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  • 13 Nov 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

A New Framework for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks of An Economy

Keywords: by Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton & Zvi Bodie
  • September 2009
  • Case

The Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, Inc.

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Stephen P. Bradley and Natalie Kindred
Through its uniquely proactive approach to medical malpractice risk management, the Risk Management Foundation (RMF) has decreased claims—and premiums—for the Harvard hospitals it insures. The RMF is the captive medico-legal insurer of the Harvard medical institutions... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Risk Management; Performance Improvement; Safety; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; Boston
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  • Program

Managing Health Care Delivery

Summary Today's health care organizations need leaders who can respond to the challenge of delivering greater value through a combination of higher quality, lower cost, and broader access. Managing Health... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

the German economy, is an open question." As business historians, we need to know more about the managers as living, breathing human beings. What this distinction between owner-entrepreneurs and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

understands to be its causes. Turning to the body of systematized knowledge underpinning the claim that business management too is a profession, we find important differences between management as a science... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • March 2015
  • Case

Pearson Affordable Learning Fund

By: Michael Chu, Vincent Dessain and Kristina Maslauskaite
An in-house venture capital fund for affordable private schools at the base of the pyramid established by Pearson, the world's largest education company, PALF sought to invest in business models providing superior educational outcomes in emerging markets on a... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investment; Low Cost Private Schools; Investment Fund; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Transition; Investment; Development Economics; Business Growth and Maturation; Social Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Private Sector; Education; Education Industry; Asia; Africa
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  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

the activities of which are coordinated by a fourth type of specialist. What are the particular strengths of each type of global manager that you've recognized? A: If you are a country subsidiary manager,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 06 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit

bucket and in a little over three years all your current customers might be gone,” says Gupta, the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. For that reason, many companies have a program to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Financial Services
  • 14 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

accounting that includes health care costs puts the savings figure closer to $1.3 trillion. And capacity to produce an additional 1 billion vaccine courses could similarly be worth on the order of $1... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • Web

Activating a Legion of People | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

need to stay based in Brooklyn with my family. I've always loved hiking, the outdoors, and wildlife, but hadn't considered an environmental focus for my career until I had a chance to pause View Details
  • June 2007
  • Article

The Speed-Reading Organization: Revving up Finance with Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Steven R. Anderson
Keywords: Organizations; Finance; Activity Based Costing and Management
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World

By: Karthik Balasubramanian, David F. Drake and Douglas Fearing
Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the developing world as a mechanism to transfer money electronically. Mobile money agents exchange cash for electronic value... View Details
Keywords: Currency; Mobile Technology; Market Platforms; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • 02 Apr 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

faculty; the program is also supported by a very professional and skillful administrative team. Although it is a new program, GMP actually grew out of two other longstanding programs with a deep tradition View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • April 2016 (Revised May 2016)
  • Case

Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners In Health in Haiti

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Bipin Mistry and Karla Bertrand
The case describes the application of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) at a new tertiary hospital, operated by Partners in Health in Mirebelais, Haiti. A project team mapped the clinical processes for use in estimating the direct costs of personnel,... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Developing Countries and Economies; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Haiti
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  • Program

Risk Management for Corporate Leaders—Virtual

Public relations executives Attendance by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program's impact, particularly in the context of risk management requiring View Details
  • Article

Time-driven Activity-based Costing of Multivessel Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting across National Boundaries to Identify Improvement Opportunities: Study Protocol

By: F. Erhun, B. Mistry, T. Platcheck, A. Milstein, V.G. Narayanan and R. S. Kaplan
Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is a common treatment for coronary artery disease—a disease that affects over 10% of US adults and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. In 2005, the mean cost for a CABG procedure among Medicare beneficiaries in the... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; United States; India
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Business School Online Dates Attended: [The year you completed CLIMB] Degree: Other; Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business Field of Study: Leave blank Grade: “Complete” View Details
  • 24 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

help their organizational unit implement it. Enterprises must have active policies to communicate, educate, motivate, and align employees with the strategy. They must also align their ongoing View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 06 Jun 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

short-term performance is at stake, (2) the fear of disruption resulting from "thinking differently and deeply," (3) the potential psychological cost of changing one's mind resulting from deep... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 29 Aug 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

Harley demographic aging out of the sport the new concepts are a step in the right direction most of all, the product must be right.” Kevin O’Meara agreed, saying that, “the tariffs and the ‘Twitter war’ are masking the true issues (1)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto