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- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
years for these reductions to have a material impact on a city's unfunded liabilities. In fact, many cities are downsizing employment, rather than hiring new workers. Cities could require all public employee retirees to join Medicare when... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
Medicare recipients who are admitted to a hospital end up back at the hospital in less than a month. Studies have shown that the frequency of those repeat stays could be reduced drastically if a doctor or nurse followed up with patients a... View Details
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
Medicare were initiated, they kicked in at an age when work had become difficult for most people. They were intended, in fact, to prevent poverty among the elderly. These days, 65 doesn't seem nearly so old. Productive work at that age is... View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
capital and an end to predatory lending practices? Organizations lament sky-rocketing health care costs, but why is there such a limited effort to organize preventative care? Cutting Medicare will not stop the epidemic of obesity. The... View Details
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
When health insurer Cigna Corp. appeared in front of a judge for allegedly misleading shareholders on Medicare regulations this spring, plaintiffs thought they had a strong case. After all, Cigna had published its own document titled... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
reactor" in accelerating the rise in health-care costs. Why is this system such a problem? A: By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients' needs. Today's doctors work in a system where they are rewarded... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
limited effort to organize preventative care? Cutting Medicare will not stop the epidemic of obesity. The market system cannot work if its consequences are seen to be unfair, in the sense that its benefits are not distributed widely. That... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
focuses almost entirely on disease care to keep people alive, but does very little to enable Americans to live healthy lives. The longer people live in their disease-prone years, the more they cost Medicare. AHCA doesn't really address these challenges. Unless we face... View Details
- 24 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
10 Reasons Why HBS Peek Weekend was worth the trip across the pond - a british perspective
small group study session; we attended class. The energy around the room was invigorating with at least 80% of the contributions coming from members of the class. We tackled five case studies during Peek which all varied from a mattress start up, to a Wall Street... View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
of M&A activity must take place; mandatory public reporting must be required documenting experience and outcome information based on defined standards (just as the SEC requires reporting of certain information); and Medicare pricing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
providers feel comfortable about adopting your innovation? Can you make it the standard of care, meaning it is something doctors have to do? Can you get Medicare to pay for it? The MBA elective course I teach, Innovating in Health Care,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and helped launch the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) that was created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). He also served as special assistant to the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
ideas would surface, because previous reforms have missed the mark. There is no plan for American healthcare right now; nobody has one. The only plan is to put more money into the system. Q: You must have seen the recent report about the massive differences in View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
collection of patient physiological measurements such as blood pressure, weight, or blood glucose levels—and both commercial health insurers as well as the Medicare system have seen dramatic increases in the use of these services in... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811055-PDF-ENG Caterpillar, Inc. (A) David F. HawkinsHarvard Business School Case 111-031 2010 Healthcare Reform Act eliminates Medicare Part D subsidy and Caterpillar recognizes a $100 million... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
scale their company and cut waste in Medicare spending. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-087 OPET: Precision Marketing in Uncertain Times During Timucin Guler’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
about the causes of regional variations in health care expenditures. Using vignettes from patient and physician surveys linked to fee-for-service Medicare expenditures, this study asks whether patient demand-side factors or physician... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
for them. But who's going to pay for it? They bring up a lot of questions about policy. We are the only country that does not have an infrastructure for elder care. And they ask a lot about reimbursement mechanisms because Medicare for... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
at the US Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The pandemic has made it clear that this must change. Richard Hamermesh (@RHamermesh) is a Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
exceptions-including major ones-may in fact arise. We focus on three historical cases in which special interests apparently gave way to the general interest in the policy making process: the enactment of Medicare in 1965, in which the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace