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Building a Winning Culture (Spanish version)
Simons, Robert L.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-114S05Accounting and ControlThis case illustrates a CEO-led organizational transformation driven by stretch goals, performance measurement, and accountability. When Kasper Rorsted became CEO of Henkel, a Germany-based producer of personal care, laundry, and adhesives products, in 2008, he was determined to transform a corporate culture of "good enough" into one singularly focused on winning in a competitive marketplace. Historically, Henkel was a comfortable, stable place t...Starting at €8.20
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Measures to Improve Performance (Spanish version)
Simons, Robert L.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-117S10Accounting and ControlThe widespread cheating scandal that rocked the Atlanta public school system in 2010 and 2011 illustrates how high-stakes performance pressure, without sufficient risk controls, can drive dangerous behavior. After becoming superintendent of the low-income and academically struggling Atlanta, Georgia school system in 1999, Beverly Hall implemented new measurement systems-many of them derived from business best practices-to motivate and evaluate th...Starting at €8.20
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Henkel: Building a Winning Culture
Simons, Robert L.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-112060-EAccounting and ControlThis case illustrates a CEO-led organizational transformation driven by stretch goals, performance measurement, and accountability. When Kasper Rorsted became CEO of Henkel, a Germany-based producer of personal care, laundry, and adhesives products, in 20Starting at €8.20
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Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance, Teaching Note
Simons, Robert L.; Kindred, NatalieTeaching Note HBS-114062-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for case 114001.Starting at €0.00
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Dovernet (Spanish version)
Simons, Robert L.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-113S11Accounting and ControlThis case illustrates the implications of using stringent performance measurement systems to create performance pressure, motivate employee achievement, and sharpen a firm's competitiveness. It opens by describing the downsides of the ruthlessly competitive culture at Zynga, a young, successful online gaming company. A similar data-driven performance measurement system is employed at Dovernet, a Vancouver-based provider of enterprise communicatio...Starting at €8.20
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Pfizer: Letter from the Chairman (A)
Simons, Robert L.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-110003-EAccounting and ControlThis case explores maximizing shareholder value as a goal in executive decision making. Over a period of nine years, three different Pfizer CEOs make critical decisions intended to increase shareholder value. But the results are disappointing. To allow students to examine these decisions, the case provides excerpts from four Chairman's letters to shareholders from Pfizer's annual reports, followed by a description of the circumstances behind each...Starting at €8.20
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Dovernet
Simons, Robert L.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-112061-EAccounting and ControlThis case illustrates the implications of using stringent performance measurement systems to create performance pressure, motivate employee achievement, and sharpen a firm's competitiveness. It opens by describing the downsides of the ruthlessly competitiStarting at €8.20
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Henkel: Building a Winning Culture, Teaching Note
Simons, Robert L.; Kindred, NatalieTeaching Note HBS-112087-EAccounting and ControlTeaching Note for 112060.Starting at €0.00
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Dovernet, Teaching Note
Simons, Robert L.; Kindred, NatalieTeaching Note HBS-113011-EAccounting and ControlTeaching Note for 112061.Starting at €0.00
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Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance
Simons, Robert L.; Kindred, NatalieCase HBS-114001-EAccounting and ControlThe widespread cheating scandal that rocked the Atlanta public school system in 2010 and 2011 illustrates how high-stakes performance pressure, without sufficient risk controls, can drive dangerous behavior. After becoming superintendent of the low-incomeStarting at €8.20