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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Healthcare Provider Bankruptcies

By: Samuel Antill, Ashvin Gandhi, Jessica Bai and Adrienne Sabety
Healthcare firms are filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy at record rates. We find that bankruptcies increase healthcare staff turnover, worsen care, and harm patients. Using a difference-in-differences design, we estimate that a bankruptcy filing immediately increases... View Details
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Retention; Health Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Curing Health Care

value for patients, where value is the health outcomes achieved relative to the money spent. While his initial work focused on reorganizing care and measuring outcomes, he began to understand that appropriate cost information was missing.... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

Experiment 1 compares a condition where participants sequentially predict the colored outcomes of a roulette wheel with a condition where the wheel's past outcomes are presented all at once. Subjects are... View Details
  • 30 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

African government take a stand against an effective AIDS treatment drug? The inability of government to make wise tradeoffs—give up small losses for much larger gain—has been investigated by HBS professor Max Bazerman and his research... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

  PublicationsPolicy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 1990 (Revised March 1992)
  • Case

New York Against AIDS (A): The Saatchi & Saatchi Compton Advertising Campaign

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sohel Karim
Describes the background leading to the development of an advertising campaign to help prevention of AIDS in New York City. The three television networks, however, for various reasons reject the campaign, to the dismay of Saatchi & Saatchi executives. View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Growth and Development; Health Care and Treatment; Marketing Communications; Failure; Advertising Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

become the hubs of the network. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-043.pdf Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes (revised) Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • July 2011
  • Article

Kidney Paired Donation

By: C. Bradley Wallis, Kannan P. Samy, Alvin E. Roth and Michael A. Rees
Kidney paired donation (KPD) was first suggested in 1986, but it was not until 2000 when the first paired donation transplant was performed in the U.S. In the past decade, KPD has become the fastest growing source of transplantable kidneys, overcoming the barrier faced... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Success; Problems and Challenges; Programs; System; United States
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  • 05 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

consumer. The system needs to be redesigned so that each participant is motivated to increase value, measured by health outcomes per dollar expended. This excerpt discusses how healthcare providers can shift to a value-based model. An... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 23

many valuable ways that one side can meet its own interests by helping the other side with the other's "internal," "behind-the-table," or "Level II" constituency challenges. Sebenius (2013) offered a moderately theoretical View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Redefining Health Care

value for patients, as measured by health outcomes per dollar expended. Porter recently talked about the book. The American model of health-care delivery is largely private and competitive. Yet costs are soaring, access is restricted, and... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • June 2021
  • Article

Developing a Value Framework: Utilizing Administrative Data to Assess an Enhanced Care Initiative

By: Casey J. Allen, Jarrod S. Eska, Nikhil G. Thaker, Thomas W. Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan, Ryan W. Huey, Ching-Wei D. Tzeng, Jeffrey E. Lee, Steven J. Frank, Thomas A. Aloia, Vijaya Gottumukkala and Matthew H.G. Katz
We used national administrative data to assess multiple domains of value associated with enhanced recovery pathways for patients undergoing pancreatic surgery. Value metrics included in-hospital mortality, complication rates, length of stay (LOS), 30-day readmission... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics; Performance Improvement
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  • December 2009 (Revised May 2012)
  • Case

Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan

By: Michael E. Porter, Jennifer F Baron and C. Jason Wang
Taiwan's Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center has developed an integrated, team-based care delivery model for breast cancer care that is being expanded to other cancer types in 2009. A decade earlier, President and CEO Dr. Andrew Huang and the Center had worked... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Service Delivery; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Quality; Integration; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; Taiwan
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  • 06 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

quickly than inflation; restriction of access and services; standards of care that lag behind accepted benchmarks; frequent treatment errors; wide variations in practice patterns; slow adoption of best practices; and slow diffusion of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Get Well Soon

to be among the best hospitals in the country, even though it had scant evidence to benchmark its performance against others. But data co-collected by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation instead showed that the outcome for the clinic’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 26 May 2022
  • News

Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

sleep are all important. We are humans, not machines. We realized it must be a holistic approach.” Today, Noom is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing, consumer-first digital health platforms, empowering users to achieve positive health View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation outcomes within the strategy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. Almost $170 million in medical debt To measure the impact of medical debt relief, the researchers conducted two experiments in partnership with RIP Medical Debt and their debt collector partners. The authors tracked View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 09 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

observational study included all patients undergoing a head CT between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014 at a large, urban academic ED with over 100,000 visits per year. The primary study outcome was total cycle time, defined as the elapsed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne