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  • 07 Feb 2017
  • News

The Prophet of Profit

  • May 2022
  • Article

Variance Analysis: New Insights from Health Care Applications

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Susanna Gallani
We use a health care application to illustrate how variance analysis can be used to benchmark costs across similar service delivery sites. Variances for personnel costs, typically the largest cost component in service organizations, are calculated for price, quantity,... View Details
Keywords: Variance Analysis; Benchmarking; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Service Industry
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Kaplan, Robert S., and Susanna Gallani. "Variance Analysis: New Insights from Health Care Applications." Issues in Accounting Education 37, no. 2 (May 2022): 27–36.

    Ricardo Claro

    Keywords: Shipping
    • 07 Apr 2014
    • Video

    Professor Despande Talks The Multimedia Case "Terror at the Taj"

    • 28 May 2014
    • Video

    Sal Khan - Making A Difference

    • 15 Feb 2000
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

    As the information economy emerges and technology transforms "business-as-usual," senior-level executives need to understand the "big picture" of how IT impacts their entire organization—from top to bottom. The HBS Executive View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 17 Nov 2023
    • Blog Post

    HBS Veteran Spotlight: Rex Willis (MBA 2024)

    School as an active-duty service member has been an immensely enriching experience, blending my military background with a dynamic academic environment. The school's emphasis on leadership and diverse perspectives has allowed me to... View Details

      W. Earl Sasser

      Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

      Keywords: education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry

        James L. Heskett

        James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

          Leonard A. Schlesinger

          Leonard A. Schlesinger is Baker Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School where he serves as Chair of the School’s Practice based faculty and faculty Chair of the MBA Field Global Immersion program. He has served as a member of the HBS faculty from 1978 to... View Details

          • August 2024
          • Case

          Ashesi University: The Journey from Vision to Reality

          By: Ranjay Gulati and Caroline de Lacvivier
          In 1997, Patrick Awuah had a dream: to bring liberal arts education to Ghana. Amid the country’s declining economy and pervasive corruption problems, Awuah saw education as an opportunity to reverse its fortunes by investing in the next generation of African leaders.... View Details
          Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Leadership Development; Growth Management; Mission and Purpose; Private Ownership; Education Industry; Ghana
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          Gulati, Ranjay, and Caroline de Lacvivier. "Ashesi University: The Journey from Vision to Reality." Harvard Business School Case 425-032, August 2024.
          • August 2021
          • Case

          BYJU’S: EdTech Giant Investing in Brick and Mortar

          By: John J-H Kim and Rachna Tahilyani
          The founder and CEO of BYJU’S, India’s largest edtech firm and one of the world’s most valuable edtech companies, is considering acquiring Aakash Educational Services (Aakash), one of India’s largest brick-and-mortar test-prep firms, for $1 billion. Is this a good... View Details
          Keywords: Edtech; Business Strategy; Diversification; Investment; Acquisition; Education Industry; Asia; India; United States
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          Kim, John J-H, and Rachna Tahilyani. "BYJU’S: EdTech Giant Investing in Brick and Mortar." Harvard Business School Case 322-032, August 2021.

            Stefan H. Thomke

            Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

            Keywords: service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry
            • 14 Oct 2020
            • Blog Post

            Veteran Financial Aid Outlook

            services have, or fulfilling a pre-assignment requirement to teach at one of the Service Academies or to be a strategist, my advice is to brace yourself for some loans. This is not unique to Harvard, though.... View Details
            • 25 Jul 2011
            • Research & Ideas

            How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

            Editor's note: It has been more than a decade since the publication of The Innovator's Dilemma, in which Clayton M. Christensen introduced the idea of disruptive technologies—those unexpected products and services that shake up the market... View Details
            Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
            • 12 Nov 2013
            • News

            Innovation Can't be Measured in Dollars: Harvard Prof Stefan Thomke

              V.G. Narayanan

              Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. His research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives... View Details

              Keywords: service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry; service industry

                Brian L. Trelstad

                 

                Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems... View Details

                Keywords: education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry

                  Ananth Raman

                  Ananth Raman is a professor in the Technology and Operations Management area where he has taught courses on various aspects of Operational Excellence—supply chain management, technology and operations management, and service operations—to MBA students... View Details

                  Keywords: apparel; retailing; software
                  • June 2009 (Revised July 2010)
                  • Case

                  Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative

                  By: Christopher Marquis, V. Kasturi Rangan and Cathy Ross
                  Describes the conception, development, and implementation of Goldman Sachs' five-year, $100 million philanthropic initiative to provide practical business and management education to 10,000 women around the globe. The initiative recently celebrated its first... View Details
                  Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Education; Gender; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
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                  Marquis, Christopher, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Cathy Ross. "Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 509-042, June 2009. (Revised July 2010.)
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