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Gain easy online access to homework, tests and quizzes with immediate feedback on your progress as well as access to practice materials.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAre you an instructor? You can create auto-graded assignments, tests and quizzes.  Detailed visual reporting allows you to easily monitor student progress. Explore the updated instructor resources that include an instructor’s manual, solutions manual, PowerPoints, glossary and appendices. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrank G.H. Hartmann is a Professor of Accounting at the Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKalle Kraus is Professor in Accounting at the Stockholm School of Economics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGöran Nilsson is a Senior Lecturer in Management Control at Uppsala University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert N. Anthony was the Ross Graham Walker Professor Emeritus of Management Control at Harvard Business School. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVijay Govindarajan is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and a New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best Selling author.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56302223196533,"sku":"9781526848314","price":61.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781526848314_f5e55cc2-9486-4502-b2b5-2add4491782d.jpg?v=1786022084"},{"product_id":"9781633693661","title":"Reverse Innovation in Health Care","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHealth-Care Solutions from a Distant Shore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHealth care in the United States and other nations is on a collision course with patient needs and economic reality. For more than a decade, leading thinkers, including Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, have argued passionately for value-based health-care reform: replacing delivery based on volume and fee-for-service with competition based on value, as measured by patient outcomes per dollar spent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough still a pipe dream here in the United States, this kind of value-based competition is already a reality--in India. Facing a giant population of poor, underserved people and a severe shortage of skills and capacity, some resourceful private enterprises have found a way to deliver high-quality health care, at ultra-low prices, to all patients who need it. This book shows how the innovations developed by these Indian exemplars are already being practiced by some far-sighted US providers--reversing the typical flow of innovation in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGovindarajan and Ramamurti, experts in the phenomenon of reverse innovation, reveal four pathways being used by health-care organizations in the United States to apply Indian-style principles to attack the exorbitant costs, uneven quality, and incomplete access to health care. With rich stories and detailed accounts of medical professionals who are putting these ideas into practice, this book shows how value-based delivery can be made to work in the United States. This \"bottom-up\" change doesn't require a grand plan out of Washington, DC, agreement between entrenched political parties, or coordination among all players in the health-care system. It needs entrepreneurs with innovative ideas about delivering value to patients. 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