Publications

October 2016 (Revised March 2019)
Case

Carrum Health: Scaling Bundled Payments

By: Robert S. Huckman and Sarah Mehta

Founded in 2014, Carrum Health helped self-insured employers located in three markets (San Diego, California; Seattle, Washington; and San Francisco, California) save money on their employees’ planned surgeries. It did so by contracting directly with top-quality... View Details

Keywords: Health Financing; Health Insurance; Value-based Healthcare Reimbursements; Bundled Payments; Innovation; Scale; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; California; San Francisco; San Diego; Seattle

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

specialties. "Patients First!" takes shape as the... May 2008 (Revised Apr 2018) HBS Case Collection The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: Interdisciplinary Cancer Care by Michael E. Porter and Sachin View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

Boston’s Trinity Church choir. Or that you can read an essay by Sachin Jain in The Soul of a Doctor, a book written by medical students on their transformation into physicians. In any case, we hope you enjoy... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

13 Aug 2009
News

Practicing Medicine in the Age of Facebook

2002
Other Unpublished Work

'Hustler on the High Road:' The Leadership of Eugene Rivers

By: Sachin H Jain

07 Aug 2014
News

A Fairer Way of Giving Credit Where It's Due

Keywords: employee management; collaborative credit

13 Jan 2015
News

Start-Ups Are Helping Consumers Make Better Health Care Purchases

Keywords: healthcare; consumer behavior; entrepreneurship; Health, Social Assistance

31 Mar 2015
News

Reinventing the Way Medicaid Delivers Care

Keywords: Medicaid; health care policy; government legislation

07 Mar 2014
News

The Importance of Giving Credit

Keywords: management; communication; incentive; employee motivation

23 Jul 2015
News

How Pharma Can Offer More than Pills

Keywords: healthcare; pharma; services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

26 May 2014
News

Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)

Keywords: enrepreneurship; healthcare; innovation; Health, Social Assistance

May 2008 (Revised April 2018)
Case

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: Interdisciplinary Cancer Care

By: Michael E. Porter and Sachin H. Jain

In 2006, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was an internationally leading institution for cancer care, education, and research. Since 1996, it had successfully reorganized itself from a cancer hospital that was physically organized around clinical... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Health Disorders; Organizational Structure; Medical Specialties; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Value Creation; Service Delivery; Research; Health Care and Treatment; Education Industry; Health Industry; Texas

November 2007 (Revised January 2010)
Case

ThedaCare: System Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter and Sachin H. Jain

Over the 1980s and 1990s, America's changing health care payer environment resulted in mergers of numerous community hospitals into hospital systems. Based in Appleton, Wisconsin, ThedaCare stood out among community hospital systems in its pursuit of service... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Health Care and Treatment; Problems and Challenges; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Wisconsin