Physician Payment Incentives - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

managing labor and delivery units in the United States and assess the associations between unit management and maternal outcomes. Methods: We developed and administered a management measurement instrument using structured telephone interviews with both the primary... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jul 2021
Op-Ed

What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership

In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

(IT) is needed. There have been major efforts to accelerate the adoption of IT in health care over the last decades, which have made substantial headway. The adoption of electronic health records by hospitals and physicians between 2004... View Details

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/419032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 519-014 Garanti Payment Systems: Digital Transformation Strategy (A) Işıl Akdemir Evlioğlu, executive vice president of marketing at... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Increasing Value in Care Delivery - Health Care

engagement, and payment reform. For each of these approaches, the course emphasizes the importance of identifying improvement targets, implementing relevant changes, and measuring their effects on performance. Executive Education Managing... View Details

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Research - Health Care

Neurology Clinical Practices with Performance Outcomes By: Peter N. Hadar, Susanna Gallani and Lidia Moura Physician burnout, which is prevalent in neurology, has accelerated in recent years. While multifactorial, a major contributing... View Details

13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

imbalances is an important shortcoming of the recent literature. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-009.pdf No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks Authors:Nava Ashraf, Oriana... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

infrastructure is largely private. ISPs make their own decisions about what systems to install, and what services to provide. Certainly governments can offer incentives, but when Japan experimented with IPv6 deployment incentives at the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

relationships are moving to performance-based pricing—they are paid based on achieving certain client advertising and/or marketing goals. The contractor who rebuilt the 1995 earthquake-damaged freeway in Los Angeles received enormous performance View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

new relationships with payers, hospitals, and physicians to become more accountable for patient outcomes and total costs. The case describes new forms of... May 2018 HBS Case Collection Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Primary Care Plus by... View Details

16 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

delivery and pickup options and provide incentives to customers to reward them using these options. Dunkin’ provides extra loyalty points to customers who pre-order on mobile apps. HBO made numerous shows available for free on its app to... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

31 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?

nonstandard drivers frequently lapse on their payments in order to pay for basic necessities, then incur high fees when they re-enroll in coverage. Nonstandard carriers earn 13 percent of their premium income from fees and often require... View Details

Keywords: by Ray Kluender; Insurance

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

financial performance of corporations, the design of incentive and control systems to guide strategy execution, corporate reporting, and the role of investors in this new paradigm. Initiatives & Projects The Social Enterprise Initiative ,... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Toomas Laarits & Jeffrey Wurgler MAR 2022 What is the role of fiscal stimulus in the stock market? The authors study the stock market effects of the arrival of the three rounds of “stimulus checks” to U.S. taxpayers and the single round of direct View Details

28 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?

martial arts. Some novelists are paid a fixed price, similar to the way that Charles Dickens was paid for each installment of The Pickwick Papers in the 1800s. With this model, authors receive the same payment for their books regardless... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?

"float" from advance payment for subscriptions. Companies abandon the subscription model at their risk. Take the case of Xerox, for example. Many would argue that the company began its slippery slide toward obscurity when it... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

will increase incentives for innovators to invest in new treatments,” the researchers say. A basic bundle would also need cost-sharing rules, provider payments, and myriad other details. Often, these are decisions that require detailed... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

Kaiser [Permanente's] Dr. [Kim] Adcock, it is not enough just to know that a particular physician is making more than the acceptable number of errors [in misread x-rays]. Unless deeper analysis of the nature of the radiologists' errors is... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

this work was published in the Harvard Business Review. My colleagues and I looked at a full range of financial services that were—and were not—available in South Central and communities like it, including payment services, savings,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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