Accounting & Management
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- January 2023
- Case
Digital Transformation at Tata Steel
By: Krishna Palepu, Das Narayandas and Radhika KakT.V. Narendran, CEO of Tata Steel, India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm, had taken concrete business and cultural transformation steps to future-ready the firm since taking over in 2013. He had deleveraged and instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, entered new segments and adjacent businesses, and launched digital transformation, agility, safety, and sustainability programs. At the heart of his transformation program lay the digitalization drive. Now, he turned his attention to the firm’s burgeoning B2C business. In 2018, the firm had launched an e-commerce platform to sell products directly to retail customers. Now he needed to decide whether to open up this platform to non-Tata group third-party suppliers of ancillary home construction products, like cement, paint, tiles, and other home fittings. Would this create a unique one-stop shop for construction-related goods, or take Tata Steel further away from its core mission? He and his team needed to decide fast.
- January 2023
- Case
Digital Transformation at Tata Steel
By: Krishna Palepu, Das Narayandas and Radhika KakT.V. Narendran, CEO of Tata Steel, India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm, had taken concrete business and cultural transformation steps to future-ready the firm since taking over in 2013. He had deleveraged and instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, entered new segments and adjacent businesses, and launched digital...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
Job Design and Workers’ Wellbeing: Evidence from a Hospital Setting
By: Susanna Gallani and Jacob RieglerThis study examines the relationship between job design imbalance and workers’ well-being. We build on Simons (2005) framework for the design of high-performing jobs and develop a survey instrument to capture workers’ perceptions of their job design and work conditions. We deploy this instrument in a healthcare setting. We find support for our predictions that job design imbalance is significantly associated with lower ability to decompress outside of work and higher levels of emotional exhaustion. Furthermore, this relation is driven by imbalances between task interdependence and obtained collaboration. We do not find a significant relationship between job design and professional fulfillment. Our results suggest that managerial practices, such as job design, can influence workers’ well-being in the workplace.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Job Design and Workers’ Wellbeing: Evidence from a Hospital Setting
By: Susanna Gallani and Jacob RieglerThis study examines the relationship between job design imbalance and workers’ well-being. We build on Simons (2005) framework for the design of high-performing jobs and develop a survey instrument to capture workers’ perceptions of their job design and work conditions. We deploy this instrument in a healthcare setting. We find support for our...
About the Unit
The Accounting & Management unit at Harvard Business School strives to be the worldwide leader in research, course development, and teaching on top managements' use of performance measurement systems to:
- Communicate with external investors to ensure that their firms' securities are fairly priced and that they are able to access capital,
- Measure and evaluate their firms' economic performance,
- Improve resource allocation and strategy implementation within their firms, and
- Build accountability for performance through effective external and internal governance.
Unit research, course development, and teaching fall into two broad areas: Financial Reporting and Analysis and Management Accounting. Our research helps scholars and educators understand current best practices for the design and use of performance measurement systems that help managers to build more effective, value-creating organizations. Our teaching materials enable us to bring the results of this research into the classroom, and to practice.
Recent Publications
Digital Transformation at Tata Steel
- January 2023 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Call of Fiduciary Duty: Microsoft Acquires Activision Blizzard
- January 2023 |
- Teaching Note |
- Faculty Research
Labor Unions in the United States
- January 2023 |
- Technical Note |
- Faculty Research
Velong: Rethinking 'Made in China'
- January 2023 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Organizational Climate Transition Risk Model
- January 2023 |
- Supplement |
- Faculty Research
The Opioid Settlement and Executive Pay at AmerisourceBergen
- January 2023 |
- Teaching Note |
- Faculty Research
The Pursuit of Profit with Purpose Requires Patience
- January 9, 2023 |
- Editorial |
- Financial Times
Performance Management at Afreximbank
- January 2023 |
- Teaching Note |
- Faculty Research