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- 20 Sep 2009
- News
Why We Need Universal, Consumer-Driven Health Care
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
Let's face it: in most cases, the stock market knows what it's doing. With millions of people performing their homework and investing money in stocks they hope will pay off, it's hard for any one person to beat the market in a big way.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
As the opening presenter at the two-day conference, sponsored by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, Christensen made the case for how disruptive innovation could give consumers access to simpler, less expensive, quality care.... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
Summing Up Personal Predictive Analytics: Should We Be Careful What We Wish For? The world of continuous monitoring of numerous sensors for machines and humans, limitless information storage capacity, and big data combined with rapid... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jul 2018
- News
The IRS Can Save American Health Care
- 30 Jan 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship
Keywords: by Ramana Nanda
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
all aspects of health care delivery, there are places that are doing it very well. If we were all doing all these things, we could reduce the cost of health care by 30... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- News
EHRs fall short in reducing administrative costs
- 15 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care
below: Making value the central objective: Regarding the current quality of US health care, survey respondents expressed varied sentiment: 14 percent were "strongly positive," 20 percent "strongly negative," and the... View Details
- Program
Managing Health Care Delivery
reform, and payers are demanding cost control. These factors have placed great strain on health care delivery, and pose significant challenges for vulnerable populations. These issues are not unique; they... View Details
- March 9, 2021
- Article
Addressing Consolidation in Health Care Markets
By: Leemore S. Dafny
This Viewpoint proposes three steps the Biden administration can take to slow consolidation within health care, which has been shown to raise costs without improving service or quality: better fund federal antitrust enforcement agencies; appoint agency heads committed... View Details
Keywords: Antitrust Issues And Policies; Health Care and Treatment; Markets; Consolidation; Competition; Government Administration
Dafny, Leemore S. "Addressing Consolidation in Health Care Markets." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 325, no. 10 (March 9, 2021): 927–928.
- 13 May 2022
- News
More Employers Should Cover Abortion Travel Costs
- 24 Apr 2013
- News
A pop-up city becomes an 80 million person laboratory
- 29 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity
In April, the World Health Organization released a groundbreaking study that established a definitive link between mental health and economic productivity. The findings were both depressing and hopeful. On... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Article
Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance
By: Katherine Baicker, Sendhil Mullainathan and Joshua Schwartzstein
A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of low-value medical care because copays are lower than costs. In these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample... View Details
Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein. "Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance." Quarterly Journal of Economics 130, no. 4 (November 2015): 1623–1667. (Online Appendix.)
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
The U.S. health care industry is unique in that despite the presence of significant competition, which usually drives increased value through decreased costs and improved quality, the nature of the... View Details
- June 2013
- Supplement
Boston Children's Hospital Assignment Worksheet
By: Robert S. Kaplan
- January 2009 (Revised February 2009)
- Case
Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy
By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
Pitney Bowes, a Fortune 500 mail and document management firm, offered its first health plans in the years following World War II. Over the ensuing decades, Pitney Bowes adapted its approach to employee health amid rising health care costs, shifting employer attitudes... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Insurance; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Corporate Strategy
Porter, Michael E., and Jennifer F Baron. "Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 709-458, January 2009. (Revised February 2009.)