Craig Garthwaite
Professor of Strategy; Herman Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services Management; Director of Healthcare at Kellogg
Podcast: American Healthcare—Is This the Best We Can Do?
In the final episode of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we travel overseas, and through our own backyard, in search of a way forward.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove and Amanda Starc
July 22, 2024
Podcast: The Bargain That Fuels Big Pharma
What will we pay for the next groundbreaking drug? In episode 4 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we explore the trade-off at the heart of pharmaceutical innovation.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, Amanda Starc and Kevin Outterson
July 15, 2024
Podcast: The Misadventures of Insuring America
In episode 3 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we explain how insurance companies became everybody’s favorite villain.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove and Paul Campbell
July 8, 2024
Podcast: The Power of the Physician's Pen
We rely on doctors to keep us healthy. In episode 2 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we learn at what cost.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove and Paul Campbell
July 1, 2024
Podcast: The Problem with Megaproviders
In episode 1 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we investigate how hospital systems got so big—and what that means for our health and our pocketbooks.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove and Lawton R. Burns
June 24, 2024
Podcast: Introducing Insight Unpacked, Season 2
American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, David Dranove, Amanda Starc and Paul Campbell
June 21, 2024
Will AI Eventually Replace Doctors?
Maybe not entirely. But the doctor–patient relationship is likely to change dramatically.
Researchers: David Dranove and Craig Garthwaite
February 1, 2023
Where Is the U.S. Healthcare Industry Headed?
New business models abound, private equity is expanding, and healthcare workers are hard to find.
Researchers: David Dranove and Craig Garthwaite
June 21, 2022
We Hear a Lot about New Drugs. But What Spurs Innovation in Medical Procedures?
There’s been little research on what brings about new procedures, despite how life-changing they can be.
Researchers: David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite, Christopher Heard and Bingxiao Wu
April 5, 2022
Taking the Pulse of the Changing U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem
As healthcare gets more complex—and more expensive—business models are adapting to address misaligned interests and incentives.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite
May 17, 2021
How Regulating Hospital Prices Can Impact Patient Care
There are tangible benefits for quality of care when hospitals compete for higher-paying patients.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, Christopher Ody and Amanda Starc
May 10, 2021
Big-Time College Athletes Don’t Get Paid. Here’s How This Amplifies Racial Inequities.
A new study finds that much of the revenue from football and basketball, which have a high proportion of Black athletes, gets funneled to predominantly white teams.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, Jordan Keener, Matthew J. Notowidigdo and Nicole Ozminkowski
February 4, 2021
Pharma Companies Argue That Lower Drug Prices Would Mean Fewer Breakthrough Drugs. Is That True?
Probably not, a new study suggests—as long as the price decreases are modest.
Researchers: David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite and Manuel I. Hermosilla
September 2, 2020
Would "Medicare for All" Really Reduce Healthcare Costs in the U.S.?
Single payer drives significant savings in countries like Canada. But new research suggests it might play out differently in the U.S.
Researchers: Jillian Chown, David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite and Jordan Keener
October 4, 2019
Take 5: Election Rules and Campaign Tactics That Sway Voters
A look at whether celebrity endorsements matter, why the top spot on a ballot is coveted, and more election research from Kellogg faculty.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, Angela Y. Lee, Yuval Salant, Georgy Egorov and Jörg L. Spenkuch
October 30, 2018
What’s Behind the Current Wave of Vertical Integration?
From Amazon–Whole Foods to CVS–Aetna, companies are reconfiguring for an uncertain future. Four strategy professors discuss.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, Meghan Busse, Amanda Starc and R. Mark McCareins
January 5, 2018
What Happens to Healthcare Costs When Nonprofit Hospitals Take a Financial Hit?
The answer has implications for the debate over the Affordable Care Act.
Researchers: David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite and Christopher Ody
August 3, 2017
A Healthcare Policy Expert on Four Key Differences Between the ACA and the AHCA
Craig Garthwaite explains how the GOP proposal could impact patients, insurers, and hospitals.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite
March 13, 2017
Under the ACA, the Cost of Caring for the Uninsured Decreased for Hospitals
The benefit has come only in states that expanded Medicaid.
Researchers: David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite and Christopher Ody
January 5, 2017
Why Healthcare Spending Has Slowed
Is the Affordable Care Act getting too much credit?
Researchers: David Dranove, Craig Garthwaite and Christopher Ody
February 1, 2016
Who Bears the Cost of the Uninsured? Nonprofit Hospitals.
When governments do not provide health insurance, hospitals must provide it instead.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross and Matthew J. Notowidigdo
June 22, 2015
Plenty of Costs, Plenty of Benefits
A Q&A with Craig Garthwaite about the new insurance exchanges
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite
December 9, 2013
Freed from Employment Lock
Obamacare may lead people to choose to leave the labor market.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross and Matthew J. Notowidigdo
August 5, 2013
Will Doctors Work Less Under “Obamacare”?
The effect of lower reimbursements on the medical workforce
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite
June 4, 2012
How Poverty Damages Health
Anti-poverty programs boost recipients’ well-being
Researchers: William Evans and Craig Garthwaite
June 4, 2012
The Oprah Effect
Celebrity endorsement of political candidates can make a difference at the polls.
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite and Timothy Moore
April 2, 2012
Balancing Medical Risks with Financial Needs
Controversial prescription drug Vioxx may have kept people in the workforce
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite
December 1, 2010
Fetal Influence on Familiar Ailments
The effect of in-utero conditions on long term health
Researchers: Craig Garthwaite
December 1, 2009
