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- October 2013 (Revised June 2014)
- Case
Demarketing Soda in New York City
By: John A. Quelch, Margaret L. Rodriguez, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Christine Snively
In 2013, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried and failed to institute a ban on serving sizes of large sugary beverages. Obesity posed a large public health risk to the city. Mayor Bloomberg's proposed ban was one of many attempts to combat the rising threat of... View Details
Keywords: Soda; Public Health; Business And Public Policy; Obesity; Business and Government Relations; Public Sector; Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Marketing; Health; City; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (city, NY)
Quelch, John A., Margaret L. Rodriguez, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Christine Snively. "Demarketing Soda in New York City." Harvard Business School Case 514-003, October 2013. (Revised June 2014.)
- 11 Apr 2013
- News
Michael Porter unveils new health and happiness index
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
students, but also those from Harvard’s medical school, engineering school, and public policy and health school—understand how to disseminate their health care innovation... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 1984
- Article
Return to Nursing Home Investment: Issues for Public Policy
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Christine E. Bishop
Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Christine E. Bishop. "Return to Nursing Home Investment: Issues for Public Policy." Health Care Financing Review 5, no. 4 (1984).
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
presentation given at the fifth U.S.-China Health Summit at Harvard Medical School in September by John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor in View Details
- Web
Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts The Health Care Crisis In... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
policies that amount to a “fragmented insurance system” that leaves 10 percent of the population uninsured, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Amitabh Chandra. “The United States spends substantially more on View Details
- 1995
- Chapter
Pharmaceutical Companies and Health Care Reform
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
- 31 Mar 2015
- News
Reinventing the Way Medicaid Delivers Care
- 2022
- Editorial
It’s Time to Redouble and Refocus Our Efforts to Fight COVID, Not Retreat
By: Kathleen Bachynski, Brian C. Castrucci, Esther K. Choo, Ranu Dhillon, Jim Downs, Lakshmi Ganapathi, Gregg Gonsalves, Abraar Karan, Richard C. Keller, Scott Duke Kominers, Jonathan Levy, Martha Lincoln, Seth Prins, Julia Raifman and Anne Sosin
Keywords: COVID; COVID-19; COVID-19 Pandemic; Public Health; Public Health Measures; Vaccination; Health Policy; Health Pandemics; Government and Politics; United States
Bachynski, Kathleen, Brian C. Castrucci, Esther K. Choo, Ranu Dhillon, Jim Downs, Lakshmi Ganapathi, Gregg Gonsalves, Abraar Karan, Richard C. Keller, Scott Duke Kominers, Jonathan Levy, Martha Lincoln, Seth Prins, Julia Raifman, and Anne Sosin. "It’s Time to Redouble and Refocus Our Efforts to Fight COVID, Not Retreat." o2423. BMJ: British Medical Journal 379 (2022).
- March 2019
- Article
Evidence of Upcoding in Pay-for-Performance Programs
By: Hamsa Bastani, Joel Goh and Mohsen Bayati
Recent Medicare legislation seeks to improve patient care quality by financially penalizing providers for hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). However, Medicare cannot directly monitor HAI rates and instead relies on providers accurately self-reporting HAIs in claims... View Details
Keywords: Medical Coding; Health Policy; Healthcare-acquired Conditions; Medicare; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Performance Improvement; Quality; Measurement and Metrics; Government Legislation
Bastani, Hamsa, Joel Goh, and Mohsen Bayati. "Evidence of Upcoding in Pay-for-Performance Programs." Management Science 65, no. 3 (March 2019): 1042–1060. (2015 INFORMS Health Applications Society best student (H. Bastani) paper award.)
- February 2009
- Teaching Note
Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy (TN)
By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
Teaching Note for 709458. View Details
- Web
Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
variety of backgrounds at all stages in their careers, and produces programming and events on a variety of health law policy and bioethics topics. The Center also hosts a leading View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
corporate attention than employee, consumer, and environmental health. In a survey of more than 80 companies attending the Building a Culture of Health conference at Harvard Business School in April 2016, a lower percentage of respondents... View Details
- 2009
- Book
Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care
By: Richard Bohmer
Today's health-care providers face growing criticism - from policy makers and patients alike. As costs continue to spiral upward and concerns about quality of care escalate, the debate has focused on how to finance health care. Yet funding solutions can't... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Organizational Culture
Bohmer, Richard. Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care. Harvard Business Press, 2009.
- September 2023
- Article
The Health Costs of Dirty Energy: Evidence from the Capacity Market in Colombia
By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Theresa Molina, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo and Nicholas Torres
The health effects of “dirty” (fossil fuel driven) energy production are difficult to measure accurately due to the endogeneity of fuel choice. We exploit an electricity policy in Colombia that generates a price-based trigger for the use of thermal energy sources.... View Details
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Theresa Molina, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo, and Nicholas Torres. "The Health Costs of Dirty Energy: Evidence from the Capacity Market in Colombia." Art. 103116. Journal of Development Economics 164 (September 2023).
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
public policy, and social challenges. In health care, for example, the dominant policy model assumes that access and affordability are the keys to improving care for the poor. In Ashraf’s view, “We can’t... View Details
- 2014
- Other Unpublished Work
Nudging Physicians to Pursue Careers in Underserved Areas: A Case for Behavioral Economics
By: Joseph Lopez, Mona Singh, Nava Ashraf and Joel Weissman
Currently, more than 60 million Americans live in "Health Professional Shortage Areas." Unless policymakers can encourage more physicians to practice in medically under-resourced areas, an increased number of uninsured individuals newly able to obtain health insurance... View Details
- January 2010 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Jiamei Dental: Private Health Care in China
By: William C. Kirby and G.A. Donovan
With the recent announcement from the Chinese government that the country's healthcare system was going to undergo reform, Jiamei Dental Chairman Liu Jia wondered what that meant for his 15 year-old dental clinic business. Founded in 1993, Jiamei Dental Medical... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Private Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Expansion; Health Industry; China
Kirby, William C., and G.A. Donovan. "Jiamei Dental: Private Health Care in China." Harvard Business School Case 910-404, January 2010. (Revised December 2011.)
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
their dominance has lulled them into somnolence. Private insurers could compete by reducing the estimated waste in the health care system of $900 billion; experts estimate that at least $250 billion could be saved without diminishing the... View Details