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- December 1993 (Revised November 2009)
- Case
Manville Corporation Fiber Glass Group (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Sarah Gant
Manville Corp.'s senior managers must decide how to respond to a new scientific study suggesting that fiberglass, the source of 75% of the company's profits, may be another asbestos and must act under conditions of great uncertainty. In particular, when should a... View Details
- December 1993 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Medical Products Co.
By: Robert H. Hayes
In early 1990, the company is contemplating changes in its European plant network for producing hypodermic products, including the total production capacity to be provided, the number and location of plants over which to spread this capacity, and which products should... 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
- Teaching Note
Alexander Hospital Gift Shoppe TN
- May 1993
- Teaching Note
Lourdville Health Center TN
- May 1993
- Teaching Note
Nasus Clinic TN
- April 1993 (Revised November 1994)
- Case
Chiron Corp.
Pablo Valenzuela, vice president of R&D at Chiron Corp., faces several choices for how to allocate scarce resources across several promising projects. These choices will determine Chiron's position in several emerging biotechnology and diagnostic markets, including... View Details
- 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
- February 1993 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Bernd Sterzel at the IVth Medizinische Klinik (A)
By: Linda A. Hill
After 10 years of running a small laboratory at Yale Medical School, Dr. R. Bernd Sterzel assumes leadership of a nephrology clinic in Nurnberg and Erlangen, Germany. In his ambitious efforts to transform the clinic into a leading academic research institution, he... View Details
- February 1993 (Revised August 1995)
- Case
Medicare Payment for Drugs and Medical Devices
- October 1992 (Revised September 1993)
- Case
Nopane Advertising Strategy
By: David E. Bell
Nopane is a proprietary drug that sells in much of the United States. It faces substantial competition. The brand manager is undertaking an experiment to determine whether ad copy should be emotional-based or rational-based. The data and associated regression results... View Details
- September 1992 (Revised October 1992)
- Case
Massachusetts General Hospital: Cancer Research Center
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Eve Stacey
- July 1992 (Revised March 1994)
- Teaching Note
Beverly Hospital and North Shore Birth Center TN
- June 1992
- Teaching Note
New England Critical Care, Inc., Teaching Note
- June 1992
- Teaching Note
U.S. Health Care Systems, Prospectus and Maxicare Health Plans, Inc., Teaching Note
- June 1992
- Teaching Note
Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Teaching Note
- May 1992
- Teaching Note
Hospital Corp. of America and McLean Hospital, Teaching Note
- May 1992 (Revised June 1992)
- Teaching Note