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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

delivery, for reorganizing health care delivery organizations around patient value, measuring patient outcomes, understanding the actual cost of care by medical condition, designing value-based reimbursement models, and integrating... View Details

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

same time, IKEA Group had adopted in 2012 a new sustainability strategy that focused the company's efforts on its entire value chain from its raw materials sourcing to the lifestyle of its end consumers. The plan especially centered on... View Details

31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

aspects of U.S. affiliate activity in the country and placing this activity in its appropriate economic context. Lowering the Cost of Bank Recapitalization Authors:John C. Coates, IV, and David S. Scharfstein Publication:Yale Journal on... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Finance - Faculty & Research

money-market funds). This forces banks to seek more funding from national markets and makes lending less dependent on local deposits, which erodes differences across states in banks' financing costs and, in turn, in lending rates. We nest... View Details

17 Jan 2023
In Practice

8 Trends to Watch in 2023

As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

06 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn

eugeniek Companies looking to shed costs in an economic downturn rarely cut compensation—typically, they slash jobs instead. New research confirms the wisdom of that decision. The study concludes that when a company cuts employee pay the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Jun 2023
HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

pled guilty to second-degree murder, later found out that White was not actually a gang member. He was a father who was on his way home from work. Miller served more than four years in a juvenile correction center for the murder, although... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories

02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

examples of successful and failed leaders, with stories to illustrate their experiences and the author's advice to readers who may face similar crises. Purchase this book: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-55338.html Reorganize for Resilience:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

below: Making value the central objective: Regarding the current quality of US health care, survey respondents expressed varied sentiment: 14 percent were "strongly positive," 20 percent "strongly negative," and the rest somewhere in between. But... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

govern partnering relationships through fixed-price contracts, whereas in others, firms use more flexible time and materials or performance-based contracts. How do these choices affect the costs and benefits that arise from greater levels... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 May 2021
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Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

to boost revenues: matching prices at Amazon, and speeding deliveries by shipping directly from stores. He also cut costs by reducing waste and streamlining processes. “We were breaking $200 million-worth of TVs every year,” he says. “By... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

significantly reduce cost to selected low risk patients operated on in an ambulatory surgery facility and avoiding the academic medical center downtown. When the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Browse All topics Accounting Audits (3) Accounting (119) Acquisition (20) Activity Based Costing and Management (2) Adaptation (7) Adoption (3) Advertising Campaigns (6) Advertising (77) Agency Theory (3) Age (3) Agreements and... View Details

26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

workforce is not a quick fix to control costs or improve the quality of care. A poorly planned redesign can even result in increased costs and decreased quality. Changes in skill mix and role definitions... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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HBS - The year in Review

Students 18 Applications 896 Acceptance Rate 4% More Key Enrollment Statistics Full-Tuition Scholarships Offered In an effort to make the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree more affordable and accessible to a wider array of students, HBS began providing... View Details

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

They also introduce bundled payment contracts with three insurers for orthopedic surgeries, and join a multi-hospital study for applying time-driven activity-based costing to identify process improvement and View Details

10 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?

According to poll findings released by Pew Research Center in November, among nearly 12,000 US adults, around seven in 10 say tipping is expected in more places today than it was five years ago. Only about a third say it’s extremely or... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Utilizing time-driven activity-based costing to determine open radical cystectomy and ileal conduit surgical episode cost drivers by Janet Baack Kukreja, M.D., M.P.H.a,b, Mohamed A. Seif, M.D.a, Marissa W.... View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

entrepreneurs view problems as opportunities. In this talk, I focus on entrepreneurs trying to deliver better health and education outcomes at lower cost and in less time. I also discuss the role of ventures in addressing climate change.... View Details

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Susan Kulp, and V.G. Narayanan (2015). Aiyesha Dey : Recipient of the 2012 Center for Financial Markets and Policy Grant. Susanna Gallani : Recipient of the Outstanding Contribution in Review Award from Accounting, Organizations, and... View Details

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