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- 2019
- Working Paper
Biometric Monitoring, Service Delivery and Misreporting: Evidence from Healthcare in India
By: Thomas Bossuroy, Clara Delavallade and Vincent Pons
Developing countries increasingly use biometric identification technology in hopes of improving the reliability of administrative information and delivering social services more efficiently. This paper exploits the random placement of biometric tracking devices in...
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Keywords:
Biometric Technology;
Health Care and Treatment;
Technological Innovation;
Analytics and Data Science;
Quality;
Performance Improvement;
India
Bossuroy, Thomas, Clara Delavallade, and Vincent Pons. "Biometric Monitoring, Service Delivery and Misreporting: Evidence from Healthcare in India." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 26388, October 2019. (Revise and resubmit requested, Review of Economics and Statistics.)
- September 21, 2013
- Other Article
Redefining Global Health-care Delivery
By: Jim Yong Kim, Paul E. Farmer and Michael E. Porter
Initiatives to address the unmet needs of those facing both poverty and serious illness have expanded significantly over the past decade. But many of them are designed in an ad-hoc manner to address one health problem among many; they are too rarely assessed; best...
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Keywords:
Health
Kim, Jim Yong, Paul E. Farmer, and Michael E. Porter. "Redefining Global Health-care Delivery." Lancet 382, no. 9897 (September 21, 2013).
- January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Exercise
E-Commerce Analytics for CPG Firms (C): Free Delivery Terms
By: Ayelet Israeli and Fedor (Ted) Lisitsyn
The E-Commerce Analytics group at the traditional CPG firm was in charge of compiling various online sales reports, as well as making data-driven recommendations for sales and marketing tactics. In a series of exercises, students address different data challenges for...
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Keywords:
Data;
Data Analysis;
Data Analytics;
Data Sharing;
CPG;
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG);
Delivery Planning;
Customer Lifetime Value;
Online Channel;
Retail;
Retail Analytics;
Retailing Industry;
Ecommerce;
Grocery;
Grocery Delivery;
Margins;
Analytics and Data Science;
Retention;
E-commerce;
Retail Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
Israeli, Ayelet, and Fedor (Ted) Lisitsyn. "E-Commerce Analytics for CPG Firms (C): Free Delivery Terms." Harvard Business School Exercise 521-080, January 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
- 2015
- Working Paper
Do-gooders and Go-getters: Career Incentives, Selection, and Performance in Public Service Delivery
By: Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Scott S. Lee
We study how career incentives affect who selects into public health jobs and, through selection, their performance while in service. We collaborate with the Government of Zambia to experimentally vary the salience of career incentives in a newly created health worker...
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Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera, and Scott S. Lee. "Do-gooders and Go-getters: Career Incentives, Selection, and Performance in Public Service Delivery." Working Paper, March 2015.
- Forthcoming
- Chapter
Embracing Complexity: Toward Platforms for Integrated Health and Social Service Delivery
By: Andrew Ellner, Christine Pace, Scott S. Lee, Jon Weigel and Paul E. Farmer
Ellner, Andrew, Christine Pace, Scott S. Lee, Jon Weigel, and Paul E. Farmer. "Embracing Complexity: Toward Platforms for Integrated Health and Social Service Delivery ." Chap. 4 in Structural Approaches in Public Health, edited by Marni Sommer and Richard Parker, 47–62. Routledge, 2013.
- January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Supplement
E-Commerce Analytics for CPG Firms (C): Free Delivery Terms
By: Ayelet Israeli and Fedor (Ted) Lisitsyn
The E-Commerce Analytics group at the traditional CPG firm was in charge of compiling various online sales reports, as well as making data-driven recommendations for sales and marketing tactics. In a series of exercises, students address different data challenges for...
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Keywords:
Data;
Data Analysis;
Data Analytics;
Data Sharing;
CPG;
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG);
Delivery Planning;
Customer Lifetime Value;
Online Channel;
Retail;
Retail Analytics;
Retailing Industry;
Ecommerce;
Grocery;
Grocery Delivery;
Margins;
Retention;
Analytics and Data Science;
Analysis;
Retail Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
- August 1999
- Article
Measuring the Efficiency of Service Delivery Processes: With Application to Retail Banking
By: F. Frei and P. Harker
Frei, F., and P. Harker. "Measuring the Efficiency of Service Delivery Processes: With Application to Retail Banking." Journal of Service Research 1, no. 4 (August 1999): 300–312.
- March 2022 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Moksha Data: Delivering Insights for Public Service
By: Ashish Nanda and Zack Kurtovich
Moksha Data, a boutique consulting firm specializing in public sector work, started in January 2017 with a handshake between friends and a shared commitment to the principles of egalitarianism, ownership, and collaboration. The Houston-based firm had built momentum...
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Keywords:
Professional Service Firms;
Professional Service Firm;
Strategy Formulation;
Data;
Data As A Service;
Government Contracting;
Consulting;
Consulting Firms;
Consulting Services;
Entrepreneurship;
Public Sector;
Analytics and Data Science;
Growth and Development;
Strategy;
Consulting Industry;
Texas
Nanda, Ashish, and Zack Kurtovich. "Moksha Data: Delivering Insights for Public Service." Harvard Business School Case 722-397, March 2022. (Revised January 2024.)
- December 2014
- Article
No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery
By: Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and B. Kelsey Jack
A substantial body of research investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field...
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Keywords:
Incentives;
Non-monetary Rewards;
Intrinsic Motivation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Employees;
Service Industry;
Service Industry
Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera, and B. Kelsey Jack. "No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery." Journal of Public Economics 120 (December 2014): 1–17.
- August 2023
- Case
Vanderbilt: Transforming an Academic Health Care Delivery System, 2020
By: Michael E. Porter, Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski and David N. Bernstein
Keywords:
Health Care;
Health Care Industry;
Academic Medicine;
Value-based Health Care;
Value-based Healthcare;
Health Care Delivery;
Service Delivery;
Transformation;
Health Care and Treatment;
Corporate Strategy;
Leadership;
Health Industry;
Tennessee;
United States
Porter, Michael E., Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski, and David N. Bernstein. "Vanderbilt: Transforming an Academic Health Care Delivery System, 2020." Harvard Business School Case 724-373, August 2023.
- 2014
- Other Unpublished Work
No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery
By: Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Kelsey Jack
A substantial body of research investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field...
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Keywords:
Incentives;
Non-monetary Rewards;
Intrinsic Motivation;
Mission and Purpose;
Social Enterprise;
Motivation and Incentives
Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera, and Kelsey Jack. "No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery." (March 2014. Conditionally accepted, Journal of Public Economics.)
- July 3, 2020
- Article
Delivery Apps Need to Start Treating Suppliers As Partners
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Ian Macomber
Home delivery has shifted from a luxury service aimed at young urban professionals to a core part of many businesses, which is used by almost everyone. That upheaval has strained capacity of many delivery services and changed how they relate to the suppliers that they...
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Keywords:
Service Delivery;
Supply Chain;
Performance Capacity;
Performance Efficiency;
Entrepreneurship
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Ian Macomber. "Delivery Apps Need to Start Treating Suppliers As Partners." Harvard Business Review (website) (July 3, 2020).
- August 2023
- Teaching Note
Vanderbilt: Transforming an Academic Health Care Delivery System, 2020
By: Michael E. Porter, Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski and David N. Bernstein
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 724-373.
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- 2012
- Report
Competing by Saving Lives: How Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies Create Shared Value in Global Health
By: Mark R. Kramer, Kyle Peterson, Matthew Rehrig, Mike Stamp and Samuel Kim
Examples of how pharmaceutical and medical companies are addressing unmet health needs in low- and middle- income economies, creating shared value by providing products and services that tackle global health problems.
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Keywords:
Shared Value;
Low- And Middle-income Economies;
Health Care and Treatment;
Global Range;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Kramer, Mark R., Kyle Peterson, Matthew Rehrig, Mike Stamp, and Samuel Kim. "Competing by Saving Lives: How Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies Create Shared Value in Global Health." Report, FSG, 2012.
- March 1993 (Revised April 1995)
- Case
IBM After-Sales Service
IBM has established a service delivery system to provide service and maintenance parts for its installed base of computers. The case outlines the competitive pressures IBM faces from alternative providers of maintenance services (e.g. other OEMs, third-party...
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Keywords:
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Supply Chain;
Supply Chain Management;
Logistics;
Operations;
Distribution;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Competitive Strategy;
Computer Industry
Hammond, Janice H. "IBM After-Sales Service." Harvard Business School Case 693-001, March 1993. (Revised April 1995.)
- 2017
- Working Paper
Inequality in Knowledge Repository Use in Scaling Service Operations
By: Melissa A. Valentine, Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats and Amy C. Edmondson
To scale service operations requires sharing knowledge across the organization. However, prior work highlights that individuals on the periphery of organizational knowledge sharing networks may struggle to access useful knowledge at work. A knowledge repository (KR)...
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Keywords:
Knowledge Repository;
Scaling Service Operations;
Fluid Teams;
Groups and Teams;
Knowledge Management;
Performance
Valentine, Melissa A., Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Inequality in Knowledge Repository Use in Scaling Service Operations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-001, July 2012. (Revised August 2017.)
- June 2006 (Revised June 2007)
- Background Note
The Challenge Facing the U.S. Healthcare Delivery System
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Discusses the challenges currently facing the U.S. health care delivery system. These challenges frame the problems managers of delivery organizations are currently facing. They include a burgeoning gap between demand and supply. Demand for health care services is...
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Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "The Challenge Facing the U.S. Healthcare Delivery System." Harvard Business School Background Note 606-096, June 2006. (Revised June 2007.)
- Program
Managing Health Care Delivery
organization Enhance coordination of services Stimulate and improve innovation over time Become a more capable health care leader Build skills to design and lead a competitive health care delivery...
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- 24 Jan 2014
- Other Presentation
Value Based Health Care Delivery
According to Harvard professor Michael Porter, health care reform is proving to be one of the defining issues of the 21st century, both in the United States and throughout the world. Costs are exploding even in single-payer systems driven by aging populations and...
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Porter, Michael E. "Value Based Health Care Delivery." Harvard Kennedy School, Center for Public Leadership, Cambridge, MA, January 24, 2014.
- 15 Mar 2016
- News