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  • 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
  • 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
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

accounts across treatment groups. Migrants offered the greatest degree of control over savings accumulated the most savings at the partner bank, compared to others who were offered less or no control over savings. Effects of this View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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

  • 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
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

opinion, there is another important set of discussions to be had around how we actually organize care. Many of these issues are managerial in nature, rather than policy issues. Questions we need to answer include: What is the best way of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • Web

Health Care - Faculty & Research

in which agents recruited by a public health organization to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a... View Details
  • 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
  • Web

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
  • 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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  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a sustainable business model that also generates superior financial performance. Read the paper: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=4538 An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

a decrease in direct US sourcing from China, with low-wage locations (e.g., Vietnam) and nearshoring/friendshoring alternatives (e.g., Mexico) gaining in import share. In this session, we will discuss several cautionary notes on policies... View Details
  • 20 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business with Structured Finance

of the junior and mezzanine tranches falling quickly toward zero and the value of the senior tranche declining substantially as default probabilities rise. Earlier in their paper, however, the researchers illustrate the difficulty of estimating the default rate and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 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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  • 04 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees

productive groups would win iPods.) Each group consisted of one assigned leader and three followers, plus two research assistants—"confederates"—who pretended to be followers. Some of the confederates were told to approach their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel