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Brigham and Women's Hospital in 1992 (Spanish version)
Teisberg, Elizabeth Olmsted; Vayle, Eric J.Case HBS-720S08StrategyBrigham and Women's Hospital is a highly successful teaching hospital in 1992. However, the hospital sector is undergoing a major transition and the hospital faces uncertainty about changing demographic trends, new types of competitors, and technological and scientific change. It's premier OB service is declining, and many of the hospital leaders are nearing retirement. How should it craft its strategy for the 1990s?Starting at €8.20
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Mount Auburn Hospital: Physician Order Entry
Andrew McAfee; Sarah MacGregor; Michael BenariCase HBS-603060-EService and Operations ManagementMount Auburn Hospital is preparing to introduce a physician order entry (POE) system throughout the hospital, starting with the labor and delivery ward. POE systems replace paper-based and oral medication ordering processes with an information system; the physician uses the system to enter medication orders, which are then transferred to the hospital's pharmacy. This is Mount Auburn's first experience with POE systems, and the implementation team...Starting at €8.20
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Cost-Benefit of Well Employees (Spanish version)
White, MilesArticle HBS-F0512DLeadership and People ManagementAs major purchasers of health care, corporations have almost as much of a stake in maintaining employees' health as employees themselves do.Starting at €8.20
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Preparing for a Pandemic (Spanish version)
Staples, Jeffrey; Dowell, Scott F.; Bresee, Joseph S.; Nohria, Nitin; Bennis, Warren G.; Fischhoff, Baruch; MacGowan, William; Brilliant, Larry; Susser, Peter; Cooper, Sherry; Dobson, Wendy; Golden, Brian R.Article HBS-F0605AThis month, all of Harvard Business Review's Forethought contributions address avian influenza, its potential to become a pandemic, and the red flags this possibility raises for businesses. Jeffrey Staples warns that the H5N1 strain of the avian flu represents a new class of global threat and urges companies to plan accordingly. Scott F. Dowell and Joseph S. Bresee show how mutations of the virus could boost its ability to spread from person to p...Starting at €8.20
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Cutting the Cost of HIV (Spanish version)
Reddy, Mergen; Swanepoel, BoetieArticle HBS-F0609BBy approaching HIV infection among Russian and Botswanan miners as a financial problem, a Deloitte consultant and a mine executive created programs that improved employees' health and reduced the costs to the mines.Starting at €8.20
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The Coimbra Cardio Thoracic Surgery Centre
Fonseca Pires, José; Mendes de Sousa, DanielCase AESE-FH-A-702(I)-EStrategyThe case concerns the Centre for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (CCT) in the Portuguese University Hospital in Coimbra (HUC). The Centre has 60 hospital beds, four of them for transplants and a staff of 117 of which 70 are nurses. The CCT performed 1634 chirurgical operations in 2004 which makes it the greatest in the Iberian Peninsula. For instance, its specific interest in the mitral valve replacing with a success rate of 85% is unique internationally...Starting at €8.20
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PSI: Social Marketing Clean Water
Rangan, V. Kasturi; Ashraf, Nava; Bell, MarieCase HBS-507052-ESenior management at PSI, arguably the world's largest and most successful social marketer with impressive achievements in the field of family planning, HIV/AIDS, and malaria prevention must determine what to do about their slow-to-take-off clean water initiative. PSI's point-of-use products offered effective protection against water-borne diseases, especially diarrhea, yet the organization found it hard to attract donor funds to sustain the init...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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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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Food Fight: The US, Europe, and Trade in Hormone-Treated Beef (Abridged)
Devereaux, Charan; Lawrence, Robert; Watkins, MichaelCase HBS-HKS434-EEconomicsThose familiar with transatlantic trade relations are well aware of the longstanding US-EU dispute over trade in beef. This note traces the history of the quarrel, beginning with the introduction of the use of growth-promoting hormones for raising beef cattle. In 1989, Europe banned the use of these hormones. The ban covered all beef, including meat imported from the United States where growth-enhancing hormones were widely used. In retaliation, ...Starting at €8.20