Health Costs - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2017
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Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice

100-plus health care centers to develop value-based accounting to help lower costs of health care delivery. The ability of faculty members to study these and other business... View Details

09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49214 Working Papers Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency By: Mohan, Bhavya, Ryan W. Buell, and Leslie K. John Abstract— A firm's costs are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2013
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Delivering the Power to Dream Big

lightweight, transparent solar panels, which can be integrated seamlessly into everyday objects, like windows or electronic displays. The technology's promise could lead to widespread adoption of solar power and reduce its cost by... View Details

Keywords: solar power; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

October 2024 (Revised May 2025)
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Southern California Industrial: Freezer Drive

By: Arthur I Segel, Dwight Angelini and W. Matt Kelly

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Boston based real estate private equity firm was seeking to make their very first West Coast investments in hopes of establishing their presence in the strategic region. An exciting property suddenly became available on the... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate Development; Acquisition; Health Pandemics; Risk and Uncertainty; Expansion; Cost vs Benefits; Investment Return; Real Estate Industry

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April 2017
Supplement

Imprimis (C)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karen Elterman and Marc Appel

This case is a supplement to Imprimis (A & B). Set in 2015, it first describes Imprimis’s decision to introduce its own line of compounded eye drop medication called LessDrops. The case then examines the moral dilemma faced by CEO Mark Baum, who was struck by the... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Moral Sensibility; Competitive Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

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18 Apr 2018
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Into the Light

Energicity. “Modern life, as we know it, is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the human and economic costs of “energy poverty” firsthand in rural Ghana. There, her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly... View Details

04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-005.pdf The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality (revised) Author:Zeynep Ton Abstract Determining staffing levels is an important decision in retail operations. While the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

to the global population was a challenge. Health care costs accounted for 10% of world GDP by 2013. In the U.S., health care costs were expected... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Feb 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

(iStockphoto/Mladen Zivkovic) Several years ago, my spouse and I turned to concierge medicine. We no longer wanted to deal with a US health care system that often provides basically anonymous, production line diagnosis and treatment... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

to remain working left because they could not reconcile the obligations of the career path they were on with caring for kids. Caregiving, along with higher education and healthcare delivery, has among the highest real-dollar increase in View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

01 Sep 2014
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Case Study: Declawing the Competition

Illustration by Peter Arkle KitNipBox is a monthly subscription service for cat owners. Each box contains products designed to keep cats happy, healthy, and fit: toys, treats, health and hygiene products, must-have accessories, innovative... View Details

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

has quantified the reduction in health care costs from bad outcomes related to automobile pollution. And they have also quantified the time benefit, finding that the BRT so far has reduced a 90-minute trip... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

16 Sep 2016
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Gaining Ground on ALS

Bucket Challenge to support the Phase 3 trial of a promising investigational drug that is designed to slow the loss of lung function and muscle strength in patients with ALS. “Clinical trials cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars,”... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

today goes to telecom, high tech, or software,” said Mahesh, founder and CEO of Sundaram Medical Devices in Chennai. Mahesh trained at Stanford as an engineer and worked for McKinsey and Toyota before attending HBS. He plans to apply engineering and View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

29 Aug 2024
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A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

transformative mission. Alice, for example, is a Brazilian startup upending the health care industry, offering insurance coverage combined with proprietary primary care, delivered digitally and in person, as Latin America works to catch... View Details

29 May 2019
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HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni

Etienne Deffarges (MBA 1985), author of Untangling the USA: The Cost of Complexity and What Can Be Done About It. Deffarges, a health care entrepreneur and investor, talked about his book and the concept of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2008
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Alumni Books

implicit in the book’s title, the authors interviewed more than forty CEOs from both industry and the nonprofit sector, studied what successful managers do right, and drew on their own years of experience at Bain. They came up with four principles: View Details

Keywords: Management

Profile

Michael Farias

health-care industry." After graduation, Michael intends to concentrate on pediatrics and on initiatives focused on improving care for children. "I'm leaning toward an administrative role in hospitals," Michael says. "Today, we spend more on View Details

Portrait Project

Amy McGowan

of people that wants to earn an honest living is relegated to the status of working poor because of the high costs of essentials like health care, housing, and energy. Our children face unequal opportunities... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Case Study: Moment in the Sun

health benefits—it helps the body store less fat, helps build the immune system, and reduces stress.” Hoskins cofounded the company in 2014, launching a Kickstarter campaign in November 2015 that netted Ario more than $200,000 in 30 days.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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