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Schon Klinik: Eating Disorder Care
Porter, Michael E.; Stanton, Emma; Hohman, Jessica A.; Stowell, CalebCase HBS-712475-EStrategyThe Schon Klinik is a private, for-profit German hospital group trying to establish itself as a premium health care provider in a competitive German market. The case details Schon Klinik's founding, its early focus on measurement and improvement, and the design and implementation of a system-wide structure for measuring and reporting actual health outcomes. The case details the care cycle for eating disorder patients and highlights the role outco...Starting at €8.20
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Willy Jacobsohn and Beiersdorf: Managing Expropriation and Anti-Semitism
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Lubinski, ChristinaCase HBS-811060-EEntrepreneurshipThis case examines the management of home and host country risk by Beiersdorf during the interwar years. It can be used both in business history courses and more generally to teach political risk management by multinational corporations. Beiersdorf, a German personal products company, expanded globally before 1914, but had its foreign factories and intellectual property expropriated during World War 1. After 1919 ceo Willy Jacobson rebuilt the in...Starting at €8.20
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Martini Klinik: Prostate Cancer Care 2019
Porter, Michael E.; Deerberg-Wittram, Jens; Feeley, Thomas WCase HBS-720359-EStrategySince its establishment in 2005, Hamburg's Martini Klinik had single-mindedly focused on prostate cancer care with a commitment to measure long term health outcomes for every patient. A wholly owned subsidiary of the University Hospital Hamburg, Martini Klinik was a "hospital in a hospital" in close proximity to other medical departments and services. By 2019, Martini Klinik had become the largest prostate cancer treatment program in the world wi...Starting at €8.20
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West German Headache Center: Integrated Migraine Care
Porter, Michael E.; Guth, Clemens; Dannemiller, ElisaCase HBS-707559-EService and Operations ManagementDescribes the joint efforts of the German health plan KKH and Essen University Hospital to develop an integrated practice unit (IPU), and the West German Headache Center's efforts to improve the quality of migraine care. Provides an overview of the German health care system detailing its provider, health plan, and reimbursement structure. Following new legislation in 2004, which allowed health plans and selected providers to contract outside of t...Starting at €8.20