Activity Based Costing and Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

decisions about which extracurricular activities to pursue, which schools to apply to, and which topics to choose for their essays. An Introduction to Real Estate Finance by Edward A. Glickman (MBA 1981)... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

to think. He describes a dramatically new organizational model, based on new technologies, which will provide organizations with unprecedented levels of self-awareness and sentience, the ability to sense,... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

brand management that avoids traditional brand tenets of control and competition, largely adopted from the private sector, in favor of a strategic approach centered on the mission View Details

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

Vanguard’s index funds have obvious appeal to investors, especially smaller ones. Their passive approach makes these funds less expensive to maintain than active mutual funds, and their operating View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

29 Mar 2023
News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

Gumrah. “We also supported NGOs, local authorities, and municipalities based on their needs, such as hygiene products, medicines, shelters and clothes.” The company also... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

underground economic activities work to put cyber currencies in context, the book discusses the benefits and drawbacks of the increased role of cyber currencies in today's underground economy. It also... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

International Senior Managers Programin Vevey, Switzerland, which provided numerous HBS faculty with their first opportunity to do teaching, field research, and course development abroad. View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

07 Jun 2023
HBS Case

3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

fees that other brands pay department stores and other distributors. While it doesn’t charge the premium prices of competitors, its lower costs help it maintain an advantage. Perhaps recognizing that threat,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

with health care partners Increase operational efficiencies: Match clinical resources to clinical processes and improve resource utilization Optimize costs over the full cycle of care View Details

19 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

directors. In particular, how does a board really know the leadership style of its senior operating management and the culture of the company for which it has fiduciary responsibility? Most boards do a good... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing

04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

ambition. “Hubris and the ubiquity of devices configured to interrupt us make focused work a near impossibility for many.” Time management principles at work are well understood, just terribly hard to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Health Plans - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

measuring and rewarding providers based on outcomes, maximizing patient value over the full cycle of care, minimizing paperwork, and competing for subscribers View Details

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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Business School professors Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan, engages with leading health care providers in the U.S. and around the world to measure and View Details

December 1994
Case

AB SKA (Sweden)

By: David F. Hawkins, V.G. Narayanan and Robert L. Simons

A senior manager faces three accounting and control decisions related to a new R&D project: to expense or capitalize, how to implement management control over the R&D function, and how to use activity-based cost drivers for product costing. View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting; Management Practices and Processes; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Research and Development; Sweden

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01 Dec 2001
News

Reaching Out

just that. "It made a big difference to me that Dan went to HBS," she remarks. "It was amazing to watch him in action and learn that an organization can maintain a social mission while managing its day-today... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52341 February 20, 2018 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Administrative Costs Associated with Physician Billing and Insurance-Related... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 1998
News

Short Takes

Managing Development Flexibility in Uncertain Environments," the authors assert that increasing flexibility during the product development cycle can enable a firm to adjust to unanticipated circumstances so opportunely View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey

April 1998 (Revised September 1998)
Case

Classic Pen Company, The: Developing an ABC Model

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Classic Pen has diversified from its core blue and black pen business by introducing new specialized colors. But costs have risen and margins on blue and black pens are decreasing. The controller turns to activity-based costing (ABC) for an explanation. View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Manufacturing Industry