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      • August 2020
      • Supplement

      Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations (B)

      By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
      The case opens in February 2020 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are looking over the results of the fulfillment pilot the...  View Details
      Keywords: Grocery; Business Model; Strategy; Technology Platform; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Turkey
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      Moreno, Antonio, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-027, August 2020.
      • July 3, 2020
      • Article

      Delivery Apps Need to Start Treating Suppliers As Partners

      By: Scott Duke Kominers and Ian Macomber
      Home delivery has shifted from a luxury service aimed at young urban professionals to a core part of many businesses, which is used by almost everyone. That upheaval has strained capacity of many delivery services and changed how they relate to the suppliers that they...  View Details
      Keywords: Service Delivery; Supply Chain; performance Capacity; performance efficiency; Entrepreneurship
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      Kominers, Scott Duke, and Ian Macomber. "Delivery Apps Need to Start Treating Suppliers As Partners." Harvard Business Review (website) (July 3, 2020).
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      Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United States?

      By: R. S. Kaplan, F. Erhun, V.G. Narayanan, B. Mistry and K. Brayton, et al
      We use time-driven activity-based costing to estimate the cost of personnel and space for an elective coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery at two U.S. hospitals, Intermountain and Baylor Heart, and Narayana Health (NH), in India. All three hospitals use modern...  View Details
      Keywords: Time-driven Activity-based Costing; Health Care And Treatment; Cost; Organizational Structure; performance efficiency; India; United States
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      Kaplan, R. S., F. Erhun, V.G. Narayanan, B. Mistry, and K. Brayton, et al. "Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United States?" American Heart Journal 224 (June 2020): 148–155.
      • May–June 2020
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      The Agenda for the Next Generation of Health Care Information Technology

      By: Thomas W. Feeley, Zachary Landman and Michael E. Porter
      As the diffusion of value-based health care efforts accelerates globally, the need for interoperable information technology systems that support value-based care is essential. Such systems are needed to facilitate dramatic improvements in patient outcomes and...  View Details
      Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care And Treatment; Information Technology; Integration; performance Improvement; performance efficiency
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      Feeley, Thomas W., Zachary Landman, and Michael E. Porter. "The Agenda for the Next Generation of Health Care Information Technology." NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery 1, no. 3 (May–June 2020).
      • May 2020
      • Article

      Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

      By: Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger
      In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Care And Treatment; performance efficiency; performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods
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      Chandra, Amitabh, and Douglas O. Staiger. "Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care." Quarterly Journal of Economics 135, no. 2 (May 2020): 785–843.
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      Economic Principles for Medicare Reform

      By: Amitabh Chandra and Craig Garthwaite
      In this article, we develop an economic framework for Medicare reform that highlights trade-offs that reform proposals should grapple with but often ignore. Central to our argument is a tension in administratively set prices, which may improve short-term efficiency but...  View Details
      Keywords: Medicare; Value-based Care; Health Care Reform; Markets In Health Care; Health Care And Treatment; Value; Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms
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      Chandra, Amitabh, and Craig Garthwaite. "Economic Principles for Medicare Reform." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 686, no. 1 (November 2019): 63 – 92.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo

      By: Stefan Dimitriadis and Rembrand Koning
      Recent field experiments demonstrate that advice, mentorship, and feedback from randomly assigned peers improve entrepreneurial performance. These results raise a natural question: what is preventing entrepreneurs and managers from forming these peer connections...  View Details
      Keywords: Social Skills; Communication Practices; Business Performance; Entrepreneurs; Peer Relationships; Field Experiment; Entrepreneurship; Communication; performance; Developing Countries And Economies; Africa; Togo
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      Dimitriadis, Stefan, and Rembrand Koning. "Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo." SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 3459643, September 2019.
      • March 2019 (Revised May 2019)
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      Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery

      By: V.G. Narayanan and Eren Kuzucu
      By mid-2016, five years of aggressive growth had transformed Fetchr from a small logistics startup to a 1,000-employee, full-fledged last-mile delivery company operating across four countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Already beneficiaries of the...  View Details
      Keywords: Startup; Decision; Financial Strategy; Uae; Ksa; Mena; Cost Accounting; Business Model; Business Startups; Transformation; Cost Management; Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Growth And Development Strategy; Growth Management; Logistics; Service Delivery; Supply Chain Management; performance Evaluation; Mathematical Methods; Mobile Technology; Transportation Networks; Middle East; United Arab Emirates; Dubai; Bahrain; Egypt; Saudi Arabia; North Africa
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      Narayanan, V.G., and Eren Kuzucu. "Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery." Harvard Business School Case 119-018, March 2019. (Revised May 2019.)
      • March–April 2019
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      Operational Transparency: Make Your Processes Visible to Customers and Your Customers Visible to Employees

      By: Ryan W. Buell
      Conventional wisdom holds that the more contact an operation has with its customers, the less efficiently it will run. But when customers are partitioned away from the operation, they are less likely to fully understand and appreciate the work going on behind the...  View Details
      Keywords: Operational Transparency; Customers; Services; Operations; Customer Focus And Relationships; Employees; Customer Satisfaction; Behavior; Service Industry
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      Buell, Ryan W. "Operational Transparency: Make Your Processes Visible to Customers and Your Customers Visible to Employees." R1902H. Harvard Business Review 97, no. 4 (March–April 2019): 102–113.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 13 Platform Systems vs. Step Processes—The Value of Options and the Power of Modularity

      By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
      This is the first chapter in Part 3. Its purpose is to contrast the value structure of platform systems with step processes from a technological perspective. I first review the basic technical architecture of computers and argue that every computer is inherently a...  View Details
      Keywords: Platform Systems; Step Processes; Computer Architecture; Modularity; Technology
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      Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 13 Platform Systems vs. Step Processes—The Value of Options and the Power of Modularity." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-073, January 2019.
      • November 2018
      • Case

      Komatsu Komtrax: Asset Tracking Meets Demand Forecasting

      By: Willy Shih, Paul Hong and YoungWon Park
      Komatsu's Komtrax system started as a way of remotely monitoring and tracking equipment for the purpose of improving operational efficiency. This case follows its evolution towards other uses including demand forecasting for its sales, marketing, and production...  View Details
      Keywords: Big Data; Manufacturing; Manufacturing Industry; Data Strategy; Internet Of Things; Construction; Production; Data And Data Sets; Strategy; performance efficiency; Forecasting And Prediction; Industrial Products Industry; Construction Industry; Japan
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      Shih, Willy, Paul Hong, and YoungWon Park. "Komatsu Komtrax: Asset Tracking Meets Demand Forecasting." Harvard Business School Case 619-022, November 2018.
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      Operational Efficiency and Effective Management in the Catheterization Laboratory

      By: Grant W. Reed, Michael L. Tushman and Samir R. Kapadia
      Operational efficiency is a core business principle in which organizations strive to deliver high-quality goods or services in a cost-effective manner. This concept has become increasingly relevant to cardiac catheterization laboratories, as insurers move away from...  View Details
      Keywords: Cath Lab; Catheterization Laboratory; Health Care And Treatment; performance efficiency; Management; performance Productivity; Cost Management; Health Industry
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      Reed, Grant W., Michael L. Tushman, and Samir R. Kapadia. "Operational Efficiency and Effective Management in the Catheterization Laboratory." Journal of the American College of Cardiology 72, no. 20 (November 20, 2018): 2507–2517.
      • November–December 2018
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      Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling

      By: Kris J. Ferreira, David Simchi-Levi and He Wang
      We consider a network revenue management problem where an online retailer aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory constraints. As common in practice, the retailer does not know the consumer's purchase probability at each price and must...  View Details
      Keywords: Online Marketing; Revenue Management; Revenue; Management; Marketing; Internet; Price; Mathematical Methods
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      Ferreira, Kris J., David Simchi-Levi, and He Wang. "Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling." Operations Research 66, no. 6 (November–December 2018): 1586–1602.
      • September 2018
      • Teaching Note

      City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
      This teaching note assists in the classroom instruction of the HBS No. 318-089, “City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact.” It offers to instructors a case summary and analysis, along with student preparation questions and a guide for classroom discussion of the case....  View Details
      Keywords: Scaling; Education Entrepreneurship; Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth And Development Strategy; performance efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy And Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Jonathan Cohen. "City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 319-040, September 2018.
      • September 2018
      • Article

      Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services

      By: Maria Ibanez, Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
      Work-scheduling research typically prescribes task sequences implemented by managers. Yet employees often have discretion to deviate from their prescribed sequence. Using data from 2.4 million radiological diagnoses, we find that doctors prioritize similar tasks...  View Details
      Keywords: Discretion; Scheduling; Queue; Healthcare; Learning; Experience; Decentralization; Operations; Service Operations; Service Delivery; performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Decisions; Time Management; Cost Vs Benefits; Health Industry; Operations; Service Operations; Service Delivery; performance; performance Effectiveness; performance efficiency; performance Improvement; performance Productivity; Decisions; Time Management; Cost Vs Benefits; Health Industry
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      Ibanez, Maria, Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman, and Bradley R. Staats. "Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services." Management Science 64, no. 9 (September 2018): 4389–4407. (Working paper available here. Winner of the 2017 Best Paper Competition of the POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management. Featured in Forbes, Quartz, and Inc.)
      • August 23, 2018
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      Using a New EHR System to Increase Patient Engagement, Improve Efficiency, and Decrease Cost

      By: Katy French, Barbra Bryce Speer, Alexis B. Guzman, Tayab Andrabi, Iris Recinos, Keith A. Shook, James R. Incalcaterra, John C. Frenzel and Thomas W. Feeley
      Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the EHR. Prior to the implementation of the new EHR we...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Care And Treatment; Data And Data Sets; performance efficiency; Cost Management
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      French, Katy, Barbra Bryce Speer, Alexis B. Guzman, Tayab Andrabi, Iris Recinos, Keith A. Shook, James R. Incalcaterra, John C. Frenzel, and Thomas W. Feeley. "Using a New EHR System to Increase Patient Engagement, Improve Efficiency, and Decrease Cost." NEJM Catalyst (August 23, 2018).
      • June 2018
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      Feeding America (A)

      By: Scott Duke Kominers and Alan Lam
      This case describes how Feeding America, the third-largest nonprofit organization in the U.S., designed a marketplace for allocating donated food across its network of food banks. It considers the promises and pitfalls of using market-based allocation in the context of...  View Details
      Keywords: Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Food; Resource Allocation; Fairness; performance efficiency; United States
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      Kominers, Scott Duke, and Alan Lam. "Feeding America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 818-130, June 2018.
      • June 2018
      • Supplement

      Feeding America (B)

      By: Scott Duke Kominers and Alan Lam
      Supplements the (A) case.  View Details
      Keywords: Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Food; Resource Allocation; Fairness; performance efficiency; United States
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      Kominers, Scott Duke, and Alan Lam. "Feeding America (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 818-131, June 2018.
      • May–June 2018
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      Structure That's Not Stifling: How to Give Your People Essential Direction—Without Shutting Them Down

      By: Ranjay Gulati
      Most leaders view employee freedoms and operational controls as antagonists in a tug-of-war. They tend to focus on regulating workers’ behavior, often putting a damper on commitment, innovation, and performance without realizing it. But freedom and control aren’t zero...  View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Structure; Mission And Purpose; Framework; Employee Relationship Management; performance Effectiveness
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      Gulati, Ranjay. "Structure That's Not Stifling: How to Give Your People Essential Direction—Without Shutting Them Down." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 3 (May–June 2018): 68–79.
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      Offline Showrooms in Omni-channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits

      By: David R. Bell, Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno
      Omnichannel environments where customers shop online and offline at the same retailer are ubiquitous and are deployed by online-first and traditional retailers alike. We focus on the relatively understudied domain of online-first retailers and the engagement of a key...  View Details
      Keywords: Experience Attributes; Marketing–operations Interface; Omnichannel Retailing; Quasi-experimental Methods; Retail Operations; Showrooms; Marketing Channels; Demand And Consumers; performance efficiency; Retail Industry
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      Bell, David R., Santiago Gallino, and Antonio Moreno. "Offline Showrooms in Omni-channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits." Management Science 64, no. 4 (April 2018): 1629–1651. (Winner of the 2014 POMS Applied Research Challenge. Workshop on Information Systems Economics Overall Best Paper Award 2014.)
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