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- 31 Aug 2010
- News
As economy seeks balance, businesses hold key
- 2019
- Chapter
Behavioral Economics and Health-Care Markets
By: Amitabh Chandra, Benjamin Handel and Joshua Schwartzstein
This chapter summarizes research in behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in health care. We argue that the prevalence of choice difficulties and biases leading to mistakes in these markets establish a special place for them in...
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Keywords:
Behavioral Economics;
Consumer Behavior;
Economics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Insurance;
Markets
Chandra, Amitabh, Benjamin Handel, and Joshua Schwartzstein. "Behavioral Economics and Health-Care Markets." Chap. 6 in Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Foundations and Applications 2, edited by B. Douglas Bernheim, Stefano DellaVigna, and David Laibson, 459–502. Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, 2019.
- 18 May 2006
- News
They'd Sooner Fix Medicaid
Raymond P. Kluender
Ray Kluender is an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, teaching Entrepreneurial Finance to second-year MBA students.
He studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how public policy,... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap
that pioneered conversational commerce. At Hilma, Hilary leverages her personal passion for consumer products and integrative health with her Harvard MBA, and impressive professional history of launching new...
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- October 2023
- Case
Vida Health: Transforming Chronic Disease Treatment
By: William Sahlman and Nicole Tempest Keller
San Francisco based Vida Health, founded by Stephanie Tilenius, former vice president of Commerce and Payments at Google, was a B2B digital health startup focused on the treatment of cardiometabolic conditions, such as diabetes and obesity. Its innovative digital...
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Keywords:
Corporate Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Demand and Consumers;
Health Care and Treatment;
Product Marketing;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Technological Innovation;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
United States;
California;
San Francisco
Sahlman, William, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Vida Health: Transforming Chronic Disease Treatment." Harvard Business School Case 824-001, October 2023.
- November 2016
- Case
Pete & Gerry's
By: Jose Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
Keywords:
"Pete & Gerry's;
" Eggs;
Egg Industry;
Avian Flu;
Cage Free;
Free Range;
Agribusiness;
Agriculture;
Industry Structure;
Industry Evolution;
Price Volatility;
Small Business;
Strategy Formulation;
Branding;
Marketing;
Premium Brand;
Growth;
Consumer;
Consumer Behavior;
Animal Welfare;
Retail;
Grocery;
Food Labeling;
Animal-Based Agribusiness;
Advertising Campaigns;
Business Model;
Change;
Change Management;
Disruption;
Transition;
Trends;
Volatility;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Entrepreneurship;
Food;
Ethics;
Health;
Problems and Challenges;
Operations;
Sales;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Quality;
Public Opinion;
Value;
Strategy;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Retail Industry;
United States
Alvarez, Jose, and Natalie Kindred. "Pete & Gerry's." Harvard Business School Case 517-048, November 2016.
- Article
True Costs of Uterine Artery Embolization: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing in Interventional Radiology Over a 3-Year Period
By: Julia C. Bulman, Nicole H. Kim, Robert S. Kaplan, Sarah Schroeppel DeBacker, Olga R. Brook and Ammar Sarwar
The study used time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to estimate the costs to perform uterine artery embolization (UAE). Utilization times for patients undergoing outpatient UAE for fibroids or adenomyosis were captured from electronic health record timestamps and...
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Bulman, Julia C., Nicole H. Kim, Robert S. Kaplan, Sarah Schroeppel DeBacker, Olga R. Brook, and Ammar Sarwar. "True Costs of Uterine Artery Embolization: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing in Interventional Radiology Over a 3-Year Period." Journal of the American College of Radiology (in press). (Pre-published online January 21, 2024.)
- 18 Dec 2017
- News
Hospital Giants Vie for Patients in Effort to Fend Off New Rivals
- Article
Motivated Inferences of Price and Quality in Healthcare Decisions
By: Emily Prinsloo, Kate Barasz and Peter A. Ubel
Policy makers have increasingly advocated for healthcare price transparency, whereby prices are made salient before services are rendered. While such policies may empower consumers, they also bring price to the forefront of healthcare choices as never before, with yet...
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Keywords:
Healthcare;
Price Transparency;
Health Care and Treatment;
Price;
Quality;
Perception;
Consumer Behavior;
Decisions;
Insurance
Prinsloo, Emily, Kate Barasz, and Peter A. Ubel. "Motivated Inferences of Price and Quality in Healthcare Decisions." Special Issue on Healthcare and Medical Decision Making edited by Dipankar Chakravarti, Jian Ni, Meng Zhu. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research 7, no. 2 (April 2022): 186–197.
- April 2013
- Article
Information and Subsidies: Complements or Substitutes?
By: Nava Ashraf, B. Kelsey Jack and Emir Kamenica
Does providing information about a product affect the impact of price subsidies on purchases of new or unfamiliar products? This question is particularly relevant for the introduction of health products in developing countries where consumers may be uncertain about...
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Ashraf, Nava, B. Kelsey Jack, and Emir Kamenica. "Information and Subsidies: Complements or Substitutes?" Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 88 (April 2013): 133–139.
- 14 Oct 2015
- News
When People Pay Attention to Video Ads and Why
- April 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
The Dannon Company: Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility (A)
By: Christopher Marquis, Pooja Mehta Shah, Amanda Elizabeth Tolleson and Bobbi Thomason
At the end of 2009, The Dannon Company was considering pro actively communicating its CSR efforts to consumers. With the strong connection between Dannon's production of health foods and its commitment to health and nutrition-based CSR activities, communicating these...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Nutrition;
Marketing Communications;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Natural Environment;
Food and Beverage Industry
Marquis, Christopher, Pooja Mehta Shah, Amanda Elizabeth Tolleson, and Bobbi Thomason. "The Dannon Company: Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility (A)." Harvard Business School Case 410-121, April 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- May 2014 (Revised July 2016)
- Case
RCA: Color Television and the Department of Justice (A)
By: Willy C. Shih and Gregory Dieterich
This case examines the early history of the color television receiver market and the global consequences of an historic 1958 consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice that opened RCA's patents to licensing by domestic competitors royalty-free. This externality...
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Keywords:
Intellectual Property;
Patents;
Rights;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Business History;
Information Technology;
Information Infrastructure;
Communications Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Electronics Industry;
United States;
Japan
Shih, Willy C., and Gregory Dieterich. "RCA: Color Television and the Department of Justice (A)." Harvard Business School Case 614-072, May 2014. (Revised July 2016.)
- 2015
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Innovating in Healthcare
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Margo I. Seltzer and Kevin Schulman
With over 71,000 past enrollees, Innovating in Healthcare investigates the issues of health care spending, quality, and access that continue to plague America and global nations alike. With U.S. health care costs trending toward $4 trillion in 2020, the need to...
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Herzlinger, Regina E., Margo I. Seltzer, and Kevin Schulman. "Innovating in Healthcare." edX Inc., 2015. Video. (HarvardX Massive Open Online Course.)
- 26 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews
restaurants, causing consumers to avoid those with bad ratings. Restaurants, in turn, often respond by cleaning up their act, according to an analysis of Yelp reviews, OpenTable reservations, and data from the New York City Department of...
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- 17 May 2021
- News
Key Inflation Gauge Overstating Prices, Harvard’s Cavallo Says
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
all become consumers of the health care industry. Indeed, health care affects everyone and encompasses a diverse set of services from childbirth, to illness prevention, to the...
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Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- October 2004
- Case
DNA Traceability at Maple Leaf Foods
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Joan McRobbie and Matthew L. Reisman
Maple Leaf Foods is concerned about the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease) issue in Canada and the reputation of Canadian meat products in the domestic and global markets. DNA can now trace products from sow and piglets to consumer pork products....
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- December 2007 (Revised April 2008)
- Case
Alltech...naturally
By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
Entrepreneur Pearse Lyons had built Alltech into the fastest growing company in the global animal health industry through innovative technology, creative marketing, and strong branding. Sel-Plex, a proprietary Alltech product, had shown important health benefits for...
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Keywords:
Brands and Branding;
Leadership Development;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Expansion;
Technological Innovation;
Intellectual Property;
Sales;
Value Creation;
Business Model;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Health Industry
Bell, David E., and Mary L. Shelman. "Alltech...naturally." Harvard Business School Case 508-033, December 2007. (Revised April 2008.)