Publications

Keywords: Civil Society or Community; Investment

1976
Report

Financial Crisis in the Social Security System

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Insurance; Public Sector

01 Sep 2015
News

Support for a Common Theme

with cross-school interests. To date the following have made leadership gifts to the Fund and serve on the HBS One Harvard Fund Steering Committee: Javier Arango (MBA 1989) The Cashin Family Miyoung Lee (MBA 1992) and Neil Simpkins (MBA 1992) Kate View Details

Research Summary

Consumerism and the Distributed Delivery of Health Care

By: Robert S. Huckman

This stream of Professor Huckman's work examines the growing tendency for health care to be delivered in a more distributed manner. Examples of this phenomenon include health IT, teleradiology, medical travel, remote monitoring of chronic medical conditions, and retail... View Details

January–February 1988
Article

One Cost System Isn't Enough

Keywords: Cost; System

1990
Book

Measures for Manufacturing Excellence

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry

1988
Chapter

Originality in Management Accounting Systems: Field Studies of the Processes

Keywords: Accounting; Innovation and Management

Article

Yesterday's Accounting Undermines Production

Keywords: Accounting; Production

Article

Using the Balanced Scorecard for Successful Health Care M&A Integration

The failure of merged organizations to achieve stated goals is commonplace. In health care, the challenge is exacerbated by the industry’s third-party payer system and multiple stakeholders, especially the physicians in the merging entities. This article describes how... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Balanced Scorecard

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Reverse the Curse of the Top-5

The past 40 years has seen a large increase in the number of articles submitted to journals ranked in the top-5 of their discipline. This increase is the rational response, by faculty, to the overweighting of publications in these journals by university promotions and... View Details

Keywords: Information Publishing; Journals and Magazines; Power and Influence; Research

1979
Chapter

A Comparison of Rates of Return to Social Security Retirees under Wage and Price Indexing

Keywords: Retirement; Investment Return; Wages; Price; United States

Article

What Could Amazon's Approach to Health Care Look Like?

By: Robert S. Huckman

Keywords: Health Care; Amazon; Health Insurance; Information Technology; United States

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December 1998 (Revised February 1999)
Case

City of Charlotte (A)

The city manager's office in Charlotte, North Carolina, is attempting to align and focus the city's programs and operating departments. City managers, working collaboratively with the elected mayor and city council, have identified five strategic themes to make... View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Government Administration; City; Growth and Development Strategy; Adoption; Public Sector; Management Teams; Programs; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Public Administration Industry; North Carolina

Educators

August 1998
Teaching Note

Pillsbury: Customer Driven Reengineering TN

Teaching Note for (9-195-144). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

November 1997 (Revised May 1998)
Teaching Note

Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (A) and (B) TN

Teaching Note for (9-196-115) and (9-196-117). View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; City

June 1997 (Revised May 1998)
Case

Mobil USM&R (A1)

First of a two-part case on the development and use of a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) at Mobil's US Marketing and Refining Division. Split from the original (A) case to give students an opportunity to suggest objectives and measures for the division's initial BSC, without... View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Measurement and Metrics; Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Marketing Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Mining Industry; Energy Industry; United States

Educators

September 1996 (Revised May 1997)
Case

Mobil USM&R (C): Lubricants Business Unit