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- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
available to their workers. The conference's agenda alternated between small breakout sessions that brought together participants from different industry areas and large group discussions where all attendees... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Social Safety Net By: Olds, Gareth Abstract—This paper explores the role of public health insurance in small business ownership among immigrants, a group with high rates of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
available to their workers. The conference's agenda alternated between small breakout sessions that brought together participants from different industry areas and large group discussions where all attendees... View Details
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Ann Lucena
Consulting Group, a small consulting firm that helps hospitals negotiate with insurance companies. "It was eye-opening," she says. "I got an insider's perspective on how hospitals function, on... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
welfare. Yet, our understanding of this decision is limited. Using an instrumental variables strategy and dataset new to this literature, we provide the first precise, causal estimates of the effects of education on financial market participation. We find a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
Freyd); profit-oriented risk managers and payment processors such as insurers (R. MacKenzey, Emre Erkut, and others); specialized service providers (including malpractice lawyers) at various points in the channel (C. J. Cullinane, Michael... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
the Health Connector, which acts not as an insurance company but as a purchasing agent for small employers or individuals.” A final piece of the puzzle, Pozen says, was redirecting the funds in an existing... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
expansion may face longer odds in getting approval. This is the result of scandals in executive compensation, many of which are associated with the fruits of large stock option awards. It is reasonable to assume that stock options, which... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
markets? —Timothy O'Sullivan (MBA 2001) KIRBY: I agree completely. The challenge is huge, however, since good health care (anywhere) is costly, and at present it is largely only available in quality in larger cities. The basic View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
these costs. However, existing resilience trainings are often conducted in-person, suffer from low levels of engagement, and are difficult to scale to large groups of employees. In the current study, we compared change in resilience over... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
The Supreme Court has spoken, and its ruling last Friday has evoked myriad responses from across the United States—from the far right to the far left, from small businesses to giant corporations, from pundits to the person on the street.... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
“you have to engage on a global scale with organizations of all types—governments, private corporations, philanthropic bodies, and small and large businesses.” (Published March 2018) Find HBS alumni at... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
deal in common, since both require participants to spread risk on the basis of an insurance model. The nation's product liability system, which shifts risk from consumers to producers, has dramatically influenced the calculus of... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
in the competitiveness discussion, as well. The level of dependence of small firms on bank credit is estimated to be as high as 90 percent, according to separate studies by the Federal Deposit Insurance... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
contrast, small subsidy payments have a large effect on the likelihood of opening a savings account. These payments are more than two times more cost-effective than the financial literacy training, though... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
We know the symptoms all too well. We wait months to see a doctor. Office visits end, it seems, just moments after they begin. Managed care firms hold sway over doctors' treatment plans, and health insurance premiums are heading for the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
results indicate that public benefits provide risk assurance among start-up employees, too. "Let's say I have a comfortable management position at a large firm, but I'm thinking of taking a chance on joining a new View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
big and so easy to find, it’s almost a miracle they haven’t been breached yet,” says Iram (above, left), a former captain in Israeli military intelligence who established the risk, compliance, and advisory services firm K2 Intelligence before launching At-Bay in 2016.... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
Lerner and Scott Stern, 483-502. University of Chicago Press, 2012 Abstract Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel