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- April 2000
- Background Note
Aligning Incentives for Supply Chain Efficiency
By: V.G. Narayanan and Ananth Raman
Introduces students to the basics of principal-agency theory as it applies to supply chains. Operational problems in supply chains can often be traced to incentive issues. Students and managers lack frameworks to analyze incentive problems in supply chains. This note... View Details
- March 2000 (Revised May 2003)
- Teaching Note
Owens & Minor, Inc. (A) and (B) TN
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
Teaching Note for (9-100-055) and (9-100-079). View Details
- February 2000 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Catanese and Vulcan (B)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Sanjay Pothen
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- February 2000 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Owens & Minor, Inc. (B)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
After a manager at Owens & Minor, a national medical and surgical distribution company, proposes and develops a formalized activity-based pricing and activity-based management approach to sales and service provision, this case explore the outcome. View Details
- February 2000 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Owens & Minor, Inc. (A)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
A forward-thinking manager at Owens & Minor (O&M), a large national medical and surgical distribution company, enlisted the help of both logistics and cost managers to develop an innovative pricing schedule based on the customer's activities instead of the price of the... View Details
- January 2000
- Case
Measurement and Management at CitySoft
By: V.G. Narayanan and Sanjay Pothen
CitySoft is a very small software developer that is grappling with issues of cost measurement and management. View Details
- August 1999 (Revised May 2001)
- Case
Catanese and Vulcan (A)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Sanjay Pothen
A small CPA firm puts in a new performance measurement system, and profits increase by 350% in less than a year. This case illustrates the reasons for improved profitability as well as the sustainability of levels of growth, the opportunities, and the threats that... View Details
- April 1998 (Revised November 1999)
- Teaching Note
Lehigh Steel TN
By: V.G. Narayanan and Laura Donohue
Teaching Note for (9-198-085). View Details
Keywords: Steel Industry
- April 1998
- Teaching Note
Insteel Wire Products: ABM at Andrews TN
By: V.G. Narayanan and Ratna G. Sarkar
Teaching Note for (9-198-087). View Details
Keywords: Steel Industry
- April 1998 (Revised August 2002)
- Teaching Note
Hamptonshire Express TN
By: V.G. Narayanan and Ananth Raman
Teaching Note for (9-698-053). View Details
- March 1998 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
Lehigh Steel
By: V.G. Narayanan and Laura Donohue
Lehigh Steel is a specialty steel manufacturer that plummeted from record profits to record losses in less than three years, driven by an inability to distinguish between profitable and unprofitable business. The scale and growth of service activities and overhead... View Details
- February 1998 (Revised September 1998)
- Case
Insteel Wire Products: ABM at Andrews
By: V.G. Narayanan and Ratna G. Sarkar
Insteel implements an activity-based costing (ABC) system in 1996. It finds pallet nails to be its most profitable product and decides to expand the number of cells making pallet nails from two to four. A repeat of the ABC study in 1997 shows pallet nails have become... View Details
- February 1998 (Revised April 2003)
- Teaching Note
Colorscope, Inc. TN
By: V.G. Narayanan
Teaching Note for (9-197-040). View Details
- December 1996 (Revised February 1998)
- Case
Colorscope, Inc.
By: V.G. Narayanan and Joseph Cha
A small company in the graphic arts business faces severe price competition. The company must respond by cutting costs and making process improvements. View Details
- June 1996 (Revised March 1997)
- Teaching Note
Romeo Engine Plant TN
By: V.G. Narayanan and Amy P. Hutton
Teaching Note for (9-194-032). View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry
- November 1995
- Technical Note
Analyzing Standard Costs: Technical Note
By: V.G. Narayanan
Explains variance analysis. Concepts of price variance and quantity variance are introduced to analyze prime cost variances. Spending variance and capacity variance are used to analyze overhead variance. Consistent with conducting variance analysis in an activity-based... View Details
- September 1995 (Revised June 2002)
- Case
Intel Pentium Chip Controversy (A), The
By: V.G. Narayanan and James D Evans
Following Intel Inc.'s decision to replace flawed Pentium chips, the company faces revenue recognition choices. Events leading up to IBM's decision to halt shipment of computers that have Intel's microprocessor inside and Intel's decision to replace all the flawed... View Details
- September 1995 (Revised May 2002)
- Supplement
Intel Pentium Chip Controversy (B), The
By: V.G. Narayanan and James D Evans
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- spring 1995
- Article
Moral Hazard in Repeated Professional Partnership
By: V.G. Narayanan
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships