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- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
Several months ago, Harvard's Forum on Health Care Innovation surveyed industry executives, policy makers, academics, and doctors about the state of health View Details
- June 2015
- Teaching Note
Schӧn Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for Schon Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value.
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- 16 May 2014
- News
Health cuts ‘wrong way’ to reform system, Harvard expert says
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
A classic business problem from the 1950s illustrates the tension between inventory costs and missed sales. A newspaper vendor must decide how many papers to buy each day based on typical demand. His profit is optimized, the solution...
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- 20 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care
DaVita’s program is not only an attractive benefit to potential recruits, but a powerful way for the company to instill its values throughout its leadership team. These reciprocal benefits should drive leadership development programs...
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Health Care
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
network they need. Careful integration is a key. Q: From the point of view of someone's career in the current economic climate, it would seem wiser to cultivate portable skills as opposed to company-specific skills. View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Evaluating the Effects of Large-Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative
By: Nava Ashraf, Gunther Fink and David N. Weil
Since 2003, Zambia has been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-malaria campaign which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass...
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Cost vs Benefits;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Disorders;
Performance Evaluation;
Programs;
Health Industry;
Zambia
Ashraf, Nava, Gunther Fink, and David N. Weil. "Evaluating the Effects of Large-Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria Initiative." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16069, June 2010.
- 04 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: CVS Health
organization.Jeff Lackey, VP Talent Acquisition, CVS Health Describe your organization in three to five sentences.CVS Health is at the forefront of a changing health View Details
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Health Care
- July 2021 (Revised July 2022)
- Case
Brigham & Women's Hospital: Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Breast Cancer Care
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Navraj S. Nagra and Syed S. Shehab
Dr. Andrea Pusic, breast cancer reconstruction surgeon, wants to extend outcomes measurement beyond traditional surgical metrics of infections, complications, and survival rates. The case describes her development of a new mobile phone app, which collects patients’...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Outcome or Result;
Cost Management;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Health Testing and Trials;
Surveys;
Health Industry;
Boston
Kaplan, Robert S., Navraj S. Nagra, and Syed S. Shehab. "Brigham & Women's Hospital: Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Breast Cancer Care." Harvard Business School Case 122-010, July 2021. (Revised July 2022.)
- 17 Jan 2014
- News
Micromanagement won’t deliver value says business guru
- May 2016
- Case
AbbVie
By: Kevin Schulman, Laura Little, Samyukta Mullangi and Stephen Schleicher
This case focuses on the impact of a novel regulatory pathway, the biosimilars pathway, on the strategy of a major pharmaceutical firm that finds its largest product (60% of revenue) at risk. The case reviews the rationale for the pathway, the emerging biosimilars...
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- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
challenges journalists have faced amid the turmoil in the field—and the way they have tried to stay true to the field’s core values—offers potential lessons to other professionals, such as teachers or health View Details
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- May 1999 (Revised July 2000)
- Teaching Note
Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care TN
By: Jody H. Gittell and Sandra J. Sucher
Teaching Note for (9-898-172). A rewritten version of an earlier teaching note.
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- September 2017
- Article
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Estimate Cost of Care at Multidisciplinary Aerodigestive Centers
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Jordan A. Garcia, Bipin Mistry, Stephen Hardy, Mary Shannon Fracchia, Cheryl Hersh, Carissa Wentland, Joseph Vadakekalam and Christopher J. Hartnick
Time-driven activity-based costing was used to estimate the cost of care for patients with laryngeal cleft seen between 2008 and 2013 at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Pediatric Aerodigestive Center. Retrospective chart review was performed to identify clinic...
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Keywords:
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Health Care and Treatment
Kaplan, Robert S., Jordan A. Garcia, Bipin Mistry, Stephen Hardy, Mary Shannon Fracchia, Cheryl Hersh, Carissa Wentland, Joseph Vadakekalam, and Christopher J. Hartnick. "Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Estimate Cost of Care at Multidisciplinary Aerodigestive Centers." The Laryngoscope 127, no. 9 (September 2017).
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
States. That depression has taken its toll on employers and even taxpayers. Research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Joel Goh estimates that workplace stress is responsible for up to 8 percent of national spending on health...
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Do We Spend Too Much on Health Care?
By: Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra
Health system reforms—such as changes in insurance design, patient cost sharing, payment reform, or price regulation—should be judged by whether they move us toward higher-value use of resources, rather than by whether they reduce spending.
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Cost;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Value Creation
Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Do We Spend Too Much on Health Care?" New England Journal of Medicine 383, no. 7 (August 13, 2020): 605–608.
- Web
Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Geography of Care Geography of View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
The Unanticipated Risks of Maximizing Shareholder Value
- 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,...
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Keywords:
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Cost Accounting;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
Haiti
Kaplan, Robert S., Bipin Mistry, and Karla Bertrand. "Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners In Health in Haiti." Harvard Business School Case 116-041, April 2016. (Revised May 2016.)
- Article
Achieving Value in Highly Complex Acute Care: Lessons from the Delivery of Extra Corporeal Life Support
By: Michael Nurok, Jonathan Warsh, Erik Dong, Jeffrey Lopez, Mayumi Kharabi and Robert S. Kaplan
We applied a value (outcomes and cost) analysis to extracorporeal life support (ECLS), a relatively rare but very expensive ICU therapy with highly variable outcomes. To address the outcome component of the value approach, we created guidelines for ECLS delivery; to...
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Nurok, Michael, Jonathan Warsh, Erik Dong, Jeffrey Lopez, Mayumi Kharabi, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Achieving Value in Highly Complex Acute Care: Lessons from the Delivery of Extra Corporeal Life Support." NEJM Catalyst (October 31, 2019).