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  • 02 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

risks of business ownership and relaxing credit constraints," Olds writes in the 2014 paper "Entrepreneurship and Public Health Insurance." Studying The Social Safety Net Olds grew up on Medicaid, a Federal View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

its effects on employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death rates than a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

trying to secure specimens. Alongside primary medical education providers, a large number and wide range of other users are also trying to secure cadavers for their own needs. The continuing training of medical doctors, for instance, relies on cadavers. In addition,... View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • June 1992
  • Teaching Note

Hospital Replacement Decision, Hospital Corp. of America: Financial Analysis, and Humana, Inc., Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Decision Making; Finance; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
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  • February 2010
  • Teaching Note

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

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
Teaching Note for [710425]. View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Service Delivery; Quality; Performance; Insurance; Growth and Development; Health Industry; Taiwan
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  • 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
  • 08 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 8, 2015

complaint data for insurance agents, we find that agents working exclusively for large branded firms are more likely to be the subject of justified sales complaints, relative to smaller independent experts, despite doing substantially... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

  Publications August 2013 Modernizing Insurance Regulation Comparative Regulation of Market Intermediaries: Insights from the Indian Life Insurance Market By: Anagol, Santosh, Shawn A. Cole, and Shayak... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

energize employees, and insure that the components of the initiative become part of the firm's core systems and procedures. In many instances, such as the first CSE initiative, firms do not do this foundational work, and they plunge ahead... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

are, at the same time, exercising cost-cutting efforts (such as low wages, poor benefits, no health insurance for many employees in the case of Wal-Mart, fines for safety violations in the case of BP) in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in health care. We argue that the prevalence of choice difficulties and biases leading to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

laws to protect individuals if their information becomes known: Their jobs have to be protected; their health insurance has to be protected. That's the only way to solve this problem and make people feel... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • Summer 2019
  • Article

The Price Effects of Cross-Market Mergers: Theory and Evidence from the Hospital Industry

By: Leemore S. Dafny, Katherine Ho and Robin S. Lee
We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are bundled by a common intermediary. Focusing on hospital mergers across distinct geographic markets, we show that such combinations... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Markets; Geographic Scope; Price; Outcome or Result; Insurance; Health Industry
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  • 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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  • April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
  • Supplement

Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (G)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry
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  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54267 February 6, 2018 Harvard Business Review What Could Amazon's Approach to Health Care Look Like? By: Huckman, Robert S. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
  • Supplement

Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (D)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry
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  • September 2006 (Revised February 2007)
  • Case

Timing of Option Grants at UnitedHealth Group (A)

Faced with press allegations that executives' stock options might have been backdated, the Board of UnitedHealth Group needs to determine whether its accounting for the options was proper, and if not, what the restatement amount should be and what... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Stock Options; Accounting; Crisis Management; Corporate Governance; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
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  • 11 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 11

United States, expanding coverage and regulating insurers. However, it was not clear that expanding coverage would resolve a longstanding dilemma of rising costs for insurance and care. As the Department of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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