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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
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Inappropriate Self-Interest: A Beguiling and Unconscious Influence on Decision Making
Finkelstein, Sydney; Whitehead, Jo; Campbell, AndrewBook Chapter HBS-3611BC-EThe demise of Enron stands out as an iconic story of self-interest and its corrosive effect on decision making. This story of corruption, however, is extreme, and we might be tempted to think that self-interest is a rare influence on decision making, limited to a few dishonest or misguided people. Not true. In fact, the impact of self-interest is much more pervasive. It can affect the decisions of the most thoughtful and upstanding leaders. It ca...Starting at €8.20
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Inappropriate Attachments: How to Avoid Letting Personal Attachments Lead Decision Making Astray
Finkelstein, Sydney; Whitehead, Jo; Campbell, AndrewBook Chapter HBS-3612BC-EPersonal attachments surround us and can have a major role in any decision, sometimes to our extreme detriment. Attachments are very important to consider. They bring meaning and joy to our lives--they include attachments to our friends and families, to communities, to places, and even to objects that have taken on significance for us. It would be virtually impossible not to be affected by these attachments as we make decisions, but, under certai...Starting at €8.20
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Transforming Unprofitable Customers: A Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Approach
Kaplan, Robert S.; Anderson, Steven R.Book Chapter HBS-5242BC-EAccounting and ControlThis chapter reviews the types of actions managers take on the basis of the output from their activity-based costing models, focusing on how to improve customer profitability, a common application for Time-Driven ABC. 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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Europe: An Ever Closer Union
Trumbull, Gunnar; Schlefer, Jonathan; Choi, DianeCase HBS-713085-EEconomicsIn 2010, the European Union faces the challenges of the global financial crisis. With 27 member states, each facing different challenges, can new EU institutions respond effectively? Will its new currency, the euro, survive?Starting at €8.20