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March 31, 2022
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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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The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman M.D. and Jason Hwang M.D.

A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform—from a legendary leader in innovation. Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Disruptive Innovation; Health Industry; United States

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September 2016
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Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (B)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarah Appleby

The (B) case documents the development of a strategy to achieve system-level impact in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape for a nonprofit focused on addressing patients' basic social needs through healthcare institutions. Founded in 1996 with a volunteer-staffed... View Details

Keywords: Scaling Social Impact; Scaling Social Enterprise; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Outcomes; Nonprofit Scaling; Nonprofit; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; United States

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28 Jun 2012
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How Does the US Health Care Decision Affect Employers?

Keywords: Professor Bill George; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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History - Health Care

Health Care Initiative History 1967 First Health Care Case: Fischer Pharmaceutical, Co. 1971 Regina Herzlinger becomes the first woman tenured at... View Details

13 Aug 2006
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Business, Heal Health Care

03 Jul 2018
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Herzlinger: The Godmother of Consumer-Driven Health Care

September 2011
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How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter

Existing health care costing systems have serious flaws that make it impossible to measure costs accurately at the individual patient and medical condition level. This gap has severely limited meaningful cost reduction throughout the system. The paper describes a new... View Details

Keywords: Cost; Health Care and Treatment; Measurement and Metrics; Service Delivery; Outcome or Result; Quality; Health Industry

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11 Oct 2011
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Solving the Health Care Cost Crisis

15 Mar 2016
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Health Care Delivery Innovations That Integrate Care? Yes!

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Transforming Health Care Delivery

health care and life sciences. Technavio- global market reports on health care sectors such as pharmaceutical, therapeutics, biotechnology and... View Details

07 Jan 2015
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Improving health care delivery

Elaine Goodman (MBA 2015) will combine her business and medical skills to improve health care — and avoid the mistakes she witnessed when her mother died of cancer. (Published January 2015) View Details

23 Aug 2021

Industry Spotlight: Health Care

Wonder what an MBA could do to help with your professional growth in health care? Hear from current students and alumni in the health care industry as they reflect on the... View Details

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

We know the symptoms all too well. We wait months to see a doctor. Office visits end, it seems, just moments after they begin. Managed care firms hold sway over doctors' treatment plans, and health insurance... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

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Perspectives in Health: Health Care Leadership: Insights on Scaling Value-Based Care Delivery

Join the HBS Health Care Initiative and HBS professors Ariel Stern and Ikenna Okezie for a conversation with the cofounder and CEO of Somatus around health care entrepreneurship lessons, growing and scaling a care-delivery organization, and what it takes to move... View Details