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- March 1999 (Revised July 1999)
- Case
Crunch
By: Paul W. Marshall and Jeremy Dann
Entrepreneur Doug Levine runs a fitness company with an incredibly powerful brand. His company leverages the brand to expand, both in terms of facilities and lines of business. But he may need to make significant organizational changes in order to continue the growth.
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- March 1999 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Patient Care Delivery Model at the Massachusetts General Hospital, The
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M.J. Bohmer and Emily Heaphy
Examines the implementation of a new patient care delivery model at Massachusetts General Hospital. Uses clinical and financial data to examine different choices for staffing non-physician health care professionals and to understand the challenges of managing change...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Service Delivery;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
Massachusetts
Edmondson, Amy C., Richard M.J. Bohmer, and Emily Heaphy. "Patient Care Delivery Model at the Massachusetts General Hospital, The." Harvard Business School Case 699-154, March 1999. (Revised February 2000.)
- February 1999
- Case
Lifeline Systems, Inc. (B)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
In 1997, Lifeline Systems continues to grow its service business to $32 million, 56% of the company's total revenues. More local hospital Lifeline programs turn over their monitoring service to Lifeline Central, expanding the company's subscriber base by 30%. The...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Technology;
Expansion;
Cost Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Partners and Partnerships;
Change;
Customer Relationship Management;
Service Operations;
Age;
Investment;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
Cambridge;
Boston
Bowen, H. Kent, and Marilyn Matis. "Lifeline Systems, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 699-038, February 1999.
- December 1998 (Revised September 1999)
- Case
Novartis: Betting on Life Sciences
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Srinivas Sunder
The merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz produced genomic-based synergies for health care, agribusiness, and nutritional supplements. How to build on the strength of the individual divisions and provide synergies that would continue Novartis' leadership role is the question...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Divisions;
Health Care and Treatment;
Leadership;
Product Positioning;
Science-Based Business;
Corporate Strategy;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Srinivas Sunder. "Novartis: Betting on Life Sciences." Harvard Business School Case 599-076, December 1998. (Revised September 1999.)
- November 1998
- Case
Wegmans Food Markets: Diabetes Counseling
By: Ray A. Goldberg, David E. Bell and Ann Leamon
Danny Wegman, president of Wegmans Food Markets, is trying to decide how to evaluate the success of a nutrition-counseling program for diabetics, and whether and how to expand the program beyond the two stores currently involved. Wegmans, with 57 stores and $2.3...
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Keywords:
Performance Evaluation;
Expansion;
Programs;
Human Needs;
Financial Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Nutrition;
Consumer Behavior;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., David E. Bell, and Ann Leamon. "Wegmans Food Markets: Diabetes Counseling." Harvard Business School Case 599-057, November 1998.
- August 1998
- Case
Record Masters
By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Laurence E. Katz
Kent Dauten, a former general partner at the Chicago private equity firm of Madison Dearborn Partners, has engaged in a search to personally sponsor a buyout in which he can play an active management role. He has received a selling memorandum for Record Masters, a...
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Sahlman, William A., Michael J. Roberts, and Laurence E. Katz. "Record Masters." Harvard Business School Case 899-020, August 1998.
- summer 1998
- Article
The Managerial Revolution in the U.S. Health Care Sector: Lessons from the U.S. Economy
Herzlinger, Regina E. "The Managerial Revolution in the U.S. Health Care Sector: Lessons from the U.S. Economy." Health Care Management Review 23, no. 3 (summer 1998): 19–29.
- April 1998
- Case
Cephalon, Inc.
By: Peter Tufano
In early 1997, Cephalon, awaited an FDA panel's decision on whether its drug, Myotrophin, would be approved. If the drug was approved, the firm might need substantial additional funds to commercialize as well as to buy back rights to it (which had been sold earlier to...
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Keywords:
Risk Management;
Financing and Loans;
Health Care and Treatment;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States
Tufano, Peter, Geoffrey Verter, and Markus Mullarkey. "Cephalon, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 298-116, April 1998.
- November 1997 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
Medical Foods, Inc.
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Tom Clay
Dr. Franklin Lowe is CEO of a new kind of company in a new kind of industry--medical foods. He must select a business model and partners that will help make this a viable business.
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Partners and Partnerships;
Business or Company Management;
Strategy;
Business Startups;
Health Care and Treatment;
Food;
Innovation and Management;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., and Tom Clay. "Medical Foods, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 598-048, November 1997. (Revised May 1999.)
- October 1997 (Revised April 2002)
- Case
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (A)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Elaine V. Backman
Outlines the dynamic shifts in the external environment surrounding Planned Parenthood's operations in 1994. Health care reform was threatening some of its core customer base. The organization had to come up with a strategy and a process for adapting to the new...
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Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Elaine V. Backman. "Planned Parenthood Federation of America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 598-001, October 1997. (Revised April 2002.)
- October 1997 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Oxford Health Plans: Specialty Management (A)
By: James L. Heskett, Jody H. Gittell and James Slayton
Describes an innovative approach to organizing health care proposed by Oxford CEO Steve Wiggins. Wiggins contends that the primary care physician "gatekeeper" model typically used by health maintenance organizations to control access to and coordinate specialist care...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Groups and Teams;
Innovation and Management;
Medical Specialties;
Health Care and Treatment;
Cooperation;
Management Teams;
Health Industry;
United States
Heskett, James L., Jody H. Gittell, and James Slayton. "Oxford Health Plans: Specialty Management (A)." Harvard Business School Case 898-042, October 1997. (Revised March 2000.)
- August 1997
- Article
Preventable Adverse Drug Events in Hospitalized Patients: A Comparative Study of Intensive Care and General Care Units
By: D. J. Cullen, J. Sweitzer, D. W. Bates, E. Burdick, A. Edmondson and L. L. Leape
Cullen, D. J., J. Sweitzer, D. W. Bates, E. Burdick, A. Edmondson, and L. L. Leape. "Preventable Adverse Drug Events in Hospitalized Patients: A Comparative Study of Intensive Care and General Care Units." Critical Care Medicine 25, no. 8 (August 1997): 1289–1297.
- July 1997
- Article
Market-Driven Health Care: What It Means to You
- April 1997
- Article
Turnaround Time and Bottlenecks in Market Clearing: Decentralized Matching in he Market for Clinical Psychologists
By: A. E. Roth and X. Xing
Roth, A. E., and X. Xing. "Turnaround Time and Bottlenecks in Market Clearing: Decentralized Matching in he Market for Clinical Psychologists." Journal of Political Economy 105 (April 1997): 284–329.
- February 1997 (Revised December 1997)
- Case
Arbor Health Care Company
By: Myra M. Hart and Stephanie Dodson
A venture-funded start-up runs into trouble when health care reimbursement policies change radically. With the help of its board, the company develops a new strategy, becomes profitable, and makes a public offering. The second wave of changes introduced by Clinton...
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Keywords:
Industry Structures;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Succession;
Business Startups;
Transformation;
Strategy;
Venture Capital;
Policy;
Initial Public Offering;
Health Industry
Hart, Myra M., and Stephanie Dodson. "Arbor Health Care Company." Harvard Business School Case 897-132, February 1997. (Revised December 1997.)
- October 1996 (Revised January 1997)
- Case
Mt. Auburn Hospital
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Jaan Elias
In December of 1993, two of Boston's largest and best known hospitals, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's, announced that they were setting aside their historic rivalry to form an alliance and build a regional health network. The announcement set off a wave...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Negotiation Offer;
Alliances;
Networks;
Social Enterprise;
Horizontal Integration;
Health Industry;
Boston
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Jaan Elias. "Mt. Auburn Hospital." Harvard Business School Case 397-083, October 1996. (Revised January 1997.)
- July 1996 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
THG Management Services
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and D. Scott Lurding
THG Management is in the second module of the Innovating in Health Care course that discusses how to start an innovative health care firm, in this case, a firm that deals with health insurance. THG Management, now bankrupt, examines the risks of lack of diversification...
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Keywords:
Managed Care;
Capitation;
Entrepreneurship;
Insurance;
Health Care and Treatment;
Risk Management;
Motivation and Incentives;
Expansion;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and D. Scott Lurding. "THG Management Services." Harvard Business School Case 197-011, July 1996. (Revised January 2024.)
- April 1996 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
Partners HealthCare System, Inc. (B): Cardiac Care Improvement
By: Gary P. Pisano and Maryam Golnaraghi
Explores the challenges confronting the CEO at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in the wake of radical changes in the health care environment. As pressures have risen for cost containment in health care, the hospital has embarked on a series of reengineering efforts to...
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Keywords:
Consolidation;
Health Care and Treatment;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Management Teams;
Operations;
Innovation and Invention;
Cost Management;
Health Industry;
Massachusetts
Pisano, Gary P., and Maryam Golnaraghi. "Partners HealthCare System, Inc. (B): Cardiac Care Improvement." Harvard Business School Case 696-063, April 1996. (Revised June 2001.)
- February 1996 (Revised April 1997)
- Case
Partners HealthCare System, Inc. (A)
By: Gary P. Pisano and Maryam Golnaraghi
Focuses on the decision confronting senior administrators at the Brigham and Women's Hospital: whether to enter into an affiliation with the Massachusetts General Hospital. Requires students to analyze the complex institutional changes in the health environment and to...
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Keywords:
Consolidation;
Health Care and Treatment;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Management Teams;
Health Industry;
Massachusetts
Pisano, Gary P., and Maryam Golnaraghi. "Partners HealthCare System, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 696-062, February 1996. (Revised April 1997.)