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- July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Washington Hospital Center (C): Progress and Prospects, 1995-2001
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied and Dr. Mark Smith have already transformed a "worst-in-area" emergency medicine department into the best in the area. Industry-wide and hospital system-specific challenges remain, including their newest project of national importance--creating an... View Details
- June 2002 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
Life, Death, and Property Rights: The Pharmaceutical Industry Faces AIDS in Africa
By: Debora L. Spar
In the final years of the 20th century, the world was hit by a plague of epidemic proportions--AIDS, a life-threatening disease that remained stubbornly immune to any cure or vaccine. In the developed nations of the West, AIDS was slowly brought under control through a... View Details
- May 2002 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Innovation at Progressive (A): Pay-As-You-Go Insurance
By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
Consumer auto insurance is a price-sensitive industry in which customers rarely pay a premium to a provider even for additional service features. Progressive spends more on additional service features than its competitors do; consumers don't pay extra for these... View Details
- January 2002
- Case
Price-Fixing Vignettes
By: Guhan Subramanian and Michelle Kalka
This case escribes the antitrust prosecutions in the United States and abroad of the international bulk vitamins cartel. Both the civil and criminal fines were historically high, and it was the first time the United States prosecuted foreign nationals for U.S. criminal... View Details
- August 2001 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Consumer-Driven Health Care: Medtronic's Health Insurance Options
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, John Hurwitch and Seth Bokser
Describes the variety of health insurance plans that this medical device company offers, including a high-deductible, consumer-driven health plan with a health reimbursement account that also enables health care providers to quote their own prices. Asks students to... View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Case
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (A)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Mounting financial losses and increasing public scrutiny present many challenges to the board of directors of a large nonprofit health insurer. This case series presents chronologically the increasing problems of the company. View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (B)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (C)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (D)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (E)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (F)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (G)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (H)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. Contains a denouement. View Details
- May 1994 (Revised February 2021)
- Background Note
Note on Reimbursement of Health Care Providers: Case-Based and Capitation Payment
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Tom Nagle
Explains how managed care organizations use capitation as a payment method for providers. View Details
- March 1994 (Revised December 2014)
- Case
Humana, Inc.: Managing in a Changing Industry
By: Stuart Gilson
Intensifying competition and change in the U.S. health care industry force a large integrated health-care provider to reassess its strategy of operating both hospitals and health insurance plans (HMOs). In an attempt to increase its stock price and operating... View Details
- March 1993 (Revised June 1995)
- Case
Singapore TradeNet: The Tale Continues
By: Lynda M. Applegate, John L. King and Boon-Siong Neo
Continues the story of Singapore Network Services Pte. Ltd. (SNS), which was created to initiate and manage the creation of value-added networks for trade and other aspects of commerce in the island nation of Singapore. SNS built on its TradeNet experience to develop... View Details
- June 1992
- Teaching Note
U.S. Health Care Systems, Prospectus and Maxicare Health Plans, Inc., Teaching Note
- August 1989 (Revised May 1993)
- Case