Publications

19 Sep 2011
News

How to Bring Our Companies' Foreign Profits Back Home

02 May 2024
News

Require Hospitals To Disclose Their Pandemic Plans Now

18 Dec 2017
News

Hospital Giants Vie for Patients in Effort to Fend Off New Rivals

January 2010 (Revised March 2011)
Case

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Network Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter, Carolyn Daly and Andrew Peter Dervan

In 2009 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) had been recognized as the best children's hospital in the country for six years in a row; but leadership saw CHOP as more than the large main campus in western Philadelphia. Beginning in the 1990s, CHOP had created a... View Details

Keywords: Communication; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Organizational Structure; Networks; Integration; Health Industry; Philadelphia

March 2021
Case

The U.S. Home Improvement Sector in 2020

By: José Alvarez and David Lane

Provides an overview of the U.S. home improvement sector in 2020, reviewing sources of growth in the decade ending in 2020, with special attention to the impact of COVID-19 on market leaders Home Depot and Lowe’s and the spike in online revenues for both. Also noted... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Trends; Leading Change; Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; Technology; Construction Industry; United States

1984
Article

Return to Nursing Home Investment: Issues for Public Policy

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Christine E. Bishop

Keywords: Health; Investment; Policy; Health Industry

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November 2005 (Revised December 2006)
Case

Jeanette Clough at Mount Auburn Hospital

Jeanette Clough, the CEO of Mt. Auburn Hospital, successfully leads a turnaround for the struggling local hospital. When she assumed leadership of Mt. Auburn in 1998, the hospital had recently suffered a $10 million loss. During her first six months, several members of... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Leading Change; Expansion; Health Care and Treatment; Business and Community Relations; Health Industry; Cambridge

10 Jun 2021
News

Preparing Hospitals for the Next Pandemic

The Covid-19 epidemic response has shown that the U.S. is blessed with heroic physicians and other health care providers, researchers, and facilities. But it has also revealed a health care system that was woefully unprepared for the surge of pandemic patients. In the... View Details

23 Jan 2020
News

Bringing Education Back Home

Edgar Kelly-Garcia (MBA 1998) is founder and dean of Universidad of San Sebastian in Mexico. In this interview from June 2018 he discusses the origins of the idea to launch a school in one of the poorest areas of his country along with... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

08 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Hands-on Experience in Hospitality

During my time in Barcelona, I was able to see the operations of the hotels, understand the financial model of the hospitality industry, get to know their marketing strategies... View Details

Keywords: Hospitality

June 13, 2012
Article

A Sensible Plan to Bring U.S. Corporate Profits Home

By: Robert C. Pozen

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September 19, 2011
Article

How to Bring Our Companies' Foreign Profits Back Home

By: Robert C. Pozen

Keywords: Profit; Business Ventures

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March 2009
Case

The Home Depot: Leadership in Crisis Management

By: Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Melissa Tritter

Examines the challenges The Home Depot faced in the aftermath of natural disasters such as Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Andrew. By providing 40,000 to 50,000 items sold by knowledgeable associates, The Home Depot became a destination place for customers in need of... View Details

Keywords: Disruption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Leadership; Crisis Management; Logistics; Natural Disasters; Retail Industry