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In Reach Care of the Elderly: Moss Valley Medical Practice
By: Julie Battilana, A. M. Cagna and T. D'Aunno
- 01 Jul 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Social Interactions in Pandemics: Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity
- 28 Sep 2020
- News
Some Workers Face Looming Cutoffs in Health Insurance
- March 2014 (Revised September 2017)
- Case
salaUno: Eliminating Needless Blindness in Mexico
By: Richard Hamermesh, Regina Garcia Cueller and Valeria Moy
In May 2013 the co-founders and co-CEOs of salaUno, Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, were encouraged by the results of their fledgling start-up. salaUno was founded as a for-profit enterprise in order to have the capital needed for rapid growth and to fulfill its...
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Keywords:
Medical Services;
Developing Countries;
Developing Markets;
Health Care Industry;
Health Services;
Healthcare Ventures;
Healthcare Startups;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health;
Business Startups;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Health Industry;
Mexico;
Mexico City
Hamermesh, Richard, Regina Garcia Cueller, and Valeria Moy. "salaUno: Eliminating Needless Blindness in Mexico." Harvard Business School Case 814-041, March 2014. (Revised September 2017.)
- 12 Jun 2020
- News
What Blockchain Could Mean for Your Health Data
- February 2017 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
Hebrew SeniorLife: Next Steps
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Olivia Hull
The CEO of Hebrew SeniorLife is contemplating how to scale his highly successful but asset-intensive continuing care retirement community for elders. Among the strategies he is considering is an expansion to China; virtual web-based care; providing continuing care in...
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- October 2013 (Revised January 2015)
- Case
The Slingshot: Improving Water Access
By: John A. Quelch, Margaret L. Rodriguez and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In 2012, over 750 million people around the globe lacked access to safe drinking water. Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, sought to bring fresh water to poor and rural areas with the Slingshot, a water purification device. Kamen's challenge was to identify ways to...
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Keywords:
Water;
Public Health;
Health Care;
Slingshot;
Dean Kamen;
DEKA;
Coca-Cola;
Developing Markets;
Freestyle;
Safety;
Natural Environment;
Pollutants;
Health;
Distribution Channels;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Innovation and Invention;
Africa;
Latin America;
South America;
Asia
Quelch, John A., Margaret L. Rodriguez, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "The Slingshot: Improving Water Access." Harvard Business School Case 514-007, October 2013. (Revised January 2015.)
- 17 Jul 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Tort Reform and Innovation
- 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.
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Regulating Hospital Prices Based on Market Concentration Is Likely to Leave High-Price Hospitals Unaffected
By: Maximilian J. Pany, Michael E. Chernew and Leemore S. Dafny
Concern about high hospital prices for commercially insured patients has motivated several proposals to regulate these prices. Such proposals often limit regulations to highly concentrated hospital markets. Using a large sample of 2017 US commercial insurance claims,...
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Keywords:
Health Care Providers;
Hospitals;
Insurance Market Regulation;
Price Regulation;
Markets;
Health Care and Treatment;
Cost;
Quality;
Insurance;
Price;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Pany, Maximilian J., Michael E. Chernew, and Leemore S. Dafny. "Regulating Hospital Prices Based on Market Concentration Is Likely to Leave High-Price Hospitals Unaffected." Health Affairs 40, no. 9 (September 2021): 1386–1394.
- September 2023
- Teaching Note
Roche: ESG and Access to Healthcare
By: George Serafeim
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-075. In May 2022, Roche Group, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world, hosted its first ESG investor event focused exclusively on its efforts to impact access to healthcare. While Roche had recently set an ambitious goal...
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- December 2013 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Paul Levy: Confronting a 'Corporate Campaign' (A)
Hospital CEO Paul Levy confronts an SEIU unionization drive via a "corporate campaign" aimed at undercutting the hospital's relationships with key internal and external constituencies. Having shepherded one of Boston's top teaching hospitals much of the way through a...
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Keywords:
Dispute Resolution;
Corporate Campaign;
Negotiating Campaign;
Bargaining;
Health Care;
Hospitals;
Unions;
Health Care and Treatment;
Negotiation;
Strategy;
Negotiation Process;
Labor Unions;
Health Industry;
Boston
Sebenius, James K. "Paul Levy: Confronting a 'Corporate Campaign' (A)." Harvard Business School Case 914-020, December 2013. (Revised May 2021.)
- 12 Oct 2015
- News
Google Ventures: Big-time Consumer Health Is Still a Dream
- 11 Oct 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
US Healthcare Reform and the Pharmaceutical Industry
- August 2008
- Teaching Note
Go Red for Women: Raising Heart Health Awareness (TN)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Madelene Bell
Teaching Note for [507026].
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TDABC Cost Analysis of Ocular Disorders in an Ophthalmology Emergency Department versus Urgent Care: Clinical Experience at Massachusetts Eye and Ear
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Jonathan Chou, Mahek Shah, Amy Watts, Matthew Gardiner, Joan Miller and John I. Lowenstein
Purpose
To perform a cost analysis comparison for managing common ocular disorders in an eye emergency department (ED) versus an urgent care setting using a time-driven activity-based cost model (TDABC) to assist physicians and staff in appropriate allocation of...
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Keywords:
Time-driven Activity-based Cost Model;
Emergency Room;
Urgent Care Clinic;
Cost;
Analysis;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Health Care and Treatment
Kaplan, Robert S., Jonathan Chou, Mahek Shah, Amy Watts, Matthew Gardiner, Joan Miller, and John I. Lowenstein. "TDABC Cost Analysis of Ocular Disorders in an Ophthalmology Emergency Department versus Urgent Care: Clinical Experience at Massachusetts Eye and Ear." Journal of Academic Ophthalmology 10 (2018).
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
maximizing productivity? How do we help employees with work/life balance?” “How to keep people engaged and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal View Details
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- February 2019 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
Extend Fertility: Conceiving the Market for Egg Preservation (A)
By: Debora L. Spar and Olivia Hull
In April 2003, entrepreneur and MBA student Christy Jones was planning a new venture to help women preserve their fertility. Her company, Extend Fertility, would commercialize a technique known as egg freezing, in which a woman’s eggs were extracted and stored at low...
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Keywords:
Assisted Reproduction;
Entrepreneur;
Health And Wellness;
Fertility;
Infertility;
Women's Health;
Creating Markets;
Egg Freezing;
Fertility Clinic;
Entrepreneurship;
Strategy;
Marketing Strategy
Spar, Debora L., and Olivia Hull. "Extend Fertility: Conceiving the Market for Egg Preservation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 719-019, February 2019. (Revised October 2019.)