Assistant Professor
Management of Organizations
Researcher focused on health care management
About
Ambar La Forgia is an assistant professor in the Management of Organizations group at the Haas School of Business. Her research studies the relationship between organizational and managerial strategies and performance outcomes in the health care sector. In particular, she uses quantitative methods to study how the strategic decisions of corporations to merge, acquire, or partner with other organizations can change managerial processes in ways that impact both financial and clinical performance. A secondary research strand studies how health care organizations adapt their service delivery and prices following changes in state and federal legislation.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Health care
- Research methods
- Corporate strategy
- Mergers and acquisitions
- La Forgia, A., Bodner, J. (2024). Getting Down to Business: Chain Ownership and Fertility Clinic Performance. Management Science.
- Gupta, A., La Forgia, A., Sacarny, A. (2024). Turbocharging Profits? Contract Gaming and Revenue Allocation in Healthcare. National Bureau of Economic Research
- La Forgia, A. (2022). The Impact of Management on Clinical Performance: Evidence from Physician Practice Management Companies. Management Science.
- La Forgia, A., Bond, A., Braun, R. T., Yao, L. Kjaer, K., Zhang, M., & Casalino, L. (2022). Association of Physician Management Companies and Private Equity Investment With Commercial Health Care Prices Paid to Anesthesia Practitioners. JAMA Internal Medicine.
- La Forgia, A., Bond, A., Braun, R. T., Kjaer, K., Zhang, M., & Casalino, L. (2021). Association of Surprise Billing Legislation with Prices Paid to In-Network and Out-of-Network Anesthesiologists in California, Florida, and New York. JAMA Internal Medicine.
- La Forgia, A. (2020). The Impact of Acquisitions on Clinical Decisions: Evidence from Physician Practice Management Companies. Proceedings of the Eightieth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.
- “Physician Management Companies and Prices, Utilization, and Quality of Neonatology Services,” with Jiani Yu, Tyler Braun, Amelia Bond, Manyao Zhang, and Larry Casalino. (R&R)
- “Growing Networks and Growing Families: The Impact of Alliances and Acquisitions on Fertility Clinic Outcomes.” with Julia Bodner
At Haas since 2022
- July 2022-present, Assistant Professor, Management of Organizations & Health Policy, Haas School of Business
- 2019-2022, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
- Spanish (Native)
- Portuguese (Fluent)
- Early Career Achievement Award, Academy of Management, Health Care Management Division, 2025
- Earl F. Cheit Award For Excellence In Teaching, Inclusive Teaching, Evening & Weekend MBA Program, Haas Schoool of Business, 2025
- “2025 Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors,” Poets & Quants, 2025
- Earl F. Cheit Award For Excellence In Teaching, Weekend MBA Program, Haas School of Business , 2023
- Poets&Quants’ world’s best 40-under-40 MBA professors of 2025, Poets&Quants, 05/21/2025
- 2025 best 40-under-40 MBA professors: Ambar La Forgia, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, Poets&Quants, 05/21/2025
- Fertility clinics show how the chain model can improve health care, Harvard Business Review, 10/15/2024
- Private equity has made fertility roll-ups its latest baby, , 08/24/2024
- How hospitals gamed a Medicare loophole to reap billions, Medical Laboratory Observer, 07/25/2024
- Is private equity ruining health care? It’s complicated, Side Effects, 05/16/2024
- FTC chief gears up for a showdown with private equity, Modern Healthcare, 11/20/2023
- Routine births are turning into moneymaking ‘emergency’ events at hospitals that work with private equity-backed staffing companies, Fortune, 10/12/2022
- FTC probes market power of one of country’s biggest anesthesia providers, The Wall Street Journal, 10/07/2022
- Leading People (EWMBA)