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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

Third, there are tools that I have found valuable in my work with some of the most successful organisations in the world."

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Are You Taking Care of Busyness and Working Overtime?

The Practical Leader

Author Adam Waytz is a psychologist and the Morris and Alice Kaplan Chair in Ethics and Decision Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Harvard professor and strategy expert, Michael Porter, says, “the essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”

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What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

Six Disciplines

“What I found also fascinating is that the book was influenced by many people (the same people that I had read and liked the theories but didn't know how to act) including: Michael Porter (Competitive Strategy), Stephen Covey (7 Habits of Highly Effective People), Michael Gerber (The E Myth Revisited), Robert Kaplan and David Norton (Balanced (..)

CTO 101
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Solving the Health Care Cost Crisis

Harvard Business Review

Michael Porter and Robert S. Kaplan , Harvard Business School professors and authors of the HBR article How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care , explain why providers must start with proper measurement.

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Get Your Boss Out of Your Bedroom

Harvard Business Review

Kaplan put it when I interviewed him , "The health care sector just kind of split off from the rest of any other kind of sector" when it comes to accounting. And the health care sector is an industry no other industry should want to be tethered to. As HBS professor Robert S.

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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Kaplan and Michael E. The results are often surprising; for example in the pilot project described in Kaplan’s and Porter’s 2011 HBR article , one finding was that most providers’ existing cost systems underestimate the cost of new patient evaluation services by 15% to 20%.

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How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion

Harvard Business Review

But, as Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan of Harvard Business School have argued , we need to examine costs at a more granular level at which clinical outcomes are matched with the business and administrative processes.