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- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, which are moving toward results measurement and integrated practice unit structures. Reforming the U.S. system does not require a top down, big bang, government-led... View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
lose your bearings. Q: How pernicious a problem is denial in business today? A: Denial has always been a problem. What is different today is that the cost of denial has become so high. We are living in a less forgiving world than we once... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
to remedy the information-sharing glut that is slowing health care innovation and harming patient care, according to panelists discussing "Digital Health: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation" at the Digital Initiative Summit held March 30. This View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
shouldn't wait for policy; they should act now to become early movers in leading these changes. Context Professor Porter, having conducted in-depth research and analysis on the U.S. health care market, discussed his conclusions on the industry's View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
to a number of fluid circumstances. At times, Badaracco argues, the most responsible decision can be putting off the "big decision" as long as possible in order to respond to an ever-evolving configuration of moving parts. The measures of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
A health care SEC could collect data on prices and outcomes that comply with its measurement standards, and certified, independent appraisers could attest that the numbers comply with accepted measurement... View Details
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
care providers such as doctors and hospitals placing profits before client needs (David Stahl, John Van Slyke, Roger Chen, Jan Fersing, Hugh Quick, among others); the agency problem separating payers such as individuals, businesses, and... View Details
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
tell." Next Steps In a related line of work, the researchers are studying whether our behavior is affected by how we sleep - curled up in the fetal position, for example, versus limbs sprawled across the bed. Bos and Cuddy also are planning to conduct a field... View Details
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
firm-level turbulence starting in the 1990s, as measured by the average intra-industry rank change in sales, enterprise value, and other metrics. Furthermore, we find that IT-intensive industries account for most of this increase in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy, published by Prentice Hall. Q: What's the context for the development of this book? Simons: My colleagues and I in the School's Accounting and Control Unit have spent a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
were being carefully monitored and measured. Design and production problems should be worked out off-line, in a lab setting without customers, before the service delivery is tested in a live environment. —Stefan Thomke To select and... View Details
- November 1994 (Revised March 1996)
- Case
Pepsi's Regeneration, 1990-1993
By: David A. Garvin and Donald N. Sull
Craig Weatherup, the president and CEO of Pepsi Cola, leads a change process that completely transforms his company. It includes a new vision, operating philosophy, strategy, and organizational structure. He also introduces process improvement techniques and builds new... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Systems; Standards; Organizational Structure; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Food and Beverage Industry
Garvin, David A., and Donald N. Sull. "Pepsi's Regeneration, 1990-1993." Harvard Business School Case 395-048, November 1994. (Revised March 1996.)
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
the 1980s, with time dimension modifications introduced by Anderson for clients of Acorn Systems. We asked Kaplan to describe the problems with traditional costing approaches, the improvements made by TDABC, and how it works with the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- March 2011 (Revised January 2015)
- Teaching Note
The IASB at a Crossroads: The Future of International Financial Reporting Standards
By: Karthik Ramanna
Teaching Note for 111084 and 113089. View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
http://people.hbs.edu/reccles/2011SU_Features_EcclesSaltzman.pdf Deprival Value' vs. 'Fair Value' Measurement for Contract Liabilities: How to Resolve the 'Revenue Recognition' Conundrum? Authors:Joanne Horton, Richard H. Macve, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49708 Published first online September 16, 2015 Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Incorporating Longitudinal Pediatric Patient-centered Outcome View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
questions about what model is best suited to the integration of nonfinancial concerns. Does the joint pursuit of commercial and social objectives require new ways of organizing? In this essay we argue that it does. Or at least—to put our thesis in more View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
launches an initiative to solve this problem and identifies the number of spare power supply parts it sends out weekly as the measure it will use to track the progress. The transactional measure—the number... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
possible for them to take the long- and proper-view." Yadeed Lobo articulated the problem faced by corporate boards when he commented that "it is very difficult for board members to judge relative performance (it also) involves... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- October 2021
- Article
Shareholder Activism and Firms' Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks
By: Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel and Kala Viswanathan
This paper examines whether—in the absence of mandated disclosure requirements—shareholder activism can elicit greater disclosure of firms’ exposure to climate change risks. We find that environmental shareholder activism increases the voluntary disclosure of climate... View Details
Keywords: Transparency; Reporting; Shareholder Engagement; Shareholder Activism; Climate Change; Risk and Uncertainty; Environmental Management; Investment Activism; Corporate Disclosure; Communication Strategy; Information Publishing; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Problems and Challenges; United States
Flammer, Caroline, Michael W. Toffel, and Kala Viswanathan. "Shareholder Activism and Firms' Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks." Strategic Management Journal 42, no. 10 (October 2021): 1850–1879. (Featured in Harvard Business Review.)