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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,... -
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn an earlier, groundbreaking article, Balanced Scorecard -- Measures That Drive Performance, the authors proposed a new measurement system that provided... -
What I Learned from Warren Buffett
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleA book on Buffett spurs Gates to reflect on their friendship. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation -
Kodak's Downfall Wasn't About Technology
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
Contribution Margin: What It Is, How to Calculate It, and Why You Need It
Finance & 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? -
Market Share - A Key to Profitability
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleEvidence from an ongoing study of 57 companies to determine the profit impact of market strategies (PIMS) shows that one of the main indicators of business... -
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... -
6 Factors That Determine Your Company’s Valuation
Corporate finance Digital ArticleInvestors have a quantitative understanding of how the market values a company. Management teams should too. -
Marketing Myopia
Business failures Magazine ArticleSustained growth depends on how broadly you define your business—and how carefully you gauge your customers’ needs. -
The Investor Revolution
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleShareholders are getting serious about sustainability. -
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... -
Capitalism Won’t Thrive on Value Investing Alone
Finance and investing Digital ArticleThe economy needs careful decision-makers as well as risk-takers. -
Learn From Failure
Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor, describes strategies for analyzing workplace mistakes and producing more intelligent ones. -
How to Make Better Predictions When You Don't Have Enough Data
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleA different way to teach algorithms. -
Why We're Seeing So Many Corporate Scandals
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA combination of digital technology, flat corporate structures, and unethical leaders.
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Air New Zealand: The Recapitalization Decision (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Air New Zealand is a national airline faced with a number of important strategic and financial issues. The company's recent acquisition of Ansett Australia... -
Project Deutschland: Unpeeling the Onion of a Distressed Real Estate Portfolio
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details James Tallest analyzed the opportunity to invest in a distressed portfolio of high quality properties in Germany by acquiring one or more non-performing... -
Dairy Farm International Holdings Limited: Analysing an Annual Report
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The main objective of this case is to introduce students to the calculation and usage of ratios in a real world environment. Secondly, students will be... -
Finding a Response: Pixar and a Coy Story
Communication Case Study8.95View Details Pixar, Inc. is the subject of an article that suggests its share price is currently overvalued. The article is picked up in summary by several wire services.... -
American Apparel: Drowning in Debt?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The American clothing retailer American Apparel recently experienced a loss of $106 million and faced huge debt repayments. In addition, the chief executive... -
Identify the Industries--1996
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Common-size balance sheets and financial ratios are given for thirteen companies. Students must identify which company is in which of thirteen industries.... -
Mercury Athletic: Valuing the Opportunity, Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In January 2007, West Coast Fashions, Inc., a large designer and marketer of branded apparel, announced a strategic reorganization that would result in... -
Note on Financial Analysis
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Serves as an introduction to funds flows and ratio analysis. Includes basic discussion of these tools as assists in the analyst's or manager's job. Supplementary... -
The Walt Disney Company's Stock: Buy, Hold, or Sell?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details A portfolio manager at Century 23 Investment Company was considering whether to maintain holdings in The Walt Disney Company (Disney). She was reviewing... -
F&S Investments: Understanding Value at Risk
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Within the context of a fictitious hedge fund, a new analyst has been asked to use value at risk (VaR) to evaluate two potential additions to its portfolio... -
Financial Analytics Toolkit: Ratio Analysis
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note describes the most common financial ratios and how they provide insight into firm performance. The emphasis is on how ratios summarize operating... -
Note on Developing Start-Up Strategies
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details ... -
Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals: The EVA Decision
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 2016, the new CEO of Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals introduces an Economic Value Added (EVA) program to focus the company on long-term shareholder value.... -
A Tale of Two Properties: Debt Strategies for Financing Commercial Real Estate
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Stanley Cirano owns two retail shopping centers in suburban Chicago. With interest rates near all-time lows in late 2015, Cirano believed it was an opportune... -
Great Eastern Toys (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IN1047. As part of its growth strategy, a new product has been designed and a study carried out by a consultant to estimate the market... -
HBR Tools: Business Valuation
Finance & Accounting Tool39.95View Details Are you looking to buy or sell a business, or stock in a business, but you aren't entirely sure how to calculate its potential value? The HBR Tool for... -
Latam Airlines: In Search of New Options, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Latam Airlines (henceforth, Latam) was born from the merger of the Chilean airline LAN, owned by the Cueto family, and the Brazilian airline TAM, owned... -
Modu: Optimizing the Product Line
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Israeli entrepreneur and inventor Dov Moran envisioned the creation of a mobile device that was a small, stand-alone, fully functional mobile phone that... -
HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers
Finance & Accounting Book21.95View Details DON'T LET YOUR FEAR OF FINANCE GET IN THE WAY OF YOUR SUCCESS. Can you prepare a breakeven analysis? Do you know the difference between an income statement...
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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,... -
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn an earlier, groundbreaking article, Balanced Scorecard -- Measures That Drive Performance, the authors proposed a new measurement system that provided... -
What I Learned from Warren Buffett
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleA book on Buffett spurs Gates to reflect on their friendship. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation -
Kodak's Downfall Wasn't About Technology
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
Contribution Margin: What It Is, How to Calculate It, and Why You Need It
Finance & 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?