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  • August 2005 (Revised April 2006)
  • Case

Kemps LLC: Introducing Time-Driven ABC

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kemps is making a strategy shift: from being focused on fulfilling customer requests to becoming the best cost dairy producer in the industry. Its existing manufacturing cost system, however, fails to capture the costs associated with handling special flavors, small... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Customer Relationship Management; Cost Accounting; Managerial Roles; Cost Management; Earnings Management; Business Strategy; Time Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Decisions; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • May 2007
  • Teaching Note

Kemps LLC: Introducing Time-Driven ABC (TN)

By: Robert S. Kaplan
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  • September 2018 (Revised July 2019)
  • Case

Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing at Voray

By: Ethan Rouen
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Time-Driven ABC; Entrepreneur
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  • February 8, 2022
  • Article

Time-Driven Activity-Based Cost Comparison of Treating Five Acute, Low-Severity Conditions

By: Alan Yang, Andy Hung-Yi Lee, Joseph W. Kopp, Katherine D. Rose, Adam M. Licurse, Philip D. Anderson and Robert S. Kaplan
In 2017, patients made 145 million visits to emergency departments (EDs), generating $76.3 billion in charges. About a third of ED visits, however, were for conditions that were treatable in lower-resourced settings. We used time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven ABC; Health Care Costs; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment
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  • October 2022
  • Article

It’s Not Just the Prices: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing for Initiation of Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation at Three International Sites—A Case Review

By: Michael Nurok, Vin Pellegrino, Marc Pineton de Chambrun, Jonathan Warsh, Meredith Young, Erik Dong, Neil Parrish, Syed Shehab, Alain Combes and Robert S. Kaplan
The United States spends more for intensive care units (ICUs) than do other high-income countries. We used time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to analyze ICU costs for initiation of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for respiratory failure to estimate... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Cost; Time-Driven ABC; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Industry
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  • April 2006 (Revised November 2020)
  • Background Note

Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Introduces the role for time-driven activity-based costing. Identifies the value from an accurate costing model, describes the difficulties of traditional ABC, and illustrates how time-driven ABC provides a simpler and more powerful method. View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Value
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  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson; Financial Services
  • Article

Comparative Costs of Advanced Proton and Photon Radiation Therapies: Lessons from Time-driven Activity-based Costing in Head and Neck Cancer

By: Nikhil G. Thaker, Steven J. Frank and Thomas W. Feeley
Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) is an innovative costing tool in healthcare that can be used to directly compare the true cost of competing technologies over the full care cycle. Rather than only comparing therapeutic effectiveness over a limited number of... View Details
Keywords: Head And Neck Cancer; IMRT; Proton Therapy; Time-Driven ABC; Information Technology; Activity Based Costing and Management; Medical Specialties
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  • June 2013
  • Teaching Note

Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Health Care; Activity-Based Costing; Hospitals; Costing; Time-Driven ABC; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Industry
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  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan introduced time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to provide the cost component in Michael Porter's Value Based Health Care framework of delivering superior patient outcomes at lower societal cost. TDABC is becoming the global standard for health care... View Details
Keywords: Activity-based Costing And Management; Time-Driven ABC; Balanced Scorecard; Carbon Accounting; Carbon Credits; Inclusive Growth; Risk Management; Health Industry
  • March 2004 (Revised April 2005)
  • Case

Midwest Office Products

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Presents an easy introduction to time-driven activity-based costing (ABC) that allows students to build a simple ABC model of order profitability. Midwest's time-driven ABC approach is based on two categories of parameter estimates. The first is the cost per hour of... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Price; Activity Based Costing and Management; Time Management; Financial Reporting; Profit; Performance Improvement; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Performance Evaluation
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    Healthcare Videos

    Professor Kaplan and Professor Porter on Applying Time-Driven ABC to... View Details

    • 11 Apr 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

    Jane Gilbert: What inspired you to develop the concept of time-driven activity-based costing? Robert Kaplan: When Robin Cooper and I introduced ABC in the mid-1980s, we were strongly influenced by the... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • 23 Jan 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: January 23, 2007

    http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807023   PublicationsTime-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler and More Powerful Path to Higher Profits Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Steven R. Anderson Publication:Boston: Harvard Business School Press,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 24 Jan 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

    practical capacity is grossly in error, the process of running the time-driven ABC system will reveal the error over time. The capacity of most resources is measured in terms of time availability. Returning... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
    • Web

    Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    W.J.W. Bos Jan 2019 Paying for Health Care, VBHC Intensive Seminar by Mary Witkowski & Harry Wolberg Jan 2019 VBHC Systems Integration and Growth, VBHC Intensive Seminar by Michael E. Porter Jan 2019 Why VBHC is Important to Physicians, VBHC Intensive Seminar by Dr.... View Details
    • Web

    Books - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Elizabeth Teisberg show how to move health care toward positive-sum competition that delivers lasting benefits for all. Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler and More Powerful Path to Higher Profits Robert S. Kaplan and Steven R.... View Details
    • 03 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 3, 2006

    http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606090 Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Harvard Business School Note 106-068 Introduces the role for time-driven activity-based costing.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 May 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: May 8, 2007

    and maintaining a conventional ABC system have prevented this innovation from being an effective, timely, and up-to-date management tool. The time-driven ABC approach overcomes... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 22 Dec 2015
    • First Look

    December 22, 2015

    Sakis, Shalini Rao, Daniela Saltzman, and George Serafeim Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50239 December 2015 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology Time-Driven... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel