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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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Get Your Boss Out of Your Bedroom

Harvard Business Review

And I needed the kind of advice that only a manager can give. running according to free-market efficiencies! Kaplan put it when I interviewed him , "The health care sector just kind of split off from the rest of any other kind of sector" when it comes to accounting. Not in the boardroom — but in the bedroom. Thank heavens.)

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Making Sense of Our Very Competitive, Super Monopolistic Economy

Harvard Business Review

It offered far more movies than its smaller rivals, used computers to better manage that inventory, and designed its stores to be bright and family friendly. Big companies are making lots of money, not investing all that much, and yet somehow managing to fend off newer challengers. are in different phases of this cycle.

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How to Use Uncertainty and Surprise for Breakthroughs

LDRLB

Some companies and leaders have experienced the inherent value of uncertainty and surprise, and actually use it to out-innovate the competition: Intuit’s flagship product was Quicken, the leading software program for managing home finances. Cook dismissed his own market data for over a year.

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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function.

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