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- September 3, 2003
- Article
Relationship Between Wages and Presence of a Match in Medical Fellowships
By: Muriel Niederle and A. E. Roth
Niederle, Muriel, and A. E. Roth. "Relationship Between Wages and Presence of a Match in Medical Fellowships." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 290, no. 9 (September 3, 2003).
- September 2003
- Article
Speaking up in the Operating Room: How Team Leaders Promote Learning in Interdisciplinary Action Teams
By: A. Edmondson
Edmondson, A. "Speaking up in the Operating Room: How Team Leaders Promote Learning in Interdisciplinary Action Teams." Journal of Management Studies 40, no. 6 (September 2003): 1419–1452.
- August 2003 (Revised August 2024)
- Case
Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and John McDonough
Many health care innovations appear successful; but fail. This is the first case in the Innovating Health Care course that investigates how to create successful health care innovations. It is part of the first module in the course. This module focuses on how to...
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Keywords:
Three Pillars;
Industry Analysis;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Medical Specialties;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and John McDonough. "Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment." Harvard Business School Case 304-009, August 2003. (Revised August 2024.)
- August 2003 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
HealthSouth Corporation
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ivan Cheung
Delineates how a for-profit health services business was created. Focuses on sources of financing, the impact of Medicare reimbursement, and Stark laws against fraud and abuse.
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Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ivan Cheung. "HealthSouth Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 304-006, August 2003. (Revised August 2006.)
- August 2003 (Revised September 2008)
- Background Note
Note on Financing of the U.S. Health Care Sector
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Jeff Grahling
This course describes the public and private sources of financing of the U.S. health-care sector,and identifies the characteristics of insurance policies, their costs, the structure of the insurance industry, and the role of consultants and brokers. The insurance...
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Keywords:
Economic Sectors;
Financing and Loans;
Insurance;
Industry Structures;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Jeff Grahling. "Note on Financing of the U.S. Health Care Sector." Harvard Business School Background Note 304-039, August 2003. (Revised September 2008.)
- August 2003 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
Old Tex College
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ray Herschman
Requires student to choose among the following health insurance options for employers: number of plans offered, managed care and consumer-driven options, and self-funding vs. full insurance. Teaching purpose: To Understand the design of health insurance. Includes color...
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Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ray Herschman. "Old Tex College." Harvard Business School Case 304-014, August 2003. (Revised April 2005.)
- August 2003 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
New Sector Alliance (A): An Entry into Health Care?
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Stacy Smollin Schwartz and Jeffrey Cronin
Describes the structure of the U.S. health care system and presents a study of a nonprofit consulting firm that hopes to enter the health care system. Includes descriptions of hospitals, doctors, insurers, medical technology providers, medical devices, pharmaceuticals,...
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Keywords:
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Disorders;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Health Industry;
United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., Stacy Smollin Schwartz, and Jeffrey Cronin. "New Sector Alliance (A): An Entry into Health Care?" Harvard Business School Case 304-004, August 2003. (Revised August 2006.)
- August 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Wintel (A): Cooperation or Conflict
By: David B. Yoffie, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Sasha Mattu
Examines the dynamic relationship between two complementors: Intel and Microsoft. Set in 1995, the case asks how Intel and Microsoft should solve a serious division between the two companies that threatens the health of the PC industry.
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Keywords:
Conflict Management;
Competition;
Cooperation;
Information Technology Industry;
Computer Industry;
Semiconductor Industry
Yoffie, David B., Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Sasha Mattu. "Wintel (A): Cooperation or Conflict." Harvard Business School Case 704-419, August 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
- August 2003 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
I've Got Rhythm: Selling Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, William Lagor, Christopher Perry and Scott St. Germain
The head of sales and marketing in a large medical devices firm must decide how to assign his sales force. He compares selling in the pharma, specialty pharma, and device industries and analyzes the reasons for the differences.
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Marketing Strategy;
Industry Structures;
Sales;
Salesforce Management;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., William Lagor, Christopher Perry, and Scott St. Germain. "I've Got Rhythm: Selling Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices." Harvard Business School Case 304-012, August 2003. (Revised August 2006.)
- August 2003
- Supplement
Children's Hospital and Clinics
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Michael Roberto
Edmondson, Amy C., and Michael Roberto. "Children's Hospital and Clinics." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 304-802, August 2003.
- July 2003 (Revised August 2003)
- Case
Global Healthcare Exchange
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Jamie Ladge
Founded in March 2000 at the height of the dot-com bubble, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) was one of 90 online marketplaces in the health care industry. The company's founders were among the largest suppliers in the industry, including Johnson & Johnson, GE Medical,...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Entrepreneurship;
Price;
Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Supply and Industry;
Organizational Design;
Expansion;
Internet and the Web;
Valuation;
Health Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Jamie Ladge. "Global Healthcare Exchange." Harvard Business School Case 804-002, July 2003. (Revised August 2003.)
- July 2003 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Investment Policy at New England Healthcare
By: Jay O. Light, Luis M. Viceira and Akiko M. Mitsui
The Investment Committee of New England Healthcare must decide how to invest three long-term investment pools: a long-term, endowment-type fund and two pension plans. In particular, the committee is evaluating whether the two pension funds--one is a "final salary"...
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Keywords:
Decisions;
Asset Management;
Investment;
Investment Portfolio;
Policy;
Taxation;
Health Industry;
England
Light, Jay O., Luis M. Viceira, and Akiko M. Mitsui. "Investment Policy at New England Healthcare." Harvard Business School Case 204-018, July 2003. (Revised December 2003.)
- June 2003 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Schering-Plough and Genome Therapeutics: Discovering an Asthma Gene
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Marc Aquino
Personalized medicine requires the identification of mutated genes. Schering-Plough's search for the one related to asthma requires finding families with the disease. Examines the industry that helps conduct such research, including contract research organizations.
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Keywords:
Health Disorders;
Research and Development;
Genetics;
Biotechnology Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Marc Aquino. "Schering-Plough and Genome Therapeutics: Discovering an Asthma Gene." Harvard Business School Case 303-044, June 2003. (Revised March 2008.)
- June 2003 (Revised November 2003)
- Case
Siemens Medical Solutions: Strategic Turnaround
By: D. Quinn Mills and Julian Kurz
Describes how Siemens Medical Solutions (MED) accomplished a remarkable turnaround from a money-losing operation to one of Siemens' most profitable divisions. By late 1996, a challenging market environment in the health care industry as well as inefficiencies in the...
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Keywords:
Opportunities;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Transformation;
Problems and Challenges;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Mills, D. Quinn, and Julian Kurz. "Siemens Medical Solutions: Strategic Turnaround." Harvard Business School Case 703-494, June 2003. (Revised November 2003.)
- June 2003 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
Cipla
By: Rohit Deshpande and Laura Winig
The head of Cipla, a $325-million-dollar Indian pharmaceutical company and seller of low-cost AIDS drugs to South Africa, must decide what to do about Cipla's future. With India poised to enforce international patents in only two years, much of Cipla's product line...
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- June 2003 (Revised August 2008)
- Teaching Note
Children's Hospital and Clinics (TN)
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Michael Roberto and Laura Feldman
Teaching Note for (9-302-050).
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- May 2003
- Background Note
Customer Management Strategy in Business Markets
By: Das Narayandas
Describes in detail customer management strategies in business markets, including selection decisions, design and management of customer relationship strategies, monitoring the health of customer relations, and linking the vendors' customer management effort to...
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Relationship Management;
Decision Making;
Networks;
Customization and Personalization;
Manufacturing Industry
Narayandas, Das. "Customer Management Strategy in Business Markets." Harvard Business School Background Note 503-060, May 2003.
- April 2003
- Teaching Note
CardioThoracic Systems (TN)
Teaching Note for (9-899-281).
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Keywords:
Health Industry
- April 2003 (Revised October 2004)
- Case
Novartis: The Challenge of Success (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus
Preliminary results from Phase 1 clinical trials of a newly developed compound, STI571, showed that 31 out of 31 patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) had their blood counts return to normal. In the world of oncology, this was unheard of. This was the...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Health Testing and Trials;
Innovation and Invention;
Markets;
Distribution;
Product Development;
Production;
Problems and Challenges;
Research;
Research and Development;
Complexity;
Biotechnology Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Sucher, Sandra J., and Stacy McManus. "Novartis: The Challenge of Success (A)." Harvard Business School Case 603-043, April 2003. (Revised October 2004.)
- March 2003
- Background Note
Monitoring the Health of Customer Relationships
By: Das Narayandas
Discusses the role of satisfaction and loyalty measurement in monitoring the health of customer relationships.
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