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Better Healing from Better Hospital Design
Design thinking Digital ArticleHow physical space can reduce pain, lower costs, and save lives. -
Why Health Care May Finally Be Ready for Big Data
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleLack of standardization has held the sector back. -
A New Way to Define Value in Drug Pricing
Pricing strategy Digital ArticleAn online tool takes objective and subjective factors into account. -
Creating Breakthroughs at 3M
Innovation Magazine ArticleCompanies say they want breakthrough products, but most are far more adept at making incremental improvements to existing lines. A pioneering division at 3M successfully navigated a process that leads to breakthrough thinking. -
Fixing Data Overload in Health Care
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleA five-step approach to get the right data into the right hands at the right time. -
The CEO of Abbott on Revamping Its Breakthrough Diabetes Device
Innovation & Leadership Magazine ArticleIn 2008 Abbott introduced a revolutionary new device, FreeStyle Navigator, designed to improve the lives of the world's more than 500 million diabetes... -
10 Leadership Lessons from Covid Field Hospitals
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleExecutives from NHS Nightingale and Boston Hope shed light on what's worked for them. -
How Health Care Providers Can Ensure Patients’ End-of-Life Wishes Are Known
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Research: How Virtual Reality Can Help Train Surgeons
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4 Principles for Improving Health Care Around the World
Global strategy Digital ArticleFirst understand your patients and their community. -
U.S. Health Care Reform Will Require Politicians to Change Their Attitude
Negotiation strategies Digital ArticleAn “I win, you lose” approach won’t work. -
Telemedicine Is Vital to Reforming Health Care Delivery
Technology and analytics Digital ArticleIt can help lower costs and reach more people. -
How the EMR Is Increasing Innovation and Creativity in Health Care
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleIt's about much more than record-keeping. -
Curveball: Strategies to Fool the Competition
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleA couple of years ago, I coauthored with Rob Lachenauer an article called “Hardball: Five Killer Strategies for Trouncing the Competition.” The piece, along with a subsequent book, was misunderstood by many people. Critics said that hardball meant playing dirty or mean, neither of which is true. What is true is that hardball—let’s face it, […] -
Global Challenges in Health Care: Is Rationing in Our Future?
International business Digital ArticleEditors’ Note: This post marks the launch of a month-long forum on the huge trends that will shape the need for and delivery of health care throughout the world for decades. In recent weeks, we have talked with a wide variety of people: executives at major pharmaceutical companies and care providers, scientists and inventors, academics […] -
Bureaucracy Is Keeping Health Care from Getting Better
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How Pharma Can Fix Its Reputation and Its Business at the Same Time
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Oslo Innovation Clinic Offers Treatment for Ideas
Innovation Digital ArticleThe first-of-its-kind Clinic of Innovation at Oslo University Hospital works a lot like an outpatient health clinic, but treats ideas rather than patients. Ideas walk in, are diagnosed, and are treated or referred; some are sent home with a prescription for further development, and an appointment for a follow-up visit. In addition to providing technical […] -
How Geisinger Health System Uses Big Data to Save Lives
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Reimagining Primary Care: When Small Is Beautiful
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleDownsizing can make practices more satisfying.
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Hospital 57357: Aligning Performance Towards a Vision of a Cancer-Free Childhood
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case follows the Children Cancer Hospital in Egypt, also known as Hospital 57357, as it goes through the roll-out of a new performance management... -
Flexibility at Genentech: Developing Versatile Domain Experts and Deploying Flexible Resources at One U.S. Medical Affairs Unit
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The Genentech Spectrum case is about infusing flexibility in a medical unit of a global biotechnology company. The protagonist is Mauricio Silva de Lima,... -
Teva Pharmaceuticals: Pricing the 2016 Bond Offering
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case examines the July 2016 decision by Israeli pharmaceutical Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Limited (Teva) to raise USD19.5 billion in cash through... -
GVK EMRI: Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emergency Medical Response
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details SEMRI is the first not-for-profit public private partnership (PPP) arrangement in the healthcare sector in India. From its modest beginnings of providing... -
Pfizer and the Spinoff of Upjohn
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In July 2019, Pfizer announced that it would spin off its Upjohn division and merge it with Mylan, a specialty and generic drugs firm. Within Pfizer,... -
Genedata
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Venture Valuation conducts an independent valuation of Genedata, a Swiss start-up company in order to help Novartis Venture Fund analyze and structure... -
Lifely Wellness Ltd: Micro Business Operations Strategy and Supplier Management
Management Case Study11.95View Details On April 24, 2019, the founder and owner of Lifely Wellness Ltd. in the village of La Jolla, near San Diego, California, received a call from a customer... -
Gilead: Hepatitis C Access Strategy (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study3.75View Details While the Gilead: Hepatitis-C Access Strategy (A) case (515-025) poses questions on what the company should do with respect to hart hit countries like... -
Apollo Hospitals: The Journey of Digital Transformation
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case is about the digital transformation at Apollo Hospitals (Chennai Main) facility. The case enumerates the various digitalization initiatives... -
AstraZeneca, Prilosec, and Nexium: Strategic Challenges in the Launch of a Second-Generation Drug
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Tom McKillop, CEO of AstraZeneca, faced the classic quandary of large pharmaceutical firms. Within the year, the firm's patent for Prilosec (active ingredient... -
Cialis
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Lilly ICOS is preparing to launch Cialis, a prescription drug that treats erectile dysfunction, and executives must decide how to position Cialis against... -
Amgen: Launching Repatha
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In March 2015, Amgen is preparing for the launch of Repatha, a new molecule that has demonstrated a remarkable ability to treat high cholesterol. Through... -
TecSalud's Response to COVID-19
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case explores TecSalud's response to COVID-19 between March 2020 and January 2021. TecSalud was the Healthcare System of the Instituto Tecnologico... -
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details How do companies develop a strategy that is both low-cost and differentiated without becoming squeezed in the middle? Describes how Teva, Israel's first... -
Six Sigma at Academic Medical Hospital (C)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details This case provides the presentation slides from the Six Sigma project undertaken to decrease the patient wait time in the emergency department of an academic... -
Industry Identification Using Financial Ratios
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case explores a way to identify an industry by simply examining a set of financial ratios. Certain industries have unique financial statement items... -
Dr. Bonnie Henry: Contending with COVID-19 in Visible Minority Communities
Communication Case Study11.95View Details Honorable Mention; DEI Global Case Writing Competition. COVID-19 had been one of the deadliest pandemics ever seen, causing nearly two million deaths... -
IN-fusion, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case is designed as an introductory exercise to familiarize students with several methods used to value early-stage companies. The value of a young... -
Pfizer: Global Protection of Intellectual Property
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Top officials at Pfizer are assessing their strategy for improving protection of Pfizer's patents around the world. The outcome of the Uruguay Round of... -
Cipla 2011
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Dr. Yusuf Hamied, head of the Indian pharma and generics manufacturing company Cipla, is weighing options for how to continue to support the global fight...
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Better Healing from Better Hospital Design
Design thinking Digital ArticleHow physical space can reduce pain, lower costs, and save lives. -
Why Health Care May Finally Be Ready for Big Data
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleLack of standardization has held the sector back. -
A New Way to Define Value in Drug Pricing
Pricing strategy Digital ArticleAn online tool takes objective and subjective factors into account. -
Creating Breakthroughs at 3M
Innovation Magazine ArticleCompanies say they want breakthrough products, but most are far more adept at making incremental improvements to existing lines. A pioneering division at 3M successfully navigated a process that leads to breakthrough thinking. -
Hospital 57357: Aligning Performance Towards a Vision of a Cancer-Free Childhood
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case follows the Children Cancer Hospital in Egypt, also known as Hospital 57357, as it goes through the roll-out of a new performance management... -
Flexibility at Genentech: Developing Versatile Domain Experts and Deploying Flexible Resources at One U.S. Medical Affairs Unit
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The Genentech Spectrum case is about infusing flexibility in a medical unit of a global biotechnology company. The protagonist is Mauricio Silva de Lima,... -
Fixing Data Overload in Health Care
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleA five-step approach to get the right data into the right hands at the right time. -
The CEO of Abbott on Revamping Its Breakthrough Diabetes Device
Innovation & Leadership Magazine ArticleIn 2008 Abbott introduced a revolutionary new device, FreeStyle Navigator, designed to improve the lives of the world's more than 500 million diabetes... -
Teva Pharmaceuticals: Pricing the 2016 Bond Offering
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case examines the July 2016 decision by Israeli pharmaceutical Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Limited (Teva) to raise USD19.5 billion in cash through... -
10 Leadership Lessons from Covid Field Hospitals
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleExecutives from NHS Nightingale and Boston Hope shed light on what's worked for them.