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- January 1978
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Zero-Base Budgeting in the Public Health Service
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Cost Management and Management Control Systems in Hospitals
Hospitals tend not to have very good cost accounting and control systems. More broadly, there is enormous opportunity for managing costs and aligning incentives in the health care industry. I am studying how cost accounting methods can be used to... View Details
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Current Research
Professor John is a behavioral scientist who uses both laboratory and field experiments to investigate questions that are at the intersection of marketing, organizational behavior, and public policy.
Professor John’s work has been published in leading... View Details
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Divergent change in organizations
The first stream of research in Professor Battilana’s work aims to identify the conditions that enable individual actors to initiate divergent change within organizations as well as the conditions enabling successful implementation of such change. It combines... View Details
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Financial Reporting and Control
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Financial Reporting and Control
Financial Reporting and Control (FRC) covers topics about how managers can design and use performance measurement systems for external reporting and internal management to build more effective organizations. Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to... View Details
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From Bupkis to Sechel in Health Care
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Hybrid organizing
While historically the commercial and social sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, over the last 30 years we have witnessed a blurring of the boundaries between these two sectors. In an effort to account for this transition, Professor Battilana’s second... View Details
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Innovating in Healthcare: Creating Breakthrough Tech, Services, Drugs, Products, and Business Models
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Innovation and Performance Improvement in Health Care
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Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies
Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details
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Managing Health Care Delivery - Executive Education
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Mastering Strategy Execution
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
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Of Measurement and Mission: Accounting for Performance in Non-Governmental Organizations
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Organizational Effectiveness
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Overview
Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.
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Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to measure and evaluate their organization's economic performance, improve resource allocation and strategy implementation within their organizations, and build accountability... View Details
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My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details
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