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  • 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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  • June 1997 (Revised February 2000)
  • Case

Walker and Company: Profit Plan Decisions

By: Robert L. Simons and Ramsey Walker
Ramsey Walker, a second-year MBA student, must decide how to control a family business as an absentee owner. After providing background details on the publishing industry, the case requires the reader to: 1) make a product segmentation decision; 2) prepare a profit... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Family and Family Relationships; Market Design; Management Systems; Planning; Profit; Performance Evaluation; Segmentation; Corporate Strategy; Investment Return; Publishing Industry
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  • July 1990 (Revised April 1998)
  • Supplement

Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks? (B)

By: Robert L. Simons and Hilary Weston
Presents a follow-up to the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Rank and Position; Conflict and Resolution; Consumer Products Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • 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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  • September 2003
  • Teaching Note

Bausch & Lomb, Inc.: Pressure to Perform (TN)

By: Robert L. Simons and Indra Reinbergs
Teaching Note to (9-198-009). View Details
Keywords: Public Relations Industry
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  • March 2001 (Revised June 2017)
  • Teaching Note

Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals: The EVA Decision

By: Robert Simons and Indra A. Reinbergs
Teaching Note for (9-101-019). View Details
Keywords: Pharmaceutical Industry; Washington (state, US)
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  • June 1999
  • Teaching Note

Hamilton Financial Investments: A Franchise Built on Trust TN

By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
Teaching Note for (9-198-089). View Details
Keywords: Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry
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  • December 1994
  • Case

AB SKA (Sweden)

By: David F. Hawkins, V.G. Narayanan and Robert L. Simons
A senior manager faces three accounting and control decisions related to a new R&D project: to expense or capitalize, how to implement management control over the R&D function, and how to use activity-based cost drivers for product costing. View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Management Practices and Processes; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Research and Development; Sweden
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  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

case:http://hbr.org/search/612091-PDF-ENG Dovernet Robert L. Simons and Natalie KindredHarvard Business School Case 112-061 This case illustrates the implications of using stringent performance measurement... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

private assets, and personal saving, represent exercises in linguistics, not economics. Technological Innovation and Organizations Authors: Josh Lerner and Pierre Azoulay Publication: In Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 23, 2016

February 2016 Review of Financial Studies Industry Window Dressing By: Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, and Dong Lou Abstract— We explore a new mechanism by which investors take correlated shortcuts and present evidence that managers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’

Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World. Copyright (c) 2013 by Michael Wheeler. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved. View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
  • 22 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

lie in research by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou, Shelley Xin Li, and George Serafeim. Power from Sunshine: A Business History of Solar EnergyThis paper by Geoffrey Jones... View Details
  • 08 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

recency) but are more cautious (positive recency). Paper not available Learning and Equilibrium As Useful Approximations: Accuracy of Prediction on Randomly Selected Constant Sum Games Author:Ido Erev, Alvin E. Roth, Robert L. Slonim, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2008
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

resource allocation lead to strategy failures? Can operations become a competitive advantage? Can "lean" Productions Methods Improve Service Industries? Bringing 'Lean' Principles to Service Industries Toyota and other top manufacturing companies have embraced,... View Details
  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

whether perceived inequity from wealth that is randomly or subjectively assigned leads individuals to cross ethical boundaries through helping or hurting others. The results show that dishonest behavior is influenced by positive and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

trust. Building trust is crucial for successful negotiations between cultures, yet intercultural negotiations are often characterized by a lack of trust. We discuss what trust is, why it matters, and why it is so difficult to establish in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

touched controversial issues including gender equality and the conflicting emotions experienced both by women who work and those who stay home to raise families. Other popular stories, listed below, looked at such diverse topics as the... View Details
  • 07 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Steve Jobs Legacy

spurned because he is so harsh and demanding. He is in turn betrayed by his closest ally (John Sculley), but ultimately the clarity of his vision and charisma triumph, and he transforms the world. The transformation in communications he... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Computer; Technology
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

audits yield fewer violations when the audit team had been at that particular supplier before, when audit teams are less experienced or less trained, when audit teams are all male, and when the audits were paid for by the supplier instead... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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