Corporate Ownership & Control / Volume 4‚ Issue 4‚ Summer 2007 96 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: SHAREHOLDERS’ INTERESTS’ AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS’ INTERESTS Elena F Pérez Carrillo* Abstract Much of the traditional Company Law doctrine considers that Corporations must be managed to promote‚ above all‚ shareholders’ rights. Activities in favour of non-shareholder constituencies such as suppliers‚ consumers‚ employees or the Community at large can be perceived as a means of Management to increase its
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and activities of a company’s human resource management function. 2. Discuss the implications of the economy‚ the makeup of the labor force‚ and ethics for company sustainability. 3. Discuss how human resource management affects a company’s balanced scorecard. 4. Discuss what companies should do to compete in the global marketplace. 5. Identify the characteristics of the workforce and how they influence human resource management. 6. Discuss human resource management practices that support high
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Activity-Based Costing and the Balanced Scorecard By Dr. Peter Turney Activity-based costing (ABC)‚ activity-based management (ABM) and the balanced scorecard (BSC) are established management methods. They are building blocks of performance management systems. ABC and ABM provide cost and other business intelligence about key business elements including resources‚ activities‚ products‚ services and customers. They enable managers to make decisions that improve cost and profit performance. The
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Case 1: Chemical Bank: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard see page 233-252 Questions for the case: 1. What does Mike Hegarty want to accomplish with the BSC ? 2. Comment on the BSC implementation at Chemical’s Retail Bank ? 3. What pitfalls need to be avoided for a successful BSC project? Balanced Scorecard Implementation Pitfalls to Avoid There are many Balanced Scorecard implementations where companies don ’t seem to get all the benefits described above. Research and experience have
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Analysis paper on Phillips Electronic Balance Scorecard What is a Balance Scorecard? A Balanced scorecard is a strategic planning and management system that is used extensively in business and industry‚ government‚ and nonprofit organizations worldwide to align business activities to the vision and strategy of the organization‚ improve internal and external communications‚ and monitor organization performance against strategic goals. It was originated by Drs. Robert Kaplan Harvard Business
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1. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the balanced scorecard in this type of an organization. Brief summary of Montefiore Medical Center: * MMC started off in 1884 as a home for the chronically ill that other hospitals couldn’t help‚ dedicated in honor of Sir Moses Montefiore. * In 1963‚ Montefiore agreed to operate the patient care facility of the Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Both hospitals remained as distinct entities with separate administrations for the
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interesting meeting due to the balanced scorecard that was discussed. The manager at EEC found the concept to be very valuable which lead to a presentation being done about the balanced scorecard and discussed with other managers at the next meeting. A balanced scorecard is a concept that managers use to appropriately measure the strategic planning objectives. Business‚ governmental agencies‚ and nonprofit organizations are factors that are employed by the balanced scorecard. It is also involved in the
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previously needed a winning strategy with a very high goal of increased revenue. Successful implementation of this strategy was planned through the balanced scorecard process. Some Veolia Water executives were familiar with the balanced scorecard‚ as it was used in the Japan office and some had used it at previous companies. At
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TEMPEST‚ INC (The Balance Scorecard) Reshika Chandra Q1. How does the ‘balance scorecard’ approach described in Exhibit G. 1 differ from a more traditional discounted cash flow method of evaluating capital proposals? Which approach is better suited to Tempest’s situation? Why? Traditional performance measurement has developed from a financial perspective view and has a control behavior whereas balanced scorecard (BSC) focuses on strategy and vision. Balanced Scorecard (BSC) provides clear prescription
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www.hbrreprints.org BEST OF HBR Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System by Robert S. Kaplan and David P Norton . • Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System 14 Further Reading A list of related materials‚ with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and
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