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When to Drop an Unprofitable Customer (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Kaplan, Robert S.Article HBS-R1204L-EFinanceWhat do you do if one of your largest and oldest customers is now one of your most unprofitable? That's the dilemma faced by Tommy Bamford, director of the fictional UK-based interior fixtures manufacturer Egan & Sons. Activity-based costing analysis reveals that Westmid Builders, a long-standing client of Egan's, has become a big drag on the bottom line. But Jane Oldenburg, a regional sales manager for Egan who has deep ties with the Westmid acc...Starting at €8.20
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Swissgrid: Enterprise Risk Management in a Digital Age
Kaplan, Robert S.; Mikes, AnetteCase HBS-119045-EAccounting and ControlKurt Meyer, chief risk officer of Swissgrid, the Swiss national electricity transmission system operator, reflects on the risk management system he installed after the deregulation and liberalization of the European energy market. With 41 connections to other European networks, a failure in Swissgrid's network could interrupt the supply of electricity in Switzerland and much of Europe. Meyer describes the periodic interactive risk workshops condu...Starting at €8.20
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Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti
Kaplan, Robert S.; Shah, Mahek A.Case HBS-118051-EAccounting and ControlPartners in Health, a global NGO focused on delivering health care to residents of rural underserved communities, conducts a project on the cost of primary care at five sites in the Central Highlands of Haiti. It devises a simple approach for tracking the resources used by patients being treated for diverse medical conditions, as an input to a time-driven activity-based costing model. The results show considerable cost diversity across the five s...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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Hoag Orthopedic Institute
Kaplan, Robert S.; Warsh, JonathanCase HBS-115023-EStrategyTwo groups of orthopedic surgeons form a joint venture with a community hospital to establish Hoag Orthopedic Institute, a for-profit hospital and two ambulatory service centers. By controlling and integrating all aspects of the patients' medical treatment, the physicians deliver superior outcomes, which they communicate with an annual public outcomes report. They also introduce bundled payment contracts with three insurers for orthopedic surgeri...Starting at €8.20
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Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs (V)
Kaplan, Robert S.; Witkowski, Mary L.; Hohman, Jessica A.Case HBS-113057-EAccounting and ControlThe case describes two pilot projects on applying activity-based costing to measuring the cost of treating patients. It presents process maps and financial data relating to the processes used during (1) an office visit to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses, and (2) application and removal of three different casts in the orthopedic cast room. Students calculate and compare the costs and margins of the three procedures at the two diffe...Starting at €8.20
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Elkay Plumbing Products Division, Teaching Note
Kaplan, Robert S.Teaching Note HBS-110089-EFinanceTeaching Note for 110007.Starting at €0.00
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Elkay Plumbing Products Division
Kaplan, Robert S.Case HBS-110007-EFinanceThe vice president of sales learns that the most profitable 1% of the division's customers generate 100% of profits, and that two of the division's largest customers lose 50% of profits. The division has just finished a project to install a time-driven acStarting at €8.20
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Infosys' Relationship Scorecard: Measuring Transformational Partnerships
Miller, Katherine; Kaplan, Robert S.; Martinez-Jerez, F. AsisCase HBS-109006-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis case analyzes Infosys' innovative approach to measuring performance in client relations. Infosys' strategy is evolving to build transformational partnerships from its original position as an outsourcer of end-to-end IT projects. A transformational paStarting at €8.20
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Software Associates, Teaching Note
Kaplan, Robert S.Teaching Note HBS-107088-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note to (101-038).Starting at €0.00