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Managing Healthcare Costs and Value
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Michael E. Porter and Mark L. Frigo
Rising health care costs are a major global challenge. A number of factors contribute to this trend, including aging populations and medical technology. But an underlying and misunderstood source of health care’s escalating costs has been the inability of health care...
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Kaplan, Robert S., Michael E. Porter, and Mark L. Frigo. "Managing Healthcare Costs and Value." Strategic Finance 98, no. 7 (January 2017): 24–33.
- 25 Jan 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
India’s Food Supply Chain During the Pandemic
- 04 May 2021
- News
Hubert Joly on Coffee in the Clouds
- June 10, 2022
- Article
Does Your Company’s Culture Reinforce Its Strategy and Purpose?
By: Hubert Joly
Good strategy has traditionally been seen as the key to business success. More recently, purpose has become an essential element of doing business. But something else is missing: culture, or the essential elements of how an organization and its employees behave, as...
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Joly, Hubert. "Does Your Company’s Culture Reinforce Its Strategy and Purpose?" Harvard Business Review (website) (June 10, 2022).
- February 2022
- Case
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
In 2006, the Cleveland Clinic and Mubadala Investment Company partnered with a bold ambition to deliver world class healthcare in the United Arab Emirates. In 2015, after nearly a decade of planning and construction, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi opened its doors. By...
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Keywords:
Organizational Behavior;
Culture;
Alignment;
Organizational Effectiveness;
Purpose;
Impact;
Leadership Development;
Diversity;
Collaboration;
Co-creation;
Learning Organizations;
Empowerment;
Teams;
Team Dynamics;
Teamwork;
Team Effectiveness;
Trust;
Talent;
Talent Development And Retention;
Psychological Safety;
Organizational Evolution;
Coaching;
Board;
Analytics;
Innovation;
Data;
Data Visualization;
Digital Technology;
Digital;
Customer Experience;
Experimentation;
Change Management;
Data-driven Decision-making;
Debates;
Ecosystem;
Partnership;
Telemedicine;
Sustainability;
Global Organizations;
Local;
Hospital;
Healthcare;
United Arab Emirates;
Health Care and Treatment;
Partners and Partnerships;
Globalization;
Quality;
Organizational Culture;
Mission and Purpose;
Innovation and Management;
Information Technology;
Joint Ventures;
Leadership;
Performance Effectiveness;
Abu Dhabi;
United Arab Emirates
Hill, Linda A., and Emily Tedards. "Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi." Harvard Business School Case 422-058, February 2022.
- 31 Jul 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
How Does Product Liability Risk Affect Innovation? Evidence from Medical Implants
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by Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
- October 2005 (Revised September 2006)
- Case
Sapient Corporation (Abridged)
By: Rakesh Khurana and Joel Podolny
Describes the start-up, growth, organizational design, and operations over the first 10 years of a professional services firm. Focuses on the creative use of organizational purpose and values as an integral part of strategy and alignment of organizational activities.
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Organizational Culture;
Change Management;
Human Resources;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Operations;
Business Processes;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Service Industry
Khurana, Rakesh, and Joel Podolny. "Sapient Corporation (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 406-058, October 2005. (Revised September 2006.)
- July 8, 2022
- Article
How to Conduct a Great Performance Review
Dissatisfaction with performance appraisals is pervasive, but they remain an essential managerial responsibility. The purpose of performance reviews is two-fold: an accurate and actionable evaluation of performance, and then development of that person’s skills in line...
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Cespedes, Frank V. "How to Conduct a Great Performance Review." Harvard Business Review (website) (July 8, 2022).
- April 2009 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
Oprah Winfrey
By: Nancy F. Koehn, Erica Helms, Katherine Miller and Rachel Wilcox
The case explores the entrepreneurial journey of Oprah Winfrey, examining how she built an audience for one of the most successful television shows in history; how she created the company, Harpo Productions, that produces that show as well as other media offerings; how...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Entrepreneurship;
Leadership;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Personal Development and Career;
Strategy;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
United States
Koehn, Nancy F., Erica Helms, Katherine Miller, and Rachel Wilcox. "Oprah Winfrey." Harvard Business School Case 809-068, April 2009. (Revised May 2009.)
- Article
Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: A Paradigm Shift
By: Ethan Rouen and George Serafeim
The last decade has seen an exponential increase in corporate sustainability activities and efforts by investors to use these activities in their portfolio formation, valuation, and stewardship activities. This paper explains the need for a uniform strategy to measure...
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Keywords:
Impact-Weighted Accounts;
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Measurement and Metrics;
Standards
Rouen, Ethan, and George Serafeim. "Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: A Paradigm Shift." CESifo Forum 22, no. 3 (May 2021): 20–25.
- January 2023 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
Veeva Systems and the Transformation to a Public Benefit Corporation
By: Ranjay Gulati and Allison M. Ciechanover
Peter Gassner, the co-founder and CEO of Veeva Systems, steered the company through rapid scaling from its launch in 2007 to 2022. Year after year, the company had exceeded expectations, with its market capitalization reaching $50 billion at its peak. By 2022, the...
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- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
Summing Up If not useful growth, what are we measuring? And why? This column does not thrive on general agreement. And this past month discussants came close to general agreement on the proposition that economic growth is not measured...
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- February 2009 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Cleveland Clinic: Transformation and Growth 2015
By: Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth O. Teisberg
The Cleveland Clinic's health care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic began to restructure the organization into teams defined around patient needs, rather than traditional medical specialties. "Patients First!" takes shape as the...
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Keywords:
Health;
Health Care Operations;
Health Care Quality;
Health Care;
Strategy And Leadership;
Strategy Development;
Health Care and Treatment;
Leading Change;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Measurement and Metrics;
Service Delivery;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Outcome or Result;
Health Industry;
Cleveland
Porter, Michael E., and Elizabeth O. Teisberg. "Cleveland Clinic: Transformation and Growth 2015." Harvard Business School Case 709-473, February 2009. (Revised June 2019.)
- 2014
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Marketing Reading: Creating Customer Value
By: Sunil Gupta
This Reading explores how firms can create value for their customers. The goal of any business is to delight customers by understanding its customers' needs and to provide products and services to meet those needs. As a result, it is critical to understand what...
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Keywords:
Consumer Behavior;
Consumer Marketing;
Customer Experience;
Network Effects;
Service Profit Chain;
Total Customer Value
Gupta, Sunil. "Marketing Reading: Creating Customer Value." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 8176, 2014.
- 04 Feb 2020
- Video
Dr. Manu Chandaria
Manu Chandaria, Chair of the Kenyan-based steel and aluminum group Comcraft, discusses how businesses should look at “profit as a means, not the end.” He assets that the purpose of profit is to improve the...
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- May 2011 (Revised March 2012)
- Supplement
Global Knowledge Management at Danone (C)
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Ruth Dittrich and Daniela Beyersdorfer
The (C) case provides an update on the B-case decision and describes the introduction of Dan 2.0, an internal social virtual network for the purpose of knowledge sharing in a company that was only used to face-to-face networking.
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Keywords:
Innovation and Management;
Knowledge Sharing;
Information Infrastructure;
Opportunities;
Problems and Challenges;
Networks;
Employees;
Motivation and Incentives;
Knowledge Management;
Management Practices and Processes
Edmondson, Amy C., Ruth Dittrich, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Global Knowledge Management at Danone (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 611-080, May 2011. (Revised March 2012.)
- April 27, 2009
- Article
Fraud in Online Advertising
By: Benjamin Edelman
At first glance, online advertising seems to be as measurable a medium as any ever invented. Advertisers can count how many times an ad was sent, then measure sales—yielding an analysis that seems to report the value of an online ad campaign. But the reality is...
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Keywords:
Advertising Campaigns;
Online Advertising;
Crime and Corruption;
Measurement and Metrics;
Value
Edelman, Benjamin. "Fraud in Online Advertising." Business Standard (April 27, 2009).
- October 2020
- Teaching Note
Swissgrid: Enterprise Risk Management in a Digital Age
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes
This note was prepared by HBS Professor Robert Kaplan and Professor Anette Mikes (University of Oxford) for the purpose of aiding classroom instructors in the use of “Swissgrid: Enterprise Risk Management in a Digital Age,” HBS No. 119-045.
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- January 1983 (Revised July 2007)
- Case
Mat MacGregor (A)
Mat MacGregor took charge of a failing project but failed to turn it around because of a variety of personal, technical, cultural, and political reasons. The purpose of the case is to understand the underlying dynamics and their implications.
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Keywords:
Management Skills;
Management Style;
Organizational Culture;
Failure;
Projects;
Personal Characteristics
Sathe, Vijay V., and Chin B. Ho. "Mat MacGregor (A)." Harvard Business School Case 483-098, January 1983. (Revised July 2007.)
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
This is a repost from HBS Newsroom, see the original post here. “Climate change, and the energy and materials transition, is one of the most complicated and challenging business, geopolitical, and social issues View Details