Leemore Dafny
MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business Administration, HBS at Harvard Kennedy School
Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration/Mary Ellen Jay and Jeffrey Jay Fellow at Harvard Business School
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- Harvard Business School
- Harvard Kennedy School
- Harvard Medical School
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Harvard Kennedy School
Leemore Dafny is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, and a member of the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government. Prior to joining Harvard in 2016, she served as Director of Health Enterprise Management, Herman Smith Professor of Hospital and Health Services Management, and a professor of strategy at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Professor Dafny’s research examines competitive interactions among payers and providers of healthcare services, and the intersection of industry and public policy. Her work has been published in academic journals such as The American Economic Review and The New England Journal of Medicine, and featured in popular media such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Current projects include studies of consolidation in the US hospital industry and the kidney dialysis industry, products and pricing on the public health insurance exchanges, co-payment coupons for prescription drugs, and the implications of for-profit ownership of insurance companies.
Professor Dafny graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College and worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company prior to earning her PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has won several teaching awards as well as Kellogg’s leading research prize, the Stanley Reiter Best Paper award. Professor Dafny is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an associate editor of Management Science, and a board member of the American Society of Health Economists and the Health Care Cost Institute.
Professor Dafny’s expertise spans both the public and private sectors. She serves on the Panel of Health Advisers for the Congressional Budget Office. In 2012-2013, she was deputy director for healthcare and antitrust in the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission. She also advises companies, government agencies, and nonprofits on a variety of issues including antitrust matters, strategic decisions, and public policy.
Harvard Business School
Leemore Dafny is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches courses in healthcare strategy and co-directs to PhD Program in Business Economics. Professor Dafny also serves on the faculties of the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the interdisciplinary Program in Health Policy.
Professor Dafny’s research examines competitive interactions among payers and providers of healthcare services, and the intersection of industry and public policy. Her work has been published in academic journals such as The American Economic Review and The New England Journal of Medicine, and featured in popular media such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Current projects include studies of prescription drug assistance and coupon programs, organizational structure of the healthcare sector, policy proposals to optimize and contain healthcare spending, and employer-sponsored health insurance.
Professor Dafny graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College and worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company prior to earning her PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has won several teaching awards as well as Kellogg’s leading research prize, the Stanley Reiter Best Paper award. Professor Dafny is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an associate editor of Management Science, and a board member of the American Society of Health Economists and the Health Care Cost Institute.
Professor Dafny’s expertise spans both the public and private sectors. She serves on the Panel of Health Advisers for the Congressional Budget Office. In 2012-2013, she was deputy director for healthcare and antitrust in the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission. She also advises companies, government agencies, and nonprofits on a variety of issues including antitrust matters, strategic decisions, and public policy.
AWARDS & HONORS
- Selected as the 14th Annual Seidman Lecturer by the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.
- Winner of the 2012 Stanley Reiter Best Paper Award from the Kellogg School of Management.
- Received a Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award from the Kellogg School of Management in 2011.
- Received a Faculty Impact Teaching Award from the Kellogg School of Management in 2010 and 2011.
- Received the Chairs' Core Course Teaching Award, Best Instructor for Management & Strategy, from the Kellogg School of Management, 2005–2006.
- Recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1997–2001.
Videos
U.S. Drug Prices: The problem with co-pay coupons
Improving Health Care Through Research
U.S. Drug Prices: Takeaways
U.S. Drug Prices: Why Are They So High?
Lessons for US Health Reform: Prices, private VS public.
Cultivating a vibrant U.S. market for biosimilars: A conversation with FDA’s Scott Gottlieb - Part 2
The Affordable Care Act Past, Present and Future: Tense
HCC 2022 | Day 3: The Changing Business of Health Care Panel - Leemore S. Dafny, PhD
Leemore Dafny
Healthcare Competition | July 14, 2020
How to Lower Health Care Costs: Competition, Regulation, and Administrative Expenses
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