National Health Insurance - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 2002
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Price-Fixing Vignettes

By: Guhan Subramanian and Michelle Kalka

This case escribes the antitrust prosecutions in the United States and abroad of the international bulk vitamins cartel. Both the civil and criminal fines were historically high, and it was the first time the United States prosecuted foreign nationals for U.S. criminal... View Details

Keywords: Price; Lawsuits and Litigation; Governance Compliance; Auctions; Laws and Statutes; Monopoly; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States

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17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016

2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: John A. Quelch. Abstract—The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 2009 (Revised November 2016)
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Generation Health: A Pioneer in Genetics Benefit Management (A)

By: Robert F. Higgins, Jeffrey D. Marrazzo and Rachel Gordon

Generation Health, a pioneer in the new field of genetics benefit management and a newly formed company, faces many strategic issues. CEO Per Lofberg is in the midst of negotiating a partnership with a major pharmacy benefit management company. As part of these... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Genetics; Health Industry; Health Industry

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Business & Environment

how it differs from traditional seawalls or breakwaters. Alex also discusses navigating public policy, permitting, and insurance incentives, and finally, Alex shares her career advice for those who are interested in climate resilience.... View Details

Michael Lingzhi Li

Keywords: health care; health care

21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

others. Our results can help explain a variety of behavioral phenomena including the structure of social insurance programs, patterns of public good provision, and why transactions that turn money into time are often deemed repugnant.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Internal Deadlines, Drug Approvals, and Safety Problems

By: Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun and Danielle Li

Absent explicit quotas, incentives, reporting, or fiscal year-end motives, drug approvals around the world surge in December, at month-ends, and before respective major national holidays. Drugs approved before these informal deadlines are associated with significantly... View Details

Keywords: Health; Economics; Government and Politics; Innovation and Invention; Research; Science; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry

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05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

Foreign investment in developing countries has always involved an element of risk. Just ask Verizon Communications, which could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in Venezuela should President Hugo Chávez follow through with plans announced in January to View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

corporate responses were not homogeneous. There were major variations between individual managers, companies, industrial sectors, and national business systems. This working paper supports this reinterpretation by examining the case of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 2021
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Medical Debt in the U.S., 2009–2020

By: Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong and Wesley Yin

Importance: Medical debt is an increasing concern in the US, yet there is limited understanding of the amount and distribution of medical debt, and its association with health care policies.

Objective: To measure the amount of medical debt nationally and by... View Details

Keywords: Debt; Borrowing and Debt; Health Care and Treatment; United States

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19 Aug 2020
News

Krispy Kreme: Top-Line Up Double Digits Thru Pandemic (Podcast)

18 Feb 2015
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https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715411-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-423 Discovery Limited Discovery Limited is a South-African based insurance company. Started in the early 1990s, Discovery used behavioral economics... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Mar 2024
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Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

place, discussing one’s next step (or departure) wouldn’t feel abrupt or discriminatory. Health Wing works with a company that saw almost a million dollars in unexpected health care costs last year because... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

http://www.ajmc.com/publications/issue/2013/2013-1-vol19-n9/Testimonials-Do-Not-Convert-Patients-From-Brand-to-Generic-Medication August 2013 Health Affairs Lessons from England's Health Care Workforce... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2013
Teaching Note

Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao

Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details

Keywords: China; Hospitals; China

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2013
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Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao

Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details

Keywords: China; Hospitals; China

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March 2012
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Fixing What's Wrong with U. S. Politics

By: David A. Moss

In America today there's a growing sense that the political system is broken and that its ineffectiveness is a major threat to U.S. competitiveness. Why do so many think the political system is not working? Research shows that in Congress, Republicans and Democrats are... View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; System; Conflict Management; Performance Productivity; Policy; Public Administration Industry; United States

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07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

Experiences, and Overindebtedness Authors:Annamaria Lusardi and Peter Tufano Publication:NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14808, March 2009 Abstract We analyze a national sample of Americans with respect to their debt literacy, financial... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

system and the patients they care for.” The study’s analyses carefully accounted for the recipient practice of the messages and patient characteristics such as age, ZIP code of residence, health status, View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health

March 2017 (Revised March 2017)
Case

OpenNotes

By: Jeffrey Rayport and Annelena Lobb

In 2017, executives at OpenNotes, a national movement to improve the relationship between doctors and patients by sharing doctors’ visit notes about patients with patients, were considering options in efforts to achieve scale. The movement hoped to reach 50 million... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technology Adoption; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States

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