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Curing U.S. Health Care, 2nd Edition (HBR Article Collection)
Steven J. Spear, Michael E. Porter, ...

Harvard Business Review, 2005

U.S. health care is suffering from rising costs and low-quality care. The antidotes? Radical approaches to: First, competition: Currently, industry players divide up rather than drive up value. Employers shift costs to employees. Insurers limit patients' access to services and reward providers for spending less time with patients. Instead, companies should put consumers in charge of health care by giving employees more health plan options, ...

Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Payers, and Policy-Makers

4 reviews
Regina E. Herzlinger

Jossey-Bass, 2004

Thoughtful Contribution
In Consumer-Driven Health Care, Regina E. Herzlinger, a leading health care thought leader and a professor at the Harvard Business School, provides a thought-provoking look inside a new, powerful force slowly transforming America's dysfunctional health care industry. Consumer-Driven Health Care builds on her popular 1997 book Market-Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of ...

Curing U.S. Health Care, 3rd Edition (HBR Article Collection)
Steven J. Spear, Regina E. Herzlinger, ...

Harvard Business Review, 2006

Soaring health-benefit costs. Low-quality care. Complex HMO rules. U.S. health care is sick. The cure? Radical approaches to innovation, competition, and process improvement on the part of all players. Innovation: Developers of new health care services, technologies, and business models can better navigate the many forces affecting innovations' success--such as regulatory caution. And hospitals and HMOs can embrace simpler, more affordable, and ...

Financial Accounting and Managerial Control for Nonprofit Organizations

2 reviews
Regina E. Herzlinger, Denise Nitterhouse

South-Western Educational Publishing, 1994

It's a complete guide!
This book not only gives the mechanics of accounting for non-profits, but more importantly, provides tools for financial and resource decision-making. A must for non-profit managers!

Let's Put Consumers in Charge of Health Care (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

1 review
Regina E. Herzlinger

Harvard Business Review, 2002

Consumer Control: An idea whose time has come...again
The human & economic value of "consumer control" as a guiding light for efforts to put right a system that has gone very wrong is impossible to overestimate. This concept, whose origins are deeply rooted in the values of our nation, has served as the battle cry of the disability rights movement and is understood completely by anyone with a fraction of an ounce of business sense.

Curing U.S. Health Care (HBR OnPoint Collection)
Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, ...

Harvard Business Review, 2004

U.S. companies are fed up with soaring U.S. health benefit costs; patients, with low-quality, inconvenient care. The root cause of these problems? The wrong kind of competition. Industry players divide up--rather than drive up--value. Employers shift costs to employees. Insurers limit patients' access to services. Providers spend less time with patients. The prevailing question is "Who's paying?" not "Who's providing top value?" Consider a ...

Who Killed Healthcare?
Regina E. Herzlinger

McGraw-Hill, 2007

Why Innovation in Health Care is So Hard (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Regina E. Herzlinger

Harvard Business Review, 2006

Health care in the United States--and in most other developed countries--is ailing. Medical treatment has made astonishing advances, but the packaging and delivery of health care are often inefficient, ineffective, and user unfriendly. Problems ranging from costs to medical errors beg for ingenious solutions--and, indeed, there have been enormous investments in innovation. But too many efforts fail. To find out why, it's necessary to break down ...