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  • December 2013
  • Article

Measuring the Value of Process Improvement Initiatives in a Preoperative Assessment Center using Time-driven Activity-based Costing

By: Katy E. French, Heidi W. Albright, John C. Frenzel, James R. Incalcaterra, Augustin C. Rubio, Jessica F. Jones and Thomas W. Feeley
Background: The value and impact of process improvement initiatives are difficult to quantify. We describe the use of time-driven activity-based costing(TDABC)in a clinical setting to quantify the value of process improvements in terms of cost, time and personnel... View Details
Keywords: Quality Improvement; Value Agenda; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Accounting; Health; Measurement and Metrics; Value; Health Industry; North and Central America
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  • March 2013 (Revised October 2013)
  • Supplement

Jones Lang LaSalle (2012): Integrated Services and the Architecture of Complexity (D)

By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri
This case describes the strategic and organizational challenges that Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) faced between 2008 and 2012. In 2008, in order to strengthen the firm's brokerage team, JLL merged with The Staubach Company, a real estate services provider with a first-rate... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Strategy; Integration; Real Estate Industry; North America; South America; Central America
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  • June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
  • Case

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis

By: Robert Steven Kaplan, Christopher Marquis and Brent Kazan
Marc Buoniconti is the co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit medical research organization. The project was founded in 1985 by Marc and his father Nick, a former Hall of Fame football player, when Marc suffered a spinal cord injury. In 2007,... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Testing and Trials; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Industry; Miami
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    Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job

    Many professionals aspire to work for a start-up. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to today’s dynamic innovation economy. Yes, start-ups look magical, but they can also be chaotic and inaccessible. Many books are written for... View Details

    • 22 Jan 2016
    • Blog Post

    Case Protagonists at HBS

    revitalizer of such watch brands as Blancpain, Tag Heuer, and Hublot, was my favorite protagonist by a longshot. He spoke about love and passion being the only two things you need in this world – and mentioned that a passion can be... View Details
    • Web

    Monitoring Jobs & Troubleshooting - Research Computing Services

    technote on Monitoring CPU Usage for your Jobs in order to understand the runtime behavior of your code. Note: If using the NoMachine NX client, you will need to open a terminal window to execute these commands. From the menu bar, select... View Details
    • 01 Nov 2022
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

    thousands of loyal, hard working, often inadequately recognized, government employees attempting to carry out the latest immigration policy are caught in the middle. Immigrants need the US. It still represents the world’s most attractive... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 22 Mar 2024
    • Blog Post

    Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

    intellectual challenge of chemical engineering and her work in the refinery was a match with only one part of her personality. Yet, she also needed an outlet for her creativity. Nneka knew her next professional stop would be combining her... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2001
    • News

    Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico

    offer was a perfect fit. Meanwhile, however, back in his hometown of Morelia, Mexico, the family business, Organización Ramirez Cinemas, was facing a serious challenge. “My grandfather and my father called and said, ‘We really need your... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; World Bank; United Nations; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
    • Blog

    Which HBS Executive Education Program is Right For Me?

    Business School Executive Education is always striving to create new programs that match business leaders' needs in an ever-changing work environment. The Program Advising team regularly attends program sessions and discusses new program... View Details
    • September 2021 (Revised October 2021)
    • Case

    Dream: Impact Through Real Estate

    By: Michael Chu and John Masko
    The Canadian city of Toronto had one of the largest housing affordability problems of any city in the developed world. One company trying to address this problem was Dream, one of the largest real estate groups in Canada. In 2021, Dream had just launched a new system... View Details
    Keywords: Impact Investing; Real Estate Development; Renewable Energy; Energy Conservation; Income; Values and Beliefs; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Private Equity; Public Equity; Financing and Loans; City; Government Legislation; Immigration; Housing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Property; Business and Government Relations; Civil Society or Community; Human Needs; Sustainable Cities; Environmental Sustainability; Social Enterprise; Real Estate Industry; Canada; Toronto
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    • 02 May 2022
    • What Do You Think?

    Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

    that management challenges and opportunities posed by such things as the need for sustainability, the development of the metaverse, questions about the future of work and the workplace, grey swans such as pandemics, and on and on, are... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
    • 23 Apr 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: April 23

    http://hbr.org/search/613079-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-130 Family Matters at ProLab Hillary Mallow, founder-CEO of ProLab, learns that her health-services company is two months shy of bankruptcy. She needs to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Aug 2021
    • Op-Ed

    Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

    beneficial effects of its various constituents has been stymied. Federal legalization would give a fillip to research, leading to evidence-based policies on whether and how to regulate the industry to foster effective medical use and safe recreational use. The View Details
    Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
    • 18 May 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

    actions gradually become less clear than other memories—a phenomenon the authors of the paper call “unethical amnesia.” Moreover, forgetting wrongdoings of the past makes us more likely to misbehave in the future. “We are social beings, and our basic View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 12 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

    September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review GE's Global Growth Experiment: The Company Pushed Cross-Business Collaboration By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Like many other companies, GE under Immelt had to figure out how to balance serving local View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 29 Aug 2023
    • News

    Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

    Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
    • Web

    A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    to other Fellows. It’s an opportunity unique to HBS – a chance to connect the dots between my aspirations and my need for experience.” Taking it to the street Through Leadership Fellows, Mizuho applied to a few organizations with... View Details
    • Web

    John H. McArthur | About

    information, he also saw a need for the School to experiment with new technologies and forms of packaging intellectual content, which had emerged as part of the changing competitive landscape for business schools. In typical fashion,... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Jada Haynes

    unseen, uplifts the underestimated, and acknowledges the overlooked. Because sometimes, being believed in by just one person can be the lifeline someone needs to turn a doubtful prognosis into a story of unexpected success. View Details