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- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
organizational performance. In a thought-provoking book published last year, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton suggest that the overriding impact of leadership on performance is a myth, or at least only a half-truth. 30 years ago, in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- February 2024 (Revised December 2024)
- Case
Best Buy Health: Enabling Care at Home
This case explores retailer Best Buy’s decision to enter health care. Best Buy Health aims to enable care at home across three prongs: consumer health, active aging, and virtual care. A key pillar of Best Buy Health's strategy is leveraging the Geek Squad—the company's... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Business Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Electronics Industry; Health Industry; Retail Industry; United States; Minnesota
Huckman, Robert S., Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Antonio Moreno, Bradley Staats, and Sarah Mehta. "Best Buy Health: Enabling Care at Home." Harvard Business School Case 624-009, February 2024. (Revised December 2024.)
- September 2001
- Background Note
Financial Reporting Environment, The
Provides a framework for understanding the role of financial reporting and various intermediaries as mechanisms for reducing both adverse selection and moral hazard problems in capital markets. Financial reports reduce adverse selection by providing basic information... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Corporate Disclosure; Conflict of Interests
Healy, Paul M., Amy P. Hutton, Robert S. Kaplan, and Krishna G. Palepu. "Financial Reporting Environment, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 102-029, September 2001.
- January 2024
- Article
A Cost Model for a Low Threshold Clinic Treating Opioid Use Disorder
By: Sarah E. Wakeman, Elizabeth Powell, Syed Shehab, Grace Herman, Laura Kehoe and Robert S. Kaplan
The US fee-for-service payment system under-reimburses clinics offering access to comprehensive treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD). The funding shortfall limits a clinic’s ability to expand and improve access, especially for socially marginalized patients with... View Details
Wakeman, Sarah E., Elizabeth Powell, Syed Shehab, Grace Herman, Laura Kehoe, and Robert S. Kaplan. "A Cost Model for a Low Threshold Clinic Treating Opioid Use Disorder." Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research 51, no. 1 (January 2024): 22–30.
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Harvard Business School
wealth in urban communities. Frank S. Jones MBA 1957 In 1971, Frank Jones was named Ford Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning and became the first African American tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
done. Nor was he the elegant Robert E. Lee, fending off superior forces through ingenious defensive maneuvers. Instead he was the relentless Ulysses S. Grant—grinding out a series of costly victories at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
in the hospital and nearly died after prematurely delivering their only child, Johnny, now known as Maynard. (MacDonald’s father declined to help with the hospital bills, which added to the distance between them.) In later years, MacDonald’s ties to HBS and contacts... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Competitive Advantage by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (DBA ’73) (HBS Press) Building on their previous works on strategy-focused organizations, the authors describe a multistage system enabling a... View Details
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Involved Videos Books Articles PUBLICATIONS: Articles HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW (September 2011) Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter This... View Details
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Videos - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Involved Videos Books Videos VBHCD Videos Robert Kaplan: Working to Solve Health Care Cost Crisis HBS Professor Robert S. Kaplan speaks in a University of Utah Health Care... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
Managers know that individuals who have experience working together can influence team performance. Yet most managers underestimate the benefit of such familiarity, according to Robert S. Huckman, Professor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Powered by the HBS Fund
productivity. Professor Emeritus Robert S. Kaplan explain how he uses action research to lower the cost of health care. Professor Mihir Desai talk about his research and his testimony before Congress on... View Details
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Involved Videos Books Teaching Cases Publications: Cases Teaching Cases Domestic Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski and Jessica A. Hohman The case... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
HBS in China
HBS IN CHINA: The inaugural HBS Executive Education program at the new Harvard Center Shanghai in early January ensured that language was not a barrier to following the presentations. Participants could use headsets for Chinese translation of HBS professor View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice
industries, and companies. HBS faculty also work hand in hand with organizations in the field to find solutions to complex problems, often with actionable results. Among them is Robert S. Kaplan, senior... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Merton Receives Nobel Prize
HBS professor Robert C. Merton, cowinner (with Stanford's Myron S. Scholes) of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, accepts his award from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf in a ceremony at the Stockholm... View Details
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Medical Center University of Rochester Medical Center University of Utah Health Care UPMC Vanderbilt University Medical Center Veterans Health Administration Professor Robert S. Kaplan View Details
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
University of California Los Angeles Medical Center University of California San Francisco Medical Center UPMC University of Rochester Medical Center University of Utah Health Care System Vanderbilt University Medical Center Veterans Administration (VA) Professor View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
Bynoe (MBA '75/JD '76) and cochairs Gregory A. White (MBA '90) and Jeffrey S. Perry (MBA '91), the conference brought together African-American alumni from HBS, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University. The distinguished... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
been adopted by thousands of private, public, and nonprofit enterprises around the world. Professor Robert S. Kaplan, who created the concept and tool with David Norton (DBA ’73), explains the roots and... View Details