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Ivey Business School (Canada)
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Asterand: Learning from Failure
Anne Snowdon; Hannah Standing Rasmussen; David MaslachCase IVEY-9B12D018-EEntrepreneurship, Service and Operations ManagementThis case chronicles the challenges of establishing an innovative tissue bank service to accelerate the research and development processes of biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies worldwide. Asterand’s two major challenges involved achieving a standardized approach to collecting tissue samples in hospitals all over the world and achieving the highest possible quality of tissue samples shipped to their primary customer, Amgen. Despite the ide...Starting at €8.20
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Shriners Hospitals for Children
Karin Schnarr; Anne SnowdonCase IVEY-9B13M075-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyA large, international benevolent association operating 22 children’s hospitals and four research centres in three countries has been negatively impacted by a number of external factors. The effect of the 2008 global financial crisis on its endowment funds coupled with rising health care costs and flat donations, have resulted in the hospitals running at a loss. To ensure the long-term viability of their not-for-profit hospital system, management...Starting at €8.20