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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

to determine whether TDABC could improve the accuracy of cost information and identify value-improvement opportunities for two types of heart-value procedures. Using TDABC, leaders gained a detailed look into process steps that could be... View Details

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Wilmington Tap and Die

By: Robert S. Kaplan

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

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Community Values & Honor Code | HBS Online

AND DIGNITY OF OTHERS HONESTY AND INTEGRITY IN DEALING WITH ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY ACCOUNTABILITY FOR PERSONAL BEHAVIOR HBS can and should be a living model of these values. To this end, community members have a personal... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Finding a Balance

of the product is identical by law. That was an interesting puzzle to me.” After focusing his study on antiretrovirals, Deshpandé saw other issues emerge. At the same time, he was asked to join the teaching team for Leadership and Corporate View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2006
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Notebook

if you walk into Best Buy and purchase a cell phone, we run your credit score and activate the account so you can walk out with a phone that’s ready to use. We tie together the retailers that sell digital services with the providers of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Information; Information; Information; Information

01 Apr 1999
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A Vibrant Brand

magazine cosponsored "Jamizon," a national urban music festival that toured two dozen cities. Entrepreneurial Drive Clinkscales's remarkable accomplishments began with a fundamental observation that led him to launch his first publication, Urban Profile. In the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

15 Oct 2019
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Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa

discussed the global digital leader. If the metric for evaluating the immersion’s success is faculty enthusiasm, by all accounts it was a huge win. “This was a weeklong drink from a fire hose,” says Chandra of his experience. “I learned... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change

drives accountability in any industry,” observes Gehl. “Final-Five Voting is less about changing who gets elected and far more about changing the incentives governing the behavior of those in office. It’s about the benefits of healthy... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan

06 Dec 2021
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Truth Be Told

False Claims Act, which rewards whistleblowers who report fraud against the federal government with a percentage of the money recovered. “We need to understand the costs,” explains Heese, “and how to empower the people who have important View Details

Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

historian and Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullogh. I've heard that it's a nitty-gritty account of how they achieved sustained flight—against all odds and through industriousness, patience, and relentless experimentation. Robert Kaplan... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Information

12 Mar 2012
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Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

collected information from some 300 large American firms, focusing primarily on the period between 1986 and 1999. By evaluating a combination of confidential compensation surveys, public accounting records,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Company databases: which database to choose? | Baker Library

developments. Also, screen for HBS alumni status. For a multimedia learning module on Capital IQ check out our Learn with Baker Library Capital IQ Introduction. EMIS Availability: HarvardKey Strengths/Unique Features: Current company View Details

25 Oct 2006
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Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

maximize value for their shareholders as a whole in the most effective way. Drawing on theories of distributive justice to inform CEO compensation will surely be met with skepticism. From an accounting... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis

08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

accountability and people working together to solve problems. This is Chuck Callan, 1982. My first job-- oh, that's going back a ways. Well, I guess I was somewhat industrious as a kid and I used to rake leaves and stack wood, cut grass... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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How I Got to Google

essentially the same—but the scope of my products has increased in size. My first role at Google was working on features on a product for Google Checkout. Now I get to work in health search, which accounts for one in 20 queries on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

27 Aug 2019
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A Shot at Success

like the ones her former teammates had experienced, she needed to understand the problems. In 2016, she quit her accounting job and moved to Bolivia to work as a teacher for A Ganar, a youth-workforce-development program that uses soccer... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2012
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Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech

Narayanan, the Thomas D. Casserly Jr. Professor of Business Administration and chair of the Accounting and Management Unit. Called the Balanced Scorecard Game, the complex simulation was the result of intensive research, development, and... View Details

Keywords: Professor V.G. Narayanan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

opportunity to see both sides of the issue. When Hrad enters into a contract to create a new accounts payable system for Welsh toy distributor Tegan, the outsourcing firm from the Czech Republic views the project as another step in its... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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