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  • 24 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

States, according to data from the World Health Organization. By 2017, the per capita expenditure in Haiti had dropped to $13. No surprise, then, that many of Partner in Health’s clinics had no accounting systems in place and no resources... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 15 Feb 2012
  • News

Professor Rob Kaplan Teaches in Haiti

  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Students Reach Out to Haiti

Medicine Institute, Seth Moulton (HBS ’11) collaborated on the development of an iPhone electronic health record application that doctors can use to track patients in the field. And Haiti native Jules Walter and Jean-Claude Homawoo (both... View Details
Keywords: disaster relief; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • Article

Activity-based Costing of Health-Care Delivery, Haiti

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Ryan K. McBain, Gregory Jerome, Fernet Leandre, Micaela Browning, Jonathan Warsh, Mahek Shah, Peterson Abnis-Faure, Claire Pierre, Anna P. Fang, Jean Claude Mugunga, Gary Gottlieb, Joseph Rhatigan and Bipin Mistry
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  • January 2016
  • Case

Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
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  • 04 Feb 2010
  • News

Getting Haiti to stand again

  • January 2018
  • Case

Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Mahek A. Shah
Partners in Health, a global NGO focused on delivering health care to residents of rural underserved communities, conducts a project on the cost of primary care at five sites in the Central Highlands of Haiti. It devises a simple approach for tracking the resources... View Details
Keywords: Global Health; Public Health; Health Care and Treatment; Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Rural Scope; Health Industry; Haiti
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  • 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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  • 22 Sep 2017
  • Conference Presentation

A Strategy for Haitian Prosperity

By: Michael E. Porter
Overview of Haiti's economic performance; a framework for understanding competitiveness; Haiti's competitive position; policy recommendations for Haiti; building an overall strategy; moving to action. View Details
Keywords: Haiti; Economic Growth; Haiti
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  • September 2014 (Revised March 2017)
  • Case

Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief: What Can We Learn from Commercial Supply Chains?

By: Willy Shih and Margaret Pierson
Organizing speedy and efficient supply operations for unpredictable major natural disasters was a continuing challenge for the U.S. military, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti was both unique in its operational scope and political complexity. As he reviewed the... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chains; Humanitarian Assistance; Disaster Relief; Distribution; Logistics; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Operations; Distribution Industry; United States; Haiti
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  • 21 Dec 2010
  • News

Harvard Business School Faculty on 2010's Biggest Business Developments

  • December 2010
  • Article

Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies: The Victorian Bushfires of 2009

By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt
How can people and organisations best respond to emergency events that are significantly beyond the boundaries of what they had generally anticipated, expected, prepared for-or even imagined? What forms of organisations are likely to be best able to cope with such... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Management Practices and Processes; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Boundaries; United States
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  • Web

Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Collection Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti by Robert S. Kaplan and Mahek A. Shah Partners in Health, a global NGO focused on delivering health care to residents of rural underserved communities, conducts a project on the... View Details
  • Web

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  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • Web

Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

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  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships

fellowship gives me the freedom to pursue my passion for helping suffering communities.” Cenat’s desire to give back stems from her own experience. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Haiti when she was a child, and her... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Action Plan: Net Proceeds

supply chain and certification company, to address the plastic pollution he saw in Haiti and other communities around the world. Goodwin had originally traveled to Haiti under the auspices of Executives... View Details
Keywords: April White; recycling; corporate social responsibility; waste management; water; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
  • Profile

Alika Phipps

Immersion Experience Program (IXP), Regina Abrami, Alika participated in the Vietnam IXP last winter. “We explored different types of businesses in Vietnam and how they evolve in a macro-political context,” Alika says. “It’s an emerging market, so many of the lessons... View Details
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • News

The $300 House

Keywords: affordable housing; urban poor; rural poor