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  • September 2024
  • Case

The Health Equity Accelerator at Boston Medical Center

By: Susanna Gallani, Mary Witkowski and Katie Sonnefeldt
This case describes how Boston Medical Center, a hospital and safety net organization, changed its strategic approach to health equity after realizing that previous efforts were not sufficient to address the health disparities among their patients. In 2021, the Health... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Decisions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Diversity; Race; Ethnicity; Urban Scope; Local Range; Equality and Inequality; Health Industry; Boston
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Gallani, Susanna, Mary Witkowski, and Katie Sonnefeldt. "The Health Equity Accelerator at Boston Medical Center." Harvard Business School Case 125-039, September 2024.
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How Not to Cut Health Care Costs

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Derek A. Haas
Health care providers in much of the world are trying to respond to the tremendous pressure to reduce costs—but evidence suggests that many of their attempts are counterproductive, raising costs and sometimes decreasing the quality of care. Using evidence from field... View Details
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Kaplan, Robert S., and Derek A. Haas. "How Not to Cut Health Care Costs." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 11 (November 2014): 116–122.
  • November 2023
  • Article

Effects of Remote Patient Monitoring Use on Care Outcomes Among Medicare Patients with Hypertension

By: Mitchell Tang, Carter Nakamoto, Ariel Dora Stern, Jose Zubizarreta, Felippe Marcondes, Lori Uscher-Pines, Lee Schwamm and Ateev Mehrotra
Background: Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a promising tool for improving chronic disease management. Use of RPM for hypertension monitoring is growing rapidly, raising concerns about increased spending. However, the effects of RPM are still... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Health Care and Treatment; Measurement and Metrics
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Tang, Mitchell, Carter Nakamoto, Ariel Dora Stern, Jose Zubizarreta, Felippe Marcondes, Lori Uscher-Pines, Lee Schwamm, and Ateev Mehrotra. "Effects of Remote Patient Monitoring Use on Care Outcomes Among Medicare Patients with Hypertension." Annals of Internal Medicine 176, no. 11 (November 2023): 1465–1475.
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Health Care Providers Need a Value Management Office

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Catherine H. MacLean, Alexander Dresner, Derek A. Haas and Thomas W. Feeley
Many health care organizations are striving to implement a value agenda that delivers better patient outcomes at lower cost, medical condition by medical condition. To accelerate the dissemination and adoption of the value agenda, across many more medical conditions,... View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Value; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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Kaplan, Robert S., Catherine H. MacLean, Alexander Dresner, Derek A. Haas, and Thomas W. Feeley. "Health Care Providers Need a Value Management Office." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 2, 2015). (Part of the “Leading Change in Health Care” series, a collaboration of the editors of Harvard Business Review and NEJM Group.)
  • 09 Dec 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict

Keywords: by Quy-Toan Do & Lakshmi Iyer
  • October 19, 2015
  • Article

Getting Bundled Payments Right in Health Care

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Derek A. Haas, Dereesa Reid, Jonathan Warsh and Michael E. West
Bundled payments—single payments that cover all the care for a patient’s medical condition or treatment over a specified timeframe—are increasingly being deployed to motivate the delivery of better patient outcomes at lower costs. Hoag Orthopedic Institute (HOI), a... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Marketing; Health Industry
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Kaplan, Robert S., Derek A. Haas, Dereesa Reid, Jonathan Warsh, and Michael E. West. "Getting Bundled Payments Right in Health Care." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 19, 2015). (A collaboration of the editors of Harvard Business Review and the New England Journal of Medicine.)
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

for-profit health care organization led to better patient outcomes at the same time that "provider engagement and feeling of satisfaction have increased, our costs have fallen and our net profit has... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care (Harvard Business Press, 2009), explains how to create more knowledgeable, flexible, and responsive delivery organizations. “Some of the most important innovations are not technologic—they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
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My Favorite Slide: The Entrepreneurial Gap Applied to Health Care

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Robert Simons
Value-based health care increases physicians’ accountability for patient outcomes. Many have resisted, claiming that patient outcomes are influenced by many forces outside their control, such as patient’s compliance with post-acute and rehab care. The difference... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Motivation and Incentives
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Kaplan, Robert S., and Robert Simons. "My Favorite Slide: The Entrepreneurial Gap Applied to Health Care." NEJM Catalyst (March 8, 2017). (Blog Post.)
  • 16 Jul 2008
  • Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

must expect health plans to direct patients to excellent providers, not those provider networks that offer the biggest discounts.” What to do? The most important single change necessary is for employers to think about View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health
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Value-based Healthcare: Implications for Thyroid Cancer

By: A.K. Ying, T.W. Feeley and M. E. Porter
Today's delivery of care to thyroid cancer patients is complex, and costly, with uneven outcomes that can be improved. The incidence of thyroid cancer is rising and requires coordinated, multidisciplinary care with high volume centers that is not always available in... View Details
Keywords: Bundled Reimbursement; Healthcare Reform; Integrated Practice Units; Outcomes; Patient-reported Outcomes; Thyroid Cancer; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Information Technology; Value
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Ying, A.K., T.W. Feeley, and M. E. Porter. "Value-based Healthcare: Implications for Thyroid Cancer." International Journal of Endocrine Oncology 3, no. 2 (May 2016): 115–129. (e-Pub 4/2016.)
  • 03 Sep 2020
  • Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

see which clinicians, hospitals, insurers, and others provide the best value." Even if the Trump rules hold up, they cannot provide the full accounting of prices and outcomes the health care system... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health
  • May 2025
  • Case

Dell Med: Transforming Care Delivery & Payment

By: Robert S. Kaplan, David N. Bernstein and Mary L. Witkowski
Health care in the U.S. and globally continues to undergo massive transformation, surging towards a system that rewards value for patients. However, widespread adoption of value-based health care remains a challenge. This case study focuses on the care delivery... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Practice Units; Outcomes Measurement; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Business Strategy; Leading Change; Decisions; Transformation; Service Delivery; Adoption; Value; Health Industry; United States; Texas
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Kaplan, Robert S., David N. Bernstein, and Mary L. Witkowski. "Dell Med: Transforming Care Delivery & Payment." Harvard Business School Case 125-117, May 2025.
  • February 2024
  • Article

Investing in Long-Term Health

By: Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra
Keywords: Insurance; Outcome or Result; Health Care and Treatment
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Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Investing in Long-Term Health." e240193. JAMA Health Forum 5, no. 2 (February 2024).
  • 27 Feb 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

accounting have to do with improving patient outcomes in Haiti? HBS faculty members discuss their research and what it means for patients, providers, and industries. A Good Place to Start Clayton Christensen on Disrupting View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Health
  • 29 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

mental health is an outcome of improvements in economic development.” “We haven’t been as good at understanding the link between mental health and economics as we could be” A... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • July 2015
  • Background Note

The State of U.S. Public Health: Challenges and Trends

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Howard Koh and Pamela Yatsko
The World Health Organization defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity." For many Americans, the World Health Organization's definition of true health seems unattainable, given... View Details
Keywords: Public Health; Public Sector; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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Kanter, Rosabeth M., Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko. "The State of U.S. Public Health: Challenges and Trends." Harvard Business School Background Note 316-001, July 2015.
  • 26 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress

them," says Goh. Making The Stress-health Connection Unlike in Europe, little or no data exists in the US that correlates exposure to workplace stress with health outcomes or View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • November 2015
  • Article

Influence of Experience and the Surgical Learning Curve on Long-term Patient Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery

By: Bryan M. Burt, Andrew W. ElBardissi, Robert S. Huckman, Lawrence H. Cohn, Marisa W. Cevasco, James D. Rawn, Sary F. Aranki and John G. Byrne
OBJECTIVE: We hypothesized that increased post-graduate surgical experience correlates with improved operative efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures.

METHODS: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database,... View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Value; Health Care and Treatment; Experience and Expertise; Health Industry
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Burt, Bryan M., Andrew W. ElBardissi, Robert S. Huckman, Lawrence H. Cohn, Marisa W. Cevasco, James D. Rawn, Sary F. Aranki, and John G. Byrne. "Influence of Experience and the Surgical Learning Curve on Long-term Patient Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery." Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 150, no. 5 (November 2015): 1061–1067.
  • November 2024
  • Article

The Health Costs of Cost Sharing

By: Amitabh Chandra, Evan Flack and Ziad Obermeyer
What happens when patients suddenly stop their medications? We study the health consequences of drug interruptions caused by large, abrupt, and arbitrary changes in price. Medicare’s prescription drug benefit as-if-randomly assigns 65-year-olds a drug budget as a... View Details
Keywords: Outcome or Result; Health Care and Treatment; Budgets and Budgeting; Cost
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Chandra, Amitabh, Evan Flack, and Ziad Obermeyer. "The Health Costs of Cost Sharing." Quarterly Journal of Economics 139, no. 4 (November 2024): 2037–2082.
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