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- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
efficacy, and efficiency, the only thing I know that can provide all four is business. Business provides them not through one single corporation, because corporations are born, prosper, and die, but through the industries that profitable...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
cost of the health care that they’re paying for their subscribers has gone down by 50 percent in the last month or so. It seems irresponsible for the private insurance industry to realize a windfall at a time when providers are...
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Dana Hoffmann
your bills, it’s a great career choice.“ A chance call from a friend of a friend in Silicon Valley turned Hoffmann’s attention from tennis to Portico. The caller explained that he was in property management and tenant relocation and pointed out that that View Details
- 28 Nov 2006
- Other Presentation
Value-Based Competition in Health Care: Issues for Singapore
This presentation draws Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006. Earlier publications about health care include the Harvard Business Review...
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Keywords:
Integration;
Competition;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Insurance;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
Singapore
Porter, Michael E. "Value-Based Competition in Health Care: Issues for Singapore." Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore, November 28, 2006.
- April 2013
- Case
Southfield Packaging
By: Michael Beer and Alisa Zalosh
Southfield Packaging provides packaging materials and services to medical device manufacturers. The case examines the relationship between a corporate vice president, Mark Sanders, and one of his direct reports, Regional Manager Frank Belby. Sanders' preparation for...
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Keywords:
Rank and Position;
Performance Evaluation;
Problems and Challenges;
Management Teams;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Beer, Michael, and Alisa Zalosh. "Southfield Packaging." Harvard Business School Brief Case 913-562, April 2013.
- January 2001 (Revised July 2003)
- Case
Pharmacyclics: Financing Research & Development
By: Malcolm P. Baker, Richard S. Ruback and Aldo Sesia
Pharmacyclics (NASDAQ: PCYC), a pharmaceutical company that manufactures products that will improve existing therapeutic treatments for cancer, arteriosclerosis, and retinal disease, was considering a $60 million private placement in February 2000. The company had more...
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Valuation;
Cash Flow;
Financing and Loans;
Business Startups;
Financial Strategy;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., Richard S. Ruback, and Aldo Sesia. "Pharmacyclics: Financing Research & Development." Harvard Business School Case 201-056, January 2001. (Revised July 2003.)
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
spirit of being truly curious about the problems they observed and how they could help people do their job better," Tucker says. The same findings can be applied to any industry or organization. "What we're finding is more...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
of his native Indonesia. The first iteration of the company was a network of community leaders who sold “top-up”—or these additional cell phone minutes. The top-up industry was not unusual, but the network approach was. Ruma would train...
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- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
mission, and meeting the expectations of a demanding capital market. Additionally, Compartamos' Co-CEOs must decide how to face the highly polarized reactions in the microfinance industry to its IPO. In the process, the case examines the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
their supply chains in the developing world. I wanted to get involved in that.” During his year as a Leadership Fellow at the WWF, Murphy served as director of enterprise planning and got to know the...
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- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
operations. And through Arbitrage, they exploit disparities between national or regional markets, often by locating different parts of the supply chain in different places—for instance, call centers in...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
engage in global cooperation to get these planes done. Another lesson was IT systems. We lost visibility of the supply chain because our systems weren’t good enough to keep track of manufacturing activity....
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- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
assisted by the creation of individual divisions that provided specialized services to its clients-Freight, Express, Supply Chain Solutions, Seaways, and Global. In 2012, the company renewed it efforts to...
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Anna Secino
- July 2000 (Revised August 2000)
- Case
AllHerb.com: Evolution of an E-tailer
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Christina L. Darwall
Serial entrepreneur Ken Hakuta, in the second year of his latest venture, reconsiders his original strategy of maintaining an independent, self-funded, self-led company. His Internet herbal remedy company, AllHerb.com, has already enjoyed considerable success with its...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Technological Innovation;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Strategic Planning;
Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Amabile, Teresa M., and Christina L. Darwall. "AllHerb.com: Evolution of an E-tailer." Harvard Business School Case 801-099, July 2000. (Revised August 2000.)
- August 2009 (Revised June 2015)
- Case
MINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (A)
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Kiron
Several top surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) are receiving financial and administrative support to advance their surgical device inventions through the earliest stages of commercialization.
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Keywords:
Health Care;
Innovation & Entrepreneurship;
Hospital;
Entrepreneurship;
Financing and Loans;
Investment;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation and Invention;
Intellectual Property;
Commercialization;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
New York (state, US)
Hamermesh, Richard G., and David Kiron. "MINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (A)." Harvard Business School Case 810-004, August 2009. (Revised June 2015.)
- October 2008
- Case
Diagnostic Genomics
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Mark P. Allyn
Should this gene detection firm enter the business of providing tests for the detection of genetic diseases? If so, how should it prioritize the tests it could develop?
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Keywords:
Health Testing and Trials;
Market Entry and Exit;
Product Development;
Genetics;
Strategy;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Mark P. Allyn. "Diagnostic Genomics." Harvard Business School Case 309-040, October 2008.
- April 2006
- Case
Medical Innovation Beyond MedStar: Mobilizing for National Impact
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Ryan Raffaelli and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied, director of MedStar Health's Medical Informatics programs, wanted his innovations to influence national health care. Since joining Washington Hospital Center's Emergency Department in 1995 with Dr. Mark Smith, their information system had become the...
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Keywords:
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Innovation and Management;
Projects;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Washington (state, US)
- January 2006 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
General Electric Healthcare, 2006
By: Tarun Khanna and Elizabeth Raabe
In January 2006, Joe Hogan, head of General Electric (GE) Healthcare Technologies, prepared to step into William Castell's shoes as CEO of GE Healthcare, the world's leading manufacturer of diagnostic imaging equipment. In 2004, former CEO Jeff Immelt acquired Amersham...
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Keywords:
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Cost vs Benefits;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Machinery and Machining;
Global Range;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Product Design;
Technological Innovation;
Expansion;
Value Creation;
Business Subsidiaries;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
Khanna, Tarun, and Elizabeth Raabe. "General Electric Healthcare, 2006." Harvard Business School Case 706-478, January 2006. (Revised April 2007.)