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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing

By: Amitabh Chandra, Evan Flack and Ziad Obermeyer
We use the design of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit program to demonstrate three facts about the health consequences of cost-sharing. First, we show that an as-if-random increase of 33.6% in out-of-pocket price (11.0 percentage points (p.p.) change in... View Details
Keywords: Cost-sharing; Impact; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Health; Consumer Behavior
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    The Power of Experiments

    Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized controlled trials—designed to test the impact of... View Details

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    Faculty & Advisors | MBA

    way clinical trials bottlenecked the development of new treatments for patients, compelling him to start TrialSpark. TrialSpark is a tech-driven drug development company that can run higher quality clinical View Details
    • August 2003 (Revised August 2024)
    • Case

    Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and John McDonough
    Many health care innovations appear successful; but fail. This is the first case in the Innovating Health Care course that investigates how to create successful health care innovations. It is part of the first module in the course. This module focuses on how to... View Details
    Keywords: Three Pillars; Industry Analysis; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Medical Specialties; Health Industry
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    • 2022
    • Book

    Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

    By: Jeremy Friedman
    A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

    In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent... View Details
    Keywords: Socialism; Economic Systems; Globalization; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies
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    • July 2021
    • Article

    Making Medications Stick: Improving Medication Adherence by Highlighting the Personal Health Costs of Non-compliance

    By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Joe J. Gladstone, Dan Berry, Charlotte L. Kirkdale, Tracey Thornley and Adam D. Galinsky
    Poor compliance of prescription medication is an ongoing public health crisis. Nearly half of patients do not take their medication as prescribed, harming their own health while also increasing public health care costs. Despite these detrimental consequences, prior... View Details
    Keywords: Prescription Drugs; Medication Adherence; Personal Health Costs; Health; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Communication Strategy
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    • February 2018
    • Article

    Retention Futility: Targeting High-Risk Customers Might Be Ineffective.

    By: Eva Ascarza
    Companies in a variety of sectors are increasingly managing customer churn proactively, generally by detecting customers at the highest risk of churning and targeting retention efforts towards them. While there is a vast literature on developing churn prediction models... View Details
    Keywords: Retention/churn; Proactive Churn Management; Field Experiments; Heterogeneous Treatment Effect; Machine Learning; Customer Relationship Management; Risk Management
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    • 25 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

    to lead people from different backgrounds are skills that may be better honed on the field and court than in the classroom. “You're spending—and this is true of most varsity athletes—20-plus hours a week in... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 01 Nov 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Nov. 1

    Chancery Court was considering a suit claiming that Del Monte board members had breached their fiduciary duty to shareholders by not pursuing the best transaction for Del Monte. In the course of the discovery phase of the trial, the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Feb 2024
    • HBS Case

    Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent

    within weeks, stronger growth than any other sports team that year. Similarly, sales of Paris Saint-Germain jerseys jumped 40 percent during Messi’s first five months with the team, compared with the previous year, with 60 percent bearing Messi’s name. Beckham View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
    • June 2021
    • Article

    From Predictions to Prescriptions: A Data-driven Response to COVID-19

    By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Léonard Boussioux, Ryan Cory-Wright, Arthur Delarue, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Alexander Jacquillat, Driss Lahlou Kitane, Galit Lukin, Michael Lingzhi Li, Luca Mingardi, Omid Nohadani, Agni Orfanoudaki, Theodore Papalexopoulos, Ivan Paskov, Jean Pauphilet, Omar Skali Lami, Bartolomeo Stellato, Hamza Tazi Bouardi, Kimberly Villalobos Carballo, Holly Wiberg and Cynthia Zeng
    The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges worldwide. Strained healthcare providers make difficult decisions on patient triage, treatment and care management on a daily basis. Policy makers have imposed social distancing measures to slow the disease, at... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Analytics and Data Science
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    • November 2013
    • Case

    Canyon-Agassi Investing in Charter Schools

    By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Nicole Shomair, Vernon Beckford and Lisa Strope
    After an unusual round of doubles in May 2011, real estate investor Bobby Turner, Managing Partner, Canyon-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund (CACSFF) and Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, found himself at a loss for words. Turner was... View Details
    Keywords: Charter Schools; Real Estate; Fund Raising; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Real Estate Industry; United States
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    • February 2007
    • Case

    Update: The Music Industry in 2006

    By: John R. Wells and Elizabeth Raabe
    The global recorded music industry was undergoing a major transition in 2006. Sales had been declining for a decade, and consumers were buying music in new formats and through different distribution channels. CD sales still accounted for the majority of revenues, but... View Details
    Keywords: History; Arts; Music Entertainment; Intellectual Property; Market Timing; Performance Evaluation; Trends; Music Industry
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    • June 2023
    • Case

    The Business of Campaigns

    By: Vincent Pons and Mel Martin
    In 2022, the U.S. Congress examined the Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act, the latest in a long series of campaign finance reforms. According to its authors, the law would be the “most consequential overhaul of federal... View Details
    Keywords: Political Elections; Government Legislation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; United States
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    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment

    By: Jason Acimovic, Chris Parker, David F. Drake and Karthik Balasubramanian
    When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other. Oftentimes workers have the final decision-making power. Two key decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these... View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Decision Making; Training; Performance Improvement; Money; Mobile Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Services Industry
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    • July 31, 2017
    • Article

    A Commitment Contract to Achieve Virologic Suppression in Poorly Adherent Patients with HIV/AIDS

    By: Marcella Alsan, John Beshears, Wendy S. Armstrong, James J. Choi, Brigitte C. Madrian, Minh Ly T. Nguyen, Carlos Del Rio, David Laibson and Vincent C. Marconi
    Objective: Assess whether a commitment contract informed by behavioral economics leads to persistent virologic suppression among HIV-positive patients with poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. Design: Single-center pilot randomized clinical trial and a... View Details
    Keywords: Adherence; Antiretroviral Therapy; Behavioral Economics; Commitment Contract; Financial Incentives; HIV-1 Virologic Suppression; Health Disorders; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 30 Jun 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Empire Struck Back: The Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938 Reconsidered

    Keywords: by Noel Maurer; Energy; Utilities
    • January–February 2024
    • Article

    Shared Service Delivery Can Increase Client Engagement: A Study of Shared Medical Appointments

    By: Ryan W. Buell, Kamalini Ramdas, Nazlı Sönmez, Kavitha Srinivasan and Rengaraj Venkatesh
    Problem Definition: Clients and service providers alike often consider one-on-one service delivery to be ideal, assuming – perhaps unquestioningly – that devoting individualized attention best improves client outcomes. In contrast, in shared service delivery, clients... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Customer Satisfaction; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement
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    • 22 May 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

    prove that it owned the debt in the first place. So judges nationwide have tossed out these collection lawsuits and have canceled the debts of thousands of borrowers. From these court battles, the... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Curriculum - Case Method Project

    White Leagues and the Ku Klux Klan; ‘Redeemer’ Democrats; 1876 election; Compromise of 1877 Reconstruction B: Jury Rights in Virginia, 1877-1880 This case continues to examine some of the central issues of Reconstruction by focusing on a... View Details