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  • November–December 2014
  • Article

Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Identify Value-Improvement Opportunities in Healthcare

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski, Megan Abbott, Alexis Guzman, Laurence Higgins, John Meara, Erin Padden, Apurva Shah, Peter Waters, Marco Weidemeier, Samuel Wertheimer and Thomas W. Feeley
As healthcare providers cope with pricing pressures and increased accountability for performance, they should be rededicating themselves to improving the value they deliver to their patients: better outcomes and lower costs. Time-driven activity-based costing offers... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States; Europe
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The NTU-Value of Stochastic Games

By: Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman
Since the seminal paper of Shapley, the theory of stochastic games has been developed in many different directions. However, there has been practically no work on the interplay between stochastic games and cooperative game theory. Our purpose here is to make a first... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Game Theory
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  • September 2012 (Revised September 2015)
  • Case

Doing Business in China

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Michael Shih-ta Chen, Nancy Dai and G.A. Donovan
This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in China. It highlights China's remarkable economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2012 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. The case summarizes the main obstacles faced... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Market Finance; Emergent Countries; Business History; Economic History; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Strategy; China
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  • August 2004 (Revised September 2005)
  • Case

Stanley O'Neal at Merrill Lynch (A)

By: David A. Thomas and Ayesha Kanji
In the late 1970s, Stanley O'Neal joined Merrill Lynch as an investment banker. Profiles O'Neal's ascent at Merrill to CEO. O'Neal put Merrill through a comprehensive restructuring program, cutting costs and significantly reducing the work force. As CEO, O'Neal faces... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Race; Cost Management; Investment Banking; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Leadership; Management Succession; Performance Effectiveness; Personal Development and Career
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  • December 2007
  • Article

Regional Health Information Organizations: Current Activities and Financing

Electronic clinical data exchange promises substantial financial and societal benefits, but it is unclear whether and when it will become widespread. In early 2007 we surveyed 145 regional health information organizations (RHIOs), the U.S. entities working to establish... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Financing and Loans; Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Health Industry; United States
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  • 18 Sep 2015
  • News

Why the U.S. Government Is Embracing Behavioral Science

  • 05 Mar 2008
  • News

Harvard Business School Joins 10,000 Women

  • 29 Apr 2022
  • News

The New Meaning Of CTO: Why Leaders Should Strive To Be The Chief Trust Officer

  • 10 Jan 2022
  • News

The Secret Ingredient of Thriving Companies? Human Magic.

  • 23 Nov 2021
  • News

TEC Members Interview the Authors of the Books That Have Influenced Them

  • 13 Oct 2021
  • News

How Companies Can Improve Employee Engagement Right Now

  • 07 Jun 2021
  • News

Three Strategies for Winning the Post-pandemic War for Talent

  • 03 Apr 2018
  • News

Practice Makes Perfect: Why Chinese Manufacturers Have A Production Advantage

  • 29 Jan 2018
  • News

How to Build Trust with Colleagues You Rarely See

  • 23 Mar 2017
  • News

No Deal, Grading President Trump, Tito Jackson

  • 14 Aug 2006
  • HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

players beyond the basketball court. Feelings about Knight also follow generational lines. While younger students often see Knight as little more than a bully, older participants tell stories of doing their best work under a mentor with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Curb Appeal

of laughter from the burly men sporting crew cuts and gold DSNY shields who had gathered around her conference table. (The agency employs approximately 7,500 uniformed workers and 2,500 civilian staffers.) “I really like the modernizing piece of it,” Tisch says of... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 07 Mar 2022
  • Virtual Programming

Considering a Career Transition? Connect with HBS

Are you thinking about making a career move? Or, do you want to work with a coach on some aspect of your leadership? Maybe you want to step back and reflect on your purpose, power up your LinkedIn profile, or practice for an upcoming interview. If these aspects of... View Details
  • 17 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

For those who like to view things in black and white, it's tempting to divide the working world into two camps. There is the for-profit sector, primarily driven by the prospect of financial success. And then there's the not-for-profit... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • October 1991 (Revised January 2000)
  • Case

Workplace Safety at Alcoa (A)

By: Kim B. Clark and Joshua D. Margolis
Examines the challenge facing the managers of a large aluminum manufacturing plant in its drive to improve workplace safety. The CEO of the company has made safety a top priority. The plant has made good progress in reducing the injury rate, but now confronts the need... View Details
Keywords: Working Conditions; Safety; Problems and Challenges; Change Management; Operations; Resignation and Termination; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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