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- August 1989 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
Hyatt Hill Health Center
Keywords: Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Hyatt Hill Health Center." Harvard Business School Case 190-009, August 1989. (Revised March 1997.)
- August 2000 (Revised January 2003)
- Teaching Note
Health Development Corporation TN
Teaching Note for (9-200-049). View Details
- 2019
- Chapter
Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations
By: Bruce J. Fried and Amy C. Edmondson
Book Abstract: Completely updated to address the challenges faced by modern health care organizations, this edition of Shortell and Kaluzny's Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior offers a more global perspective on how the United States and... View Details
Fried, Bruce J., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations." Chap. 5 in Shortell & Kaluzny's Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior. 7th ed., edited by Lawton Robert Burns, Elizabeth H. Bradley, and Bryan Jeffrey Weiner, 98–131. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2019.
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
Several months ago, Harvard's Forum on Health Care Innovation surveyed industry executives, policy makers, academics, and doctors about the state of health care in the United... View Details
- May 2016
- Article
Transformation of Health Care—Perspectives of Opinion Leaders
By: Joanne Disch, Thomas W. Feeley, Diana J. Mason, Richard L. Schilsky, Ellen L. Stovall and Shelley Fuld Nasso
"What Health System Transformations Do You Believe Are Necessary for the Future of Health Care?" We need to transform to a true value-based health care delivery system. That means organizing care around medical conditions, not simply around hospitals and doctors. We... View Details
- February 2019
- Article
Does It Matter If Your Health Insurer Is For Profit? Effects of Ownership on Premiums, Insurance Coverage, and Medical Spending
By: Leemore S. Dafny
There is limited empirical evidence about the impact of for-profit health insurers on various outcomes. I study the effects of conversions to for-profit status by Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) affiliates in 11 states, spanning 28 geographic markets. I find both the... View Details
Keywords: Health Insurance; Medical Loss Ratio; Blue Cross; Corporate Governance; Health; Insurance; For-Profit Firms; Insurance Industry; United States
Dafny, Leemore S. "Does It Matter If Your Health Insurer Is For Profit? Effects of Ownership on Premiums, Insurance Coverage, and Medical Spending." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 11, no. 1 (February 2019): 222–265.
- March 2021
- Supplement
Humana (C) — Reorganization
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ashley Ifeadike
A summary of Humana's restructuring of its business around its pillars. View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Industry; Health Insurance; Health Care Operations; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Operations; Restructuring; Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ashley Ifeadike. "Humana (C) — Reorganization." Harvard Business School Supplement 321-122, March 2021.
- March 2003 (Revised March 2003)
- Teaching Note
Intermountain Health Care (TN)
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Amy C. Edmondson
Teaching Note for (9-603-066). View Details
- June 1994 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Marcia Radosevich and Health Payment Review--1989 (A)
Martha Radosevich, president of Health Payment Review, a small software start-up, confronts a serious cash-flow problem: Health Payment Review has built a PC-based prototype but has run out of funds to build a commercially acceptable mainframe product. As a stop-gap... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Cash Flow; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Sales; Information Technology Industry
Bhide, Amar. "Marcia Radosevich and Health Payment Review--1989 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 394-204, June 1994. (Revised February 1999.)
- 2015
- Working Paper
How Should We Pay for Health Care?
By: Michael E. Porter and Robert S. Kaplan
Improving the way we pay for health care must be a central component in health care reform. Payment reform must link provider reimbursement and accountability to improving patient value: better health outcomes delivered at lower cost. Today’s deeply flawed... View Details
Porter, Michael E., and Robert S. Kaplan. "How Should We Pay for Health Care?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-041, December 2014. (Revised February 2015.)
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
too often still result in decisions that take scant account of public health and whether the health of individual citizens is being advanced. When worker safety is jeopardized by unenforced building codes or... View Details
- March 1986 (Revised November 1988)
- Case
Maxicare Health Plans, Inc.
Keywords: Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Maxicare Health Plans, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 186-281, March 1986. (Revised November 1988.)
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- November 1991 (Revised December 1991)
- Case
SmithKline Beecham Animal Health
By: Ray A. Goldberg
Goldberg, Ray A. "SmithKline Beecham Animal Health." Harvard Business School Case 592-053, November 1991. (Revised December 1991.)
- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Maven Clinic: Women's Health in the Digital Age
By: Ariel D. Stern and Sarah Mehta
Teaching note to accompany “Maven Clinic: Women’s Health in the Digital Age” (case no. 620-035) View Details
- October 1981 (Revised June 1985)
- Case
Vicks Health Care Division: Project Scorpio (A)
The Vicks Health Care Division lacks a solid form entry in the OTC colds care category and has developed a "me-too" product. The main issues are whether there is an opportunity for the product, and, if so, how it should be positioned. Main teaching objectives are to... View Details
Keywords: Product Positioning; Health Care and Treatment; Product Launch; Market Participation; Health Industry
Yip, George S., and Jeffrey R Williams. "Vicks Health Care Division: Project Scorpio (A)." Harvard Business School Case 582-039, October 1981. (Revised June 1985.)
- September 2017
- Case
Dr. William Carson— Intrapreneurial Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry
By: Steven Rogers and Alyssa Haywoode
Dr. William Carson, an African-American alum of Harvard University became the President and CEO of a multi billion dollar division of Otsuka, a Japan based pharmaceutical company. His ascension to this leadership position followed a thriving career in academic medicine... View Details
Keywords: Dr. Williams Carson; Otsuka America Pharmaceutical; Harvard; Abilify; Aripiprazole; Health Testing and Trials; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry; Japan
Rogers, Steven, and Alyssa Haywoode. "Dr. William Carson— Intrapreneurial Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry." Harvard Business School Case 318-005, September 2017.
- October 2005 (Revised June 2007)
- Case
Apollo Hospitals--First-World Health Care at Emerging-Market Prices
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Tarun Khanna and Carin-Isabel Knoop
The Apollo Hospitals Group, one of Asia's premier health care organizations, had come to rival the best health care organizations on the globe. Apollo offered advanced medical procedures, such as cardiac surgery using the beating heart technique, at very high levels of... View Details
Keywords: Vertical Integration; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Care and Treatment; Global Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Health Industry; Thailand; United States; India
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Tarun Khanna, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Apollo Hospitals--First-World Health Care at Emerging-Market Prices." Harvard Business School Case 706-440, October 2005. (Revised June 2007.)
- March 2016
- Supplement
Compass Group: The Ascension Health Decision
By: Ryan W. Buell
In 2012, Compass Group (Compass) was on the verge of closing a $2 billion deal with Ascension Health (Ascension), one of the largest healthcare systems in the United States. Under the deal, Compass would provide foodservice management and cleaning services for 86 of... View Details
Keywords: Operations Strategy; Sectorization; Operational Focus; Customer Compatibility; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Operations; Customer Focus and Relationships; Service Industry; Service Industry; United States
Buell, Ryan W. "Compass Group: The Ascension Health Decision." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 616-705, March 2016.
- June 1992
- Teaching Note