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  • 24 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week

circular economy. The breakout sessions following lunch featured smaller case studies and topical discussions: measuring and reducing climate emissions with Professor Robert Kaplan and Assistant Professor... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire

Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness), a new book by HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow, presents fascinating biographical essays of seven men whose... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 13 Dec 2011
  • News

Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project

Management; Robert Z. Lawrence, Harvard Kennedy School; Josh Lerner, HBS; David A. Moss, HBS; Gary P. Pisano, HBS; Jan W. Rivkin, HBS; Michael E. Porter, HBS; William A. Sahlman, HBS; David S. Scharfstein,... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • October 25, 2022
  • Article

Why Sharing Economic Growth with the Community Is Good Business

By: José A. Tiburcio, Lino Miguel Dias and Robert S. Kaplan
Subsistence dairy ranchers in Central America struggle to stay afloat during the dry season when grass is scarce. Global life sciences company Bayer has launched a program to enable them to produce their own corn silage feed. The results of this program are helping to... View Details
Keywords: Sharing Economy; Innovation; Economic Growth; Poverty; Production; Supply Chain; Social Enterprise; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Central America
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Surgeons and Administrators Co-Creating Value

By: Michael Nurok, Thoralf Sundt, Robert S. Kaplan and Bruce Gewertz
Most hospitals have arms-length relationships with physicians, viewing them as people they must ‘‘manage,’’ not as potentially valuable strategic partners. But surgeons make clinical decisions every day that have great influence on both patient outcomes and hospital... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Collaboration; Healthcare Administration; Health Care and Treatment; Management; Strategy; Value Creation
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  • July 2008 (Revised December 2009)
  • Case

Infosys' Relationship Scorecard: Measuring Transformational Partnerships

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, Robert S. Kaplan and Katherine Miller
This case analyzes Infosys' innovative approach to measuring performance in client relations. Infosys' strategy is evolving to build transformational partnerships from its original position as an outsourcer of end-to-end IT projects. A transformational partner helps... View Details
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Performance Evaluation; Attorney and Client Relationships; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Balanced Scorecard; Competitive Strategy; Commercialization; Competitive Advantage; Economic Growth; Growth and Development Strategy; Consulting Industry; Information Technology Industry; India
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  • 12 Apr 2022
  • News

We Need Better Carbon Accounting. Here’s How to Get There.

Keywords: Carbon
  • 20 Jul 2020
  • News

Measure Costs Correctly for Better Patient Outcomes

  • 01 Jan 2003
  • News

Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

mandate of modernizing the IRS was Rossotti, who was recruited by then U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin and other top government officials because of his experience in running a major service- and... View Details
  • September–October 2023
  • Article

Prospective Evaluation of the Cost of Performing Breast Imaging Examinations Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Method: A Single Center Study

By: Aamir Ali, Jordana Phillips, Damir Ljuboja, Syed S. Shehab, Etta D. Pisano, Robert S. Kaplan and Ammar Sarwar
We use time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to measure the cost of performing breast imaging using different modalities: full-field digital mammography (FFDM), digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM), US and MRI exams, and... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care; Breast Cancer; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Cost Accounting; Health Industry
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  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

Advantage Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton Publication:Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Oct 2019
  • News

Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society

Professor Robert Huckman kicks off the daylong Viewpoints program for first-year MBA students. Professor Robert Huckman kicks off the daylong Viewpoints program for first-year MBA students. In their first... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

Leading the Way

Photos by Russ Campbell “An investment in the School is ultimately an investment in a better world—one led by alumni.” —John Hess “HBS graduates are in every part of the economy, in every industry, and in... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Professors Fox, Mace Remembered

MBA in 1938, Mace remained at the School as a research associate before being posted to England for military service in 1942. There he worked with Robert S. McNamara (MBA '39), a friend and fellow HBS... View Details
  • 2002
  • Book

Reading Financial Reports

By: William J. Bruns, Paul M. Healy, J. H. Hertenstein, Robert S. Kaplan and Sharon M. McKinnon
Keywords: Finance; Reports
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  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

charitable giving, crowding out intrinsic motivations to give by corrupting a purely social act with economic considerations. Purchase the Book: http://www.psypress.com/the-science-of-giving-9781848728851 Americans Do I.T. Better: U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2014
  • News

The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)

our responsibility as business leaders to do our best to ensure our businesses evolve with the times or stay ahead of the curve entirely." Who was your favorite HBS professor, and how do you use what you learned from him or her today? "My favorite HBS professor was... View Details
  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

whether perceived inequity from wealth that is randomly or subjectively assigned leads individuals to cross ethical boundaries through helping or hurting others. The results show that dishonest behavior is influenced by positive and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

leadership and entrepreneurship; working with investors and consultants; and research and development of new products–represented, in Doriot's view, the core opportunities and challenges faced by business leaders and venture capitalists.... View Details