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31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

be important to determine how often physicians feel pressured into prescribing drugs inappropriately, and if this affects patient health. Silk: An important question facing policymakers is rising health care View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Involved Videos Books Articles PUBLICATIONS: Articles HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW (September 2011) Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter This... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

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 are many, including the high... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

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Kyle Schultz

Kyle Schultz (MBA 2004) works with a software company that is developing ways to notify patients about the costs of their health care procedures and the ways insurance can be applied. View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

01 Aug 2013
News

A Cure for Cold Storage

percent of the children are vaccinated against the virus. And the price of the vaccine is negligible, says Schrader—around 5 or 10 cents. "It's not cost that limits it," he says, but rather infrastructure: Vaccines rely on a complex and... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; vaccines; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

so the plants have quickly returned to their original CO2 emissions. Other dual-fuel power plants will do the same flip quickly unless there is a carbon cost in place or a high capital cost associated with... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

06 Jan 2012
News

Where Are They Now?

designer. Manufacturing the beds in India keeps costs down, and making them both upgradable and compact gives buyers—Indian health care institutions—the opportunity to increase capacity [more beds in less... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Sep 2014
News

In Search of Innovation

Many of the innovations needed to increase the quality of health care in the United States while reducing its cost already exist, says Professor Richard Hamermesh, faculty cochair of the Forum on View Details

Keywords: April White; faculty research

13 Nov 2020
News

Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19

Labs. “A crisis like this illuminates the importance of innovation.” One example is Umbulizer, which offers a reliable, portable ventilator at 10 percent of the cost of a $40,000 hospital-grade machine. The device recently gained... View Details

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Involved Videos Books FAQs FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQS) Benefits of TDABC for Health Care Q: How is Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) useful in health care? A:... View Details

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universal measurement and public reporting Link reimbursement to clinical performance using outcome reporting Set accounting standards for meaningful cost reporting in health care Accelerate the bundled... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

Action Plan: Just Breathe

pain: major surgery requiring months of recuperation or meditation to manage the stress that was at the root of his health issues. But the practice didn’t fit with his image of a type A, high-powered executive. “I came to meditation... View Details

Keywords: April White

30 Aug 2021
News

One and the Same

Taking notes is often seen as a gendered, secretarial role—something to be avoided at all costs if you were a young woman hoping to make an impact early in your career. But Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) saw it differently. “If you are... View Details

Keywords: wage gap; COVID; women; equality; leadership

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(August 2014) Utah Hospitals Try the Unthinkable: Get a Grip on Costs USA TODAY Julie Appleby (June 2014) Retooling Hospitals, One Data Point at a Time KAISER HEALTH NEWS Julie Appleby (June 2014) Fixing The... View Details

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Involved Videos Books Videos VBHCD Videos Robert Kaplan: Working to Solve Health Care Cost Crisis HBS Professor Robert S. Kaplan speaks in a University of Utah Health Care... View Details

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Previous Year | MBA

Previous Year Cost of Attendance Incoming Class Cost of Attendance 2024–2025 MBA Student Budget Class 2025 (EC) and Class of 2026 (RC) - 9 Months 9-Month Total Cost Single... View Details

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

Companies that outsource merely to shuffle off commodity work to save costs might be missing important opportunities to work with vendors and significantly improve the final product. "When it comes to the outsourcing of many complex... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

people don't want Big Brother. We’re just saying, there’s a cost to that,’” notes Weiss. The downside Bay points to is that if users don’t give the government access to their data, public health officials... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

June 2024
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By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Pre-abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

Abstract: Stephen Holbrook and Austin Pulsipher (both HBS '19) had been leading Nutrishare since acquiring the company six... View Details

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financial, and executive leaders in the health care industry to learn to apply the principles of Value-Based Health Care in their own organizations. Twice a year we offer our Value Measurement in View Details

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