The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 30, 2020

Corporate financing should be of a form and duration that allows companies to fund more engaged and long-term investment in their purposes. Despite this, there is a growing desire for corporations to be better stakeholders, with Wharton’s Sarah Kaplan outlining as much in her latest book, The 360° Corporation.

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Kaplan Report Metrics Loyalty 76

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Benjamin Graham , the father of value investing, seldom met the managers of the companies he invested in because he felt they would tell him only what they wished him to hear and because he didn’t want to be influenced by impressions of personality. So is there something different about the managers who do succeed?

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Stage-Gate Kaplan Competitive Advantage Intangible Assets 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

And I needed the kind of advice that only a manager can give. 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. Not in the boardroom — but in the bedroom. Actually, none of that has ever happened. Thank heavens.)

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Kaplan Health Care Insurance Porter 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

As we move forward we need to be mindful of two principles that must be at the heart of any fundamental health care reform: “no margin, no mission” and “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Kaplan and Michael E. As the era of health care cross-subsidization ends, these principles must guide our actions.

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Health Care Kaplan Porter Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

It offered far more movies than its smaller rivals, used computers to better manage that inventory, and designed its stores to be bright and family friendly. Big companies are making lots of money, not investing all that much, and yet somehow managing to fend off newer challengers. are in different phases of this cycle.

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Competitive Advantage Kaplan Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. But, why do we only define patient value by outcomes and cost?

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Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8