Robert Simons

 Robert L. Bob Simons is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. During the last twenty-five years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy implementation courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. During 2008/2009 he is developing a new second-year MBA course based on his latest research, teaching in the CEO program, and is co-chair (with Professor Robert Kaplan) of Driving Corporate Performance, a one-week program for financial executives and general managers. Simons ongoing research into the relationship between business strategy, organization design, and management control systems has been published in such journals as Sloan Management Review and Strategic Management Journal. A Canadian Chartered Accountant, Simons earned his Ph.D. from McGill University. Simons has served as a consultant to a number of corporations on matters of strategy implementation, organization design, performance measurement, and strategic control. He has testified as an expert witness in U.S. Federal Court and before State Public Utility Commissions. He lives in the Boston area.