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The Balanced Scorecard—Measures that Drive Performance
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […] -
How to Choose the Right Forecasting Technique
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleWhat every manager ought to know about the different kinds of forecasting and the times when they should be used. -
Strategies for Learning from Failure
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany executives believe that all failure is bad (although it usually provides lessons)-and that learning from it is pretty straightforward. The author,... -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Global Business Magazine ArticleLately companies have come to recognize the limitations of the view that they must create value only for shareholders. Recognizing that every stakeholder... -
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy. -
Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
What I Learned from Warren Buffett
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleA book on Buffett spurs Gates to reflect on their friendship. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
Contribution Margin: What It Is, How to Calculate It, and Why You Need It
Accounting Digital ArticleDo you know what your most profitable product is? -
Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value
Corporate governance Magazine ArticleCompanies profess devotion to shareholder value but rarely follow the practices that maximize it. What will it take to make your company a level 10 value creator? -
Six Rules for Effective Forecasting
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe primary goal of forecasting is to identify the full range of possibilities facing a company, society, or the world at large. In this article, Saffo... -
Market Share—a Key to Profitability
Marketing Magazine ArticleThe March–April 1974 issue of HBR carried an article that reported on Phases I and II of a project sponsored by the Marketing Science Institute and the Harvard Business School. The basic purpose of the project is to determine the profit impact of market strategies (PIMS). The earlier article established a link between strategic planning […] -
Strategic Analysis for More Profitable Acquisitions
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleLess than a decade after the frantic merger activity of the late 1960s, we are again in the midst of a major wave of corporate acquisitions. In contrast to the 1960s, when acquirers were mainly freewheeling conglomerates, the merger movement in the 1970s includes such long-established giants of U.S. industry as General Electric, Gulf Oil, […] -
Create Efficiencies
Finance & Accounting VideoTo gain insight into solving your organization's issues, stop and look at the numbers. -
Why Western Digital Firms Have Failed in China
Strategy & Execution ResearchA comprehensive five-year study reveals a set of common mistakes. -
How a CEO's Personality Affects Their Company's Stock Price
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt pays to be conscientious. Extroverted, not so much. -
Selection Bias and the Perils of Benchmarking
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTo find the secrets of business success, what could be more natural than studying successful businesses? In fact, nothing could be more dangerous, warns... -
What a Real Apology Requires
Communication Digital ArticleGenuine introspection. -
Today’s Options for Tomorrow’s Growth
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleSince the rise in the use of discounted cash flow techniques, most managers face an increasingly difficult choice in evaluating complex investment decisions. Should they pursue risky projects that offer a below-target rate of return but could create valuable strategic opportunities later? Or should they stick with a less risky and more immediately profitable bet? […] -
How Much Should a Corporation Earn?
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleThis article presents the research findings of a leading U.S. corporation, AT&T, on a series of important economic questions and issues, with an interpretation of the material by one of the company’s top executives. The subject is corporate earnings patterns in different industries, investment trends, the relation of profits and investment to GNP, and other […]
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Envy Rides Incorporated
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The newly-appointed manager of commercial accounts considers a loan request from the owner of a recreational motorsport dealership in the amount of $60,000... -
FJ Management Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working with her investment committee to help set the company's strategic... -
Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details By the end of 2013, Apple had $137 billion dollars in cash and marketable securities. This case explores how companies can generate such large amounts... -
Case of the Unidentified Industries--1995
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Helps students to understand how the characteristics of a business are reflected in its financial statements. -
"GEnron"? Markopolos versus General Electric (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to the (A) case that offers an assessment of the August 2019 Markopolos report on General Electric. -
Brierley Investments Ltd.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Brierley's is an investment company that has performed poorly in the New Zealand market. Management has prepared a report of the intrinsic value of the... -
Business Model Innovation at Wildfang
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details CEO Emma Mcilroy and her team weighed the merits of two distinct business models, as they prepared for a funding pitch to scale Wildfang, a menswear-inspired... -
Goats: The Green Alternative (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details The owner of a goat herd had successfully rented a portion of his herd to clear land at a nearby resort. The resort land clearing job generated a small... -
Board Director Dilemmas-Back the SPAC?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case focuses on a board director of a diversified holding company. The firm's longtime CEO had always exhibited a cautious, methodical approach to... -
The Dividend Discount Model
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note focuses on the dividend model (DDM), or Gordon Growth Model, as it is sometimes known. The DDM appears in many forms in practice. The note examines... -
Loewen Group, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study1.00View Details A publicly traded funeral home and cemetery consolidator faces imminent financial distress. The company has aggressively grown through use of debt. Restructuring... -
Customer Lifetime Value
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This technical note provides an update on the use of customer data in marketing organizations and discusses how calculations of customer acquisition costs... -
Financial Accounting Reading: Analyzing Financial Statements
Finance & Accounting Tool15.90View Details This Reading helps readers understand that financial ratios-one financial statement item divided by another-are used to create useful metrics. In other... -
La Madrilena: Economic Performance Management in 2014
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details La Madrilena, footwear and sport goods' retailer, operated 18 stores -under La Madrilena brand for shoes and Quonam for sports- in Argentina's Patagonia... -
Stone Rock Golf & Country Club: Wedding Bells?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 2016, the general manager of Stone Rock Golf & Country Club (SRGCC) in Ainslie, Ontario, was considering an opportunity to grow the club's weddings... -
Value Partners and the Evergrande Situation
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details In June 2012, Cheah Cheng-Hye and his colleagues at Value Partners, a Hong-Kong-based investment firm, received a copy of a short-seller report alleging... -
Note on Financial Accounting: The Financial Accounting 'Term Sheet'
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note, which serves as a glossary, was constructed to ease the transition of students into financial accounting courses. The glossary includes both... -
Healthway Medical Corporation Limited: Do Stock Valuation Metrics Render Financial Analysis Redundant?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Alan Wong, an intern at Gem Asset Management, was pleasantly surprised when, as per his supervisor's instructions, reviewed the stock multiples (P/E,... -
Precision Paint Co.
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Describes a marketing director about to launch a new process for demand forecasting. Provides data that allow students to do a multivariable regression... -
Ball: EVA Driving the World's Leading Can Manufacturer (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details Ball used Economic Value Added analysis to determine if it should open a new metal can manufacturing facility, which mandated closing two recently acquired...
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The Balanced Scorecard—Measures that Drive Performance
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […] -
How to Choose the Right Forecasting Technique
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleWhat every manager ought to know about the different kinds of forecasting and the times when they should be used. -
Strategies for Learning from Failure
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMany executives believe that all failure is bad (although it usually provides lessons)-and that learning from it is pretty straightforward. The author,... -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Global Business Magazine ArticleLately companies have come to recognize the limitations of the view that they must create value only for shareholders. Recognizing that every stakeholder... -
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy. -
Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
What I Learned from Warren Buffett
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleA book on Buffett spurs Gates to reflect on their friendship. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
Contribution Margin: What It Is, How to Calculate It, and Why You Need It
Accounting Digital ArticleDo you know what your most profitable product is? -
Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value
Corporate governance Magazine ArticleCompanies profess devotion to shareholder value but rarely follow the practices that maximize it. What will it take to make your company a level 10 value creator?