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Virginia Mason Medical Center (Spanish version)
Bohmer, Richard; Ferlins, Erika M.Case HBS-608S03Service and Operations Managementhow to institute a production model in health care.Starting at €8.20
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Virginia Mason Medical Center (Abridged) (Spanish version)
Bohmer, RichardCase HBS-614S01Service and Operations Managementhow to institute a production model in health care.Starting at €8.20
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When Does Leadership Matter: A Contingent Opportunities View of CEO Leadership
Wasserman, Noam; Anand, Bharat N.; Nohria, NitinBook Chapter HBS-6122BC-ELeadership and People ManagementTo what extent does leadership influence organizational performance? In this chapter, Noam Wasserman, Bharat Anand, and Nitin Nohria try to provide a balanced answer to this question. Replicating the variance partitioning method used by Stanley Lieberson and James O'Connor in their 1972 study on leadership and organizational performance, they analyze the performance of more than 500 publicly held U.S. companies (across 42 industries) over a 20-ye...Starting at €8.20
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Capital One Financial Corp. (Spanish version)
Anand, Bharat N.; Rukstad, Michael G.; Paige, Christopher H.Case HBS-702S01StrategyDesigned to explore the structure, implementation, and sustainability of an information-based strategy (IBS) undertaken by Capital One during the 1990s. Particular issues of interest are the impact of mass customization on industry structure, the ability to transfer IBS skills to new sectors, and the impact of the Internet on industry structure and competitor strategies.Starting at €8.20
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Managing Orthopaedics at Rittenhouse Medical Center
Bohmer, Richard; Huckman, Robert S.; Bozic, Kevin J.; Weber, JamesCase HBS-607152-EService and Operations ManagementConsiders the issues associated with running multiple business models--a private practice and an academic faculty practice--within the confines of the orthopaedics department of a single medical center. Students assume the role of Neela Wilson, Executive Director of Rittenhouse Medical Center, in managing the operational requirements of, and organizational tensions created by, these competing models. In analyzing the case, students have the oppor...Starting at €8.20
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The Random House Response to the Kindle
Anand, Bharat N.; Olson, Peter W.Case HBS-710444-EStrategyIn early 2010, e-readers like Amazon's Kindle, and Apple's impending iPad, threatened to disrupt the book publishing industry. The case provides an overview of the industry, describes the broader trends regarding e-readers, and asks: how should major publishers like Random House respond to these trends?Starting at €8.20
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Managing Orthopaedics at Rittenhouse Medical Center (Spanish version)
Bohmer, Richard; Huckman, Robert S.; Bozic, Kevin J.; Weber, JamesCase HBS-617S06Service and Operations Management(1) gain a better understanding of operational focus and the concept of a "focused factory" in health care, (2) consider the concept of a "factory within a factory" in the context of an academic medical center, and (3) build an appreciation of the managerial challenges associated with operating related, and often competing, business units within the same organization.Starting at €8.20
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Strategies of Related Diversification (Spanish version)
Anand, Bharat N.Case HBS-715S23StrategyWhich businesses should a firm expand into? This question of corporate scope is central to corporate strategy. Flawed scope decisions can have severe consequences, and the trauma experienced by many companies as a result of mistaken decisions to expand scope is often large. What leads to such mistakes? Where do managers go wrong? And, what might be a sensible logic by which to approach the question of scope expansion? Examines these questions and...Starting at €8.20
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Virginia Mason Medical Center (Abridged)
Bohmer, RichardCase HBS-610055-EService and Operations ManagementIn 2000, Dr. Gary Kaplan became CEO of the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. The hospital was facing significant challenges: It was losing money for the first time in its history, staff morale had plummeted, and area hospitals presented ardent competition. Considerable change was imminent. Within his first few months, Kaplan had rallied the organization around a new strategic direction: to become the quality leader in health c...Starting at €8.20
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Corporate Strategy, Module Note (Spanish version)
Anand, Bharat N.Case HBS-715S04StrategyThis note provides an overview of strategies for multi-business firms. The note describes (i) what is meant by "corporate advantage", (ii) the different approaches that multi-business firms can pursue in order to create corporate advantage, (iii) the specific corporate level choices (portfolio, ownership, and organizational choices) that firms make, (iv) certain principles that characterize effective corporate level strategy, and (v) reasons why ...Starting at €8.20