And Adaptation; Organizational Performance; Management Systems; Organizational Structure; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance
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    Simons, Robert L., and Antonio Davila. "How Top Managers Use the Entrepreneurial Gap to Drive Strategic Change." European Accounting Review 30, no. 4 (2021): 583–609.
    • 2015
    • Chapter

    How Leaders Use Values-based Guidance Systems to Create Dynamic Capabilities

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Matthew Bird, Ethan Bernstein and Ryan Raffaelli
    How do strategic leaders create change-adept organizations? Based on qualitative field research, this chapter argues that well-defined institutionalized purpose, values, and principles act as an organizational guidance system that integrates and strengthens the... View Details
    Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Field Research; Intrinsic Motivation; Organizational Identity; Ecosystem; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Motivation and Incentives; Research; Management Systems; Change
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    Kanter, Rosabeth M., Matthew Bird, Ethan Bernstein, and Ryan Raffaelli. "How Leaders Use Values-based Guidance Systems to Create Dynamic Capabilities." Chap. 2 in The Oxford Handbook of Dynamic Capabilities, edited by David J. Teece and Sohvi Leih. Oxford University Press, 2015. Electronic.
    • 24 Aug 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

    another aligned with the core set of principles. This kind of human control system does not work perfectly by itself, but it certainly reduces the need for rules and thus helps people feel autonomous. Rather... View Details
    Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    • August 2017
    • Supplement

    Quiet Logistics: CEO Bruce Welty Discusses New Robotics Company

    By: Robert L. Simons and Jennifer Packard
    This is a video supplement to Quiet Logistics A (HBS No. 115-001) and Quiet Logistics B (HBS No. 115-003). View Details
    Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Risk and Uncertainty
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    Simons, Robert L., and Jennifer Packard. "Quiet Logistics: CEO Bruce Welty Discusses New Robotics Company." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 118-701, August 2017.
    • 25 Mar 2016
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    The Race Is On to Control Artificial Intelligence, and Tech’s Future

    • March 2005 (Revised June 2005)
    • Case

    Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (B)

    By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
    Supplements the (A) case. View Details
    Keywords: Governance Controls; Financial Crisis; Foreign Direct Investment; Currency Exchange Rate; Inflation and Deflation; Demand and Consumers; Interest Rates; Capital; System; Central Banking; Chile
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    Alfaro, Laura, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Ingrid Vogel. "Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (B)." Harvard Business School Case 705-032, March 2005. (Revised June 2005.)
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