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- June 1995
- Case
Quorum Health Group, Inc.
By: William A. Sahlman and Jason Green
Facing increasing competition from much larger industry players, Jim Dalton, CEO of Quorum, and Russ Carson, Managing Partner of Welch, Carson, Anderson & Stowe attempt to set the future direction for Quorum. The company was successfully spun-off from HCA in a... 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
- October 1993 (Revised July 1994)
- Case
A Brush with AIDS (A)
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
A product manager at a health products company is responsible for marketing sharps containers, which hospitals use to store used needles in order to protect medical workers from being pricked with AIDS-contaminated needles. After hospitals report repeated instances of... View Details
- May 1993
- Case
Patient Transfusion Services Lab of Central Blood Bank
By: James L. Heskett
The vice president of the Lab and Clinical Services at Central Blood Bank is faced with the challenge of convincing a hospital to use economical shared patient transfusion testing services. View Details
- May 1993
- Case
Alexander Hospital Gift Shoppe
- May 1993
- Teaching Note
Alexander Hospital Gift Shoppe TN
- April 1993 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India: In Service for Sight, The
Starting as a modest 20-bed hospital, Aravind had grown into a 1,400-bed hospital complex by 1992. It had by then screened 3.65 million patients and performed 335,000 cataract surgeries, nearly 70% of them free of cost for the poorest of India's blind population.... View Details
- July 1992 (Revised March 1994)
- Teaching Note
Beverly Hospital and North Shore Birth Center TN
- May 1992
- Teaching Note
Hospital Corp. of America and McLean Hospital, Teaching Note
- 1990
- Chapter
Analysis of Cost Variances for Management Control in Hospitals
By: S. Datar, R. Banker and S. Das
- November 1988 (Revised January 1992)
- Teaching Note
Hospital Corp. of America (A), Teaching Note
By: W. Carl Kester and David W. Mullins Jr.
Teaching Note for (9-283-053). View Details
Keywords: Health Industry
- November 1988
- Teaching Note
Hospital Corp. of America (B), Teaching Note
By: W. Carl Kester
Teaching Note for (9-283-054). View Details
- September 1988 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Ring Medical
Describes the progress of a new product launch (HCS-100, a hospital communication system). Ring Medical has sold only five systems in six months against an annual target of 30. There is a lack of agreement internally on how the new product effort should be organized.... View Details
- 01 Jan 1987
- Conference Presentation
Executive Support Systems for Hospital Strategic Planning
By: L. M. Applegate and R. O. Mason
- December 1986 (Revised July 1989)
- Background Note
Note on the Hospital Information Systems Industry
- October 1986 (Revised November 1989)
- Case
Becton Dickinson & Co.: VACUTAINER Systems Division
Concerns negotiations between managers of Becton Dickinson's (BD) VACUTAINER division (which manufactures and sells blood collection products) and managers of a large hospital buying group. Recent changes in the health care industry are the background for the... View Details
- February 1986 (Revised May 2003)
- Teaching Note
Shouldice Hospital Limited, Teaching Note
By: James L. Heskett
Teaching Note for (9-683-068). View Details
- February 1986
- Article
Design of a Management Support System for Hospital Strategic Planning
By: L. M. Applegate, R. O. Mason and D. Thorpe