Accountable Care Organization - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

originally adopted a functional organization structure. This enabled them to exit many marginal, local businesses and focus on the opportunities that were most promising from a global perspective. It also allowed them to introduce more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

02 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana

previous two months began receiving phone calls about internship cancellations. Difficult choices were made all around as organizations and students scrambled to pivot in a landscape that remained uncertain. Yet, for Humana, a Fortune 500... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

02 Feb 2017
News

Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute

Karen Fonseth (GMP 19, 2015) is CEO of Direct Action in Support of Community Homes (DASCH), a Canadian not-for-profit organization that operates more than 50 residential and outreach programs for children and adults with intellectual and... View Details

29 Sep 2020
News

A Righteous Path

organization to meet this growing need means managing growth—recruiting talent, developing office culture, finding room for everyone to sit, and, of course, fundraising to sustain the work—all while staying laser-focused on Safe Passage’s... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

by Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Takashi Yasui Sato-san’s hospital bed is wedged diagonally across his living room, relics of regular life pushed to the perimeter. For four years the retired accountant traveled back and forth to a... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

October 2023
Article

Health System Perspective on Cost for Delivering a Decision Aid for Prostate Cancer Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

By: David R. Ho, Robert S. Kaplan, Jonathan Bergman, David F. Penson, Benjamin Waterman, Kristin C. Williams, Jefersson Villatoro, Lorna Kwan and Christopher S. Saigal

Previsit decision aids (DAs) have been shown to improve decisional quality. But the cost to deploy a DA has not been previously estimated. We interviewed or observed relevant personnel at three institutions that had implemented DA programs for men with prostate cancer.... View Details

Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Accounting; Health Industry

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24 Apr 2014
News

Founding a bone marrow donor bank that saves thousands of lives

chance at life through bone marrow donations, and has registered more than 4 million bone marrow donors worldwide. After losing his first wife to blood cancer, Harf and his wife’s physician launched DKMS. With his daughter, Katharina, Harf has built it into the most... View Details

13 Mar 2020
News

Q&A with Karen Mills: Former SBA head says the coronavirus pandemic is situation critical for U.S. small businesses

01 Mar 2020
News

How Coronavirus Is Creating A Watershed Moment For Remote Work

10 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

Working PapersAccounting Information as Political Currency Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We test whether accounting can be used as political currency. Our setting is the US congressional election of 2004,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2000
News

Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace

Lydia Marshall is more comfortable talking about the impact that CARE -- the international relief and development organization -- has had on her than what she has done for it. If pressed, however, Marshall,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

makes it necessary to reform care delivery organizations and processes,” says Richard Bohmer (above). “Our current systems date back to the early 20th century.” At Emory, Dr. Bryce Gartland, medical director... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

20 Jul 2017
News

KKR, a private-equity giant, lays out its succession plan

13 Oct 2016
News

Wells Fargo Boss Stumpf Resigns

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

The twenty-first century will be the age of alliances. In this age, collaboration between nonprofit organizations and corporations will grow in frequency and strategic importance. Collaborative relationships will increasingly migrate from... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin