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  • January 2020
  • Article

Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Demonstrate Value in Perioperative Care: Recommendations and Review from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement

By: O. Allin, R. D. Urman, A. F. Edwards, J. D. Blitz, K. J. Pfeifer, T. W. Feeley and A. M. Bader
A shift in health care payment models from volume toward value-based incentives will require deliberate input into systems development from both perioperative clinicians and administrators to ensure appropriate recognition of the value of all services... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Outcomes; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Value; Activity Based Costing and Management
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  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

half of farmers calling AO in the first seven months. Farmers offered the service turn less often to other farmers and input sellers for agricultural advice. Management practices change as well: we observe... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Jun 2024
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman

    Political Standards

    The University of Chicago Press November 2015.

    Prudent, verifiable, and timely corporate accounting is a bedrock of our modern capitalist system. In recent years, however, the rules that govern corporate accounting have been subtly changed in... View Details

    • Web

    Teaching by the Case Method - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    Teaching by the Case Method Case Method in Practice Preparing to Teach Leading in the Classroom Providing Assessment & Feedback Sample Class Play Video Chris Christensen described case method teaching as "the art of View Details
    • October 2013 (Revised January 2015)
    • Case

    Americhem: The Gaylord Division (A-1)

    By: David A. Garvin
    The Gaylord Division of Americhem, a large chemical company, is in the midst of the first use of a new zero-base budgeting system. The general manager of the division leading the process is experiencing disagreement and conflict among the members of the senior... View Details
    Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges
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    • 02 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

    status-quo-preserving story that prevails despite countervailing evidence. We then advance systems-psychodynamic theory to show how organizations use this narrative and attendant policies and practices as an unconscious “social defense”... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • March 2024
    • Article

    Establishing the Foundation for Carbon Trading Markets

    By: Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna and Marc Roston
    Poor measurement practices and inadequate controls have led to extensive trading of carbon offset instruments that do not materially reduce the supply of atmospheric GHG. We introduce five carbon offset accounting principles, built from fundamental financial-accounting... View Details
    Keywords: Carbon Offsetting; Accounting; Carbon Accounting; E-liabilities; Measurement; Trading; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Sustainability
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    • Web

    Finance Faculty - Faculty & Research

    Segel Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Poorvu Family Professor of Management Practice, Retired Ishita Sen Assistant Professor of Business Administration Andrei... View Details
    • 22 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 22

    experience high costs of capital that are only partly mitigated by the presence of venture capital, the evidence for high costs of R&D capital for large firms is mixed. Nevertheless, large established firms do appear to prefer internal funds for financing such... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 19 May 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

    Keywords: by Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth & John J. Siegfried
    • 11 Jan 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    A Perceptions Framework for Categorizing Inventory Policies in Single-stage Inventory Systems

    Keywords: by Noel Watson

      Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution

      Most books thus far on emerging markets are either investing-oriented, or country - or market-specific, or descriptive. No book has definitively targeted the corporate strategists who need a practical framework and assessment tools for analyzing emerging markets,... View Details

      • September 1996 (Revised April 1998)
      • Case

      Mobil USM&R (B): New England Sales and Distribution

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      The general manager of a local gasoline/distillate sales and distribution business unit must communicate a new strategy to the unit's 300 employees. An initial strategic planning exercise identified a high-priority list of opportunities that blended the parent... View Details
      Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Adoption; Strategic Planning; Customization and Personalization; Management Practices and Processes; Growth and Development Strategy; Measurement and Metrics; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Evaluation; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; United States
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      • Research Summary

      The Toyota Production System: Rules for Activity, Connection, and Pathway Design and Improvement

      Researchers have established that Toyota enjoys advantages in cost, quality, lead time, and flexibility when compared to its competitors in automobile assembly. Differences in generating value have been attributed to differences between the Toyota Production System... View Details

      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose

      By: Malcolm S. Salter
      In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach... View Details
      Keywords: Capitalism; Justice; Corporate Purpose; Shareholder Value Maximization; Ethical Reciprocity; Economic Systems; Business Ventures; Mission and Purpose; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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      • 2021
      • Article

      Reflections: Voice and Silence in Workplace Conversations

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Tijs Besieux
      We highlight conversations at work as an arena of change. Drawing on and extending the psychological safety literature, we offer a new framework to distinguish between productive and unproductive forms of both voice and silence. The framework’s four... View Details
      Keywords: Conversation; Silence; Voice; Psychological Safety; Interpersonal Communication; Quality; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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      • 21 May 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

      What do leaders this year and the next need to be doing differently than last year, and last decade, and last century? The rapidly changing business world means dramatic changes are afoot in time-worn notions about leadership, according to the book View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 12 Dec 2023
      • Book

      HBS Faculty Books of 2023: Find Happiness, Fix Things, and Fail Well

      themselves unfulfilled at the top. In the book Build the Life You Want, Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey offer high achievers a guide to becoming better leaders—of their lives. Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target... View Details
      Keywords: by Danielle Kost
      • 01 Mar 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

      Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura & Marion Fourcad; Education