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November 2019
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A Review of Bundled Payments in Total Joint Replacement

By: Olivia Manickas-Hill, Kevin J. Bozic and Thomas W. Feeley

The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative, developed by the U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, aims to reduce health care expenditures while maintaining or improving patient outcomes.
Several published reports evaluating the impact... View Details

Keywords: Bundled Payments; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management

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Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Variability Plagues the Health Care Delivery System 12 -fold Variation in postoperative sepsis rates across the 34 OECD nations. 40 -fold Variation in charges for a hip replacement at U.S. hospitals The Solution: Improving Value For... View Details

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

three private specialized orthopedic centers signed OrthoChoice contracts. In 2009, hip and knee replacements in the County of Stockholm for relatively healthy patients began being reimbursed. By... Jun 2014 (Revised Apri 2015) HBS Case... View Details

23 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

City.” “But we think it is more likely that Starbucks has insight into neighborhoods that are going to be expanding.” Either way, a new Starbucks is a predictor of rising housing prices. “If you want to know if a neighborhood is going to be booming in terms of housing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Nov 2015
Blog Post

Using an MBA for a Career Change

is hyped up to be, and Nasty Gal was a hip brand in downtown LA. It felt quite the opposite of my Deloitte days. I liked the work and culture, but wanted a faster pace of work. I wanted to have a lot of clients who would push me and be... View Details

03 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

t-r-a-p is the best genre of hip hop music that comes from Atlanta, where I’m from. This article first appeared in the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society's BiGS FiX. You Might Also Like: What's Missing from the Racial... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

led you to write the book? Noel Maurer: The idea of the book grew out of two conundrums. First, why wasn't Panama richer in 1999, after [nearly] 100 years of the Panama Canal? After all, the United States and Panama were joined at the hip... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

27 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

the study noted after getting a friend request from a manager, “I felt like [my boss] was trying to seem hip and relatable, but I was also worried he was spying on me.” Meanwhile, workers also avoided colleagues they perceived as... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

What used to be rare is now commonplace: traveling abroad to receive medical treatment, and to a developing country at that. So-called medical tourism is on the rise for everything from cardiac care to plastic surgery to hip and knee... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Apr 1999
News

A Vibrant Brand

In the course of an hour-long interview, Keith T. Clinkscales (MBA '90), president of Vibe magazine, drops close to fifty names. Those mentioned by this 35-year-old CEO of an enterprise that is considered "da bomb" (a high compliment) among its urban youth audience are... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Russell Simmons

Simmons was principally responsible for bringing rap and hip hop music into the cultural mainstream of America. His formation of Def Jam Records in the early eighties marked the beginning of rap as a dominant music form. By the end of the... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

22 Feb 2022
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Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations

showing that vibration at a precise frequency stimulates bone growth and improves bone density, OsteoBoost will be coupled with an app to track daily use and encourage good nutritional habits. The Why: One in four American men and half of American women will suffer a... View Details

Keywords: medical device; healthcare; entrepreneurship; Alumni New Venture Competition

Portrait Project

Sally Aaron

Modern medical technology gave me a chance to be happy and healthy when I was young. I want to make sure others have the same chance and privilege. I was born with a dislocated hip that was saved only by modern medicine – it changed my... View Details

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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Council. In 2008, patients seeking a hip or knee replacement in Stockholm County faced wait times of up to two years of sometimes debilitating pain, intermittent missed work and income, and the trials of disability. Seeking a new model to... View Details

29 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

surgeons who perform hip and knee arthroplasties and patients who were scheduled to have hip or knee arthro-plasty. Respondents were asked for their opinions of and experiences with DTCA, including the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

two books, she works as a columnist for the New York Times Sunday Book Review and as the editorial director of the digital and cable company Fusion. She lives in New York. Bryonn Bain Bryonn Bain is Brooklyn's own prison activist, actor, author, View Details

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Marc Oman

hips on fire. What a vida that would be! Who inspired this unlikely vision of an engineering MBA turned musician? First it was my mom. When I was nine years old she took me to a drum studio near our Paris, France hometown and said... View Details

25 Sep 2009
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HBS’s Oldest Class Secretary

moved into Classic Residence by Hyatt. After fracturing my hip in a fall, I trained up using a walker and a wheelchair when long distances require them and have a part-time nurse's aide. My 4 children, 12 grandchildren, and 17... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson

09 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 9

business? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415034-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-514 OrthoChoice: Bundled Payments in the County of Stockholm (A) It was the waiting that drew the attention of the Stockholm County Council. In 2008,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1998
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Lisa Frankenberg

one of Europe's hip cities. But Frankenberg soon realized that for an English-language paper to succeed, it would also have to appeal to the region's growing international business community. She pitched the idea for such a publication to... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso; photograph by Webb Chappell

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