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- June 2008
- Teaching Note
Amanco: Developing the Sustainability Scorecard (TN)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for [inse107038].
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- January–February 1992
- Article
The Balanced Scorecard: Measures that Drive Performance
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David Norton
Kaplan, Robert S., and David Norton. "The Balanced Scorecard: Measures that Drive Performance." Harvard Business Review 70, no. 1 (January–February 1992): 71–79. (Reprint #92105.)
- 1996
- Book
The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard
Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1996. (Nominated for Financial Times/ Booz-Allen & Hamilton Global Business Book Award presented by Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Winner of Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award presented by American Accounting Association.)
- March 2015 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Shanghai: GDP Apostasy
By: George Serafeim
Balancing economic growth alongside environmental sustainability and social inclusion was becoming increasingly important in China. The case describes Shanghai's decision to abandon growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as its primary metric of measuring success....
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Keywords:
China;
Gdp;
Measurement;
Measurement Problems;
Accountability;
Sustainability;
Sustainable Development;
Strategy Execution;
Strategy;
Balanced Scorecard;
Strategy Map;
Macroeconomics;
Measurement and Metrics;
Corporate Accountability;
Accounting;
Environmental Sustainability;
Development Economics;
Corporate Governance;
Shanghai
Serafeim, George, Rebecca Henderson, and David Freiberg. "Shanghai: GDP Apostasy." Harvard Business School Case 115-042, March 2015. (Revised February 2017.)
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan introduced time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to provide the cost component in Michael Porter's Value Based Health Care framework of delivering superior patient outcomes at lower societal cost. TDABC is becoming the global standard for health care...
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- Article
Why Does Business Need a Balanced Scorecard? Part II
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David Norton
Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard
Kaplan, Robert S., and David Norton. "Why Does Business Need a Balanced Scorecard? Part II." Cost Management 11, no. 3 (May–June 1997): 5–10.
- February/March 1997
- Article
Why Does Business Need a Balanced Scorecard? Part I
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David Norton
Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard
- May 2012
- Technical Note
Frameworks for Dialogue and Research about Social Impact Investing
Social Impact Investment is a rapidly expanding field, but terminology in the field is poorly defined and imprecise. This note suggests frameworks that help to clarify important dimensions of SII projects, distinguishing and clarifying key differences in approaches to...
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Keywords:
Development Stage Enterprises;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Entrepreneurs;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Financial Instruments;
Performance Measurement;
Balanced Scorecard;
Investment Funds;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Research;
Framework;
Entrepreneurship;
Financial Services Industry
Leonard, Herman B. "Dutch". "Frameworks for Dialogue and Research about Social Impact Investing." Harvard Business School Technical Note 312-091, May 2012.
- June/July 1997
- Article
Why Does Business Need a Balanced Scorecard? Part II
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David Norton
Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard
- summer 2000
- Article
The Balanced Scorecard: A Strategic Management System for Multi-Sector Collaboration and Strategy Implementation
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Noorein Inamdar, Mary Lou Helfrich Jones and Rita Menitoff
Kaplan, Robert S., Noorein Inamdar, Mary Lou Helfrich Jones, and Rita Menitoff. "The Balanced Scorecard: A Strategic Management System for Multi-Sector Collaboration and Strategy Implementation." Quality Management in Health Care (summer 2000): 21–39.
- January–February 2018
- Article
Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality
By: Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim and Eduardo Tugendhat
More than a billion people in the developing world remain in extreme poverty and outside the formal economy. Traditional CSR programs have done little to alleviate the situation and rarely produce transformative change.
Instead of trying to fix local problems,... View Details
Instead of trying to fix local problems,... View Details
Keywords:
Inclusive Growth;
Sustainability;
Social Impact;
Business Strategy;
Shared Value;
Impact Investing;
Inequality;
Corporate Governance;
Balanced Scorecard;
Strategy Execution;
Economic Growth;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Poverty;
Equality and Inequality;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Strategy;
Investment
Kaplan, Robert S., George Serafeim, and Eduardo Tugendhat. "Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 1 (January–February 2018): 127–133.
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
Since the 1990s, the Balanced Scorecard system has cut a path in business as a more rigorous way to measure performance by quantifying what had been considered intangible assets, such as human capital,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
is fundamentally different. Is It Possible To Evaluate Differentiated Services? The question remains: how to evaluate the effectiveness of service units that offer differentiating outputs? Dave Norton and I argue that the cause-and-effect linkages in a service unit's...
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- November 2003 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
First Commonwealth Financial Corporation
By: Robert S. Kaplan
First Commonwealth Financial Corp., a financial institution in central and southwestern Pennsylvania, implemented the Balanced Scorecard for describing and implementing its new customer-focused strategy. Its founder and chairman decided that the Balanced Scorecard also...
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Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard;
Corporate Strategy;
Customers;
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Customer Relationship Management;
Executive Compensation;
Financial Services Industry;
Banking Industry;
Pennsylvania
Kaplan, Robert S. "First Commonwealth Financial Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 104-042, November 2003. (Revised August 2005.)
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
In The Strategy-Focused Organization, HBS professor Robert Kaplan and David Norton, president of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative, share the results of ten years of research into companies that have...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- August 1998 (Revised December 1998)
- Case
Wells Fargo Online Financial Services (B)
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Nicole Tempest
Describes how the Balanced Scorecard built by the Online Financial Services (OFS) group is used to select the highest-priority initiatives for the organization. Currently, initiatives arise continually throughout the organization, and management spends considerable...
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Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard;
Internet and the Web;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Strategy;
Performance Evaluation;
Finance;
Change;
Situation or Environment;
Measurement and Metrics;
Financial Services Industry;
Banking Industry
Kaplan, Robert S., and Nicole Tempest. "Wells Fargo Online Financial Services (B)." Harvard Business School Case 199-019, August 1998. (Revised December 1998.)
- October 1996 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
Mobil USM&R (D): Gasoline Marketing
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Mobil US Marketing & Refining has shifted from a centralized staff-driven organization to decentralized business-units. Staff functions now must negotiate service agreements with a buyer's committee consisting of representatives from the profit-center business units....
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Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard;
Management Teams;
Human Resources;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Customers;
Situation or Environment;
Business Units;
Energy Industry;
Mining Industry;
United States
Kaplan, Robert S. "Mobil USM&R (D): Gasoline Marketing." Harvard Business School Case 197-028, October 1996. (Revised April 1998.)
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
asking an occasional question or offering an occasional comment to show that they are doing their due diligence. Extending the Balanced Scorecard and strategy map framework to board members will enable them...
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by Robert S. Kaplan
- June 2005 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Domestic Auto Parts
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Describes a meeting of an executive team to discuss strategy for a company turnaround. The exercise is to construct a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard to capture the new strategy.
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Kaplan, Robert S. "Domestic Auto Parts." Harvard Business School Case 105-078, June 2005. (Revised March 2006.)