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01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

professor Robert Simons has been adding to that body of knowledge and practice through an extensive research agenda that has resulted in numerous books, articles, and case studies. Working Knowledge editor... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

01 Jun 2015
News

Fever Pitch

great generation of small business owners. Most Innovative Selected by alumni and students BollyX Fitness (Northeastern US Region) Minal Mehta (MBA 2011) The world’s leading and fastest-growing Bollywood fitness company. Greatest Impact... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Personal Services

Web

In the News - Entrepreneurship

World Re: Robert Simons 01 Jul 2025 Transform Work Transform Work with Rem Koning , Associate Professor at Harvard Business School Re: Rembrand (Rem) Koning 20 Jun 2025 Bloomberg Silicon Valley’s ‘Tiny Team’... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

Afya Pamoja cofounders Patrick Anyanga, Robert Smith, Dr. Helga Mutasingwa, and Simon DeBere at the company’s office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In Tanzania, women are 100 times more likely to die from... View Details

Keywords: April White

February 8, 2022
Article

Time-Driven Activity-Based Cost Comparison of Treating Five Acute, Low-Severity Conditions

By: Alan Yang, Andy Hung-Yi Lee, Joseph W. Kopp, Katherine D. Rose, Adam M. Licurse, Philip D. Anderson and Robert S. Kaplan

In 2017, patients made 145 million visits to emergency departments (EDs), generating $76.3 billion in charges. About a third of ED visits, however, were for conditions that were treatable in lower-resourced settings. We used time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... View Details

Keywords: Time-Driven ABC; Health Care Costs; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment

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01 Mar 2011
News

Faculty Research Online

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Robert Simons explains how managers can... View Details

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

April 2019
Supplement

Prioritizing Employees, Customers, Investors

April 2017 (Revised August 2019)
Supplement

Cafes Monte Bianco - Varying Interest Solution

This is the varying interest solution to the case Cafes Monte Bianco: Building a Profit Plan (HBS No. 198-088) View Details

Oct 2013
Conference Presentation

Seven Strategy Questions

May 1992 (Revised January 2000)
Supplement

ABB: Accountability Times Two (A)

Describes the complexity of setting and reconciling performance targets in a global, matrix company. The president of the Finnish industry and rail transport company has received targets from two bosses--his regional superior and his business area superior. Each has... View Details

Keywords: Performance Expectations; Complexity; Multinational Firms and Management; Finland

May 1991 (Revised March 1992)
Teaching Note

USA Today, Teaching Note

Teaching Note for (9-191-004). View Details

Keywords: Media and Broadcasting Industry

March 1991 (Revised February 1992)
Teaching Note

IBM Corp: ""Make It Your Business"" (A) and (B), Teaching Note

Teaching Note for (9-190-137) and (9-190-138). View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry

March 2009
Case

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

This case breaks the existing (and still available) Bausch & Lomb, Inc.: Pressure to Perform case into an (A) and a (B) case. The (A) case describes the revenue recognition concerns as of early-1994 and the organizational context within which the decisions were made. View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings; Revenue; Accounting; Management Practices and Processes; Situation or Environment; Earnings Management; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

Educators

March 1990 (Revised March 1992)
Supplement

Mary Kay Cosmetics: Sales Force Incentives (B)

Details the changes made to the VIP automobile plan. View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Salesforce Management; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

November 1989 (Revised June 1991)
Background Note

Facts and Figures on Defense Procurement: The Department of Defense and Defense Procurement, An Overview

Provides statistics and other factual information on the Department of Defense procurement process, DOD expenditures, market share segmentation, the variety of contract types, and the role of the Defense Contract Audit Agency. View Details

Keywords: National Security