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A Megastudy of Text-Based Nudges Encouraging Patients to Get Vaccinated at an Upcoming Doctor's Appointment

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Mitesh S. Patel, Linnea Gandhi, Heather N. Graci, Dena M. Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Modupe Akinola, John Beshears, Jonathan E. Bogard, Alison Buttenheim, Christopher F. Chabris, Gretchen B. Chapman, James J. Choi, Hengchen Dai, Craig R. Fox, Amir Goren, Matthew D. Hilchey, Jillian Hmurovic, Leslie K. John, Dean Karlan, Melanie Kim, David Laibson, Cait Lamberton, Brigitte C. Madrian, Michelle N. Meyer, Maria Modanu, Jimin Nam, Todd Rogers, Renante Rondina, Silvia Saccardo, Maheen Shermohammed, Dilip Soman, Jehan Sparks, Caleb Warren, Megan Weber, Ron Berman, Chalanda N. Evans, Christopher K. Snider, Eli Tsukayama, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp and Angela L. Duckworth
Many Americans fail to get life-saving vaccines each year, and the availability of a vaccine for COVID-19 makes the challenge of encouraging vaccination more urgent than ever. We present a large field experiment (N = 47,306) testing 19 nudges delivered to patients via... View Details
Keywords: Vaccination; COVID-19; Nudge; Influenza; Field Experiment; Health; Communication Strategy; Behavior
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  • January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
  • Case

SIN Capital and the Fullerton Health IPO

By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
In early 2016, David Sin, founder of the Singapore-based private equity group SIN Capital and chairman of its primary holding, Fullerton Health, was deeply involved in preparations for taking Fullerton public on the Singapore stock exchange. Three years after SIN... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Asia; IPO; Financing; Singapore; Growth; Health Care and Treatment; Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Financing and Loans; Strategy; Value Creation; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Singapore
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  • 22 May 2020
  • In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

high-paying ones. Wherever possible, health care professionals have shifted from their normal service lines to serve COVID patients. Primary care provider offices and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost

    Patient Capital: The Challenges and Promises of Long-Term Investing

    There has never been a greater need for long-term investments. And it is increasingly unlikely that the public sector will be willing or able to fill the gap. Those best positioned to address the long-run needs are likely to be the pools of capital in the hands of... View Details

    • 07 Mar 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.

    annoyed, and it distracts them from dealing with the patient.” The study, published in the February 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at five types of visits: primary care... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health
    • Article

    Drivers of the Variation in Prosthetic Implant Purchase Prices for Total Knee and Total Hip Arthroplasties

    By: Derek A. Haas, Kevin J Bozic, Anthony M. DiGioia, Zirui Song and Robert S. Kaplan
    Previous studies have documented wide variation in health-care spending and prices; however, the causes for the variation in supply purchase prices across providers are not well understood. The purpose of this study was to determine the drivers of variation in... View Details
    Keywords: Costing; Cost Variation; Total Knee Arthroplasty; Total Hip Arthroplasty; Prosthetic Implant Cost; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • 03 Mar 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: March 3, 2009

    control over pricing and associated revenues from the content to the content provider in order to reduce price competition at the platform level. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-009.pdf Applying the Care Delivery... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 25 May 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

    Editor's note. In the United States, a primary provider of health care is through employers. "Every corporation is a player in public health," writes John A. Quelch in a new book of case studies,... View Details
    Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
    • 05 Sep 2012
    • What Do You Think?

    Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

    primary objective. Forces are at work that make it possible to see a day when better care is delivered at a fraction of current costs in the US, regardless of regulatory approach. Insurance companies now are... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
    • 29 May 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Research Symposium 2014

    particular ailment. A patient would visit a primary care physician in one location, an outpatient specialist in another, an imaging center in another, a blood lab in another, a surgeon in another, and so on.... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

      Leslie K. John

      Leslie K. John is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Currently, she teaches on the topics of Negotiation, Marketing and Behavioral Economics in various Executive Education courses, including in the Program for Leadership Development.... View Details

      Keywords: health care; health care; health care; health care
      • 10 Aug 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      High Commitment, High Performance Management

      or silent killers. We call them silent killers because while everyone knows about them and they are discussed in private where it is safe, they are not discussible publicly with senior management. The fact that a company's people are seen as a universal strength... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • November 2004
      • Case

      Technology Commercialization at the Massachusetts General Hospital

      The Department of Corporate Sponsored Research & Licensing (CSRL) at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) serves as the primary interface between the hospital and the private sector. Examines the range of issues related to the commercialization of MGH's... View Details
      Keywords: Technological Innovation; Conflict of Interests; Commercialization; Higher Education; Health Care and Treatment; Education Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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      • 17 Dec 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      The Rise of Medical Tourism

      What used to be rare is now commonplace: traveling abroad to receive medical treatment, and to a developing country at that. So-called medical tourism is on the rise for everything from cardiac care to plastic surgery to hip and knee... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
      • 26 Apr 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: April 26

      supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711033-PDF-ENG Primedic—Providing Primary Care in Mexico Richard G. Hamermesh, Regina Garcia Cuellar, and Lauren MarguliesHarvard Business School Case 811-040... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • August 2017
      • Article

      Relationship Between Labor and Delivery Unit Management Practices and Maternal Outcomes

      By: Avery C. Plough, Grace Galwin, Zhonghe Li, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Shehnaz Alidina, Natalie J. Henrich, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, William R. Berry, Atul A. Gawande, Doris Peter, Rory McDonald, Donna L. Caldwell, Janet H. Muri, Debra Bingham, Aaron B. Caughey, Eugene R. Declercq and Neel T. Shah
      OBJECTIVE: To define, measure, and characterize key competencies of managing labor and delivery units in the United States and assess the associations between unit management and maternal outcomes. METHODS: We developed and administered a management measurement... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Evaluation; Outcome or Result; United States
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      • November 2021 (Revised December 2021)
      • Case

      Praava Health: A New Model for Bangladesh

      By: Michael Chu
      Launched in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 2018, Praava Health (‘Praava’) delivered high-quality in-clinic primary and specialist care, backed by its own high quality diagnostic laboratories, imaging and pharmacy. Praava was founder Sylvana Sinha’s response to what she saw as a... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Investment Return; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Bangladesh; Asia
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      • 08 Aug 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

      at a critical point in the organization's evolution with a mandate to grow the specialty medications business; however, the skills and capabilities needed to market and sell specialty medications were considerably different than those required for marketing and selling... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 16 Apr 2019
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

      ideas, assesses their importance today, and explores their potential for the future. Through its wide historical focus, this Reader challenges the widespread assumption that creativity research is mainly a product of the second half of the 20th century. Featuring View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • 20 Nov 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

      consequentially experienced higher asset growth and increased market share during the crisis. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54253 November 8, 2018 NEJM Catalyst Transitioning Payment Models: Fee-for-Service to Value-Based View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman