He has testified as an expert witness in U.S.
Simons has served as a consultant to many companies on topics related to strategy execution, organization design, performance measurement, and strategic control. Federal Court and before State Public Utility Commissions.Ī Canadian CPA, Simons earned his Ph.D. His most recent academic paper co-authored with Professor Antonio Dávila, “How Top Managers Use the Entrepreneurial Gap to Drive Strategic Change,” was published in the European Accounting Review in 2021.Ī Canadian CPA, Simons earned his Ph.D. In addition to his books, Simons' ongoing research into the relationship between business strategy, organization design, and management control systems has been published in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Capitalism and Society, Sloan Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Journal of Accounting Literature. This book won the Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature award. In addition, he has written Levers of Control (1995) that describes how effective top managers balance innovation and control. Simons’ books include Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution (2010) and Levers of Organization Design: How Managers Use Accountability Systems for Greater Performance and Commitment (2005). In 2021, The Case Centre (U.K.) named Simons the number two best-selling business case author in the world. This tool can be used to design, or test the design of, any job in any organization. In addition, an online app, Job Design Optimization Tool, is available free-of-charge from Harvard Business School Publishing.
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Simons has also published a 15-module series for classroom teaching on Strategy Execution available through Harvard Business School Publishing. Participants can complete the coursework on their own time. This course-open to the general public-consists of 40 hours of material delivered over an eight-week period. He also co-chairs (with Professor Robert Kaplan) "Driving Corporate Performance," an executive education program for general managers and financial executives.įor anyone interested in learning more about his work on strategy execution, Simons has developed a new multimedia course on Strategy Execution for Harvard Business School Online. For 2022/23, he is teaching two MBA courses: a full-term course on “Strategy Execution” and a half-term course on “Changing the World” which looks at the life choices of influential leaders. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School.
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