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- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
Services (CMS). CMS is the government agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid, programs that provide health insurance to more than one in three Americans. Due to our size, our actions impact the entire... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
health insurance company, social norming can cut both ways. In the project, the company set up an intervention to increase participation in using "walk stations" that allow employees to exercise on a... View Details
- Web
Krisha Patel | MBA
technology/business, especially in the health sector. I am currently working on a platform, ling.ai, to detect developmental language disorders for non-native English speakers, inspired by my own family and friends. Exploring deployment... View Details
- Web
Cameron Cohen | MBA
interested in the intersection of machine learning and economics and how we can develop automation for social good. Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business Last summer, I worked for a startup that developed machine learning models for View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
including start-up, funding, growth, alliances and collaboration, and performance measurement — to help readers gain an in-depth understanding of the distinctive characteristics of the social enterprise context and organizations. Who Killed View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
Kyruus’s search engine enables consumers to find the best providers for their health care needs. Since he was eight years old, Graham Gardner, MD (MBA 2007) knew he wanted to be a doctor. Once he completed his training as a cardiologist,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Career Coach
Phil Wong
operational foundation for running healthcare practices. Prior to pivoting into healthcare, Phil was a portfolio manager at a fund of hedge funds managing $1Bn+ on behalf of pension plans and insurance companies. His investing role... View Details
- 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
- Web
1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
are responsible for confirming the details of their personal international health insurance coverage, which includes verifying the details of benefits, the claims submission process, and potential... View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
indeed, the entire travel-nursing sector—entered a growth phase as newly insured people sought health care and the demand for nurses surged. During this time, many of Nightingale’s competitors sold to... View Details
- Web
1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA
their personal international health insurance coverage, which includes verifying the details of benefits, the claims submission process, and potential out-of-pocket costs while traveling.... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in health care. We argue that the prevalence of choice difficulties and biases leading to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
Defensive medicine spurs innovation They found, ultimately—and perhaps counterintuitively—that far from being an inhibitor to innovation, the practice of defensive medicine might have actually encouraged it. Legal liability pressure in View Details
- 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
Dafny, Leemore S., Katherine Ho, and Robin S. Lee. "The Price Effects of Cross-Market Mergers: Theory and Evidence from the Hospital Industry." RAND Journal of Economics 50, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 286–325.
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
instruction. The initial phases of planning and design have just begun, with construction anticipated to commence in the summer of 2000 and completion scheduled for late 2001. Hawes retired last year as chairman and CEO of Life Re Corporation, a Stamford,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
employer and employee, Nomad manages the process, from background checks to malpractice insurance to payroll. It charges health care institutions a 15 percent commission for each hire—a transparency unheard... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
practiced; what it means to be a “health care provider” needs to expand to include caregivers without advanced clinical degrees; and the United States needs a new health insurance model. Huckman concludes,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
For her innovative research and outspoken advocacy of US health-care reform, Professor Regina Herzlinger is known in some media circles as "the godmother of consumer-driven health care." At HBS, she holds the distinction of being the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
ramifications that need to be dealt with as public policy. As for the notion that private-sector efficiency automatically reduces costs, consider that most private health insurance companies spend 10 to 30... View Details
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3. Financial Obligations | MBA
3. Financial Obligations 3.1 Student Accounts 3.2 Financial Aid 3.3 Student Cost of Attendance 3.4 Tuition & Fees 3.5 Withdrawals, Leaves of Absence, & Return of Federal/Title IV Funding 3.6 VA Benefits 3.7 Financial Aid Fraud 3.8 Health... View Details