Publications

SSRN

31 Mar 2020
News

Companies Form #paytoday Coalition Encouraging Enterprises And Government Agencies To Pay Their Small Business Suppliers Today

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

faculty as a senior fellow to study health-care reform. Feeley, the Helen Shafer Fly Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, is on a quest to make the payment process easier and,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

04 Dec 2013
News

Are Companies Wrong to Pay CEO Signing Bonuses?

February 2011
Journal Article

Minimal Settlement Assets in Economies with Interconnected Financial Obligations

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

A model is developed where firms belonging to a group are obliged to make payments to one another by using a liquid asset. The paper studies the exogenous endowments of this asset that are necessary to assure that all obligations are met. Conditions are presented under... View Details

Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Networks

June 2012
Response

Solution to Exchanges 10.2 Puzzle: Borrowing in the Limit as Our Nerdiness Goes to Infinity

By: Ran I. Shorrer

This is a solution to the editor's puzzle from issue 10.2 of SIGecom Exchanges [Reeves 2011]. The puzzle asks to determine a point in time such that a lump sum payment of $S will be equivalent to a continuous stream of infinitesimal payments totaling $S, spread evenly... View Details

Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Market Transactions; Mathematical Methods

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December 1984 (Revised July 2005)
Case

Burnet vs. Logan

By: Henry B. Reiling

The taxpayer sold mining company stocks and was to be paid royalty as ore was extracted from the corporation's mine. Because the factual issues of whether ore would be extracted and, if so, how much and when were so indeterminate, the court held that the contract right... View Details

Keywords: Taxation; Law Enforcement; Asset Management; Valuation; Policy; Mining Industry

Educators

05 Aug 2009
News

The Shifting Mission of Health Care Delivery Organizations

June 2024
Article

Enhancing Value and Well-Being: The Basket of Motivators Framework for Aligning Neurology Clinical Practices with Performance Outcomes

By: Peter N. Hadar, Susanna Gallani and Lidia Moura

Physician burnout, which is prevalent in neurology, has accelerated in recent years. While multifactorial, a major contributing factor to burnout is a payment model that rewards volume over quality, leaving physicians overburdened and unfulfilled. The aim of this... View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Personal Development and Career; Well-being; Motivation and Incentives

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27 Dec 2014
Working Paper Summaries

How Should We Pay for Health Care?

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter & Robert S. Kaplan; Health

01 Apr 2020
News

Coronavirus Is Putting Corporate Social Responsibility to the Test

September 2022
Article

How Emerging Telehealth Models Challenge Policymaking

By: Mitchell Tang, Michael E Chernew and Ateev Mehrotra

Policy Points

Current telehealth policy discussions are focused on synchronous video and audio telehealth visits delivered by traditional providers and have neglected the growing number of alternative telehealth offerings.

These alternative... View Details

Keywords: Telehealth; Health Care and Treatment; Technology Adoption; Policy; Health Industry

April 2022
Case

Mastercard: Creating a World Beyond Cash

By: Sunil Gupta, Linda A. Hill, Julia Kelley and Emily Tedards

In late 2021, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach and Chairman and former CEO Ajaypal “Ajay” Banga considered how Mastercard could best position itself for continued success in the years to come. Since Mastercard’s initial public offering in 2006, the company had grown and... View Details

Educators

Article

Supporting Value-Based Health Care—Aligning Financial and Legal Accountability

By: Mark M. Zaki, Anupam B. Jena and Amitabh Chandra

U.S. health care payment and delivery-system reforms have focused on improving care by making organizations accountable for outcomes, quality, and costs. Payers have supported the implementation of accountable care organizations (ACOs), bundled-payment models, and... View Details

Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Accountability; Health Care and Treatment; United States

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29 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

With the rise of mobile payment apps like Venmo, many people can easily record the exact charges incurred by a lunch partner and pay back debts to the cent. They see themselves as efficient and fair. Others often have a different word for... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

November 2024
Supplement

Epic Games: Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite (B)

By: Andy Wu and Ronald Wang

In a significant ruling on April 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld portions of the district court’s decision against Epic Games back in September 2021. However, Apple’s anti-steering provisions, which restricted app developers from... View Details

Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Market Transactions; Applications and Software; Technology Industry; Video Game Industry

01 Apr 2015
News

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

January 2024
Article

A Cost Model for a Low Threshold Clinic Treating Opioid Use Disorder

By: Sarah E. Wakeman, Elizabeth Powell, Syed Shehab, Grace Herman, Laura Kehoe and Robert S. Kaplan

The US fee-for-service payment system under-reimburses clinics offering access to comprehensive treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD). The funding shortfall limits a clinic’s ability to expand and improve access, especially for socially marginalized patients with... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Equality and Inequality; Health Industry

January 2020
Article

Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Demonstrate Value in Perioperative Care: Recommendations and Review from the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement

By: O. Allin, R. D. Urman, A. F. Edwards, J. D. Blitz, K. J. Pfeifer, T. W. Feeley and A. M. Bader

A shift in health care payment models from volume toward value-based incentives will require deliberate input into systems development from both perioperative clinicians and administrators to ensure appropriate recognition of the value of all services... View Details

Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Outcomes; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Value; Activity Based Costing and Management