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The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment

By: Raffaella Sadun, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson and Shruthi Venkatesh
Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital behavior and performance. We open the “black box” of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains. Benchmarking the merger's... View Details
Keywords: Performance Improvement; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Industry
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  • 2005
  • Working Paper

Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences

By: Lakshmi Iyer
This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British colonial rule with areas which were under indirect colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy rule, I find that areas which experienced direct... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Development Economics; Outcome or Result; Great Britain; India
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  • 26 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 26

http://hrleadsbusiness.org/rise-of-hr-e-book May 2015 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Medicine's Continuous Improvement Imperative By: Huckman, Robert S., and Ananth Raman Abstract— Maintaining quality and spurring innovation have long been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2014
  • News

A Playbook For Small-Business Job Creation

  • August 2021
  • Case

Livongo: Scaling a Purpose-Driven Organization in Healthcare

By: Ranjay Gulati, Aseem Shukla and Reva Nohria
When seasoned entrepreneur Glen Tullman founded the chronic health care startup Livongo in 2014, it was personal. His son lived with diabetes, and Tullman knew firsthand how taxing it could be to manage such an unrelenting disease. Livongo set out to empower people... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare Industry; Scaling; Telehealth; Health Care and Treatment; Small Business; Internet and the Web; Customer Focus and Relationships; Growth and Development Strategy; Opportunities; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Industry
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  • December 2015
  • Article

Task Shifting in Surgery: Lessons from an Indian Heart Hospital

By: Budhaditya Gupta, Robert S. Huckman and Tarun Khanna
We present a case study that illustrates task shifting, the transfer of activities from senior to junior colleagues, in the context of cardiac surgery at the Narayana Health City Cardiac Hospital (NH) in India. The case discusses the factors driving the adoption of... View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Rank and Position; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; India
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  • 10 Apr 2015
  • News

America’s failing report card for social progress

  • September 2022
  • Article

How Emerging Telehealth Models Challenge Policymaking

By: Mitchell Tang, Michael E Chernew and Ateev Mehrotra
Policy Points

  • Current telehealth policy discussions are focused on synchronous video and audio telehealth visits delivered by traditional providers and have neglected the growing number of alternative telehealth offerings.

  • These alternative... View Details
    • Keywords: Telehealth; Health Care and Treatment; Technology Adoption; Policy; Health Industry
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    • August 1998
    • Case

    Record Masters

    By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz
    Kent Dauten, a former general partner at the Chicago private equity firm of Madison Dearborn Partners, has engaged in a search to personally sponsor a buyout in which he can play an active management role. He has received a selling memorandum for Record Masters, a... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Leveraged Buyouts; Valuation; Negotiation Deal; Investment
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      David A. Moss

      David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale.  In 1992-1993, he served as a... View Details

      Keywords: health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care
      • 01 Jun 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Rebates in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Evidence from Medicines Sold in Retail Pharmacies in the U.S.

      Keywords: by Pragya Kakani, Michael Chernew, and Amitabh Chandra; Health; Health
      • February 1999
      • Case

      Lifeline Systems, Inc. (B)

      By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
      In 1997, Lifeline Systems continues to grow its service business to $32 million, 56% of the company's total revenues. More local hospital Lifeline programs turn over their monitoring service to Lifeline Central, expanding the company's subscriber base by 30%. The... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Expansion; Cost Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Change; Customer Relationship Management; Service Operations; Age; Investment; Health Industry; Health Industry; Cambridge; Boston
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      • 2020
      • Discussion Paper

      Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19

      By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Peter Clinch
      This paper aims to provide policy makers, especially those focused on the longer-term growth potential of their countries, with an initial framework to think about their action priorities in the context of the overall COVID-19 response. Our focus is on the... View Details
      Keywords: Competitiveness; COVID-19 Pandemic; Competition; Government Administration; Health Pandemics; Economy; Supply Chain; Safety
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      • 07 Dec 2017
      • News

      Innovation is key to solving America's health-care problems

      • 11 Dec 2014
      • News

      In Praise of Small Miracles

      • 20 Jul 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: July 20

      case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710054-PDF-ENG Jiamei Dental: Private Health Care in China William C. Kirby and G.A. DonovanHarvard Business School Case 910-404 With the recent announcement from... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 12 Apr 2021
      • News

      Healthier by Design

      • 16 Nov 2016
      • News

      How to Negotiate After a Staggering Defeat: A Playbook for Democrats

      • 2014
      • Article

      Unequality: Who Gets What and Why It Matters

      By: Michael I. Norton
      Who should get what, and what are the consequences? Economic inequality in the United States has been rising for decades, yet only recently have behavioral scientists explored two central questions surrounding the optimal level of inequality. First, what are the... View Details
      Keywords: Inequality; Ethics; Productivity; Gambling; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Income; Performance Productivity; United States
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      Overview

      By: William C. Kirby
      A historian by training, Professor Kirby examines contemporary China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He writes and teaches on the growth of modern companies in China (Chinese and foreign; state-owned and private); Chinese... View Details
      Keywords: China; Internationalization; Educational Policy And Politics; Infrastructure; Government And Business; The Revival Of Family Business In China; China’s Infrastructure Exports: The ‘Belt And Road’ Initiative; Agribusiness; Education; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Governance; Government and Politics; History; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Enterprise; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Asia; Europe; North and Central America