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• Case | HBS Case Collection | August 2016 (Revised July 2018)

  Accenture Human Capital Strategy

  Paula A. Price, V.G. Narayanan and James Weber

  Accenture is a leading global consulting, technology, and outsourcing company. It has clients and its own operations throughout the world. This case describes the human resources and related activities necessary to deliver its services to clients. It allows students to explore how Accenture predicts its staffing needs, identifies the necessary skills, identifies how to recruit staff, when to hire them, in what parts of the world, how to develop compensate, and motivate them, how to form them into project teams, and manage the process in a cost effective manner. The case also provides a fictional example of an Accenture project. A potential client has issued a request for proposals to deliver a technology project. Students are asked to create a project team with the right mix of people at a cost that is competitive enough to win the project.

  Keywords: management consulting; technology consulting; outsourcing; human resources; Human Resources; Activity Based Costing and Management; Management Practices and Processes;

  Citation:

  Price, Paula A., V.G. Narayanan, and James Weber. "Accenture Human Capital Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 117-032, August 2016. (Revised July 2018.)  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | February 2018 (Revised June 2018)

  The Music Academy, Madras

  V.G. Narayanan

  Keywords: India; Southeast Asia;

  Citation:

  Narayanan, V.G. "The Music Academy, Madras." Harvard Business School Case 118-054, February 2018. (Revised June 2018.)  View Details

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• Simulation | 2018

  Financial Analysis Simulation: Data Detective

  Suraj Srinivasan and V.G. Narayanan

  In this simulation, students learn to identify typical industry characteristics revealed in financial data. Equipped with an interactive and flexible set of tools, students analyze disguised financials and—using their knowledge of operational practices and reasoning skills—match them to real companies and their descriptions. The simulation allows faculty to assign firms from a library of more than 50 publicly traded companies or upload their own.

  Keywords: accounting; financial analysis; financial statements; Financial Accounting; Financial ratios; Accounting; Financial Statements; Analysis;

  Citation:

  Srinivasan, Suraj, and V.G. Narayanan. "Financial Analysis Simulation: Data Detective." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Simulation and Teaching Note. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 8742, 2018. Electronic.  View Details

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