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- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53941 forthcoming Harvard International Review Henry Kissinger and Robert Mugabe: The Forgotten Connection via a Remarkably Creative Negotiation By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—When View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
presence of war. Does the fall of Rome, the Battle of Shiloh, the Normandy Landings––and today’s wars—give proof of life or only of the struggle? The Panic of 1907: Heralding a New Era of Finance, Capitalism, and Democracy By Robert F....
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TDABC Cost Analysis of Ocular Disorders in an Ophthalmology Emergency Department versus Urgent Care: Clinical Experience at Massachusetts Eye and Ear
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Jonathan Chou, Mahek Shah, Amy Watts, Matthew Gardiner, Joan Miller and John I. Lowenstein
Purpose
To perform a cost analysis comparison for managing common ocular disorders in an eye emergency department (ED) versus an urgent care setting using a time-driven activity-based cost model (TDABC) to assist physicians and staff in appropriate allocation of...
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Time-driven Activity-based Cost Model;
Emergency Room;
Urgent Care Clinic;
Cost;
Analysis;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Health Care and Treatment
Kaplan, Robert S., Jonathan Chou, Mahek Shah, Amy Watts, Matthew Gardiner, Joan Miller, and John I. Lowenstein. "TDABC Cost Analysis of Ocular Disorders in an Ophthalmology Emergency Department versus Urgent Care: Clinical Experience at Massachusetts Eye and Ear." Journal of Academic Ophthalmology 10 (2018).
- April 28, 2004
- Article
Physicians Report on Patient Encounters Involving Direct-To-Consumer Advertising
By: Joel S. Weissman, David Blumenthal, Alvin J. Silk, Michael Newman, Kinga Zapert, Robert Leitman and Sandra Feibelmann
Weissman, Joel S., David Blumenthal, Alvin J. Silk, Michael Newman, Kinga Zapert, Robert Leitman, and Sandra Feibelmann. "Physicians Report on Patient Encounters Involving Direct-To-Consumer Advertising." Health Affairs 10, no. 1377 (April 28, 2004): w4–219 – w4–233.
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
MaterialsKKR: Leveraging Sustainability Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim, and Tiffany A. ClayHarvard Business School Case 112-032 The case describes KKR's Green Portfolio Program, one of the firm's environmental initiatives, which has...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
proposition. It aims to explore effective curricular and programmatic responses as opportunities for MBA programs to innovate. The paper also aims to call for collective action across the business school field to effectively address these challenges. The Hollow Science...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
private sector. Founded by two enterprising students, Robert R. Halperin (MBA '82) and Nathaniel W. Foote (MBA '81, JD '82), the program, which has had more than 350 participants, recently marked its twentieth anniversary, with many...
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Achieving Value in Highly Complex Acute Care: Lessons from the Delivery of Extra Corporeal Life Support
By: Michael Nurok, Jonathan Warsh, Erik Dong, Jeffrey Lopez, Mayumi Kharabi and Robert S. Kaplan
We applied a value (outcomes and cost) analysis to extracorporeal life support (ECLS), a relatively rare but very expensive ICU therapy with highly variable outcomes. To address the outcome component of the value approach, we created guidelines for ECLS delivery; to...
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Nurok, Michael, Jonathan Warsh, Erik Dong, Jeffrey Lopez, Mayumi Kharabi, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Achieving Value in Highly Complex Acute Care: Lessons from the Delivery of Extra Corporeal Life Support." NEJM Catalyst (October 31, 2019).
- September 2013 (Revised August 2024)
- Exercise
Process Analytics Simulation: Solutions
A set of exercises and instructions to be used with the Process Simulator software made by Pro Model. These exercises allow students to investigate the impact of variable processing times on the performance of simple in-line processes. Includes color exhibits.
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Huckman, Robert S., Aizan Radzi, Willy Shih, Roy D. Shapiro, and Michael W. Toffel. "Process Analytics Simulation: Solutions." Harvard Business School Exercise 614-029, September 2013. (Revised August 2024.)
- September 2009
- Article
A Detailed Analysis of the Reduction Mammaplasty Learning Curve: A Statistical Process Model for Approaching Surgical Performance Improvement
By: Matthew Carty MD, Rodney Chan, Robert S. Huckman, Daniel C. Snow and Dennis Orgill
Background: The increased focus on quality and efficiency improvement within academic surgery has met with variable success among plastic surgeons. Traditional surgical performance metrics, such as morbidity and mortality, are insufficient to improve the... View Details
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Experience and Expertise;
Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Specialties;
Outcome or Result;
Performance Efficiency;
Performance Improvement
Carty, Matthew, MD, Rodney Chan, Robert S. Huckman, Daniel C. Snow, and Dennis Orgill. "A Detailed Analysis of the Reduction Mammaplasty Learning Curve: A Statistical Process Model for Approaching Surgical Performance Improvement." Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 124, no. 3 (September 2009): 706–714.
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
expectations are impossible to meet, either approach sets up the firm and its managers for failure, and in the process, value is destroyed. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1583563 Fluid Teams and Fluid Tasks: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team...
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Martha Lagace
- February 2023
- Supplement
Performance Management at Afreximbank (B)
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Siko Sikochi, Anna Ngarachu and Namrata Arora
Supplements the (A) case. Founded in October 1993, the Cairo-based African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) was a specialized continental financial institution designed to address the low level of intra-African trade, the decline in financial flows to Africa, the...
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COVID-19 Pandemic;
Performance Evaluation;
Organizational Culture;
Crisis Management;
Banking Industry;
Africa
Kaplan, Robert S., Siko Sikochi, Anna Ngarachu, and Namrata Arora. "Performance Management at Afreximbank (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 123-043, February 2023.
- March 2015
- Case
Twine Health
By: Robert S. Huckman, Ariel D. Stern and Matthew G. Preble
In late 2014, Dr. John Moore (CEO), Frank Moss (chairman), and Scott Gilroy (CTO) of Twine Health (Twine) had to resolve several challenges that threatened to restrict the widespread dissemination of its sole product, Twine. Twine was a cloud-based platform that...
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Keywords:
Health Care;
Chronic Disease;
Technology Adoption;
Digital Health;
Health Acceleration Challenge;
Strategy;
Disease Management;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Technology;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Health Industry;
United States;
Massachusetts
Huckman, Robert S., Ariel D. Stern, and Matthew G. Preble. "Twine Health." Harvard Business School Case 615-068, March 2015.
- January 1982
- Article
The Returns and Risk of Alternative Put Option Portfolio Investment Strategies
By: Robert C. Merton, Myron S. Scholes and Matthew L. Gladstein
Merton, Robert C., Myron S. Scholes, and Matthew L. Gladstein. "The Returns and Risk of Alternative Put Option Portfolio Investment Strategies." Journal of Business 55 (January 1982): 183–242.
- 2010
- Other Paper
Comorbidities and the Focused Factory: The Plexus of Medical Conditions and the Scope of Hospital Services
By: Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman and Ryan W. Thompson
- 2009
- Working Paper
Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery
By: David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Jonathan T. Kolstad
Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality...
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- January – February 2009
- Article
Managing Strategy with External Partners
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez and Bjarne Rugelsjoen
Kaplan, Robert S., Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, and Bjarne Rugelsjoen. "Managing Strategy with External Partners." Balanced Scorecard Report 11, no. 1 (January–February 2009): 1–6.
- 2007
- Working Paper
Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services
By: Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton
Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the number of projects completed by, a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership...
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Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Learning;
Performance Improvement;
Projects;
Groups and Teams;
Familiarity;
Information Technology Industry;
India
Huckman, Robert S., Bradley R. Staats, and David M. Upton. "Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-019, September 2007. (Revised February 2008, July 2008.)
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
results illustrate how firms redesign their organizational structure through a set of complementary choices in response to changes in their environment. We discuss several possible interpretations of these changes. Managing Risk in the New World Authors:Robert View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
research and discuss his contributions to management and economics. We look at three distinct bodies of work. In the first, Clark (in conjunction with Robert Hayes and Steven Wheelwright) argued that the abandonment by U.S. managers of...
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Martha Lagace