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- September 1998 (Revised July 1999)
- Case
Discovery Health (B)
By: Samuel S. Chun and Shaun Matisonn
A South African health insurance company grapples with designing a financially viable coverage solution for a new prescription drug treatment for male impotence. View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Service Delivery; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance Industry; South Africa
Chun, Samuel S., and Shaun Matisonn. "Discovery Health (B)." Harvard Business School Case 599-047, September 1998. (Revised July 1999.)
- November 2013 (Revised January 2015)
- Case
Obamacare
By: Matthew Weinzierl and Katrina Flanagan
One vote in June, 2012, decided the fate of President Barack Obama's crowning first-term achievement: universal health insurance. Chief Justice John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court cast the deciding vote to uphold the keystone of the reform: the mandate to purchase... View Details
Keywords: Universal Health Insurance; Adverse Selection; Leviathan; Courts and Trials; Judgments; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Government and Politics; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States
Weinzierl, Matthew, and Katrina Flanagan. "Obamacare." Harvard Business School Case 714-029, November 2013. (Revised January 2015.)
- March 2018
- Case
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center: Managing Capacity in Neurology
By: Joel Goh, Robert S. Huckman and Nikhil Sahni
In December 2014, Dr. Anthony Furlan, chair of the Department of Neurology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH), faced a mandate from the hospital’s executive leadership team. Specifically, all UH departments were directed to take steps within six... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Hospitals; Capacity Planning; Scheduling; Health Care and Treatment; Service Operations; Performance Capacity; Health Industry; North America; United States; Ohio; Cleveland
Goh, Joel, Robert S. Huckman, and Nikhil Sahni. "University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center: Managing Capacity in Neurology." Harvard Business School Case 618-062, March 2018.
- November 2019
- Article
Many Medicare Beneficiaries with Serious Illness Report Financial Hardships Despite Coverage
By: Michael Anne Kyle, Robert J Blendon, John M Benson, Melinda K Abrams and Eric C Schneider
In a national survey, seriously ill Medicare beneficiaries described financial hardships resulting from their illness—despite high beneficiary satisfaction with Medicare overall and the fact that many have supplemental insurance. About half reported a serious problem... View Details
Kyle, Michael Anne, Robert J Blendon, John M Benson, Melinda K Abrams, and Eric C Schneider. "Many Medicare Beneficiaries with Serious Illness Report Financial Hardships Despite Coverage." Health Affairs 38, no. 11 (November 2019): 1801–1806.
- November 2012 (Revised February 2009)
- Teaching Note
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: Interdisciplinary Cancer Care (TN)
By: Michael E. Porter and Sachin H Jain
Teaching Note for [708487]. View Details
Porter, Michael E., and Sachin H Jain. "The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: Interdisciplinary Cancer Care (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 709-482, February 2009. (Revised from original February 2009 version.)
- October 24, 2018
- Article
End the Corporate Health Care Tax
By: Mark R. Kramer and John Pontillo
Imagine if a single piece of legislation could effectively eliminate all U.S. corporate taxes, subsidize hundreds of millions of dollars in new corporate investment, increase the take-home pay of most U.S. employees, ease state and local budgets, and reduce the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Taxation; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Taxation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States
Kramer, Mark R., and John Pontillo. "End the Corporate Health Care Tax." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (October 24, 2018).
- March 31, 2022
- Article
Two Approaches to Capping Health Care Prices
By: Michael E. Chernew, Maximilian J. Pany and Leemore S. Dafny
High health care prices for the privately-insured contribute to high premiums, which put downward pressure on wages, and induce employers to reduce benefit generosity and charge employees more for coverage. As the average annual premium for family coverage currently... View Details
Chernew, Michael E., Maximilian J. Pany, and Leemore S. Dafny. "Two Approaches to Capping Health Care Prices." Health Affairs Forefront (March 31, 2022).
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
In the United States, employers have often treated health benefits as a necessary evil. They have focused on the rising cost of providing health insurance benefits and taken aggressive steps to bring costs... View Details
- Article
Health as a Way of Doing Business
By: Howard Koh, Sara J. Singer and Amy C. Edmondson
For too long, the worlds of business and health have been mired in a checkered, sometimes contentious, history. Millions of deaths worldwide can be attributed to risk factors including tobacco use, alcohol and drug misuse, and suboptimal dietary intake linked to... View Details
Koh, Howard, Sara J. Singer, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Health as a Way of Doing Business." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 321, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 33–34.
- 2019
- Chapter
Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations
By: Bruce J. Fried and Amy C. Edmondson
Book Abstract: Completely updated to address the challenges faced by modern health care organizations, this edition of Shortell and Kaluzny's Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior offers a more global perspective on how the United States and... View Details
Fried, Bruce J., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations." Chap. 5 in Shortell & Kaluzny's Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior. 7th ed., edited by Lawton Robert Burns, Elizabeth H. Bradley, and Bryan Jeffrey Weiner, 98–131. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2019.
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
best value is achieved when everyone is part of the system. Coverage: To resolve ongoing debates regarding exactly what is and is not covered, one national list of minimum necessary coverage is required. The list provided by the Federal... View Details
- August 1975 (Revised August 1991)
- Case
University Hospital
Herzlinger, Regina E. "University Hospital." Harvard Business School Case 176-020, August 1975. (Revised August 1991.)
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
School of Public Health, Project Antares aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, or "interventions" in healthcare parlance. Examples of commercial high-impact... View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
Technologies within the Firm: Evidence from Cardiac Procedures," [PDF] Management Science Michael E. Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor In health insurance, the two fundamental issues are... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
access to such a pool (such as people who work for small firms or are self-employed) will pay very high prices if a family member has medical risks. Realistic reform efforts need to assume that health care View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
fast. Also the insurers stand to win in this in some ways, because with universal coverage the market gets much bigger. The hospitals are going to be huge losers, because once consumers buy View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
the background? How will change be achieved? What could go wrong? Will management save US health care? What do you think? To Read More: Atul Gawande, Big Med, The New Yorker, August 13 & 20, 2012, pp. 52-63. Paul C. Weiler, Howard W.... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
Without an individual mandate, instead of buying their own insurance, most of the sick will qualify for subsidized coverage either in the public health insurance exchanges created under View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress
for their workers, in some cases dropping health coverage or raising premiums on employees in order to combat escalating costs. On the other hand, companies are implementing View Details
- September 2007 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
Syndexa and Technology Transfer at Harvard University
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Kiron
Gokhan Hotamisligil is a star researcher at Harvard School of Public Health who has made groundbreaking discoveries linking fat cells, inflammation, and diabetes. He now wants to form a company to commercialize these discoveries. At the same time, Isaac Kohlberg, the... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Agreements and Arrangements; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Health Industry; Health Industry
Hamermesh, Richard G., and David Kiron. "Syndexa and Technology Transfer at Harvard University." Harvard Business School Case 808-073, September 2007. (Revised May 2009.)