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- Research (740)
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- Faculty Publications (538)
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Overhead Allocation via Mathematical Programming Models
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Gerald Thompson
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
Kaplan, Robert S., and Gerald Thompson. "Overhead Allocation via Mathematical Programming Models." Accounting Review 46, no. 2 (April 1971): 352–364.
- winter 1971
- Article
Patient Incentives and Hospital Insurance
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Lester Lave
Kaplan, Robert S., and Lester Lave. "Patient Incentives and Hospital Insurance." Health Services Research 6 (winter 1971): 288–300. (see also "Further Thoughts on Patient Incentives," Health Services Research (summer 1972): 148-150.)
- April 1972
- Article
Investor Evaluation of Accounting Information: Some Empirical Evidence
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Richard Roll
Kaplan, Robert S., and Richard Roll. "Investor Evaluation of Accounting Information: Some Empirical Evidence." Journal of Business 45 (April 1972): 225–257.
- March 2004
- Article
Improving Corporate Governance with the Balanced Scorecard
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Michael Nagel
Kaplan, Robert S., and Michael Nagel. "Improving Corporate Governance with the Balanced Scorecard." Directors Monthly (March 2004).
- August, 2022
- Article
Billing and Insurance-Related Administrative Costs: A Cross-National Analysis
By: Barak D. Richman, Robert S. Kaplan, Japees Kohli, Dennis Purcell, Mahek Shah, Igna Bonfrer, Brian Golden, Rosemary Hannam, Will Mitchell, Daniel Cehic, Garry Crispin and Kevin A. Schulman
Billing and insurance-related costs are a significant source of wasteful health care spending in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development nations, but these administrative burdens vary across national systems. We executed a microlevel accounting of these... View Details
Richman, Barak D., Robert S. Kaplan, Japees Kohli, Dennis Purcell, Mahek Shah, Igna Bonfrer, Brian Golden, Rosemary Hannam, Will Mitchell, Daniel Cehic, Garry Crispin, and Kevin A. Schulman. "Billing and Insurance-Related Administrative Costs: A Cross-National Analysis." Health Affairs 41, no. 8 (August, 2022): 1098–1106.
- Article
The Inpatient Discharge Lounge as a Potential Mechanism to Mitigate Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding
By: Brian Franklin, Sharif Vakili, Robert S. Huckman, Sarah Hosein, Nicholas Falk, Katherine Cheng, Maria Murray, Sheila Harris, Charles A. Morris and Eric Goralnick
Delayed access to inpatient beds for admitted patients contributes significantly to emergency department (ED) boarding and crowding, which have been associated with deleterious patient safety effects. To expedite inpatient bed availability, some hospitals have... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Emergency Room; Operations Improvement; Operations Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Management; Performance Improvement; Service Operations
Franklin, Brian, Sharif Vakili, Robert S. Huckman, Sarah Hosein, Nicholas Falk, Katherine Cheng, Maria Murray, Sheila Harris, Charles A. Morris, and Eric Goralnick. "The Inpatient Discharge Lounge as a Potential Mechanism to Mitigate Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding." Annals of Emergency Medicine 75, no. 6 (June 2020): 704–714.
- July – August 1998
- Article
The Promise--and Peril--of Integrated Cost Systems
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Cooper, Robin, and Robert S. Kaplan. "The Promise--and Peril--of Integrated Cost Systems." HBR 98403. Harvard Business Review 76, no. 4 (July–August 1998): 109–119.
- January 2023 (Revised February 2023)
- Teaching Note
Performance Management at Afreximbank (A) and (B)
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Siko Sikochi
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 120-029. View Details
- October 2016 (Revised March 2022)
- Background Note
Cost Variance Analysis
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Susanna Gallani
This note was written to provide students with fundamental concepts and methods for the analysis of cost variances. It focuses on the decomposition of cost variances into price, quantity, and mix variance components, an approach that allows students to identify the... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting
Kaplan, Robert S., and Susanna Gallani. "Cost Variance Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 117-006, October 2016. (Revised March 2022.)
- April 1996 (Revised April 1996)
- Case
Activity-Based Management at Stream International
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Norman Klein
Stream International's Crawfordsville, Indiana facilities undertake the design and implementation of an activity-based costing project. After analyzing the costs assigned to 161 work activities, Crawfordsville managers present five proposals for change based on ABM... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Indiana
Kaplan, Robert S., and Norman Klein. "Activity-Based Management at Stream International." Harvard Business School Case 196-134, April 1996. (Revised April 1996.)
- August 1994 (Revised May 1999)
- Teaching Note
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.: The Kaizen Program TN
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
- August 1994
- Case
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.: The Kaizen Program
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Energy Industry
Cooper, Robin, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.: The Kaizen Program." Harvard Business School Case 195-078, August 1994.
- August 1994
- Case
Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation: Product Line Cost System
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Electronics Industry
Cooper, Robin, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation: Product Line Cost System." Harvard Business School Case 195-066, August 1994.
- April 1991 (Revised May 1999)
- Teaching Note
Tektronix: Portable Instruments Division (A), Teaching Note
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-188-142). View Details
- December 1970
- Article
The Four Roles of Sampling in Auditing: Representative, Corrective, Protective and Preventive
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Yuri Ijiri
Kaplan, Robert S., and Yuri Ijiri. "The Four Roles of Sampling in Auditing: Representative, Corrective, Protective and Preventive." Management Accounting 52 (December 1970): 42–44.
- January 1975
- Article
The Spatial Distribution of Urban Pharmacies
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Sam Leinhardt
Kaplan, Robert S., and Sam Leinhardt. "The Spatial Distribution of Urban Pharmacies." Medical Care 13 (January 1975): 37–46.
- Article
Knowing the Score
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David Norton
Kaplan, Robert S., and David Norton. "Knowing the Score." Financial Executive 12, no. 6 (November–December 1996): 30–33.
- April 1979
- Article
Statistical Models of Bond Ratings: A Methodological Inquiry
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Gabriel Urwitz
Kaplan, Robert S., and Gabriel Urwitz. "Statistical Models of Bond Ratings: A Methodological Inquiry." Journal of Business (April 1979): 231–261.
- September 1992
- Article
Activity-based Systems: Measuring the Costs of Resource Usage
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper
Kaplan, Robert S., and Robin Cooper. "Activity-based Systems: Measuring the Costs of Resource Usage." Accounting Horizons (September 1992): 1–13.
- Web
2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
strikingly come to the fore this past year, here in the US and across the world. We have been alternately devastated and heartened by what we’ve seen: civil protests over the repeated, now increasingly publicized police killings of Black... View Details