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- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
The health insurance system in the United States is broken, and business is paying the price. Employers' insurance premiums reached an estimated $450 billion in 2000, and then shot up again, at three times the rate of inflation, in 2001....
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by Regina E. Herzlinger
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Rogoff 09 JAN 2015 Following the 2008 financial crisis, many of the world’s economies experienced significant expansion in public sector balance sheets. This occurred as advanced economies faced near record levels of private and external...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
How did we get into this mess, and how do we fix it? Those were the key questions that three separate expert panels — two convened by HBS and one by Harvard University — addressed for standing-room-only audiences in late September as the nation’s View Details
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Myth Busting: Financial Aid for 2+2 Students - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to...
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- June 10, 2021
- Article
Preparing Hospitals for the Next Pandemic
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
The COVID-19 epidemic response has shown that the U.S. is blessed with heroic physicians and other health care providers, researchers, and facilities. But it has also revealed a health care system that was woefully unprepared for the surge of pandemic patients. In the...
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Hospital;
Hospital Management;
Hospitals—administration;
Health Care;
Health Care Industry;
Health Care Investment;
Health Care Operations;
Health Pandemics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Operations;
Performance Improvement;
Investment;
Health Industry;
United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Barak D. Richman. "Preparing Hospitals for the Next Pandemic." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (June 10, 2021).
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
Consumers today have more control than ever over the way they choose goods and services—from browsing freely at grocery stores to managing their own financial assets. Perhaps consumers should also have a greater sense of empowerment when...
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- March 1983 (Revised November 1988)
- Case
Hospital Corp. of America: Financial Analysis
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Hospital Corp. of America: Financial Analysis." Harvard Business School Case 183-180, March 1983. (Revised November 1988.)
- January 2007 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
Farmacias Similares: Private and Public Health Care for the Base of the Pyramid in Mexico
By: Michael Chu and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
Farmacias Similares, serving Mexico's low-income sector, grew to $600 million sales and 3,400 drugstores while deep reforms to help the poor swept the public health system. Adjacent to each store, for $2 per visit, medical clinics provided access to doctors for 2.3...
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Public Sector;
Health Care and Treatment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Poverty;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Retail Industry;
Mexico
Chu, Michael, and Regina Garcia-Cuellar. "Farmacias Similares: Private and Public Health Care for the Base of the Pyramid in Mexico." Harvard Business School Case 307-092, January 2007. (Revised April 2011.)
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
freedom of individual choice should always trump government intervention but, perhaps more so than in other developed countries, this sentiment enjoys widespread support in America. The government should not be able to mandate that I buy View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference
Current issues in health care; ranging from finance and patients' rights to genomics and personalized medicine; were among the subjects discussed last November at the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association's...
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- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
We believe that competition is the root of the problem with U.S. health care performance. But this does not mean we advocate a state-controlled system or a single-payer system; those approaches would only make matters worse. On the...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
45 startups active in this space. The Financial Times points out that femtech startups often have female founders, another significant shift. And it’s not only women in the developed world who benefit; USAID promotes mHealth projects as a...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- November 2019
- Article
Many Medicare Beneficiaries with Serious Illness Report Financial Hardships Despite Coverage
By: Michael Anne Kyle, Robert J Blendon, John M Benson, Melinda K Abrams and Eric C Schneider
In a national survey, seriously ill Medicare beneficiaries described financial hardships resulting from their illness—despite high beneficiary satisfaction with Medicare overall and the fact that many have supplemental insurance. About half reported a serious problem...
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Kyle, Michael Anne, Robert J Blendon, John M Benson, Melinda K Abrams, and Eric C Schneider. "Many Medicare Beneficiaries with Serious Illness Report Financial Hardships Despite Coverage." Health Affairs 38, no. 11 (November 2019): 1801–1806.
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information From the CFO In fiscal 2021, Harvard Business School navigated the operational and financial challenges of the global...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
A Helping Hand for Health Care
The HBS Buffalo Club continued its tradition of sponsoring community leaders for HBS Executive Education courses by sending senior management teams from two of the area’s health-care providers to the School’s new Managing Health- care Delivery program. The three-week...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform
hospital’s President’s Council in early May. Bundling isn’t new. It has been proven to work at a handful of hospitals across the country, including the Texas Heart Institute in Houston and Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City. Their experience laid the groundwork...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2020
Financials Supplemental Financial Information 2ms page 1 of 2 Revenues HBS funds its operations with cash from three primary sources: MBA tuition and fees; earned income from Harvard Business Publishing...
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- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
health care community. Specialized Skills Required In a health care setting, learning to become a fungible manager with good business skills is really just the start. "Sure, View Details
- 08 Dec 2016
- News