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      • February 1998 (Revised March 1998)
      • Case

      Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital

      By: Richard S. Ruback
      Presents recommendations for hurdle rates of Marriott's divisions to select by discounting appropriate cash flows by the appropriate hurdle rate for each division. View Details
      Keywords: Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing
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      Ruback, Richard S. "Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital." Harvard Business School Case 298-101, February 1998. (Revised March 1998.)
      • February 1998 (Revised May 2007)
      • Case

      Airborne Express

      By: Jan W. Rivkin
      In the wake of a highly successful quarter, senior managers of Airborne Express, the third largest player in the express mail industry, review the firm's competitive position. Airborne has survived, and recently prospered, in an industry with significant economies of... View Details
      Keywords: Competition; Business Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Global Strategy; Rank and Position; Service Industry
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      Rivkin, Jan W. "Airborne Express." Harvard Business School Case 798-070, February 1998. (Revised May 2007.)
      • February 1998
      • Teaching Note

      Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital (Abridged), Teaching Note

      By: Richard S. Ruback
      Teaching Note for (9-289-047). View Details
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      Ruback, Richard S. "Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital (Abridged), Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 298-081, February 1998.
      • 1998
      • Working Paper

      Variations in Costs of Living Across States

      By: Dutch Leonard and Monica E Friar
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      Leonard, Dutch, and Monica E Friar. "Variations in Costs of Living Across States." Taubman Center Working Paper, February 1998.
      • January 1998 (Revised July 2019)
      • Case

      Cafes Monte Bianco: Building a Profit Plan

      By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
      Alert: This case has been revised since its original publication; all amounts have been converted to euros and the dates have been updated to 2020. If you’ve taught with this case in the past, please note that changes may affect teaching plans and classroom use. Using... View Details
      Keywords: Strategic Planning; Cash Flow; Investment Return; Profit; Financial Statements; Food and Beverage Industry; Italy
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      Simons, Robert L., and Antonio Davila. "Cafes Monte Bianco: Building a Profit Plan." Harvard Business School Case 198-088, January 1998. (Revised July 2019.)
      • January 1998
      • Case

      Connecticut Spring and Stamping Corporation (B)

      By: H. Kent Bowen, Massimo Russo and Steven J. Spear
      Connecticut Spring and Stamping Corp. (CSSC), a 50-year-old spring manufacturing and metal stamping firm, is experiencing slow sales growth and feeling the impact of global competition. The company has over 800 customers but little understanding of those customers'... View Details
      Keywords: Globalization; Competency and Skills; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Production; Customer Relationship Management; Quality; Training; Performance Efficiency; Cost Management; Sales; System
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      Bowen, H. Kent, Massimo Russo, and Steven J. Spear. "Connecticut Spring and Stamping Corporation (B)." Harvard Business School Case 698-038, January 1998.
      • January 1998 (Revised March 1998)
      • Case

      Viacom, Inc.: Carpe Diem (Condensed)

      By: Joseph L. Bower and Thomas R. Eisenmann
      Viacom has built a powerful position in the global entertainment industry through skillful and bold acquisitions. Now its expansion is challenged by the moves of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Different businesses within Viacom have contradictory positions on how to deal... View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Entertainment; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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      Bower, Joseph L., and Thomas R. Eisenmann. "Viacom, Inc.: Carpe Diem (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 398-086, January 1998. (Revised March 1998.)
      • 1998
      • Book

      Advanced Management Accounting

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anthony A. Atkinson
      Keywords: Management; Cost Accounting
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      Kaplan, Robert S., and Anthony A. Atkinson. Advanced Management Accounting. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.
      • 1998
      • Book

      Understanding Costs

      By: W. J. Bruns Jr., R. S. Kaplan, R. Cooper, A. Schleifer Jr. and Donella Marie Rapier
      Keywords: Cost
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      Bruns, W. J., Jr., R. S. Kaplan, R. Cooper, A. Schleifer Jr., and Donella Marie Rapier. Understanding Costs. Business Fundamentals . Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1998.
      • 1998
      • Book

      Cost and Effect: Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper
      Keywords: Cost vs Benefits
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      Kaplan, Robert S., and Robin Cooper. Cost and Effect: Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998.
      • 1998
      • Journal Article

      Ford's Model-T: Pricing over the Product Life Cycle

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
      The pricing decisions monopolistic firms make over time are determined to a large extent by the complex interplay of two distinct sets of elements: demand- and supply-based considerations. Demand factors include the possibilities of (a) exercising dynamic price... View Details
      Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Price; Information; Demand and Consumers; Monopoly; Product; Sales; Complexity; Auto Industry
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon. "Ford's Model-T: Pricing over the Product Life Cycle." Abante: Estudios en dirección de empresas 1, no. 2 (1998): 143–65.
      • January 1998
      • Article

      Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Financial Institutions: An Integrated Approach

      By: K. A. Froot and J. Stein
      Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Cost Of Capital; Banking And Insurance; Asset Pricing; Hedging; Banking; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Insurance; Policy; Risk Management; Natural Disasters; Insurance Industry
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      Froot, K. A., and J. Stein. "Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Financial Institutions: An Integrated Approach." Journal of Financial Economics 47, no. 1 (January 1998): 55–82. (Winner of Journal of Financial Economics. Jensen Prize. First Place For the best paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the areas of corporate finance and organizations. Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 5403, January 1996 and HBS Working Paper 96-030, December 1995.)
      • January 1998
      • Article

      Tradeoffs within Costing Systems between Incentives and Measurement Objectives

      By: M. Alles, S. Datar and M. Gupta
      Keywords: System; Motivation and Incentives; Measurement and Metrics; Goals and Objectives
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      Alles, M., S. Datar, and M. Gupta. "Tradeoffs within Costing Systems between Incentives and Measurement Objectives." Managerial Finance 24, no. 1 (January 1998): 1–18.
      • December 1997
      • Case

      Wriston Manufacturing Corporation

      By: Janice H. Hammond
      Wriston Manufacturing is a broad-line maker of components for the automotive industry. It has developed a network of nine plants as its product line has grown. Newer, higher-volume products tend to be made in newer, focused, high-volume plants, while older product... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Cost Management; Business or Company Management; Production; Performance Efficiency; Auto Industry
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      Hammond, Janice H. "Wriston Manufacturing Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 698-049, December 1997.
      • November 1997
      • Case

      Microsoft Goes Online: MSN 1996

      By: David B. Yoffie
      Explores Microsoft's decision to enter the online services industry in the light of its competition and the growing importance of the Internet. Significant issues include the cost and availability of content, telecomm/Internet access costs, competition with the World... View Details
      Keywords: Cost Management; Growth and Development; Market Entry and Exit; Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Web; Information Technology Industry
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      Yoffie, David B. "Microsoft Goes Online: MSN 1996." Harvard Business School Case 798-019, November 1997.
      • November 1997 (Revised May 1998)
      • Teaching Note

      Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (A) and (B) TN

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Teaching Note for (9-196-115) and (9-196-117). View Details
      Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; City
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (A) and (B) TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 198-066, November 1997. (Revised May 1998.)
      • October 1997 (Revised April 1998)
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      C-Car

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
      C-Car was the first automobile retailer in the United States to go public. Subsequently the owner, Mr. Gilliland, must decide how to invest the capital raised from the public ownership. This case describes in detail C-Car's highly profitable strategy of managing its... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Cost vs Benefits; Management Practices and Processes; Profit; Acquisition; Business Strategy; Public Ownership; Auto Industry; Retail Industry
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "C-Car." Harvard Business School Case 598-064, October 1997. (Revised April 1998.)
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      Configuring a Supply Chain to Reduce the Cost of Demand Uncertainty

      By: A. Raman, M. Fisher, J. Hammond and W. Obermeyer
      Keywords: Supply Chain; Cost; Risk and Uncertainty
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      Raman, A., M. Fisher, J. Hammond, and W. Obermeyer. "Configuring a Supply Chain to Reduce the Cost of Demand Uncertainty." Production and Operations Management 6, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 211–225.
      • October 1997
      • Article

      Does Competition Kill Corruption?

      By: Christopher Bliss and Rafael Di Tella
      Corrupt agents (officials or gangsters) exact money from firms. Corruption affects the number of firms in a free-entry equilibrium. The degree of deep competition in the economy increases with lower overhead costs relative to profits and with a tendency toward similar... View Details
      Keywords: Competition; Crime and Corruption
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      Bliss, Christopher, and Rafael Di Tella. "Does Competition Kill Corruption?" Journal of Political Economy 105, no. 5 (October 1997): 1001–1023.
      • September 1997
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      The Cost of Price Incentives: An Empirical Analysis of Motivation Crowding-Out

      By: Bruno S. Frey and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
      Keywords: Cost; Motivation and Incentives; Theory
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      Frey, Bruno S., and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "The Cost of Price Incentives: An Empirical Analysis of Motivation Crowding-Out." American Economic Review 87, no. 4 (September 1997): 746–755.
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