Publications

23 Sep 2009
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Value-Based Health Care Delivery

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; United States

15 Sep 2009
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Value-Based Health Care Delivery

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; United States

11 Sep 2009
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Value-Based Health Care Delivery

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; United States

September 2009
Article

Are You Having Trouble Keeping Your Operations Focused?

By: Robert S. Huckman

As a business broadens over time, it can lose the operational edge that led to its original success. Core strengths atrophy, efficiency or quality suffers, and sharper rivals close in to take advantage of the loss of focus. In his classic article "The Focused Factory"... View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Operations; Performance Efficiency

August 2009
Case

Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Leadership Purpose

By: Nitin Nohria, Matthew D. Breitfelder and Daisy A Wademan Dowling

Keywords: Business Education; Leadership

18 Aug 2009
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Value-Based Health Care Delivery

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Sweden

August 2009 (Revised December 2012)
Background Note

Researching a Company

By: Willy Shih and Meghan Dolan

This note was written to help students at the Harvard Business School do a more thorough job of researching a company, utilizing the extensive resources of the Baker Library, as well as other widely available databases. Exhibits provide detailed information on key... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Knowledge Acquisition; Research

Educators

July 2009 (Revised August 2009)
Case

From Little Things Big Things Grow: The Clontarf Foundation Program for Aboriginal Boys

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Michael Vitale

This case focuses on the growth of an innovative non-profit institution that motivates aboriginal children to attend school by harnessing their love of football. View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Welfare; Education; Sports; Service Industry

Educators

6 Jul 2009
Other Presentation

Value-Based Health Care Delivery

This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006, and ―How Physicians Can Change the Future of Health Care, Journal of the American... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; United States

June 2009
Supplement

Economic Value of the Advertising Supported Internet Ecosystem, presented by Professor John Quelch, Harvard Business School

By: John A. Quelch

June 2009 (Revised July 2010)
Case

Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative

By: Christopher Marquis, V. Kasturi Rangan and Cathy Ross

Describes the conception, development, and implementation of Goldman Sachs' five-year, $100 million philanthropic initiative to provide practical business and management education to 10,000 women around the globe. The initiative recently celebrated its first... View Details

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Education; Gender; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Financial Services Industry; Education Industry

Educators

11 Jun 2009
Other Presentation

Value-Based Health Care Delivery

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Canada

June 2009
Article

How Concepts Affect Consumption

By: Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton

Duke behavioral economist Ariely and Harvard Business School professor Norton explore how our consumption of concepts influences physical consumption, both positively and negatively. View Details

Keywords: Spending; Marketing Communications; Consumer Behavior; Power and Influence

Article

Mission-Driven Governance

By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation

27 May 2009
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Value-Based Health Care Delivery

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Canada

20 May 2009
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American Competitiveness in a Global Economy