Public Health Insurance Exchange - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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01 Mar 2016
News

Off Script

(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

diabetes is a public health crisis that needs urgent attention. However flawed, early programs that attempt to manage the disease may at least get more people thinking about serious solutions for their... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

Student-Profile

Olivia Zhao

mined from a day on the diamond. “I’ve loved baseball since I was a very small child,” she says. “I also have played softball all my life—currently I’m on the Harvard health policy team. Whether watching or playing, sports are a social... View Details

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 33:166-167. Anteby, Michel, and Mikell Hyman. 2008. "Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-Body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

Career Coach

Lindsay Muller

Lindsay is particularly passionate about working with students in health care. She has experience in healthcare startups and public companies, specifically in insurance, care delivery, and digital health.... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue

make decisions in challenging situations. Health care reform was making national headlines—and not in a good way—about the time the conference was held. Did you find that it quelled optimism or that people simply viewed it as another... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; healthcare; HBSAAA

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

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Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care... View Details

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

products. Markets are excellent at promoting innovation and driving toward efficiency, but they don't function without governments. As we've been discussing, the FDA protects the public while industry seeks out consumers of health-care... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Health; Health; Health

15 Dec 2024
News

After Ozempic

Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Pete Ryan; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

was then, and is now, a matter of using personal data to secure public health. That raises both its promise and its perils, and the leadership task is to navigate the balance.” —PROFESSOR MITCHELL WEISS As COVID-19 was sweeping the globe... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

28 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

have exceeded to date. More Help Required The 2012 JOBS Act reduced the regulatory burden for small businesses looking to raise equity in the public markets. It provided an "on-ramp" of up to five years for new IPOs to phase in certain... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

collection of patient physiological measurements such as blood pressure, weight, or blood glucose levels—and both commercial health insurers as well as the Medicare system have seen dramatic increases in the... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

Profile

Jason Flood

up-close experience of the United States’ health care system. “There were mind-boggling inefficiencies both in terms of delivery and coordination,” Jason says. “We had multiple doctors who failed to communicate to each other and ordered... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Tech

01 Dec 2011
News

Donor Spotlight

combining an outright gift through a family foundation with a planned gift, which, in this case, makes HBS an insurance policy beneficiary. Such creative thinking about philanthropy means more support for George Leadership Fellows, MBA... View Details

11 Aug 2014
HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

health insurance company, social norming can cut both ways. In the project, the company set up an intervention to increase participation in using "walk stations" that allow employees to exercise on a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Health

01 Mar 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward

Your research explores entrepreneurship and the social safety net. What is the connection between those two things? I look at whether stronger social safety net benefits make it more likely for people to start a business. For instance, there’s this large View Details

Keywords: April White; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Private Households; Personal Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

individuals who have to go to work where they’re not able to socially distance, and they’re using public transportation to get there. We have worked tirelessly with the leadership of those communities to try to mitigate the illness. We’ve... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

care as part of their business model Executives from health care insurance companies, government entities that pay for health care, or other payor organizations Leaders from... View Details

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