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- August 1995 (Revised January 2024)
- Supplement
Health Stop (B): Starting Up
Describes the long waiting time experienced by customers in Health Stops and asks students to specify the changes in its business model which could help solve the problem. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Health Industry; Retail Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Health Stop (B): Starting Up." Harvard Business School Supplement 196-051, August 1995. (Revised January 2024.)
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=2277&referral=2340 Southeast Asia and the Political Economy of Development Authors: Regina M. Abrami and Richard Doner Publication: In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2017
- News
60 of the most powerful people in healthcare in 2016
- 2009
- Book
Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem—and the Consumer-Driven Cure
A best seller in its category, with many printings. It has been recognized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as one of the books that made a difference in public policy in 2008. View Details
Herzlinger, Regina. Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem—and the Consumer-Driven Cure. McGraw-Hill, 2009.
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chinese Executives Give IXP Program a Boost
Experience Program (IXP) in China. The IXP program provides MBA students with two weeks of field-based experience during the January Term. The China IXP Fund “is a pathbreaking gift,” says HBS senior fellow Regina Abrami, faculty chair of... View Details
- Web
Research - Health Care
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... October 16, 2024... View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
(iStockphoto/400tmax) While summarizing comments to this same question asked about Jack Welch in last month’s column (shown below), I received word of Frances Hesselbein’s death. Welch was regarded by many as the greatest CEO of the 20th... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- May 2014
- Case
Health Care Accountability: Examples in Cancer Treatment
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
This case is designed to support a discussion of the importance of outcomes evidence in empowering the public to make better health care decisions, the desired level of transparency and accountability for health care providers, and the issues with current measuring and... View Details
Keywords: Accountability; Health Care; Cancer; Cancer Treatment; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Cancer Treatment Centers Of America; Vantage Oncology; Radiology; Risk Adjustment; Treatment Outcomes; Health Care Outcomes; Prostate Cancer; Transparency; Health Care and Treatment; Risk Management; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; United States
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
making complex decisions. Under some circumstances, unconscious thought improves decisions even more than conscious thought. Executive functioning depends on energy provided by glucose, and we know from previous research that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 1, 2022
- Editorial
New Transparency Rule Helps Rein in Health Care Costs
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Cynthia A. Fisher
Over the last year, consumer prices have grown 60% faster than wages. Employers can help their employees contend with this high inflation by addressing a long-running source: health care costs. View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Cynthia A. Fisher. "New Transparency Rule Helps Rein in Health Care Costs." Boston Herald (July 1, 2022).
- February 24, 2022
- Article
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer
During the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. hospitals could not provide enough beds to meet demand. Solving the problem of inadequate capacity is of utmost importance in the “new normal,” which requires recognizing the ongoing need for hospital-based... View Details
Keywords: COVID; COVID-19 Pandemic; Hospital Capacity; SEC Regulation; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Performance Capacity; Planning
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Richard Boxer. "Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (February 24, 2022).
- Article
CDS Trading and Nonrelationship Lending Dynamics
By: Jung Koo Kang, Christopher Williams and Regina Wittenberg-Moerman
We investigate how credit default swaps (CDSs) affect lenders’ incentives to initiate new lending relationships. We predict that CDSs reduce adverse selection that nonrelationship lead arrangers face when competing for loans. Consistently, we find that a loan is... View Details
Keywords: Credit Default Swaps; CDS Market; Non-relationship Lending; Debt Contracts; Adverse Selection; Lending Monitoring; Cross-selling
Kang, Jung Koo, Christopher Williams, and Regina Wittenberg-Moerman. "CDS Trading and Nonrelationship Lending Dynamics." Review of Accounting Studies 26, no. 1 (March 2021): 258–292.
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
ordinary managers. In The Innovator's DNA, the authors identify five capabilities demonstrated by the best innovators: (1) Associating: drawing connections between questions, problems, or ideas from unrelated fields; (2) Questioning:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
accounting "reliability." Broadly, the evidence, by highlighting the influence of standard setters, can broaden our understanding of the political economy of standard setting beyond the role of corporate lobbying. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2014
- News
Shifting toward Defined Contributions — Predicting the Effects
- 27 Apr 2009
- News
Health Care Reform that Will Kill the U.S. Economy
- 2014
- Book
Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan
At the time of the American Revolution, China was the strongest, richest, and most powerful civilization in the world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest.... View Details
Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan. Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth. Harvard Business Review Press, 2014.
- May 2015
- Case
Acıbadem Healthcare Group
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Esel Çekin, Natalie Kindred and Gamze Yucaoglu
Acıbadem Healthcare Group is Turkey's only premium nationwide hospital network. This case focuses on Acıbadem’s potential expansion strategy after it was acquired by International Healthcare Holdings Berhad (IHH) in 2011, the world's second-largest publicly listed... View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E., Esel Çekin, Natalie Kindred, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Acıbadem Healthcare Group." Harvard Business School Case 315-120, May 2015.