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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Expert Patients’ Use of Avoidable Health Care

By: Amitabh Chandra, Pragya Kakani and Simone Matecna
We measure whether expert patients – those trained as physicians and nurses – have fewer emergency department visits and the reasons for these differences. Relative to similar patients physicians and nurses had 19.8% and 5.1% fewer ED visits, principally due to fewer... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Health Industry
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Chandra, Amitabh, Pragya Kakani, and Simone Matecna. "Expert Patients’ Use of Avoidable Health Care." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33573, March 2025.
  • 20 Jul 2015
  • News

Harvard Professor Has a Big Idea for the Future of Health Care Shopping

  • 07 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • September 1985 (Revised July 2007)
  • Case

Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Business and Government Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Bangladesh
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Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh." Harvard Business School Case 586-013, September 1985. (Revised July 2007.)

    What Could Amazon's Approach to Health Care Look Like?

    While Amazon’s collaboration with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase would obviously leverage the purchasing power of three massive employers and could lead to innovative insurance models, it seems that the bigger opportunity would be in improving how care is... View Details
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    Mental Health | MBA

    Mental Health Support Services Joe Coleman MBA 2018 "Mental illness is not a death sentence, but rather a surmountable obstacle on life's roller coaster." Katie Rydz MBA 2019 "I will not let mental illness... View Details
    • 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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    Herzlinger, Regina E., and D. Scott Lurding. "Innovative Opportunities to Manage Health Care Delivery." Harvard Business School Case 197-011, July 1996. (Revised August 2024.)
    • September 2011
    • Article

    How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter
    Existing health care costing systems have serious flaws that make it impossible to measure costs accurately at the individual patient and medical condition level. This gap has severely limited meaningful cost reduction throughout the system. The paper describes a new... View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Health Care and Treatment; Measurement and Metrics; Service Delivery; Outcome or Result; Quality; Health Industry
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    Kaplan, Robert S., and Michael E. Porter. "How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011): 47–64.
    • 02 Mar 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

    Butler believes that it could come in the form of a two-tiered system of private treatment at personal expense layered on a service free to all with protections for healthcare givers and the elimination of third party insurance. Are these... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
    • 01 Mar 2012
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    Health Care’s New Frontier

    holistic health-care clinics for women became athenahealth, a $245 million enterprise that provides cloud-based practice management, billing, and electronic health record services to over 31,000 medical... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance
    • 05 May 2016
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    The Real Cost of Ignoring Mental Health in the Workplace

    • March 2014 (Revised September 2017)
    • Case

    salaUno: Eliminating Needless Blindness in Mexico

    By: Richard Hamermesh, Regina Garcia Cueller and Valeria Moy
    In May 2013 the co-founders and co-CEOs of salaUno, Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, were encouraged by the results of their fledgling start-up. salaUno was founded as a for-profit enterprise in order to have the capital needed for rapid growth and to fulfill its... View Details
    Keywords: Medical Services; Developing Countries; Developing Markets; Health Care Industry; Health Services; Healthcare Ventures; Healthcare Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Health; Business Startups; Developing Countries and Economies; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Mexico; Mexico City
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    Hamermesh, Richard, Regina Garcia Cueller, and Valeria Moy. "salaUno: Eliminating Needless Blindness in Mexico." Harvard Business School Case 814-041, March 2014. (Revised September 2017.)
    • October 14, 2019
    • Article

    How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Health Care Delivery

    By: Samantha F. Sanders, Mats Terwiesch, William J. Gordon and Ariel Dora Stern
    The development of intelligent machines holds great promise for making health care delivery more accurate, efficient, and accessible, but challenges remain for incorporating AI into clinical and administrative settings. View Details
    Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Technological Innovation; AI and Machine Learning
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    Sanders, Samantha F., Mats Terwiesch, William J. Gordon, and Ariel Dora Stern. "How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Health Care Delivery." NEJM Catalyst (October 17, 2019).
    • 03 Sep 2020
    • Op-Ed

    Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

    services of unknown quality. The lack of transparency protects providers and insurers from needing to compete on the price and quality of their services. Lack of competition, in turn, inflates the cost and probably also diminishes the... View Details
    Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health
    • 04 Dec 2023
    • Blog Post

    My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

    Hi all, my name is Rhea! I was lucky enough to work for the National Park Service this summer as a business management intern with the Submerged Resources Center (SRC). The SRC is the NPS national dive program, responsible for... View Details
    • 05 May 2016
    • Cold Call Podcast

    The Real Cost of Ignoring Mental Health in the Workplace

    Keywords: Re: John A. Quelch
    • 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
    Keywords: by Staff; Health
    • January 2000 (Revised October 2002)
    • Case

    Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network - The Primary Care Unit

    By: V.G. Narayanan, Lisa Brem and Ryan Moore
    The Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network needed to gain a better understanding of its unit-of-service costs, which had been rising at a rate of 10% per year. The network's step-down costing system gave only aggregate costing information, and there was some... View Details
    Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Accounting; Cost; Network Effects; Health Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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    Narayanan, V.G., Lisa Brem, and Ryan Moore. "Cambridge Hospital Community Health Network - The Primary Care Unit." Harvard Business School Case 100-054, January 2000. (Revised October 2002.)
    • August 1986 (Revised February 1991)
    • Supplement

    Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh, Video

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan
    Population Services International, a not-for-profit agency founded to promote family planning information and to market birth control products, had an agreement with the government of Bangladesh to conduct a social marketing program using modern marketing techniques to... View Details
    Keywords: Social Marketing; Health; Advertising; Marketing; Nonprofit Organizations; Government and Politics; Agreements and Arrangements; Health Industry; Bangladesh
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    Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 887-506, August 1986. (Revised February 1991.)
    • 02 Feb 2021
    • Blog Post

    Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic

    decade, legislators have passed countless health care policies that impact how hospitals, insurance companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers deliver services to patients. Even more, the ongoing SARS-CoV-2... View Details
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