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- Article
Top Executives Need Feedback: Here's How They Can Get It
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
As executives become more senior, they are less likely to receive constructive feedback on their performance or their strategy. To get it, they should call on their junior colleagues. The problem: subordinates don't want to offend the boss. Therefore, as executives... View Details
Kaplan, Robert Steven. "Top Executives Need Feedback: Here's How They Can Get It." McKinsey Quarterly, no. 4 (2011): 60–71.
- March 2010 (Revised June 2011)
- Teaching Note
Bob Beall at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (TN)
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
Teaching Note for 409107. View Details
Keywords: Health Industry
- July – August 2008
- Article
Reaching Your Potential
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert Steven. "Reaching Your Potential." HBS Centennial Issue Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2008): 45–49.
- June 2011
- Teaching Note
Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq (TN)
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
Teaching Note for 411010. View Details
- August 2006
- Teaching Note
Adrian Ivinson at the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair (TN)
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment
- January 2007
- Article
What to Ask the Person in the Mirror
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert Steven. "What to Ask the Person in the Mirror." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 1 (January 2007).
- 2015
- Book
What You Really Need To Lead: The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert Steven. What You Really Need To Lead: The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2015.
- June 2011
- Teaching Note
Freddie Mac: Managing in Conservatorship (TN)
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
Teaching Note for 411048. View Details
- February 2015
- Case
Abby Falik at Global Citizen Year
By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Lauren Barley
Abby Falik, founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year (GCY), quickly read through the most recent news updates regarding the Ebola crisis in West Africa as she prepared for her board call on July 31, 2014. Based in Oakland, California, GCY was a five-year-old... View Details
Keywords: Not-for-profit; Public Service; Developing Countries; Secondary Education; Nonprofit Organizations; Higher Education; Developing Countries and Economies; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
Kaplan, Robert Steven, and Lauren Barley. "Abby Falik at Global Citizen Year." Harvard Business School Case 415-052, February 2015.
- Article
What's Your Language Strategy?: It Should Bind Your Company's Global Talent Management and Vision
By: Tsedal Neeley and Robert Steven Kaplan
Language pervades every aspect of organizational life. Yet leaders of global organizations—where unrestricted multilingualism can create friction—often pay too little attention to it in their approach to talent management. By managing language carefully, firms can hire... View Details
Neeley, Tsedal, and Robert Steven Kaplan. "What's Your Language Strategy? It Should Bind Your Company's Global Talent Management and Vision." R1409D. Harvard Business Review 92, no. 9 (September 2014): 70–76.
- January 2008 (Revised February 2009)
- Teaching Note
Leslie Brinkman at Versutia Capital (TN)
By: Julie Battilana and Robert Steven Kaplan
Teaching Note for [407089]. View Details
- April 2009 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
Bob Beall at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Sophie Hood
Bob Beall is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF). CFF is an extremely successful organization, but Beall has to determine how to manage the organization through the financial crisis of 2008-2009. In this situation, donations are likely... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership; Crisis Management; Nonprofit Organizations
Kaplan, Robert Steven, and Sophie Hood. "Bob Beall at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation." Harvard Business School Case 409-107, April 2009. (Revised October 2010.)
- October 2013
- Case
Mitch Daniels and the State of Indiana
By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Wendy K. Winer
Mitch Daniels, Governor of the State of Indiana, knew he had to make a difficult choice as he sat in his office in December 2010. Should he aggressively push the state legislature to pass comprehensive education reform—a major priority of his administration—or,... View Details
Keywords: Education Reform; Priorities; Leadership; Education; Government and Politics; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry; Indiana
Kaplan, Robert Steven, and Wendy K. Winer. "Mitch Daniels and the State of Indiana." Harvard Business School Case 414-049, October 2013.
- Article
The Innovation of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Steven R. Anderson
Kaplan, Robert S., and Steven R. Anderson. "The Innovation of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing." Cost Management 21, no. 2 (March–April 2007): 5–15.
- June 2007
- Article
The Speed-Reading Organization: Revving up Finance with Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Steven R. Anderson
Kaplan, Robert S., and Steven R. Anderson. "The Speed-Reading Organization: Revving up Finance with Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing." Business Finance (June 2007), 39–42.
- 2003
- Working Paper
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Steven R. Anderson
Kaplan, Robert S., and Steven R. Anderson. "Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 04-045, November 2003.
- April 2006
- Case
Adrian Ivinson at the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair
By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Ayesha Kanji
Adrian Ivinson is the director of Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair (HCNR), a not-for-profit research center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). The center was started in late 2000 with a gift of $37.5 million from an anonymous donor. Its mandate was to... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Power and Influence; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Change Management; Alignment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Massachusetts
Kaplan, Robert Steven, and Ayesha Kanji. "Adrian Ivinson at the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair." Harvard Business School Case 406-111, April 2006.
- August 2010 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq
By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Nicholas Henri Taranto
Since becoming the President's envoy responsible for post-war Iraq, Paul Bremer endured many sleepless nights, struggling with the decision of how to hand over sovereignty to the Iraqi people. Despite daily assassination attempts, tribal warfare, growing violence, and... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; International Relations; National Security; Leadership; Crisis Management; Iraq; District of Columbia
Kaplan, Robert Steven, and Nicholas Henri Taranto. "Paul Bremer at the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq." Harvard Business School Case 411-010, August 2010. (Revised September 2010.)