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  • 15 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

We know the symptoms all too well. We wait months to see a doctor. Office visits end, it seems, just moments after they begin. Managed care firms hold sway over doctors' treatment plans, and health insurance... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • 04 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care

of health care is a major research topic at Harvard Business School and its Healthcare Initiative, where some 40 faculty conduct research on questions as diverse as how "work-around" cultures develop in hospitals View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • Web

Recruiting Partners - Health Care

Careers Recruiting Partners Our recruiting partners include leading biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostic companies, as well as financial services, consulting, health care delivery, and health services... View Details
  • April 15, 2020
  • Other Article

Designating Certain Post-Acute Care Facilities As COVID-19 Skilled Care Centers Can Increase Hospital Capacity And Keep Nursing Home Patients Safer

By: Leemore S. Dafny and Steven S. Lee
As the number of COVID-19 cases nationwide continues to grow, many hospitals will need to convert acute care beds into intensive care beds and discharge stable patients to post-acute care settings such as nursing homes. In addition, nursing homes unable to care for... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Nursing Homes; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Safety; Quality
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  • 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
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    Two Hundred Years of Health and Medical Care

    Using two hundred years of national and Massachusetts data on medical care and health, we examine how central medical care is to life expectancy gains. While common theories about medical care cost growth stress growing demand, our analysis highlights the importance of... View Details
    • June 2024
    • Article

    It Is Time to Consider More Price Regulation in Health Care

    By: Sherry Glied and Amitabh Chandra
    Keywords: Price; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Industry
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    • 05 Feb 2024
    • Podcast

    What it Takes to Lead a Successful Turnaround in Health Care

    As a veteran leader in the healthcare sector, José (Joe) E. Almeida, Chairman, President & CEO of Baxter, has made a lot of tough decisions. He led the successful turnaround of the Illinois-based multinational by calling on leadership lessons he gained from his family... View Details
    • September 2019
    • Technical Note

    Care Economy in the U.S. (Primer)

    By: Joseph B. Fuller, William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Carl Kreitzberg
    This case describes how caregiving responsibilities influence American employees, firms, and the broader economy. It details how sociodemographic trends in the late 20th century transformed the way that Americans balance their personal and professional lives, analyzing... View Details
    Keywords: Human Resources; Talent and Talent Management; Demographics; Labor; Health Care and Treatment; Family and Family Relationships; Strategy; Management; United States
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    • 18 Jan 2023
    • News

    Should You Trust Private Equity to Take Care of Your Dog?

    • September 2007 (Revised January 2009)
    • Case

    Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care (A) (Abridged)

    By: Roy D. Shapiro
    Reading Rehab Hospital has experimented with a popular concept in health care--patient-focused care--intended to increase quality and reduce costs by organizing care delivery around particular diagnoses or "service lines," rather than around the functions or... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Quality; Cost; Management Practices and Processes; Business Strategy; Service Delivery; Health Industry
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    • 14 Apr 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Economic Crisis and Medical Care Usage

    Keywords: by Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel Schneider & Peter Tufano; Health
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Expert Patients’ Use of Avoidable Health Care

    By: Amitabh Chandra, Pragya Kakani and Simone Matecna
    We measure whether expert patients – those trained as physicians and nurses – have fewer emergency department visits and the reasons for these differences. Relative to similar patients physicians and nurses had 19.8% and 5.1% fewer ED visits, principally due to fewer... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Health Industry
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    • 04 Jul 2011
    • News

    Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care

    • Video

    Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care

    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Two Hundred Years of Health and Medical Care: The Importance of Medical Care for Life Expectancy Gains

    By: Maryaline Catillon, David Cutler and Thomas Getzen
    Using two hundred years of national and Massachusetts data on medical care and health, we examine how central medical care is to life expectancy gains. While common theories about medical care cost growth stress growing demand, our analysis highlights the importance of... View Details
    Keywords: Mortality; Life Expectancy; Medical Care; Productivity; Public Health; Healthcare Spending; Spending Per Year Of Life Gained; Personal Medicine; Technophysio Evolution; Health; Economics; Health Care and Treatment; Spending; Data and Data Sets; Health Industry
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    • 01 Jun 2016
    • News

    Taking Care of Business

    Winners the HBS New Venture Competition don’t rest on their laurels for long—the ink is hardly dry on those prizewinning checks before it’s time to shift to a higher gear. (This year’s cash prizes in the... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna
    • Web

    Student Activities - Health Care

    MBA Experience Student Activities At HBS, there are more than 200 health care-related events annually for students to engage in health care activities, network with alumni who work in the sector, and delve... View Details
    • October 26, 2015
    • Article

    Measuring and Communicating Health Care Value with Charts

    By: Robert S. Kaplan, Robin P. Blackstone, Derek A. Haas and Nikhil G. Thaker
    The goal of a health care system should be to deliver the most value to patients: the outcomes achieved for treating a medical condition relative to the costs incurred over a complete care cycle. We have found that a radar (spider web) chart is an effective means to... View Details
    Keywords: Service Delivery; Value; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    • Research Summary

    Innovation and Performance Improvement in Health Care

    By: Robert S. Huckman
    This stream of Professor Huckman's work examines how organizations delivering health care can structure and manage their activities to improve operational performance.  It addresses issues including the impact of various forms of familiarity on performance, the impact... View Details