This website uses technical, customisation and analytical cookies, both first-party and third-party, to anonymously facilitate browsing and analyse statistics on use of the website. Learn more
Search results
-
Flying Light: British Airways Flight 268 (A)
Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0294-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityOn February 19, 2005, British Airways flight 268, a 747, took off from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) headed for London’s Heathrow Airport. It would be an 11-hour, 5,000-plus-mile flight. Shortly after takeoff, only 296 feet in the air, one of the jet’s four engines exploded. The pilots had to determine what course of action to take: return immediately to LAX or continue the flight. This case outlines the various options and the potentia...Starting at €8.20
-
Wells Fargo Servicios Financieros Online (B)
Kaplan, Robert S.; Tempest, NicoleCase HBS-102S07Accounting and ControlDescribe cómo el Balanced Scorecard construido por los servicios financieros en línea (OFS) grupo se utiliza para seleccionar las iniciativas de mayor prioridad para la organización. Actualmente, surgen iniciativas continuamente a través de la organización y gestión gasta considerable tiempo revisando lo aprueba, y, a menudo, la cancelación de las iniciativas. OFS desarrolla un procedimiento de clasificación, basado en el cuadro de mando integral...Starting at €5.74
-
Elkay Plumbing Products Division, Teaching Note
Kaplan, Robert S.Teaching Note HBS-110089-EFinanceTeaching Note for 110007.Starting at €0.00
-
Cost Variance Analysis
Kaplan, Robert S.; Gallani, SusannaCase HBS-117006-EAccounting and ControlThe Cost Variance Analysis note was written to provide students with fundamental concepts and methods for the analysis of cost variances. This note focuses on the decomposition of cost variances into price, quantity and mix variance components, an approach that allows students to identify the root causes of differences between expected and actual costs.Starting at €8.20
-
Citigroup Technology Infrastructure Division: Financial Strategies for Managing IT as a Business Within a Business
Kaplan, Robert S.; Anderson, Steven R.Book Chapter HBS-2236BC-EAccounting and ControlThis chapter illustrates how using TDABC to create an activity-based Business Performance Management (BPM) system helped the Citigroup Technology Infrastructure Division--an internal shared services division--to operate as a "business within a business." This chapter is excerpted from "Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler and More Powerful Path to Higher Profits."Starting at €8.20
-
Springfield Hospital
Gallani, Susanna; Kaplan, Robert S.Case HBS-117025-EAccounting and ControlOne of the key roles of costing systems is to support the evaluation of performance and facilitate appropriate resource allocations. Through participation in a comparative cost study, management at Springfield Hospital, known for its heavy focus on operational excellence, become aware of opportunities for further improvement. Analysis of the differences in costs, uses, and allocations of resources will inform management in the decision and implem...Starting at €8.20
-
Chiquita in Colombia
Wicks, Andrew C.; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0346-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityShould an international company operating in a violent nation pay a paramilitary group to keep its employees from harm? Executives at Chiquita Brands' Banadex subsidiary in Colombia faced a dilemma in 1997. Carlos Castano, the leader of the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, a paramilitary group, was demanding payment in return for not harming Banadex's employees or operations. The executives must weigh the various options including, among others, ...Starting at €8.20
-
Finance Caselets: An Ethical Perspective
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Dalmia, Pranav; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0472Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThese fictional caselets, some of which are based on lived experience, present dilemmas and ethical issues in the financial field. The situations include an investment-banking firm executive deciding how to handle an investment tip; an executive struggling with whether to push her tech start-up client to a lucrative IPO or to follow her company’s directive to push a merger instead; an employee asked to contravene accepted accounting practice; an ...Starting at €8.20
-
Finance Caselets: An Ethical Perspective
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Dalmia, Pranav; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0472-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThese fictional caselets, some of which are based on lived experience, present dilemmas and ethical issues in the financial field. The situations include an investment-banking firm executive deciding how to handle an investment tip; an executive struggling with whether to push her tech start-up client to a lucrative IPO or to follow her company’s directive to push a merger instead; an employee asked to contravene accepted accounting practice; an ...Starting at €8.20
-
Food Versus Fuel
Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, JennyTechnical Note DARDEN-E-0302-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAlthough biofuels had been used for many years (from 1980 to mid-2007, an estimated 2 trillion miles were driven on ethanol-blended fuels in the United States), it was not until the late 20th and early 21st centuries, with dwindling oil supplies, the threat of global warming, and unrest in the oil-rich Middle East that people began thinking of them seriously as alternatives to petroleum-based fuel. Biofuels were also considered better for the en...Starting at €8.20