Health Care Costs - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

COVID-19 variants snuffed out the brief period of vaccination-injected optimism earlier this year, as childcare and school disruptions lingered. Despite such resistance and health concerns, some employees have joyfully returned to their... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

04 Jun 2020
Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

And how do I do it with people who are increasingly different from me? And the reason I want to do it with people who are increasingly different from me is that if I get to have a team that is increasingly different than I am, and you have a team that is increasingly... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Jan 2011
News

Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

"We care about the urgent needs of our local community." The foundation bearing the family name, run by Beth, has supported medical, educational, religious, and social service organizations, including McLean and Beth Israel Deaconess... View Details

01 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bundle?

bundle—known as an Extra Value Meal—for cheaper than the products would cost if purchased individually. “Bundling is pervasive in several markets, and it works in many cases” But those same customers might not value being given only the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

Milkman, among others, the group settled on four areas of particular interest to nudge units in the United States and United Kingdom—retirement savings, college enrollment, public health interventions, and energy consumption. They then... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Jun 2009
What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

Other activities included in GDP, such as health care costs, do not reflect the fact that spending more on health care is, in John Caddell's... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

September 2011 (Revised February 2013)
Case

Cleveland Clinic: Improving the Patient Experience

By: Ananth Raman and Anita L. Tucker

Healthcare has traditionally focused on medical outcomes and financial performance. The big question is always, "How much is it going to cost?" What would happen, though, if healthcare also considered the question of "How does the patient feel?" This case looks at the... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Customer Satisfaction; Performance Improvement; Service Delivery; Value Creation; Personal Characteristics; Human Needs

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01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

valued most from the fellowship program—and from my time at HBS—is the cohort of peer founders and the ability to compare notes and share stories and challenges.” HEALTH CARE AND LIFE SCIENCES VENTURES AT... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

How Will the Age of Big Data Affect Management? How do we avoid losing useful knowledge in a seemingly endless flood of data? Jim Heskett's readers offer some wise suggestions. Consumer-centered Health Care... View Details

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

23 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

cares that provide nutrition, health care, and educational support for mothers and young children—represent a particularly rich target. Rocket is currently working with the Ministry of Women and Child... View Details

25 Apr 2023
Cold Call Podcast

Using Design Thinking to Invent a Low-Cost Prosthesis for Land Mine Victims

Keywords: Re: Srikant M. Datar; Health; Health

02 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 2

pharmaceutical and skin care company. During World War I the expropriation of its brands and trademarks revealed its vulnerability to political risk. Following the advent of the Nazi regime in 1933, the largely Jewish owned and managed... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Sep 2015
News

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

01 Mar 2024
News

Case Study: Testing the Waters

company offers a line of eight powdered drink mixes that are formulated according to the World Health Organization’s oral rehydration solution—a specific ratio of glucose, sodium, and potassium that can replenish the body more efficiently... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

23 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

cardboard shortage. We had to wait eight weeks for cardboard boxes that normally get here in two weeks’ time. The cost of plastic has also gone up about 30 percent year over year, largely because of the freight surcharges. That plastic... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Music

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

health foundation in Uganda where I was making less but saving more, given my lower expenses. Throughout those years, I was conservative in my spending. I had managed to save about $20,000 and had no student debt. Still, when I started... View Details

08 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

“Restricting women’s access to this important health care seems to be a means, at least partly, to disincentivize them from being promiscuous.” “The gender gaps in labor market participation,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

issue, managers at buyers and suppliers are faced with hundreds of different supply chain programs—from labeling schemes like Fair Trade and organics, to industry association programs like Responsible Care and Sustainable Slopes, to a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

June 2023 (Revised June 2023)
Supplement

Roche: ESG and Access to Healthcare

By: George Serafeim

In May 2022, Roche Group, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world, hosted its first investor event focused exclusively on its efforts to impact access to healthcare. While Roche had recently set an ambitious goal to double the number of patients that had... View Details