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12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

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

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

22 Feb 2024
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GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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

November 25, 2015
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Developing Bundled Reimbursement for Cancer Care

By: Thomas Feeley, Tracy E. Spinks and Alexis Guzman

This case study describes the development of a bundled reimbursement pilot for head and neck cancer patients treated at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The study describes the steps involved and the challenges to new alternative payment models in... View Details

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

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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

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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

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

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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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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19 Sep 2016
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Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

presented their research on occupational safety to managers at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, “both they and we learned a lot.” And let’s not forget small companies; some 90 percent of businesses in the United States... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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

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

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

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

trying to secure specimens. Alongside primary medical education providers, a large number and wide range of other users are also trying to secure cadavers for their own needs. The continuing training of medical doctors, for instance, relies on cadavers. In addition,... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

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 Mar 2014
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Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue

make decisions in challenging situations. Health care reform was making national headlines—and not in a good way—about the time the conference was held. Did you find that it quelled optimism or that people simply viewed it as another... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; healthcare; HBSAAA

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 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

01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient

Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

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Competition the Cure for Healthcare

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Marketing Obamacare

Developing Bundled Reimbursement for Cancer Care

Harvard Business School

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

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

Leadership and Teaming

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

Oscar Winners

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue

Faculty Opinion: Making It Better

Off Script

Model Patient