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  • 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
  • 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
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) possess significantly more assets than accepted applicants... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

R&D-intensive firms react to negative shocks to their existing products? We explore this question using detailed project-level data from drug development firms. Using FDA Public Health Advisories as an exogenous and idiosyncratic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 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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  • 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

Bonitas to innovate, grow, and compete with market leader Discovery as well as providers of alternative insurance products. Bonitas must also plan ahead for the rollout of national health insurance—a deeply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

Confront the powerful divides in America The Public Option health insurance proposed by the Biden campaign will weaken our economic status by adding to the national deficit and to Medicare’s unfunded... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

firm's contracting policies with commercial insurers and self-insured plan administrators, are examined in detail. Pitney Bowes health and wellness programs are also described, enabling an analysis of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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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  • 04 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 4

opportunities for providers; and contribute to a more efficient, convenient healthcare delivery system. While the platform could benefit insurers, providers, employers, and patients alike, the company has only marketed to a few health... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 May 2010
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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
  • 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
  • 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007

reach of millions. Who Killed Health Care? then outlines Herzlinger's bold new plan for a consumer-driven system that will deliver affordable, high-quality care to everyone. By putting insurance money in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

May 11, 2017 New England Journal of Medicine Good Riddance to Big Insurance Mergers By: Dafny, Leemore S. Abstract—Federal judges issued preliminary injunctions halting mergers of four of the five largest U.S. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

company is concerned with more than making money. Mark Bertolini, chairman, CEO, and president of health insurer Aetna, pointed to his own experience in social media, recalling a note he received from a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Dec 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

creating "a modern version of alchemy," turning packages of poorly-rated mortgages into triple-A-rated collateral debt obligations, complete with supposed insurance against risk. The problem was that even financial experts... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 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
  • 20 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

affordable housing is the low-income housing tax credit, part of the Tax Reform Act of 1986," she says. "In essence, it provides a tax benefit to private investors — typically banks and insurance companies — in return for their... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate
  • 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

patients coming from all over Germany and from other countries. However, German private insurers were cutting reimbursement for prostate cancer by 15% and denying extra payment for some new procedures, while reimbursement by public View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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