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- March 1999 (Revised July 1999)
- Case
Crunch
By: Paul W. Marshall and Jeremy Dann
Entrepreneur Doug Levine runs a fitness company with an incredibly powerful brand. His company leverages the brand to expand, both in terms of facilities and lines of business. But he may need to make significant organizational changes in order to continue the growth.
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- March 1999 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Patient Care Delivery Model at the Massachusetts General Hospital, The
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M.J. Bohmer and Emily Heaphy
Examines the implementation of a new patient care delivery model at Massachusetts General Hospital. Uses clinical and financial data to examine different choices for staffing non-physician health care professionals and to understand the challenges of managing change...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Service Delivery;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
Massachusetts
Edmondson, Amy C., Richard M.J. Bohmer, and Emily Heaphy. "Patient Care Delivery Model at the Massachusetts General Hospital, The." Harvard Business School Case 699-154, March 1999. (Revised February 2000.)
- February 1999
- Case
Lifeline Systems, Inc. (B)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
In 1997, Lifeline Systems continues to grow its service business to $32 million, 56% of the company's total revenues. More local hospital Lifeline programs turn over their monitoring service to Lifeline Central, expanding the company's subscriber base by 30%. The...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Technology;
Expansion;
Cost Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Partners and Partnerships;
Change;
Customer Relationship Management;
Service Operations;
Age;
Investment;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
Cambridge;
Boston
Bowen, H. Kent, and Marilyn Matis. "Lifeline Systems, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 699-038, February 1999.
- December 1998 (Revised March 1999)
- Case
Guangdong Nowada Group, The
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Anthony St. George
In late 1998, 38-year-old He Boquan, CEO of the Guangdong Nowada Group, a health beverage producer, needs to decide how to fund his company's growth and ambition to become China's number one domestic health beverage producer by 2002. A consultants study revealed that...
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Keywords:
Forecasting and Prediction;
Capital;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Growth and Development;
Leadership Style;
Management Skills;
Negotiation Offer;
Competitive Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry;
China
Goldberg, Ray A., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Anthony St. George. "Guangdong Nowada Group, The." Harvard Business School Case 599-064, December 1998. (Revised March 1999.)
- December 1998 (Revised September 1999)
- Case
Novartis: Betting on Life Sciences
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Srinivas Sunder
The merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz produced genomic-based synergies for health care, agribusiness, and nutritional supplements. How to build on the strength of the individual divisions and provide synergies that would continue Novartis' leadership role is the question...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Divisions;
Health Care and Treatment;
Leadership;
Product Positioning;
Science-Based Business;
Corporate Strategy;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Srinivas Sunder. "Novartis: Betting on Life Sciences." Harvard Business School Case 599-076, December 1998. (Revised September 1999.)
- November 1998
- Case
Wegmans Food Markets: Diabetes Counseling
By: Ray A. Goldberg, David E. Bell and Ann Leamon
Danny Wegman, president of Wegmans Food Markets, is trying to decide how to evaluate the success of a nutrition-counseling program for diabetics, and whether and how to expand the program beyond the two stores currently involved. Wegmans, with 57 stores and $2.3...
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Keywords:
Performance Evaluation;
Expansion;
Programs;
Human Needs;
Financial Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Nutrition;
Consumer Behavior;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., David E. Bell, and Ann Leamon. "Wegmans Food Markets: Diabetes Counseling." Harvard Business School Case 599-057, November 1998.
- October 1998 (Revised December 1999)
- Case
Gene Research, the Mapping of Life and the Global Economy
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Juan Enriquez-Cabot
A new firm is being created to speed up the process of mapping humans, animals, and plants by combining gene technology with rapid gene identification to improve the health and well being of the human population and the productivity of crops and animals. How does one...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Organizational Structure;
Technological Innovation;
Business Processes;
Health Care and Treatment;
Performance Productivity;
Welfare;
Agribusiness;
Genetics;
Science-Based Business;
Biotechnology Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., and Juan Enriquez-Cabot. "Gene Research, the Mapping of Life and the Global Economy." Harvard Business School Case 599-016, October 1998. (Revised December 1999.)
- August 1998
- Case
Record Masters
By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz
Kent Dauten, a former general partner at the Chicago private equity firm of Madison Dearborn Partners, has engaged in a search to personally sponsor a buyout in which he can play an active management role. He has received a selling memorandum for Record Masters, a...
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Sahlman, William A., Michael J. Roberts, and Laurence E. Katz. "Record Masters." Harvard Business School Case 899-020, August 1998.
- July 1998
- Teaching Note
Arbor Health Care Company TN
By: Myra M. Hart and Stephanie Dodson
Teaching Note for (9-897-132).
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Keywords:
Health Industry
- summer 1998
- Article
The Managerial Revolution in the U.S. Health Care Sector: Lessons from the U.S. Economy
Herzlinger, Regina E. "The Managerial Revolution in the U.S. Health Care Sector: Lessons from the U.S. Economy." Health Care Management Review 23, no. 3 (summer 1998): 19–29.
- June 1998
- Teaching Note
Orthoteks USA Series TN
Teaching Note for (9-384-057), (9-384-058), (9-384-059), (9-384-060), (9-384-061), and (9-384-062).
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Absorptive Capacity, Coauthoring Behavior, and the Organization of Research in Drug Discovery
By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Iain Cockburn
Henderson, Rebecca M., and Iain Cockburn. "Absorptive Capacity, Coauthoring Behavior, and the Organization of Research in Drug Discovery." Journal of Industrial Economics 46, no. 2 (June 1998): 157–182.
- April 1998
- Case
Cephalon, Inc.
By: Peter Tufano
In early 1997, Cephalon, awaited an FDA panel's decision on whether its drug, Myotrophin, would be approved. If the drug was approved, the firm might need substantial additional funds to commercialize as well as to buy back rights to it (which had been sold earlier to...
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Keywords:
Risk Management;
Financing and Loans;
Health Care and Treatment;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States
Tufano, Peter, Geoffrey Verter, and Markus Mullarkey. "Cephalon, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 298-116, April 1998.
- February 1998 (Revised April 1999)
- Case
Medical Consultants Network, Inc.
By: Paul W. Marshall and Jefferson C. Grahling
Marshall, Paul W., and Jefferson C. Grahling. "Medical Consultants Network, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 898-173, February 1998. (Revised April 1999.)
- February 1998 (Revised October 1998)
- Background Note
Note on New Drug Development in the United States
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade
An overview of the new drug development process in the United States, using the migraine drug Imitrex as an illustrative example.
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Keywords:
Product Development;
Research and Development;
Health;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States
Thomke, Stefan H., and Ashok Nimgade. "Note on New Drug Development in the United States." Harvard Business School Background Note 698-028, February 1998. (Revised October 1998.)
- November 1997
- Background Note
Assessing a Company's Financial Health (Abridged)
By: Thomas R. Piper
Keywords:
Financial Condition
Piper, Thomas R. "Assessing a Company's Financial Health (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Background Note 298-075, November 1997.
- November 1997 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
Medical Foods, Inc.
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Tom Clay
Dr. Franklin Lowe is CEO of a new kind of company in a new kind of industry--medical foods. He must select a business model and partners that will help make this a viable business.
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Partners and Partnerships;
Business or Company Management;
Strategy;
Business Startups;
Health Care and Treatment;
Food;
Innovation and Management;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., and Tom Clay. "Medical Foods, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 598-048, November 1997. (Revised May 1999.)
- October 1997 (Revised April 2002)
- Case
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (A)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Elaine V. Backman
Outlines the dynamic shifts in the external environment surrounding Planned Parenthood's operations in 1994. Health care reform was threatening some of its core customer base. The organization had to come up with a strategy and a process for adapting to the new...
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Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Elaine V. Backman. "Planned Parenthood Federation of America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 598-001, October 1997. (Revised April 2002.)
- October 1997
- Case
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (B)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Elaine V. Backman
Outlines the process of strategy reinvention adopted by Planned Parenthood. It lays out the new strategic proposals, and the reactions of the various constituencies to those proposals.
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Framework;
Core Relationships;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Adaptation;
Health Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Elaine V. Backman. "Planned Parenthood Federation of America (B)." Harvard Business School Case 598-002, October 1997.