Publications

01 Sep 2005
News

Making History, Starting Over

the time the go-go ’90s rolled around, Apax was poised for spectacular growth. The firm’s European funds, which focused on telecommunications, IT, retail and consumer goods, media, health care, and financial/business services, returned an... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

Arthur G. Gaston

Gaston first established Booker T. Washington Burial Insurance Company to offer health and life insurance to black families to help them secure eloquent and respectable funeral services. Upon that success, BTW continued to grow, adding... View Details

Keywords: Finance

June 1992
Teaching Note

Hospital Replacement Decision, Hospital Corp. of America: Financial Analysis, and Humana, Inc., Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Decision Making; Finance; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States

September 2022
Article

Cost of Cardiac Stereotactic Body Radioablation Therapy versus Catheter Ablation for Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia

By: Chen Wei, Michelle Boeck, Pierre C. Qian, Todd Vivenzio, Zoe Elizee, Jeremy S. Bredfeldt, Robert S. Kaplan, Usha Tedrow, Raymond Mak and Paul C. Zei

Cardiac SBRT is a novel way of treating refractory ventricular tachycardia (VT) that may be less costly than catheter ablation, owing to its noninvasive, outpatient nature. We applied time-driven activity-based costing to both procedures. The direct and total... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost; Health Industry

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November 1990 (Revised February 1991)
Case

Commonwealth Blood Transfusion Service

For the first time, the Commonwealth Blood Transfusion Service (CBTS) has to determine product costs for the output of its plasma fractionation center. The motivation for determining product costs is political in nature. Therefore, the CBTS has to find a way to report... View Details

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

Educators

1984
Article

Return to Nursing Home Investment: Issues for Public Policy

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Christine E. Bishop

Keywords: Health; Investment; Policy; Health Industry

winter 1971
Article

Patient Incentives and Hospital Insurance

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Lester Lave

Keywords: Health; Insurance; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry

November 25, 2015
Article

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; Health Industry; Health Industry

July 2016
Article

Economic Implications of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Embryo Transfer Guidelines: Healthcare Dollars Saved by Reducing Iatrogenic Triplets

By: Malinda S. Lee, Brady T. Evans, Ariel Dora Stern and Mark D. Hornstein

Objective: To estimate the national cost savings resulting from reductions in higher-order multiple (HOM) live births (defined as three or more fetuses), following the initial publication of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) guidelines on ET in... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Cost Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

January 2017 (Revised January 2019)
Case

Shisong Cardiac Center: Kumbo, Cameroon

By: Kevin Schulman and Nelly-Ange Konthcou

Shisong Cardiac Center in Kumbo, Cameroon, is a regional cardiac referral center in central Africa. As the continent transitions from communicable to non-communicable diseases, there is a critical shortage of surgical care required to treat these conditions. This case... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Operations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Africa

Educators

February 2010
Teaching Note

Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron

Teaching Note for [710425]. View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Service Delivery; Quality; Performance; Insurance; Growth and Development; Health Industry; Taiwan

01 Sep 2020
News

We Rise

Ventures True Wealth Ventures also focuses specifically on the sustainable consumer and consumer health sectors, areas in which, Rupp estimates, women make 80 to 85 percent of the purchasing decisions. Considering all those factors, she... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

July 2006
Article

The Effects of Cardiac Specialty Hospitals on the Cost and Quality of Medical Care

By: Jason R. Barro, Robert S. Huckman and Daniel P. Kessler

Keywords: Health; Cost; Quality; Health Industry

21 Oct 2013
News

Moving the Needle

hospital stays and doctors' visits showed her the health care system up close. "I realized that I really wanted to make a difference," she recalls. At Harvard, this self-described "contrarian" recalls having to push her idea of promoting... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Finance; Finance

06 Jun 2012
News

Fellowship Funder

Mencoff: A commitment to meritocracy as a core American value. Photo courtesy Samuel Mencoff “A cross between Walter Wriston and Davy Crockett” is how Sam Mencoff (MBA 1981) and his classmates used to affectionately describe HBS finance... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Finance

November 2005 (Revised November 2005)
Case

Massachusetts General Hospital and the Enbrel Royalty

By: David S. Scharfstein and Darren R. Smart

Massachusetts General Hospital is considering selling its royalty interest in Enbrel, Amgen's blockbuster drug for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. In assessing whether to sell, and at what price, the hospital must determine its value to a potential buyer as well... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Price; Investment Return; Capital; Value; Revenue; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts

Educators

August 2022
Supplement

NOW PT (B): Should We Invest?

By: George A. Riedel, Amy Klopfenstein and Mel Martin

This (B) case examines the results of the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team’s diligence on Neurologic Optimal Wellness Physical Therapy (NOW PT). After examining Springfield’s demographics, anticipated PT demand, local competition, and NOW PT’s financial... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Buildings and Facilities; Health Industry; Health Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts

03 Jun 2020
News

Weathering the Storm

Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) In this special video edition of Skydeck, contributing host Chitra Nawbatt (GMP 6, 2009) speaks with 645 Ventures Cofounder and General Partner Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) about near-term and long-term strategies for... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Finance

1990
Chapter

Analysis of Cost Variances for Management Control in Hospitals

By: S. Datar, R. Banker and S. Das

Keywords: Cost Management; Health Care and Treatment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Health Industry