Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Health Care and Treatment"

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    • The Effect of Cost Sharing on an Employee Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Trial 

      John, Leslie; Troxel, Andrea B.; Yancy, William S.; Friedman, Joelle; Zhu, Jingsan; Yang, Lin; Galvin, Robert; Miller-Kovach, Karen; Halpern, Scott D.; Loewenstein, George; Volpp, Kevin (SAGE Publications, 2018-01)
      Purpose: We tested the effects of employer subsidies on employee enrollment, attendance, and weight loss in a nationally-available weight management program. Design: A randomized trial tested the impact of employer subsidy: ...

    • Influence of Experience and the Surgical Learning Curve on Long-term Patient Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery 

      Burt, Bryan M.; ElBardissi, Andrew W.; Huckman, Robert; Cohn, Lawrence H.; Cevasco, Marisa W.; Rawn, James D.; Aranki, Sary F.; Byrne, John G. (Elsevier BV, 2015-11)
      OBJECTIVE: We hypothesized that increased post-graduate surgical experience correlates with improved operative efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures. METHODS: Utilizing a prospectively ...

    • Narrow Networks On The Health Insurance Marketplaces: Prevalence, Pricing, And The Cost Of Network Breadth 

      Dafny, Leemore; Hendel, Igal; Marone, Victoria; Ody, Christopher (Health Affairs (Project Hope), 2017-09)
      Anecdotal reports and systematic research highlight the prevalence of narrow-network plans on the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance Marketplaces. At the same time, Marketplace premiums in the period 2014–2016 were ...

    • Selective Regulator Decoupling and Organizations’ Strategic Responses 

      Heese, Jonas; Krishnan, Ranjani; Moers, Frank (Academy of Management, 2016-12)
      Organizations often respond to institutional pressures by symbolically adopting policies and procedures but decoupling them from actual practice. Literature has examined why organizations decouple from regulatory pressures. ...