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  • March 31, 2022
  • Article

Two Approaches to Capping Health Care Prices

By: Michael E. Chernew, Maximilian J. Pany and Leemore S. Dafny
High health care prices for the privately-insured contribute to high premiums, which put downward pressure on wages, and induce employers to reduce benefit generosity and charge employees more for coverage. As the average annual premium for family coverage currently... View Details
Keywords: Price Caps; Health Care and Treatment; Price
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  • 07 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

returned to the United States, not when those profits are earned. This resembles the treatment of capital gains for individuals where capital gains taxes are only due when gains are realized rather than when they're accrued. As with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Diseconomies of Queue Pooling: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay

By: Hummy Song, Anita L. Tucker and Karen L. Murrell
We conduct an empirical investigation of the impact of queue management on patients' average wait time and length of stay (LOS). Using an Emergency Department's (ED) patient-level data from 2007 to 2010, we find that patients' average wait time and LOS are longer when... View Details
Keywords: Pooling; Queue Management; Strategic Servers; Social Loafing; Empirical Operations; Health Care; Fairness; Management Practices and Processes; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • 27 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

a baker whose religious beliefs compelled him to refuse to design a cake for a gay couple’s wedding reception. “My guess is that most companies don’t have a written policy that articulates how to handle religion in the workplace in a way... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories
  • 22 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

Why We Started the HBS Black Investment Club

INSPIRED BY RECENT EVENTS The protests against the unjust murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others since have mobilized the nation to take a stand in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and against the many View Details
  • April 2021
  • Article

Utilizing Time-driven Activity-based Costing to Determine Open Radical Cystectomy and Ileal Conduit Surgical Episode Cost Drivers

By: Janet Baack Kukreja, Mohamed A. Seif, Marissa W. Merry, James R. Incalcaterra, Ashish M. Kamat, Colin P. Dinney, Jay B. Shah, Thomas W. Feeley and Neema Navai
Objectives
Patients undergoing radical cystectomy represent a particularly resource-intensive patient population. Time-driven activity based costing (TDABC) assigns time to events and then costs are based on the people involved in providing care for specific... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Value-based Healthcare; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Cost vs Benefits; Analysis
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  • 15 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

Innovation in health care treatment seems to far outpace innovation in health care business management. Just ask President Obama—two weeks ago he delayed enactment of a key provision of the new health care law for fear its requirements... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

colonial rule. Controlling for selective annexation using a specific policy rule, I find that areas which experienced direct rule have significantly lower levels of access to schools, health centers, and roads in the post-colonial period.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2016
  • Background Note

Health Systems in the Developing World

By: Kevin Schulman, Muhammed Pate and Gary Carbell
This note offers an approach to the evaluation of health care markets globally. It prepares students with a set of questions about the organization of core elements of the health care system. The organization of these elements can vary across markets and can vary in... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Developing Countries and Economies; Public Sector; Private Sector; Opportunities; Analysis
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  • Research Summary

Overview

Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

  • October 2017
  • Article

Progress In Interoperability: Measuring US Hospitals' Engagement In Sharing Patient Data

By: A Jay Holmgren, Vaishali Patel and Julia Adler-Milstein
Achieving an interoperable health care system remains a top US policy priority. Despite substantial efforts to encourage interoperability, the first set of national data in 2014 suggested that hospitals’ engagement levels were low. With 2015 data now available, we... View Details
Keywords: Health; Technology; Electronic Health Records; Health Care and Treatment; Data and Data Sets; Technology Networks; Policy; United States
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  • 2022
  • Article

Rapid Growth of Remote Patient Monitoring Is Driven by a Small Number of Primary Care Providers

By: Mitchell Tang, Ateev Mehrotra and Ariel Dora Stern
Growing enthusiasm for remote patient monitoring has been motivated by the hope that it can improve care for patients with poorly controlled chronic illness. In a national commercially insured population in the U.S., we found that billing for remote patient monitoring... View Details
Keywords: Remote Monitoring; Medical Billing; Health Care Costs; Telehealth; Diabetes; Chronic Disease; Insurance Claims; Diseases; Primary Care Providers; COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost; Health Industry; United States
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  • 12 Apr 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

other images randomly assigned to each of them by the firm’s centralized queuing system. The analysis covered all 2,766,209 cases that the firm processed between July 2005 and December 2007. Because the radiologists did their work at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

of risk operating in both geographies. Macroeconomic and policy turbulence emerged as the biggest source of risk for Latin Americans, while excessive bureaucracy was the biggest source of risk for South Asians. Political instability,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)

post-graduate training in medicine, business, and anthropology (I have a Master of Science in Medical Anthropology) with a real-world and practical assignment when healthcare leaders and innovators are needed most. Under the guidance of... View Details
  • February 2010 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

U.S. Healthcare Reform: International Perspectives

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich and Elia Cameron
The national economic implications of rising healthcare costs were poorly understood, even as the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom instituted reforms in early 2010. Presenting opportunities for cross-national policy learning, this case describes the... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Insurance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; Germany; United Kingdom; United States
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Feeley, M.D.f, Neema Navai, M.D. Objectives: Patients undergoing radical cystectomy represent a particularly resource-intensive patient population. Time-driven activity based costing (TDABC) assigns time to events and then costs are based... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

Professor of Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, conducted the research with Katherine Baicker of the University of Chicago and Mark Shepard, associate professor of public policy... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health
  • August 2017
  • Article

Tort Reform and Innovation

By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a theoretical model that predicts that the impact... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Legal Liability; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 24 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

research outputs in a panel dataset spanning the careers of 3,862 academic life scientists. Using inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTW) to account for the dynamics of self-selection into patenting, we find that patenting has a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace