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- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Case
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (A)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Mounting financial losses and increasing public scrutiny present many challenges to the board of directors of a large nonprofit health insurer. This case series presents chronologically the increasing problems of the company. View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (B)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (C)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (D)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (E)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (F)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (G)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (H)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. Contains a denouement. View Details
- May 1994 (Revised February 2021)
- Background Note
Note on Reimbursement of Health Care Providers: Case-Based and Capitation Payment
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Tom Nagle
Explains how managed care organizations use capitation as a payment method for providers. View Details
- March 1994 (Revised December 2014)
- Case
Humana, Inc.: Managing in a Changing Industry
By: Stuart Gilson
Intensifying competition and change in the U.S. health care industry force a large integrated health-care provider to reassess its strategy of operating both hospitals and health insurance plans (HMOs). In an attempt to increase its stock price and operating... View Details
- June 1992
- Teaching Note
U.S. Health Care Systems, Prospectus and Maxicare Health Plans, Inc., Teaching Note
- August 1989 (Revised May 1993)
- Case
Computer Company's Health Plan
- August 1975 (Revised August 1991)
- Case
University Hospital
- Research Summary
Behavioral Hazard and Public Policy
It is well recognized that people overuse low-value medical care due to moral hazard—because copays are lower than costs. Now Professor Schwartzstein has introduced the concept of “behavioral hazard” to explain the opposite: people underuse high-value care because... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Business Opportunties in Climate Adaptation
By: John D. Macomber
This is a Short Intensive Program or SIP at Harvard Business School. It’s an optional student offering prior to the formal start of the Spring semester the following week. SIPs tend to cover new material on current topics, to be less formal than the HBS Case Study... View Details
- Research Summary
Consumer-Driven Health Care
Since 1999, Professor Herzlinger's work in this area has provided the major impetus for the transformation of the health care sector: first in new consumer-driven insurance products sold by established insurers such as Aetna, United and CIGNA, as well as... View Details
- Teaching Interest
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Course Requirements
Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.
Career Focus
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Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.
Career Focus
For... View Details