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Southwest Airlines (A) (Spanish)
O'Reilly, Charles; Pfeffer, JeffreyCase SGSB-HR1AESStrategyEn 1994, United Airlines y Continental Airlines lanzaron sus propias compañías aéreas de bajo coste para competir con Southwest Airlines. De 1991 a 1993, Southwest había aumentado su cuota de mercado del 26% al 45% en el importante mercado de la costa oeste de Estados Unidos. El caso estudia cómo Southwest creó una ventaja competitiva sostenible y hace hincapié en el papel de los recursos humanos como palanca para implementar la estrategia. Plant...Starting at €8.20
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Product Portfolio Management at Genentech
Schulman, Kevin A; Gresh, JamieCase HBS-317012-EFinanceGenentech, long the darling of the biotechnology industry, was acquired by Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche in 2009. The combined company retains the name Genentech in the US, but must now move to achieve the promises made at the time of this merger-to build from made Genentech great. One of the key tasks for Genentech CEO Ian Clark and CFO Ashraf Hanna was to implement a new portfolio management process for the combined entity. This case explo...Starting at €8.20
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Shisong Cardiac Center: Kumbo, Cameroon
Schulman, Kevin A; Konthcou, Nelly-AngeCase HBS-317085-EShisong Cardiac Center in Kumbo, Cameroon, is a regional cardiac referral center in central Africa. As the continent transitions from communicable to non-communicable diseases, there is a critical shortage of surgical care required to treat these conditions. This case describes an innovation solution to the shortage of professional skills, an international collaboration between a hospital in Milan and a hospital in Cameroon. The case highlights t...Starting at €8.20
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PharmAccess and the M-TIBA Platform: Leveraging Digital Technology in the Developing World
Schulman, Kevin A; Moodley, Sashidaran; Vasudevan, AnantCase HBS-317103-EEntrepreneurshipPharmAccess is an Amsterdam based NGO working to support the development of the private health care market in Africa. This work is critical as over 50% of care is delivered through the private sector, but well-intentioned efforts to address global health through the public sector have the unintended consequence of crowding-out capital formation in the private sector. PharmaAccess is working to crowd-in funding instead through the development of a...Starting at €8.20
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Obesity Management at Kaiser Permanente: A New Mindset for Healthcare Delivery
Schulman, Kevin A; Leya, Gregory; Beveridge, ChristianaCase HBS-317106-EStrategyKaiser Permanente (KP) is the largest managed care organization in the US with over 10 million members. KP evolved from a pre-payment or capitation model that focuses the organization around the efficiency of care and the health of the population it serves. This financial model is in stark contrast to the fee-for-service payment model for other health care organizations. Given the epidemic of obesity in the US, KP is facing an enormous potential ...Starting at €8.20
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Amir Dan Rubin: Success from the Beginning (Spanish version)
Pfeffer, JeffreyCase SGSB-OB90 Spanish VersionLeadership and People ManagementIn November of 2010, the board of Stanford Hospital and Clinics announced that Amir Dan Rubin, at the time chief operating officer of the UCLA Hospital System, would become the next CEO at Stanford Hospital and Clinics. Although by 2010 Stanford hospital had largely recovered from a failed merger with the hospital of the University of California, San Francisco, and was financially stable, Rubin would lead an organization that still faced signifi...Starting at €8.20
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Southwest Airlines (A)
O'Reilly, Charles; Pfeffer, JeffreyCase SGSB-HR1A-EStrategyIn 1994, both United Airlines and Continental Airlines launched low-cost airlines-within-an-airline to compete with Southwest Airlines. From 1991 to 1993, Southwest had increased its market share of the critical West Coast market from 26% to 45%. Considers how Southwest had developed a sustainable competitive advantage and emphasizes the role of human resources as a lever for the successful implementation of strategy. Asks whether competitors can...Starting at €8.20
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Jason Calacanis: A Case Study in Creating Resources
Pfeffer, JeffreyCase SGSB-OB104-EJason Calacanis described himself as a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and podcaster - and someone who had come a long way from the time he had to talk his way into Fordham University. Later, when finances were tight, he talked the dean into getting the bursar to cut him a break. These early experiences with “being bold,” he believed, encouraged him to keep being bold - and creative. This case study explores Calacanis’ path to entrepreneur...Starting at €8.20
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Verily Life Sciences and Machine Learning
Schulman, Kevin A; Ho, KevinCase SGSB-SM335-EStrategyVerily Life Sciences, an independent subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc., set out to harness machine learning in the health care field. The company sought partnerships with academic research institutions, legacy life sciences companies, and hospitals and health systems to develop tools to collect and organize health data, with the goal of creating platforms that utilized the insights from that data to enhance patient care. The case study discusses these...Starting at €8.20
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Southwest Airlines (A) - Teaching note
O'Reilly, Charles; Pfeffer, JeffreyTeaching Note SGSB-HR1TN-EStrategyIn 1994, both United Airlines and Continental Airlines launched low-cost airlines-within-an-airline to compete with Southwest Airlines. From 1991 to 1993, Southwest had increased its market share of the critical West Coast market from 26% to 45%. Considers how Southwest had developed a sustainable competitive advantage and emphasizes the role of human resources as a lever for the successful implementation of strategy. Asks whether competitors can...Starting at €0.00