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  • December 2016
  • Article

Health Care Needs Real Competition

By: Leemore S. Dafny and Thomas H. Lee
The U.S. health care system is inefficient, unreliable, and crushingly expensive. There is no shortage of proposed solutions, but central to the best of them is the idea that health care needs more competition. In other sectors, competition improves quality and... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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  • 16 Jul 2008
  • Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

the money spent. Cost includes not only the immediate, short-term costs of treatment but the long-term costs of ongoing care as well as the indirect cost of poor health. The goal should be to increase value, not reduce the short-term costs of health benefits. New... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health
  • November 2003 (Revised February 2011)
  • Case

Sanford C. Bernstein: The Fork in the Road (A)

By: Boris Groysberg and Anahita Hashemi
Soon after the death of the firm's legendary founder, the individuals then serving as chairman and as president--Lewis A. Sanders and Roger Hertog, respectively--talked about the future of their firm. Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., a private investment firm, had grown... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Expectations; Competitive Advantage; Valuation
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  • 26 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 26, 2016

Thomas W. Feeley, Diana J. Mason, Richard L. Schilsky, Ellen L. Stovall, and Shelley Fuld Nasso Abstract—"What Health System Transformations Do You Believe Are Necessary for the Future of Health Care?" We need to transform to a true View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2021
  • Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

dozens of proposals for projects. Value-based strategy teaches how to select among these ideas and projects. The most successful firms are very strict: Unless an idea creates value for customers, employees,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • July 1996 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Innovative Opportunities to Manage Health Care Delivery

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and D. Scott Lurding
The purpose of this case is: To familiarize the students with the changing landscape of health care delivery, through chains of retail medical centers and those offering value-based care (VBC).

To discuss fundamental managerial decisions about their... View Details
Keywords: Managed Care; Capitation; Strategy
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  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

Chartered Bank (Standard Chartered). Standard Chartered is one of 94 companies in Heidrick's strategic partners program (SPP). The purpose of the SPP is to build strategic, value-based relationships with clients. Kemp joined Heidrick in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

PUBLISHED PAPERS forthcoming Advances in Strategic Management Strategy Beyond Markets By: Figueiredo, John de, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Rick Vanden Bergh, eds. Abstract—Since the early 1990s, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

competition involves competing to deliver the greatest value for patients. Value-based competition will see more innovation as providers will not be all things to all people, but will create focused "practice areas" that address... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 01 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

©iStock.com/GuidoVrola The bundled payment idea is part of a larger reform proposal called Value-Based Health Care Delivery, based on research by Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor and founder of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

Oncology Value-Based Breast Cancer Care: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Defining Patient-Centered Outcomes By: Feeley, Thomas W., Fayanju M. Oluwadamilola, Tinisha L. Mayo, Tracy E. Spinks, Seohyun Lee, Carlos H. Barcenas, Benjamin D.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

plan improves competition rather than undermines it. To read more: Michael E. Porter, "A Strategy for Health Care Reform - Toward a Value-Based System," New England Journal of Medicine View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • 11 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

Leibniz University Hannover; and her former research fellow, Felicitas Pietrulla. In future research, Stern is examining the pricing strategies for anti-cancer drugs during the years before and after Germany’s regulations took effect. She... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

This article examines product market strategy from the perspective of positioning, using the value-based strategy framework. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 20, 2016

to Jewish organizational life. Inspired by 30 years of pioneering work by retail giant Leslie Wexner’s philanthropic focus on Jewish leadership, More Than Managing brings together diverse and remarkable thinkers to address challenges facing communal life and the skills... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

between a company’s business strategy and its go-to-market operations.” Probability Distributions Michael Parzen and Paul J. Hamilton “This technical note introduces students to the concept of random variables, and from there the normal... View Details
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207069 ThedaCare: System Strategy Harvard Business School Case 708-424 Over the 1980s and 1990s, America's changing health care payer environment resulted in mergers of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

businesses. The strategy literature uses real option theory to explain the transition to scale, but does not consider the complex relationships between corporate ventures and their parent organizations. By comparing six longitudinal cases... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 6, 2016

value-based reimbursement models, however, such as bundled payments, accountable care organizations, and shared savings plans, provide powerful incentives for physicians to regain control over the quantity and quality of time they spend... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

behavioral hazard, providing a theoretical foundation for value-based insurance design and a way to interpret behavioral "nudges." Once behavioral hazard is taken into account, health insurance can do more than just provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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