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Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing in Breast Cancer Care Delivery

By: Navraj S. Nagra, Elena Tsangaris, Jessica Means, Michael J. Hassett, Laura S. Dominici, Jennifer R. Bellon, Justin Broyles, Robert S. Kaplan, Thomas W. Feeley and Andrea L. Pusic
We used time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to calculate the complete cost of breast cancer care—initial treatment planning, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgical resection and reconstruction, and ancillary services (psychosocial oncology, physical therapy.... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Cost
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Nagra, Navraj S., Elena Tsangaris, Jessica Means, Michael J. Hassett, Laura S. Dominici, Jennifer R. Bellon, Justin Broyles, Robert S. Kaplan, Thomas W. Feeley, and Andrea L. Pusic. "Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing in Breast Cancer Care Delivery." Annals of Surgical Oncology 29, no. 1 (January 2022): 510–521.
  • July–August 2016
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How to Pay for Health Care

By: Michael E. Porter and Robert S. Kaplan
The United States stands at a crossroads in how to pay for health care. Fee for service, the dominant model in the United States and many other countries, is now widely recognized as perhaps the biggest obstacle to improving health care delivery. A battle is currently... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Finance; Health Industry; United States
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Porter, Michael E., and Robert S. Kaplan. "How to Pay for Health Care." Harvard Business Review 94, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2016): 88–100.
  • 02 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

clinical technologies, are good for the patient take off. But this shows, from an organizational side, that these are complex organizations that have their own biases. Rob's been doing more work looking at the issue of focus in health... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health
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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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Milkman, Katherine L., 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. "A Megastudy of Text-Based Nudges Encouraging Patients to Get Vaccinated at an Upcoming Doctor's Appointment." e2101165118. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 20 (May 18, 2021).
  • February 2024 (Revised December 2024)
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Best Buy Health: Enabling Care at Home

By: Robert S. Huckman, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Antonio Moreno, Bradley Staats and Sarah Mehta
This case explores retailer Best Buy’s decision to enter health care. Best Buy Health aims to enable care at home across three prongs: consumer health, active aging, and virtual care. A key pillar of Best Buy Health's strategy is leveraging the Geek Squad—the company's... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Business Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Electronics Industry; Health Industry; Retail Industry; United States; Minnesota
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Huckman, Robert S., Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Antonio Moreno, Bradley Staats, and Sarah Mehta. "Best Buy Health: Enabling Care at Home." Harvard Business School Case 624-009, February 2024. (Revised December 2024.)
  • October 19, 2015
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Getting Bundled Payments Right in Health Care

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Derek A. Haas, Dereesa Reid, Jonathan Warsh and Michael E. West
Bundled payments—single payments that cover all the care for a patient’s medical condition or treatment over a specified timeframe—are increasingly being deployed to motivate the delivery of better patient outcomes at lower costs. Hoag Orthopedic Institute (HOI), a... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Marketing; Health Industry
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Kaplan, Robert S., Derek A. Haas, Dereesa Reid, Jonathan Warsh, and Michael E. West. "Getting Bundled Payments Right in Health Care." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 19, 2015). (A collaboration of the editors of Harvard Business Review and the New England Journal of Medicine.)
  • May 15, 2012
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Ensuring Quality Cancer Care: A Follow-Up Review of the Institute of Medicine’s 10 Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in America

By: Tracy E. Spinks, Heidi W. Albright, Thomas W. Feeley, Ron Walters, Thomas W. Burke, Thomas Aloia, Eduardo Bruera, Aman Buzdar, Lewis Foxhall, David Hui, Barbara Summers, Alma Rodriguez, Raymond DuBois and Kenneth I. Shine
Responding to growing concerns regarding the safety, quality, and efficacy of cancer care in the United States, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences commissioned a comprehensive review of cancer care delivery in the US health care system... View Details
Keywords: Cancer; Quality; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Quality Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; North and Central America
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Spinks, Tracy E., Heidi W. Albright, Thomas W. Feeley, Ron Walters, Thomas W. Burke, Thomas Aloia, Eduardo Bruera, Aman Buzdar, Lewis Foxhall, David Hui, Barbara Summers, Alma Rodriguez, Raymond DuBois, and Kenneth I. Shine. "Ensuring Quality Cancer Care: A Follow-Up Review of the Institute of Medicine’s 10 Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in America." Cancer 118, no. 10 (May 15, 2012): 2571–2582.
  • 04 Dec 2017
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CVS to buy Aetna with new model for health care

  • 18 Nov 2014
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Touching the lives of patients and their loved ones

Ebru Dorman (MBA 1999) is deputy CEO of the largest private health care provider in Turkey, focused on improving the patient experience. She is also working to introduce the “softer skills” into the primary... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2006
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Redefining Health Care

that described why competition in health care had failed. Some health-care experts, he feared, would take offense at any critique written by mere management professors. To the surprise of Porter and coauthor Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, an... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 04 Aug 2014
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‘Cowboy Doctors’ May Contribute To High Health Care Costs

  • 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

offices—have promised to make patient data easier to analyze and move around to different care settings. But the biggest EHR players sell systems that are relatively closed, that are best at communicating... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services
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Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual

Lead strategic and organizational change to generate value Improve health care quality, system delivery, and patient value Access a network of health care institutions and... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care
  • 13 Mar 2020
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Expanding Cancer Care

able to impact the work that we do, improve the quality of care that we give to our patients, and also make our clinicians more efficient. One of the things that we focus on doing is creating clinical decision support pathways for our... View Details
  • January 2018
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Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Mahek A. Shah
Partners in Health, a global NGO focused on delivering health care to residents of rural underserved communities, conducts a project on the cost of primary care at five sites in the Central Highlands of Haiti. It devises a simple approach for tracking the resources... View Details
Keywords: Global Health; Public Health; Health Care and Treatment; Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Rural Scope; Health Industry; Haiti
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Kaplan, Robert S., and Mahek A. Shah. "Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti." Harvard Business School Case 118-051, January 2018.
  • 01 Mar 2024
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INK: Taking Care

The sad and unfortunate fact is that one in every two people will develop cancer in their lifetime, Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) writes in her new book, Fatal to Fearless: 12 Steps to Beating Cancer in a Broken Medical System. It first happened to her more than 25 years... View Details
Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 24 Apr 2014
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Offering a breath of life for critically ill patients

Patients suffering from diseases such as inoperable tracheal cancer, or those born without a trachea, have been granted a second chance. As biotechnology and surgical expertise progress, Green foresees a future without waiting lists for... View Details
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How to End the Plasma Shortage for Coronavirus Patients

By: Scott Duke Kominers
Those who have recovered from the virus will donate more blood if given the right incentives. View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Convalescent Plasma; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Market Design; Strategy
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Kominers, Scott Duke. "How to End the Plasma Shortage for Coronavirus Patients." Bloomberg Opinion (May 11, 2020).
  • 18 Dec 2017
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Hospital Giants Vie for Patients in Effort to Fend Off New Rivals

  • June 2017
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A Systematic Approach to Discussing Active Surveillance with Patients with Low-risk Prostate Cancer

By: Behfar Ehdaie, Melissa Assel, Nicole Benfante, Deepak Malhotra and Andrew Vickers
A systematic approach to counseling—using appropriate framing techniques derived from principles studied by negotiation scholars—can be taught to physicians in a one-hour lecture. We found evidence that even this minimal intervention can decrease overtreatment of... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Service Delivery; Negotiation; Health Industry
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Ehdaie, Behfar, Melissa Assel, Nicole Benfante, Deepak Malhotra, and Andrew Vickers. "A Systematic Approach to Discussing Active Surveillance with Patients with Low-risk Prostate Cancer." European Urology 71, no. 6 (June 2017): 866–871.
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