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  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

Editor's note. In the United States, a primary provider of health care is through employers. "Every corporation is a player in public health," writes John A. Quelch in a new book of case studies, Consumers, Corporations, and... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 15 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

If one thing has been made clear by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is this: The health care system in the United States (and most other nations) is not set up to respond to a large-scale medical emergency that affects tens of thousands of citizens simultaneously. But there... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

    Two Hundred Years of Health and Medical Care

    Using two hundred years of national and Massachusetts data on medical care and health, we examine how central medical care is to life expectancy gains. While common theories about medical care cost growth stress growing demand, our analysis highlights the importance of... View Details
    • 06 Apr 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

    wrote the note, Mental Health and the American Workplace, exploring the extent of the phenomenon, its cost to organizations and employees, and some managerial responses. In some ways, it makes sense that... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Health
    • 12 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

    iPhoto COVID-19 is having a devastating effect on the emotional, psychological, and social well-being (as well as the physical health) of people around the world. Risk factors for addiction, mental illness, and “deaths of despair” are growing while behavioral View Details
    Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
    • Web

    Health Care - Faculty & Research

    upon. Leadership challenges and strategic dilemmas are highlighted. Keywords: Integrated Practice Units ; Outcomes Measurement ; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing ; Health Care and Treatment ; Business... View Details
    • 24 Sep 2024
    • Blog Post

    Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

    exhaust gases. The further hope is that regular traffic will move faster, also reducing tangible air pollution. These benefits matter to the people and to the government of Senegal. They have quantified the reduction in health care View Details
    • 16 May 2016
    • HBS Case

    Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

    Business School and Professor in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Even though Chipotle’s supply chain is shorter, with fewer intermediaries between supplier and restaurant, the use of local... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
    • Web

    Building Entrepreneurial Organizations - Health Care

    Impact Building Entrepreneurial Organizations Health Minute: How Entrepreneurs are Reducing Costs & Improving Outcomes More “Entrepreneurship” stories Faculty Focus Innovating In View Details
    • Web

    The True Costs of Gig Work | Working Knowledge

    Career and Workplace The True Costs of Gig Work Featuring Ryan W. Buell and Paige Tsai . By Rachel Layne on May 9, 2025 . People with multiple jobs, such as gig workers, spend more cautiously than typical full-time employees, says... View Details
    • May 16, 2016
    • Article

    Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

    By: Dina Gerdeman and John A. Quelch
    Chipotle Mexican Grill’s ongoing struggle to win customers back months after a contaminated food crisis highlights the challenges companies face with keeping food safe.

    Chipotle has seen its shares tumble and recently reported its first-ever quarterly loss... View Details
    Keywords: Food Safety; Organic Food; Supply Chain Management; Globalization Of Food Business; Mérieux NutriSciences: Marketing Food Safety Testing; Food Safety Modernization Act 2011; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Transition; Economic Systems; Food; Health; Supply and Industry; Logistics; Practice; Problems and Challenges; Quality; Safety; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Insurance Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Relations Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Mexico; North America; United States; Canada
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    Gerdeman, Dina, and John A. Quelch. "Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 16, 2016).
    • September 2022
    • Article

    Cost of Cardiac Stereotactic Body Radioablation Therapy versus Catheter Ablation for Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia

    By: Chen Wei, Michelle Boeck, Pierre C. Qian, Todd Vivenzio, Zoe Elizee, Jeremy S. Bredfeldt, Robert S. Kaplan, Usha Tedrow, Raymond Mak and Paul C. Zei
    Cardiac SBRT is a novel way of treating refractory ventricular tachycardia (VT) that may be less costly than catheter ablation, owing to its noninvasive, outpatient nature. We applied time-driven activity-based costing to both procedures. The direct and total... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost; Health Industry
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    Wei, Chen, Michelle Boeck, Pierre C. Qian, Todd Vivenzio, Zoe Elizee, Jeremy S. Bredfeldt, Robert S. Kaplan, Usha Tedrow, Raymond Mak, and Paul C. Zei. "Cost of Cardiac Stereotactic Body Radioablation Therapy versus Catheter Ablation for Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia." Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 45, no. 9 (September 2022): 1005–1179.
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    Defining the Value Framework for Prostate Brachytherapy Using Patient-Centered Outcome Metrics and Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

    By: N.G. Thaker, T.J. Pugh, U. Mahmood, S. Choi, T.E. Spinks, N.E. Martin, T.T. Sio, R.J. Kudchadker, R. S. Kaplan, D.A. Kuban, D.A. Swanson, P.F. Orio, M.J. Zelefsky, B.W. Cox, L. Potters, T.A. Buchholz, T.W. Feeley and S.J. Frank
    PURPOSE: Value, defined as outcomes over costs, has been proposed as a measure to evaluate prostate cancer (PCa) treatments. We analyzed standardized outcomes and time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) for prostate brachytherapy (PBT) to define a value... View Details
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    Thaker, N.G., T.J. Pugh, U. Mahmood, S. Choi, T.E. Spinks, N.E. Martin, T.T. Sio, R.J. Kudchadker, R. S. Kaplan, D.A. Kuban, D.A. Swanson, P.F. Orio, M.J. Zelefsky, B.W. Cox, L. Potters, T.A. Buchholz, T.W. Feeley, and S.J. Frank. "Defining the Value Framework for Prostate Brachytherapy Using Patient-Centered Outcome Metrics and Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing." Brachytherapy 15, no. 3 (May 2016): 274–282.
    • January 2, 2020
    • Article

    Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace
    The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare program. Perhaps most alarming: The US ranks lowest among... View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare; Public Option; Medicare; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost Management; Problems and Challenges; United States
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    Herzlinger, Regina E., and James Wallace. "Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?" Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (January 2, 2020).
    • 05 Aug 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

    The health insurance system in the United States is broken, and business is paying the price. Employers' insurance premiums reached an estimated $450 billion in 2000, and then shot up again, at three times the rate of inflation, in 2001.... View Details
    Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
    • 14 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

    accounting that includes health care costs puts the savings figure closer to $1.3 trillion. And capacity to produce an additional 1 billion vaccine courses could similarly be worth on the order of $1... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
    • 13 Oct 2015
    • News

    How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion

    • 06 Nov 2009
    • News

    Health Reform Paths Not Taken

    For workers at firms that didn’t offer health insurance, any amount they spent on health insurance also would be tax-free. Herzlinger contends that extending the health-care tax exemption to workers would be... View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; Health, Social Assistance
    • 2009
    • Book

    Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care

    By: Richard Bohmer
    Today's health-care providers face growing criticism - from policy makers and patients alike. As costs continue to spiral upward and concerns about quality of care escalate, the debate has focused on how to finance health care. Yet funding solutions can't... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Organizational Culture
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    Bohmer, Richard. Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care. Harvard Business Press, 2009.
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?

    By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song
    Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Government Administration; Acquisition; Health Industry
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    Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Zirui Song. "Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-012, September 2024.
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