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and Connecticut General Insurance Corporation, where Jones became the first African American board member. Otis Gates III MBA 1963 Otis Gates grew up in Roxbury and graduated from both Harvard College and HBS. In 1968, Gates began his... View Details

12 Jul 2006
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Competition the Cure for Healthcare

past. Health plans think of themselves as insurance companies because that is what they started out doing. Providers are organized around the old functional structure of specialties, rather than integrated... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

ownership role of physicians. Some health insurers added technology as a major asset, and VCs and PEs invested heavily in these new businesses. But the powerful status quo opposes these innovations unless... View Details

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

health justice, and social justice. Ultimately, we need to create a new decision-making paradigm, where our business strategies and choices fully consider the short- and long-term impacts we have on the environment, on communities, and on... View Details

September 2016
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Value Based Care and Bundled Payments: Anesthesia Care Costs for Outpatient Oncology Surgery Using Time-driven Activity-based Costing

By: Katy E. French, Alexis B. Guzman, Augustin C. Rubio, John C. Frenzel and Thomas Feeley

Background: With the movement towards bundled payments, stakeholders should know the true cost of the care they deliver. Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) can be used to estimate costs for each episode of care. In this analysis, TDABC is used to both... View Details

Keywords: Cost; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

Entrepreneurship Essentials introduces participants to the entrepreneurial journey from finding an idea to gaining traction in the marketplace to raising capital for a venture. Participants learn an overarching framework—People,... View Details

20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits

find an alternative that he loved as much as the real deal. In Walker, he found an award-winning brewer who recognized the opportunity in the marketplace and was up for the challenge—against the advice of everyone in the industry, as the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

16 Jul 2014
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Marketing Obamacare

did just that, says Quelch. After legislation was passed, 14 states exercised the option to set up their own health insurance exchanges, as opposed to the other 36, which defaulted to the federal exchange.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Dec 2013
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Oscar Winners

2007) and they have just one word for you: insurance. The trio are cofounders of Oscar Health Insurance (hioscar.com), their brand-new online company—competing with more than a dozen other View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

23 Jul 2024
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Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

people with health insurance often are saddled with medical debt. Policymakers have taken notice, and in an election year amid an uncertain economy, health care, debt, and... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

13 Oct 2009
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7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

CEO Dan Vasella made counterintuitive moves by expanding Novartis's generic drug, vaccines, and consumer health businesses in spending heavily on acquisitions to offer alternatives to patented drugs. Meanwhile, he focused Novartis's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
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Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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24 Jan 2005
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Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

established an insurance plan that insures many rural poor in two large, populous states in India for the equivalent of ten cents a day: "The numbers of people are so large, that for ten cents a day the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

05 Aug 2002
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Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

care system into a consumer-driven model. What, in a nutshell, are the advantages to your proposal? And the risks? Herzlinger: The pros of consumer-driven health care: Unlike today's cookie-cutter insurance... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2017
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Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

that today’s nurse shortage could reach 1.2 million vacancies in the same time frame. Alexi Nazem (MBA 2011) has seen the impact of these shortages firsthand. “Health care is a very broken system,” says the doctor and cofounder of Nomad Health, an online View Details

Keywords: April White

17 Nov 2003
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The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

analyze the complexities of disease management and check all avenues for potential business opportunities. The participants, almost all of them health professionals, sorted through the risks and benefits of disease management for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

02 Sep 2014
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Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

risks of business ownership and relaxing credit constraints," Olds writes in the 2014 paper "Entrepreneurship and Public Health Insurance." Studying The Social Safety Net Olds grew up on Medicaid, a Federal View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Opinion: Making It Better

Global Health Care (BIG), an Executive Education program that attracted, among others, the Nigerian and Liberian ministers of health, the founders of South Africa's second-largest health View Details

Keywords: Herzlinger, Regina; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

other thing I would say is, and I’ve been meaning to get this off my chest for a few weeks, where are the health insurers in all of this? They’ve done a few things, like pay for COVID tests and waive... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2016
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Off Script

(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

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