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- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
Western Hospital (GWH) is a community hospital in Wiltshire, South West England, and one of England's largest maternity providers, responsible for delivering over 9,000 babies per year. The case discusses the efforts of Dr. Harini Narayan, consultant obstetrician, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
agencies too disjointed to police abuses adequately. After analyzing the problems, Mills suggests possible solutions. While he advocates reorganization and reform of regulatory channels, he also proposes using market mechanisms to let... View Details
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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Health Care explores the best practices for reorganizing and coordinating care, improving process efficiencies, implementing new reimbursement approaches, and integrating care delivery across practices. You will return with the frameworks... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
bankruptcy, they are allowed to break leases and shut down their unprofitable stores. The newly reorganized chain generally has not solved the basic underlying issues created by the online threat. However, it now has a smaller, healthier... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
The CEO of the Corporate Solutions Group at Jones Lang LaSalle Americas (JLL) is executing an organizational redesign to respond to its strategy goal of becoming more customer-centric. This case examines the dramatic corporate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
administrative challenge. The railroad at the heart of the legal proceedings had been pieced together through more than 7,000 separate acquisitions. The bankruptcy judge told McArthur that the average railroad reorganization up to that... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
urban and rural, the new urbanization does not upend China’s longstanding duality between those categories. The central goals of the new urbanization are to manage urbanization so as to generate domestic demand and reorganize agricultural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
businesses. In reorganizing to capitalize on its technology, Xerox created a new entity in 1989, headed by Robert Adams, that effectively established a third phase for managing spin-offs. Adams had created a new business for Xerox out of... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
Netherlands, placed its U.S. operations and a German subsidiary under U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. To successfully reorganize as a going concern, the company sought to raise over $8 billion in a super-priority... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
reorganization of the bureaucracy, and (c) an increase in monitoring by both the government and the general public. Correspondingly, we advance managerial implications that stem from these recent changes, illustrated by recent MNC and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
materials industry. USG was otherwise a solvent, growing company. Bankruptcy was an option, but a successful reorganization was by no means assured. How would USG keep its highly motivated (and non-unionized) workforce and continue to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
School Case 712-496 In 2006, surgeon Ara Darzi identified several key areas, including acute stroke care, for improving health care across London. In response to his seminal call to action, stroke care was reorganized around eight... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
(e.g. rent). Next, reduce fixed costs, starting with salary cuts that commence at the top and the furloughing of all non-essential staff. Finally, reorganize to operate with a permanent lower fixed-cost base. Third, they must protect the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
Business School Case 508-028 Lincoln Financial Group (LFG) reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
universities. In 1952, these institutions were reorganized according to the Soviet model and remained highly specialized until the resurgence of comprehensive institutions after 1978. This background note describes this history and then... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
during this process, including questions concerning whether to sell or spin-off the assets; how to handle customers, employees, and investors during the restructuring; and how to reorganize a diversified business to increase the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
Case 208-069 Delphi Corporation, operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, has filed a plan of reorganization with the court, under which a consortium of hedge funds led by Appaloosa Management will invest up to $2.6 billion in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
following Boston Children's and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Texas Children's had some of the highest volumes in the nation, seeing more than 20,000 congenital heart disease patients and performing over 800 cardiac surgeries annually. Fraser led the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
that had synergies with the company's businesses, and formed a small venture capital fund for exploratory investments. Komori also initiated a reorganization that created six new divisions within the company while simultaneously... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
called Edelnor that was in danger of becoming insolvent within months. Fernando had six months to restructure the company before it would become completely insolvent, and his headache was compounded by the fact that the process for company View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace