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  • 28 Feb 2023
  • News

Muhammad Ali: A Case Study in Purpose-Driven Decision Making

  • November 1987 (Revised April 2017)
  • Teaching Note

Polysar Limited

By: Robert Simons
Teaching Note for (9-187-098). View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Strategy And Execution; Performance Measurement; Variance Analysis; Profit Management; Canada
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  • April 1991 (Revised March 2017)
  • Teaching Note

Mary Kay Cosmetics: Sales Force Incentives (A) and (B)

By: Robert Simons
Teaching Note for (9-190-103) and (9-190-122). View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Salesforce Management; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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  • November 2010
  • Article

Stress-Test Your Strategy: The 7 Questions to Ask

By: Robert Simons
An economic downturn can quickly expose the shortcomings of your business strategy. But can you identify its weak points in good times as well? And can you focus on those weak points that really matter? I identify seven questions all executives should ask in order to... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Creativity; Success; Customers; Employees; Business and Shareholder Relations; Performance; Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • 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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  • September 1991 (Revised January 2017)
  • Teaching Note

Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks? (A) and (B)

By: Robert Simons
Teaching Note for Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks, Case A (191-002) and Case B (192-027) View Details
Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Control Systems; Performance Goals; Incentives; Span Of Control; Span Of Accountability; Problems and Challenges; Retail Industry
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  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

Business Review What's Your Language Strategy? It Should Bind Your Company's Global Talent Management and Vision By: Neeley, Tsedal, and Robert Steven Kaplan Abstract—Language pervades every aspect of organizational life. Yet leaders of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

misconceptions distort the popular understanding of U.S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct four common misunderstandings by providing a statistical portrait of several aspects of U.S. affiliate activity in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

economic trends a central economic activity and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2019 (Revised March 2021)
  • Teaching Note

C3.ai—Driven to Succeed

By: Robert Simons
Teaching Note for HBS No. 119-004. Teaching Note includes link to 8 supplement videos for faculty to use during class. View Details
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  • May 1991 (Revised March 2017)
  • Teaching Note

Tennessee Controls: The Strategic Ranking Problem

By: Robert Simons
Teaching Note for (9-191-083). View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Strategy
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  • 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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  • April 1991 (Revised March 2017)
  • Teaching Note

Westchester Distributing, Inc. (A) and (B)

By: Robert Simons
Teaching Note for (9-191-118) and (9-191-119). View Details
Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Internal Controls; Risk Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Distribution Industry
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  • September 1987 (Revised May 2017)
  • Teaching Note

Codman & Shurtleff, Inc.: Planning and Control System

By: Robert Simons
Teaching Note for (9-187-081). View Details
Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Control Systems; Planning; System
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  • 10 Jun 2025
  • News

How Bill Wilson Cofounded Alcoholics Anonymous and Created a Lasting Social Movement

  • 01 Nov 2022
  • News

Marie Curie: A Case Study in Breaking Barriers

  • 2017
  • Other Article

Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance

By: Alan MacCormack and Robert Lagerstrom
The modern industrial corporation encompasses a myriad of different software applications, each of which must work in concert to deliver functionality to end-users. However, the increasingly complex and dynamic nature of competition in today’s product-markets dictates... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness
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  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Books

www.mindedge.com. Performance Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy by Robert L. Simons (Prentice Hall) "This book is built around a number of tensions... View Details
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

of investing at home than those where external managers are involved. At the same time, SWFs with external managers tend to invest in lower P/E industries, which see an increase in the P/E ratios in the year after the investment. By way... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample evidence, though, that people misuse care for a different reason: mistakes or "behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne