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22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22

Publications August 2013 hfm (Healthcare Financial Management) Improving Value with TDABC By: Kaplan, Robert S. Abstract—The article discusses the benefits of time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September–October 1996
Article

Strategic Learning and the Balanced Scorecard

By: Robert S. Kaplan and David Norton

Keywords: Strategy; Learning; Balanced Scorecard

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

both design and identity. This involved establishing a strategy management system based in part on best practices that had been successful in the corporate world: He and his team implemented the balanced... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

Balanced Scorecard, HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, there is compelling evidence that better... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

Overall Cost Comparison of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures with Endoscopist- or Anesthesia-Supported Sedation by Activity-Based Costing Techniques By: Helmers, Richard A., James A. Dilling, Christopher R. Chaffee, Mark V. Larson,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

Michael E., and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Improving provider incentives and reimbursement must become a central... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

institutions. It explores as well new efforts to understand the micro mechanisms and channels by which host countries can benefit from multinational activity, within and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 1, 2006

Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606099 PublicationsThe Derivatives Sourcebook: Foundations and Trends in Finance Author:Terence Lim, Andrew W. Lo, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2009
Article

Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services

By: Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton

Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the number of projects completed by, a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Performance Improvement; Projects; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Information Technology Industry; India

2009
Working Paper

Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

By: David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Jonathan T. Kolstad

Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details

Keywords: Government Legislation; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Market Entry and Exit; Welfare; Health Industry; Pennsylvania

March 2003
Article

Technological Development and Medical Productivity: The Diffusion of Angioplasty in New York State

By: David M. Cutler and Robert S. Huckman

A puzzling feature of many medical innovations is that they simultaneously appear to reduce unit costs and increase total costs. We consider this phenomenon by examining the diffusion of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA)—a treatment for coronary... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Cost; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Performance Improvement; Product; New York (state, US)

09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007

crisis), they are relieved to find their superiors more tolerant of their questions and mistakes than they had expected. Purchase this article: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0701D What to Ask the Person... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2007
Working Paper

Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services

By: Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton

Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the number of projects completed by, a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Performance Improvement; Projects; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Information Technology Industry; India

2009
Working Paper

Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

By: David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Jonathan T. Kolstad

Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Market Entry and Exit; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Government Legislation; Mathematical Methods; Health Industry; Pennsylvania

27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

Our results indicate that institutional managers that participate in loan renegotiations consequently trade in stock of the same company and outperform other managers by approximately 8.8% in annualized... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2010
Article

Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

By: David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Jonathan T. Kolstad

Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details

Keywords: Government Legislation; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Market Entry and Exit; Welfare; Health Industry; Pennsylvania

27 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

entrepreneurs and business experts can predict their subsequent commercialization. How Should We Pay for Health Care? (536) Michael E. Porter and Robert View Details

August 2015 (Revised August 2015)
Case

Hoag Orthopedic Institute

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Jonathan Warsh

Two groups of orthopedic surgeons form a joint venture with a community hospital to establish Hoag Orthopedic Institute, a for-profit hospital and two ambulatory service centers. By controlling and integrating all aspects of the patients' medical treatment, the... View Details

Keywords: Outcomes Measurement; Bundled Payment; Health Care; Activity-based Costing And Management; Measurement and Metrics; Activity Based Costing and Management; Competitive Strategy; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Health Industry

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February 2021
Article

Assessment of Electronic Health Record Use Between U.S. and Non-U.S. Health Systems

By: A Jay Holmgren, Lance Downing, David W. Bates, Tait D. Shanafelt, Arnold Milstein, Christopher Sharp, David Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Kevin A. Schulman

Importance: Understanding how the electronic health record (EHR) system changes clinician work, productivity, and well-being is critical. Little is known regarding global variation in patterns of use.
Objective: To provide insights into which EHR... View Details

Keywords: Electronic Health Records; Health Care and Treatment; Online Technology; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry