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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

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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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Kaplan and Michael E. Project team members with finance expertise contribute by supplying the cost rate for each person and equipment involved in the care processes. Health Operations' Leading Health Care Innovation: Editor’s Welcome. Why Less Choice Is More in Health Insurance Exchanges.

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Making Sense of Our Very Competitive, Super Monopolistic Economy

Harvard Business Review

Finance may be moving from a period without much competition into one of disruption, while technology is moving from a period of intense innovation into one of concentrated market power. They have gotten to where they are because they operate in sectors where there are network effects.” are in different phases of this cycle.

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Strong Patient-Provider Relationships Drive Healthier Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

“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. SCF’s focus on relationships is mirrored in its approach to finance.

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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care. One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function.

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