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- summer 1988
- Article
Simultaneous Signaling to the Capital and Product Markets
By: David S. Scharfstein, Robert Gertner and Robert Gibbons
Scharfstein, David S., Robert Gertner, and Robert Gibbons. "Simultaneous Signaling to the Capital and Product Markets." RAND Journal of Economics 19, no. 2 (summer 1988): 173–190.
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50625 February 2016 Harvard Business Review The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery By: Hamermesh, Richard G., Robert S. Huckman,...
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Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- Teaching Interest
Managing Health Care Delivery - Executive Education
While delivering patient care has always been a primary goal of health care organizations, financial outcomes have long been the metric by which success is measured. Increasingly, however, health care leaders are being held accountable for...
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- Research Summary
Overview
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan introduced time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to provide the cost component in Michael Porter's Value Based Health Care framework of delivering superior patient outcomes at lower societal cost. TDABC is becoming the global standard for health care...
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- 1990
- Chapter
Limitations of Cost Accounting in Advanced Manufacturing Environments
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert S. "Limitations of Cost Accounting in Advanced Manufacturing Environments." In Measures for Manufacturing Excellence, edited by Robert S. Kaplan, 15–38. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1990.
- February 2023
- Supplement
Dr. Andrea Pusic, Video Supplement
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Video supplement to aid in the teaching of "Brigham & Women's Hospital: Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Breast Cancer Care," HBS case no. 122-010.
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Kaplan, Robert S. "Dr. Andrea Pusic, Video Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 123-709, February 2023.
- January 2023
- Teaching Note
Brigham & Women's Hospital: Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Breast Cancer Care
By: Robert S. Kaplan
This Teaching Note was prepared to aid classroom instructors in the use of "Brigham and Women's Hospital: Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Breast Cancer Care," HBS Case No. 122-010.
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- Column
What Will U.S. Health Care Look Like After the Pandemic?
The pandemic crisis is almost certain to change many American industries. It would be a shame if health care is not one of them. A number of major practices have been altered to help the country cope with the extraordinary demands that the pandemic has imposed on the...
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Huckman, Robert S. "What Will U.S. Health Care Look Like After the Pandemic?" Harvard Business Review (website) (April 7, 2020).
- 1977
- Other Unpublished Work
Indexing Social Security: An Analysis of the Issues
By: Robert S. Kaplan
- 2018
- Working Paper
Reverse the Curse of the Top-5
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The past 40 years has seen a large increase in the number of articles submitted to journals ranked in the top-5 of their discipline. This increase is the rational response, by faculty, to the overweighting of publications in these journals by university promotions and...
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Kaplan, Robert S. "Reverse the Curse of the Top-5." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-052, October 2018.
- June 1999 (Revised June 2000)
- Teaching Note
Wells Fargo Online Financial Services (A) and (B) TN
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-198-146) and (9-199-019).
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- October 1997
- Teaching Note
Mobil USM&R Series TN
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-197-025), (9-197-120), (9-197-121), (9-197-026), (9-197-027), and (9-197-028).
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- October 1996 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
Mobil USM&R (D): Gasoline Marketing
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Mobil US Marketing & Refining has shifted from a centralized staff-driven organization to decentralized business-units. Staff functions now must negotiate service agreements with a buyer's committee consisting of representatives from the profit-center business units....
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Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard;
Management Teams;
Human Resources;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Customers;
Situation or Environment;
Business Units;
Energy Industry;
Mining Industry;
United States
Kaplan, Robert S. "Mobil USM&R (D): Gasoline Marketing." Harvard Business School Case 197-028, October 1996. (Revised April 1998.)
- February 1996
- Case
Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard (Abridged)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The pharmaceutical division of a diversified company has been asked to develop a Balanced Scorecard. Research and development projects take about ten years to bring a new product to the marketplace and the division depends on good relations and active feedback from its...
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Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard;
Research and Development;
Product Launch;
Commercialization;
Consumer Behavior;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Performance Evaluation;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 196-124, February 1996.
- June 2015
- Teaching Note
Schӧn Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for Schon Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value.
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- June 2014
- Article
Using TDABC to Deliver Better Patient Outcomes at Lower Cost
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert S. "Using TDABC to Deliver Better Patient Outcomes at Lower Cost." hfm (Healthcare Financial Management) 68, no. 6 (June 2014). (Web Extra.)
- June 2014
- Article
Improving Value with TDABC
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The article discusses the benefits of time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) combined with outcomes measurement for healthcare organizations. Topics covered include improving resource efficiency, optimizing care over the complete care cycle, and planning and...
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Keywords:
Goals and Objectives;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Improving Value with TDABC." hfm (Healthcare Financial Management) 68, no. 6 (June 2014): 76–83.
- May 1995 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
AT&T Paradyne
By: Robert S. Kaplan
A company making data communication devices has adopted a Total Quality philosophy for working with suppliers, employees, and customers. The finance group finds its existing cost system has become obsolete because of a shift from manual to automatic production...
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Keywords:
Decisions;
Product;
Corporate Accountability;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
System;
Performance Efficiency;
Financial Reporting;
Operations;
Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "AT&T Paradyne." Harvard Business School Case 195-165, May 1995. (Revised April 1998.)
- 2012
- Comment
The Balanced Scorecard: Comments on Balanced Scorecard Commentaries
By: Robert S. Kaplan
This paper provides the author's insights about five papers written in this volume about his published work on the balanced scorecard (BSC). The author finds that academic commentary on the BSC often ignores its role in strategy execution. The paper discusses how the...
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Keywords:
Strategy Execution;
Performance Management;
Strategy;
Public Sector;
Balanced Scorecard;
Performance
Kaplan, Robert S. "The Balanced Scorecard: Comments on Balanced Scorecard Commentaries." Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 8, no. 4 (2012): 539–545.