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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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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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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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Activity-Based Management at Stream International
Kaplan, Robert S.; Klein, NormanCase HBS-196134-EAccounting and ControlStream International's Crawfordsville, Indiana facilities undertake the design and implementation of an activity-based costing project. After analyzing the costs assigned to 161 work activities, Crawfordsville managers present five proposals for change based on ABM results, then meet to decide which to implement.Starting 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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Hopital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners In Health in Haiti
Kaplan, Robert S.; Mistry, Bipin; Bertrand, KarlaCase HBS-116041-EAccounting and ControlThe 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, equipment, and facilities for obstetric and breast cancer care. The accurate cost information revealed opportunities to optimize resource-utilization and reduce costs by establishing more eff...Starting at €8.20
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The Office of Strategy Management: Integrating Your Organization's Strategy Management Processes
Kaplan, Robert S.; Norton, David P.Book Chapter HBS-7693BC-EStrategyMost organizational processes are assigned to owners who run them and are accountable for their performance. But few organizations identify an individual or department to run the multiple linked processes of the strategy execution system. In high-performing companies, the need has been unearthed for an "office of strategy management." The OSM is the architect, the process owner, and integrator of the processes embedded within the strategic planni...Starting at €8.20
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Chemical Bank: la implantación del cuadro de mando integral
Kaplan, Robert S.; Klein, NormanCase HBS-106S09Accounting and ControlLa división de banca minorista de Chemical Bank se enfrenta a la disminución de los márgenes y el aumento de la competencia en su reunión de crédito y de depósito y el procesamiento de los negocios. Desea aplicar una nueva estrategia para convertirse en un proveedor de servicios financieros preferido a grupos de clientes objetivo. La división se adapta el cuadro de mando integral para clarificar y comunicar la nueva estrategia e identificar los f...Starting at €8.20