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Chemical Bank: la implantación del cuadro de mando integral
Kaplan, Robert S.; Klein, NormanCase HBS-106S09Accounting and ControlLa división de banca minorista de Chemical Bank se enfrenta a la disminución de los márgenes y el aumento de la competencia en su reunión de crédito y de depósito y el procesamiento de los negocios. Desea aplicar una nueva estrategia para convertirse en un proveedor de servicios financieros preferido a grupos de clientes objetivo. La división se adapta el cuadro de mando integral para clarificar y comunicar la nueva estrategia e identificar los f...Starting at €8.20
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For the Last Time: Stock Options Are an Expense (Spanish version)
Bodie, Zvi; Kaplan, Robert S.; Merton, Robert C.Article HBS-R0303DAccounting and ControlShould stock options be recorded as an expense on a company's income statement and balance sheet, or should they remain where they are, relegated to footnotes? The authors believe the case for expensing options is overwhelming. In this article, Nobel laureate Robert Merton, one of the inventors of the Black-Scholes option-pricing model; his co-author on the classic textbook Finance, Zvi Bodie; and Robert Kaplan, creator of the Balanced Scorecard,...Starting at €8.20
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A New Framework (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.; Mikes, AnetteArticle HBS-R1206BStrategyRisk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that can be solved by drawing up lots of rules and making sure that all employees follow them. Many such rules, of course, are sensible and do reduce some risks that could severely damage a company. But rules-based risk management will not diminish either the likelihood or the impact of a disaster such as Deepwater Horizon, just as it did not prevent the failure of many financial institut...Starting at €8.20
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Intermountain Health Care (Spanish version)
Bohmer, Richard; Edmondson, Amy C.; Feldman, Laura R.Case HBS-604S16Intermountain Health Care (IHC), an integrated delivery system based in Utah, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care delivery. The approach focuses management attention not only on the facilities where care takes place but also on physician decision making and the care process itself, with the aim of boosting physician productivity and improving care quality, while saving money. This case explores the challenges facing Brent James, e...Starting at €8.20
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Fast-Track Profit Model: Creating the New Due-Diligence Process for Mergers and Acquisitions
Kaplan, Robert S.; Anderson, Steven R.Book Chapter HBS-2228BC-EAccounting and ControlIn this chapter, the authors demonstrate how to quickly build a simple Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing model for assessing the attractiveness of a company being considered for acquisition. Using this model during the due-diligence process enables a prospective buyer to identify where profit opportunities exist, how they can be captured, their cost and impact, and whether the organization has the capacity to execute. This chapter is excerpted ...Starting at €8.20
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Kemps LLC: Handling Product, Distribution, and Customer Variety
Kaplan, Robert S.; Anderson, Steven R.Book Chapter HBS-2230BC-EAccounting and ControlThis chapter illustrates comprehensive, enterprise-wide implementation of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing projects using the case of Kemps LLC. This chapter is excerpted from "Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler and More Powerful Path to Higher Profits."Starting at €8.20
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Global Insurance Company Private Client Group: Forecasting Key Employee Staffing Levels--The Benefits of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
Kaplan, Robert S.; Anderson, Steven R.Book Chapter HBS-2237BC-EAccounting and ControlThe Private Client Group of Global Insurance (disguised) experienced explosive growth and turned to time-driven activity-based budgeting to help plan for future resource capacity. Within this chapter, the case study describes how to integrate a staffing forecast system with the enterprise-wide business planning, budgeting, and forecasting system, and how to apply TDABC to budget and forecast resource consumption. This chapter is excerpted from "...Starting at €8.20
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Jackson State University: Introducing Business Concepts into Education--The Benefits of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
Kaplan, Robert S.; Anderson, Steven R.Book Chapter HBS-2241BC-EAccounting and ControlAs CEOs of universities and other nonprofits become more publicly accountable for their costs and performance, having a TDABC model of their resource demands provides them with a powerful tool for guiding expansion plans, determining service levels, and managing budgets. This chapter looks at Jackson State University and its application of TDABC in a nonprofit setting. This chapter is excerpted from "Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler...Starting at €8.20
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Pattern Recognition: How Our Mental Processes Increase the Likelihood of Making Flawed Decisions
Finkelstein, Sydney; Whitehead, Jo; Campbell, AndrewBook Chapter HBS-3606BC-EPattern recognition is a great friend to decision makers. It allows us to make (mostly) good judgments, filling in gaps in information based on our past experience. This process is not foolproof, however, and can cause failures in judgment if we're not careful, especially when we think we have sufficient relevant experience in situations when we do not. As the authors explain in this chapter, we need to identify when erroneous pattern recognition...Starting at €8.20
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Misleading Experiences: How to Spot This Common Cause of Flawed Decisions
Finkelstein, Sydney; Whitehead, Jo; Campbell, AndrewBook Chapter HBS-3609BC-EComplex decisions involving interpretation and judgment are difficult to get right. Especially considering the fact that our brains have developed decision making processes that rely heavily on our past experience. Misleading experiences are a common source of error in decision making that occur when the brain erroneously connects memories that seem similar to the situation we are currently assessing. But how do we know when an experience is misl...Starting at €8.20