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- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
employers as varied as Medtronic, Exxon, General Mills and Whole Foods, all of which are self-insured, have already moved forward with such systems, and their rewards are reflected in the lower cost of employee View Details
- September 2022
- Article
Cost of Cardiac Stereotactic Body Radioablation Therapy versus Catheter Ablation for Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia
By: Chen Wei, Michelle Boeck, Pierre C. Qian, Todd Vivenzio, Zoe Elizee, Jeremy S. Bredfeldt, Robert S. Kaplan, Usha Tedrow, Raymond Mak and Paul C. Zei
Cardiac SBRT is a novel way of treating refractory ventricular tachycardia (VT) that may be less costly than catheter ablation, owing to its noninvasive, outpatient nature. We applied time-driven activity-based costing to both procedures. The direct and total... View Details
Wei, Chen, Michelle Boeck, Pierre C. Qian, Todd Vivenzio, Zoe Elizee, Jeremy S. Bredfeldt, Robert S. Kaplan, Usha Tedrow, Raymond Mak, and Paul C. Zei. "Cost of Cardiac Stereotactic Body Radioablation Therapy versus Catheter Ablation for Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia." Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology 45, no. 9 (September 2022): 1005–1179.
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Mental Health | MBA
others comfort and strength." A primary goal of the MBA Student & Academic Services (SAS) team is to provide personal and mental health support to any student requesting such assistance. Whether, for... View Details
- 20 Aug 2020
- News
The U.S. Needs an SEC for its Health Care System
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
Business School and Professor in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Even though Chipotle’s supply chain is shorter, with fewer intermediaries between supplier and restaurant, the use of local... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
at its upper end." Christensen sees the same pattern in health care. Sophisticated procedures and treatments, along with an abundance of highly trained professionals, have combined to drive costs out of... View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
Older People Are Less Pessimistic About the Health Risks of COVID-19
By: Pedro Bordalo, Katherine B. Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer
A central question for understanding behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic, at both the individual and collective levels, is how people perceive the health and economic risks they face. We conducted a survey of over 1,500 Americans from May 6–13, 2020, to understand... View Details
Bordalo, Pedro, Katherine B. Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer. "Older People Are Less Pessimistic About the Health Risks of COVID-19." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 27494, July 2020.
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, has been studying the health care sector for nearly half a century. In that time, she has seen significant innovation in the field—and she has also seen the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
accounting that includes health care costs puts the savings figure closer to $1.3 trillion. And capacity to produce an additional 1 billion vaccine courses could similarly be worth on the order of $1... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song
Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Zirui Song. "Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-012, September 2024.
- 16 Jul 2010
- News
Health Insurance Rate Wars - Are We Focused on the Right Fight?
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
How to Build Workplaces That Protect Employee Health
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
care costs? Quelch noted that in the cases of the grocery retail market and the financial services market, higher empowerment typically leads to lower costs because more of the work is shifted to the consumer. He said there’s a pressing... View Details
- 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
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
Gerdeman, Dina, and John A. Quelch. "Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 16, 2016).
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
care, but there is another cost to be accounted for. Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug PricesIn Germany, drugmakers must prove that a new medication’s benefits merit a higher price than existing drugs. Making View Details
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Faculty & Research - Health Care
with one another. “ We are moving toward global competition for health care services driven by high costs in the United States and the lack of access to care in countries with governmentally controlled... View Details
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Defining the Value Framework for Prostate Brachytherapy Using Patient-Centered Outcome Metrics and Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
By: N.G. Thaker, T.J. Pugh, U. Mahmood, S. Choi, T.E. Spinks, N.E. Martin, T.T. Sio, R.J. Kudchadker, R. S. Kaplan, D.A. Kuban, D.A. Swanson, P.F. Orio, M.J. Zelefsky, B.W. Cox, L. Potters, T.A. Buchholz, T.W. Feeley and S.J. Frank
PURPOSE:
Value, defined as outcomes over costs, has been proposed as a measure to evaluate prostate cancer (PCa) treatments. We analyzed standardized outcomes and time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) for prostate brachytherapy (PBT) to define a value... View Details
Thaker, N.G., T.J. Pugh, U. Mahmood, S. Choi, T.E. Spinks, N.E. Martin, T.T. Sio, R.J. Kudchadker, R. S. Kaplan, D.A. Kuban, D.A. Swanson, P.F. Orio, M.J. Zelefsky, B.W. Cox, L. Potters, T.A. Buchholz, T.W. Feeley, and S.J. Frank. "Defining the Value Framework for Prostate Brachytherapy Using Patient-Centered Outcome Metrics and Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing." Brachytherapy 15, no. 3 (May 2016): 274–282.
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
Creating tools to help patients be better informed about costs
Kyle Schultz (MBA 2004) works with a software company that is developing ways to notify patients about the costs of their health care procedures and the ways insurance can be applied. (Published November... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
Editor's note. In the United States, a primary provider of health care is through employers. "Every corporation is a player in public health," writes John A. Quelch in a new book of case studies, Consumers, Corporations, and... View Details
- 1977
- Chapter
Cost Benefit Analysis of Surgery: Some Additional Caveats and Interpretation
By: Jerry R. Green
Green, Jerry R. "Cost Benefit Analysis of Surgery: Some Additional Caveats and Interpretation." In Costs, Risks and Benefits of Surgery, edited by J. Bunker, B. Barnes, and F. Mosteller. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.