Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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Insight to Outcome: A Note on Strategy Development and Implementation
Thomas S. Wurster, Derek Kennedy, Jason ZajacCase SGSB-SM238-EStrategyMost business activities can be understood as progressions from insight to outcome – getting from the original spark of an idea to the actual realization of financial and strategic results. And yet, leaders and companies fail to master this progression all the time, in the headline-grabbing, large scale transformative initiatives we read about, as well in the rest of iceberg – the core business processes and the non-routine initiatives and proje...Starting at €8.20
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FedEx and Pension Accounting
Blankespoor, E; ForoughiJCase SGSB-A222-EAccounting and ControlSusan Barney, chief financial officer of Parcel Expeditors (Parcel), a thriving same-day package delivery company headquartered in the United States, had to make some decisions. The management of Parcel was planning to take the company public in the coming year but they had yet to determine the accounting for certain pension plan costs. The most important goal for management was to provide investors with useful information for their decision ma...Starting at €8.20