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  • December 2010
  • Article

Rating the Ratings: How Good are Commercial Governance Ratings?

By: Robert M. Daines, Ian D. Gow and David F. Larcker
Proxy advisory and corporate governance rating firms (such as RiskMetrics/Institutional Shareholder Services, GovernanceMetrics International, and The Corporate Library) play an increasingly important role in U.S. public markets. They rank the quality of firm corporate... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Markets; Rank and Position; Quality; Business and Shareholder Relations; Voting; Change; Information; Outcome or Result; United States
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  • April 2005 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

IBM's Decade of Transformation: Turnaround to Growth

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin and Elizabeth Collins
Describes IBM's decade of transformation. Provides background on the company's history and the factors that led to its near death in the early 1990s and to its remarkable turnaround during Gerstner's reign as CEO. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy
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AASU50 - Alumni

Awarded W.E.B. Du Bois Medals Invocation, by Laura Morgan Roberts Spheres of Influence: A Portrait of Black MBA Program Alumni (HBS Research Findings) Spheres of Influence: A Portrait of Black MBA Program... View Details
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

worked are positively correlated with firm performance, and differences between family and non-family CEOs account for approximately 18% of the performance gap between family and non-family firms. We investigate the sources of the differences in CEO labor supply across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2022
  • Article

Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs of MRI-Guided Prostate Brachytherapy Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

By: Nikhil G. Thaker, Rajat J. Kudchadker, James R. Incalcaterra, Tharakeswara K. Bathala, Robert S. Kaplan, Ankit Agarwal, Deborah A. Kuban, Benjamin D. Frank, Prajnan Das, Thomas W. Feeley and Steven J. Frank
Integrated quality improvement (QI) and cost reduction strategies can help increase value in cancer care. We applied standard QI and TDABC methods to improve workflow efficiency and reduce costs for MRI-guided prostate brachytherapy. We constructed process maps,... View Details
Keywords: Brachytherapy; Quality Improvement; Prostate; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Cost Accounting; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Health Industry
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  • 24 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

provider?? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207022   PublicationsLinking Customer Management Efforts to Growth and Profitability Authors:Das Narayandas and Douglas Bowman Publication:In The Search for Organic Growth,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Team - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

by Professor Michael E. Porter and is based in the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. Faculty and staff engaged in research and education in value based health care form the core team at HBS. In... View Details
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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

(Honorary Doctorate) by Hong Kong Baptist University in 2017. Nancy F. Koehn : Recipient of the 2017 Jennie F. McLaughlin Award for Lifelong Learning from the Kingston Public Library and Kingston Council on Aging. Leonard A. Schlesinger :... View Details
  • 23 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 23

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811014-PDF-ENG Generation Health: A Pioneer in Genetics Benefit Management (A) Robert F. Higgins, Jeffrey D. Marrazzo, and Rachel GordonHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

mechanism. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-055.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsJetBlue Airways: Deicing at Logan Airport Douglas Fearing and Robert S. HuckmanHarvard Business School Case 612-028 The case explores... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Administrative Costs Associated with Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health Care System

By: Phillip Tseng, Robert S. Kaplan, Barak D. Richman, Mahek A. Shah and Kevin A. Schulman
The federal government mandated adoption of certified electronic health record systems (EHR), at least in part, to reduce administrative costs for physicians. This study used time-driven activity-based costing to determine the administrative costs associated with... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Insurance; Problems and Challenges
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  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

Structures Authors:Ranjay Gulati and Maxim Sytch Publication:In Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management/em>, edited by D. Teece and M. Augier. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming Abstract During the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2006
  • Case

Vipp A/S

By: Robert D. Austin and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Rapidly growing Vipp sells highly differentiated (and expensive) "designer" versions of a product that most buyers think about in purely functional terms: Trash bins. Examines how the company successfully produces and positions a trash bin so that it is regarded as an... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Creativity; Product Design; Luxury; Brands and Branding
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  • 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006

cost estimating, contracting, implementation, project control, and evaluation managerial performance. Too Hot to Handle? How to Manage Relationship Conflict Authors:A. C. Edmondson and D. M. Smith Periodical:California Management Review... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 14

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-088 John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World By the late nineteenth century, scale and managerial hierarchies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

performance. 6 weeks, 7-9 hrs/week Pay by September 11 $1,850 Certificate Strategy Execution Professor Robert Simons Gain the tools, skills, and frameworks to successfully implement strategy within your... View Details
  • September 2013 (Revised August 2024)
  • Exercise

Process Analytics Simulation: Solutions

By: Robert S. Huckman, Aizan Radzi, Willy Shih, Roy D. Shapiro and Michael W. Toffel
A set of exercises and instructions to be used with the Process Simulator software made by Pro Model. These exercises allow students to investigate the impact of variable processing times on the performance of simple in-line processes. Includes color exhibits. View Details
Keywords: Operations; Business Processes; Performance; Measurement and Metrics
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Contributions to Management. Deepak Malhotra : Included as one of “40 Best Business School Professors Under 40” by Poets & Quants in 2014. 2013 Max H. Bazerman : Received Honorable Mention for the 2013 View Details
  • March 2018
  • Teaching Note

Twine Health

By: Robert S. Huckman and Ariel D. Stern
In late 2014, Dr. John Moore (CEO), Frank Moss (chairman), and Scott Gilroy (CTO) of Twine Health (Twine) had to resolve several challenges that threatened to restrict the widespread dissemination of its sole product, Twine. Twine was a cloud-based platform that... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Chronic Disease; Digital Health; Health Acceleration Challenge; Strategy; Disease Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Health Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

  Working PapersWhere Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained Authors:Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson, and Peter Tufano Abstract In this paper, we analyze the spending decisions of over 1.5 million Americans who vary in their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace