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  • November 2020 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care

By: Trevor Fetter and Kira Seiger
This case describes the increasing investment by private equity (PE) firms in patient care and other healthcare services. The case focuses on investments in physician staffing firms and roll-up strategy investments in physician practice management (PPM). Included in... View Details
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  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

for each patient, developing bundled prices for the full care cycle, integrating care across separate facilities, expanding geographic reach, and building an enabling IT platform. The transformation to value-based health care is well... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

number of challenges. He had learned a great deal from Military.com and Affinity Labs' first launches, but in the case of each new community was faced with how best to construct the vertical and attract a sufficiently large audience.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

paper uses data from the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances to test the relationship between the banks' market power and households' self-reported levels of credit constraints. The 1983 Survey was the last to identify households' geographic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

in goods, services, investments, and ideas led by multinational firms. Extensive research has sought to understand the geographic patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI). This chapter reviews existing theories and evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

value-relevant before disclosure, for negative earnings adjustments it is value-relevant only after disclosure. This finding is consistent with managers delaying the communication of bad news until IFRS compliance. A finer model shows... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

of entrepreneurs supported. Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/121212-Female1_Spatial.pdf For Mobile Devices, Think Apps, Not Ads Authors:Gupta, Sunil Publication:Harvard Business Review Abstract Many companies envision mobile ads becoming an integral part of their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

and managed as investment accounts with the goal of accumulating the largest possible pot of savings. Communication with savers is framed entirely in terms of assets and returns. Ask a saver what his 401(k) is worth and you'll hear a cash... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

economic distress of the communities in which they produce and sell? It doesn't have to be this way, say Porter, of Harvard Business School, and Kramer, the managing director of the social impact advisory firm FSG. Companies could bring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

examination of how changes in a firm's performance and position are communicated to key external stakeholders in an effort to retain their confidence, while market conditions worsen, the balance sheet deteriorates, and the firm's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

their communications media. For example, Harrah's Entertainment has built a system that recognizes high rollers whether they are on-line, on the telephone, or in any of its casinos. Lesson 8: Revisit Technologies That Failed In The Past.... View Details
Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

twentieth century because of communications improvements, this article shows that the challenges of managing governments and political risk grew sharply. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/gjones/papers/Jones Lubinski Managing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

that determines whether two functions or firms can align their planning is how much each party knows about the other's beliefs about demand. Thus, in this paper's setting, improved communication can induce alignment even if no economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

interpretation of and response to these challenges, but external and internal changes may require corresponding changes in a group's core identity. In a qualitative study of longshoremen in San Pedro, California, we observe an evolution in group identity as we track... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life By: Glaeser, Edward L., Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca, and Nikhil Naik Abstract—New, "big" data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome variables at higher frequencies and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

across space and over time, several patterns are documented. Conflict-related deaths are significantly higher in poorer districts and in geographical locations that favor insurgents, such as mountains and forests; a 10-percentage point... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

ability individuals can be constrained from commensurate employment opportunities due to their geographic location. In the face of physical, informational, and social barriers to migration, firms with nation-wide hiring practices can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

it is urgent. What does it mean to make capitalism a subject of historical inquiry? What is its potential across multiple disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a range of geographic and chronological settings? And how... View Details
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

meet the quarterly earnings targets of increasingly short-term–oriented investors. Reality: Companies that pursue major sustainability initiatives, and publicize them in integrated reports and other communications with investors, have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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