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Rural Taobao: Alibaba's Expansion into Rural E-Commerce
Khanna, Tarun; Allen, Ryan; Frost, Adam; Koo, WesleyCase HBS-719433-EStrategyAlibaba's Rural Taobao initiative had been launched in 2014 as a public service initiative to increase e-commerce adoption in China's remote rural areas. In the first two iterations of the initiative, dubbed "1.0" and "2.0", Alibaba had partnered with local businesses and young returnees to operate village stations. Village stations served as logistical and educational hubs to help villagers make online purchases. Despite significant growth in sa...Starting at €8.20
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How to Pay for Health Care
Porter, Michael E.; Kaplan, Robert S.Article HBS-R1607G-ELeadership and People ManagementThe United States stands at a crossroads in how to pay for health care. Fee for service, the dominant payment model in the U.S. and many other countries, is now widely recognized as perhaps the single biggest obstacle to improving health care delivery. A battle is currently raging, outside of the public eye, between the advocates of two radically different payment approaches: capitation and bundled payments. The stakes are high, and the outcome w...Starting at €8.20
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How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care
Kaplan, Robert S.; Porter, Michael E.Article HBS-R1109B-ELeadership and People ManagementU.S. health care costs currently exceed 17% of GDP and continue to rise. One fundamental reason that providers are unable to reverse the trend is that they don't understand what it costs to deliver patient care or how those costs compare with outcomes. To put it bluntly, few health care providers measure the actual costs for treating a given patient with a given medical condition over a full cycle of care, or compare the costs they incur with the...Starting at €8.20
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Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll: The MTV Approach to Tackling HIV/AIDS, Teaching Note
Khanna, Tarun; Bloom, David E.; Bloom, Sonali R.Teaching Note HBS-709454-ETeaching Note for [709429].Starting at €0.00
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How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.; Porter, Michael E.Article HBS-R1109BLeadership and People ManagementU.S. health care costs currently exceed 17% of GDP and continue to rise. One fundamental reason that providers are unable to reverse the trend is that they don't understand what it costs to deliver patient care or how those costs compare with outcomes. To put it bluntly, few health care providers measure the actual costs for treating a given patient with a given medical condition over a full cycle of care, or compare the costs they incur with the...Starting at €8.20
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Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll: The MTV Approach to Tackling HIV/AIDS
Khanna, Tarun; Bloom, Sonali R.; Bloom, David E.Case HBS-709429-EThis case explores the role that MTV, with its heavy diet of music and general youth-oriented media content, plays in spreading public-service messaging to contain the scourge of HIV/AIDS worldwide. There is a focus especially on its efforts in several emerging markets, particularly the parts of Africa that have a heavy disease incidence. MTV has developed a DNA of public service announcements that it claims are of central relevance to its high-r...Starting at €8.20
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Medtronic: Navigating a Shifting Healthcare Landscape
Kaplan, Robert S.; Porter, Michael E.; Feeley, Thomas W; Hernandez, AleeCase HBS-718471-EStrategyMedtronic is adapting its strategy to changes in health care competition and payments. It has decided to develop new relationships with payers, hospitals, and physicians to become more accountable for patient outcomes and total costs. The case describes new forms of partnerships for therapy optimization, management of acute care episodes, and management of chronic care patients.Starting at €8.20
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New England Baptist Hospital: Getting Paid for Value
Kaplan, Robert S.; Witkowski, Mary L.; Emanuel, Toby E.; Shehab, Syed S.Case HBS-121036-EStrategyStarting at €8.20
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Accounting for Climate Change
Kaplan, Robert S.; Ramanna, KarthikArticle HBS-R2106J-EStrategyCorporations are facing growing pressure--from investors, advocacy groups, politicians, and even business leaders themselves--to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their operations and their supply and distribution chains. About 90% of the companies in the S&P 500 now issue some form of environmental, social, and governance report, almost always including an estimate of the company's GHG emissions. The authors describe these as "catchall ...Starting at €8.20
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Microsoft en China y en India, 1993-2007
Khanna, Tarun; Choudhury, PrithwirajCase HBS-711S29StrategySe relaciona con la expansión de Microsoft en China e India en el período 1993-2007 y los temas estratégicos que enfrentan las multinacionales en los mercados emergentes.Starting at €8.20