Leemore Dafny is the MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Previously, she was Professor of Strategy, the Herman Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services, and Director of Health Enterprise Management (HEMA) at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Her 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 journals such as the American Economic Review and the New England Journal of Medicine, and featured in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, and The Washington Post.
Current projects include studies of consolidation in the U.S. hospital industry and the kidney dialysis industry, organizational form of provider practices, copayment coupons for prescription drugs, and the implications of for-profit ownership of insurance companies.
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. Dafny is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern’s Institute of Policy Research, and a Board member of the American Society of Health Economists and the Health Care Cost Institute. She currently serves on the Panel of Health Advisers for the Congressional Budget Office.
Leemore Dafny, Kellogg School of Management
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