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- October 1997 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Oxford Health Plans: Specialty Management (A)
By: James L. Heskett, Jody H. Gittell and James Slayton
Describes an innovative approach to organizing health care proposed by Oxford CEO Steve Wiggins. Wiggins contends that the primary care physician "gatekeeper" model typically used by health maintenance organizations to control access to and coordinate specialist care... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Groups and Teams; Innovation and Management; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Cooperation; Management Teams; Health Industry; United States
Heskett, James L., Jody H. Gittell, and James Slayton. "Oxford Health Plans: Specialty Management (A)." Harvard Business School Case 898-042, October 1997. (Revised March 2000.)
- Web
Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement
Blog Blog Health Care and Life Science at HBS Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS... View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
- News
Give Employees Cash to Buy Care
- May 15, 2012
- Article
Ensuring Quality Cancer Care: A Follow-Up Review of the Institute of Medicine’s 10 Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in America
By: Tracy E. Spinks, Heidi W. Albright, Thomas W. Feeley, Ron Walters, Thomas W. Burke, Thomas Aloia, Eduardo Bruera, Aman Buzdar, Lewis Foxhall, David Hui, Barbara Summers, Alma Rodriguez, Raymond DuBois and Kenneth I. Shine
Responding to growing concerns regarding the safety, quality, and efficacy of cancer care in the United States, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences commissioned a comprehensive review of cancer care delivery in the US health care system... View Details
Keywords: Cancer; Quality; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Quality Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; North and Central America
Spinks, Tracy E., Heidi W. Albright, Thomas W. Feeley, Ron Walters, Thomas W. Burke, Thomas Aloia, Eduardo Bruera, Aman Buzdar, Lewis Foxhall, David Hui, Barbara Summers, Alma Rodriguez, Raymond DuBois, and Kenneth I. Shine. "Ensuring Quality Cancer Care: A Follow-Up Review of the Institute of Medicine’s 10 Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in America." Cancer 118, no. 10 (May 15, 2012): 2571–2582.
- Article
Designing Transparency Systems for Medical Care Prices
By: David Cutler and Leemore S. Dafny
In the contentious political environment surrounding health care reform, calls for increased price transparency in health care are among the few areas of general agreement. But the wrong kind of transparency could actually harm patients, rather than help them. View Details
Cutler, David, and Leemore S. Dafny. "Designing Transparency Systems for Medical Care Prices." New England Journal of Medicine 364, no. 10 (March 10, 2011): 894–895.
- 31 Oct 2022
- Video
Health Minute: Robert Huckman
- 08 Jun 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Assessing the Value of Pediatric Aerodigestive Care
- March 2020 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Last Mile Health (A)
By: Brian Trelstad and V. Kasturi Rangan
As the Ebola outbreak threatens the fragile health system of Liberia, Raj Panjabi, the founder of Last Mile Health, faces a dilemma: should he expand beyond the organizaton's core mission to help the country build emergency health care capacity, or should he stick to... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Ebola; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Rural Scope; Health Pandemics; Growth and Development; Decisions; Health Industry; Africa
Trelstad, Brian, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Last Mile Health (A)." Harvard Business School Case 320-027, March 2020. (Revised August 2020.)
- October 2012 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
Rock Health
By: Robert F. Higgins and Ian McKown Cornell
Rock Health was a San Francisco–based nonprofit organization offering accelerator services to spur innovation at the intersection of healthcare and technology. The company was the creation of Halle Tecco (HBS '11) and her HBS classmate Nate Gross (HBS '11), who met... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Incubation; Healthcare Technology; Startups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Business Startups; Health Industry; San Francisco; California; United States
Higgins, Robert F., and Ian McKown Cornell. "Rock Health." Harvard Business School Case 813-035, October 2012. (Revised October 2013.)
- Web
Field Course: Advanced Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Advanced Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care Course Number 6340 Nancy R. McPherson Professor Regina Herzlinger Visiting Lecturer Ben Creo Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits... View Details
- March 2009 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Spine Care
By: Robert S. Huckman, Michael E. Porter, Rachel Gordon and Natalie Kindred
Describes the Spine Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a multidisciplinary unit that offers patients suffering from spinal problems "one-stop" access to a range of providers including orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, neurologists, medical specialists in... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Integration; Value Creation; Health Industry; United States
Huckman, Robert S., Michael E. Porter, Rachel Gordon, and Natalie Kindred. "Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Spine Care." Harvard Business School Case 609-016, March 2009. (Revised September 2010.)
- winter 1994
- Article
The Fundamental Forces Reshaping U.S. Health Care and How to Respond to Them
Herzlinger, Regina E. "The Fundamental Forces Reshaping U.S. Health Care and How to Respond to Them." Managed Care Quarterly (winter 1994).
- May 2025 (Revised May 2025)
- Case
Humana Commits to Value-Based Care
By: V.G. Narayanan, Henry Eyring and David Lane
In late 2023, CEO Bruce Broussard reviewed health insurer Humana’s transformation into a value-based care ecosystem. Under its CenterWell brand, the several millions of members in Humana Medicare Advantage plans now had access to Humana-provided primary care, home... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Units; Financing and Loans; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Mergers and Acquisitions; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Partners and Partnerships; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States
Narayanan, V.G., Henry Eyring, and David Lane. "Humana Commits to Value-Based Care." Harvard Business School Case 125-013, May 2025. (Revised May 2025.)
- Article
Shifting toward Defined Contributions—Predicting the Effects
By: Kevin Schulman, Barak D. Richman and Regina E. Herzlinger
Schulman, Kevin, Barak D. Richman, and Regina E. Herzlinger. "Shifting toward Defined Contributions—Predicting the Effects." New England Journal of Medicine 370, no. 26 (June 26, 2014).
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Market-Based Solutions to Antitrust Threats—The Rejection of the Partners Settlement
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Barak D. Richman and Kevin A. Schulman
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Industry; Health Care Policy; Health Care Services; Antitrust; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., Barak D. Richman, and Kevin A. Schulman. "Market-Based Solutions to Antitrust Threats—The Rejection of the Partners Settlement." New England Journal of Medicine 372, no. 14 (April 2, 2015): 1287–1289.
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Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance
By: Katherine Baicker, Sendhil Mullainathan and Joshua Schwartzstein
A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of low-value medical care because copays are lower than costs. In these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample... View Details
Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein. "Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance." Quarterly Journal of Economics 130, no. 4 (November 2015): 1623–1667. (Online Appendix.)
- 31 Oct 2022
- Video