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Better Healing from Better Hospital Design
Design thinking Digital ArticleHow physical space can reduce pain, lower costs, and save lives. -
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. -
How Medical Nonprofits Set Winning Strategy
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How Health Care Providers Can Ensure Patients’ End-of-Life Wishes Are Known
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Do Health Apps Really Make Us Healthier?
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U.S. Health Care Reform Will Require Politicians to Change Their Attitude
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Why Physicians Resist Using Algorithm-Based Apps
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Telemedicine Is Vital to Reforming Health Care Delivery
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Leadership Run Amok: The Destructive Potential of Overachievers
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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 Analytics Can Guide Patient Care and Health Policy
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleMore reliable answers are already possible. -
5 Obstacles to Home-Based Health Care, and How to Overcome Them
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How Pharma Can Fix Its Reputation and Its Business at the Same Time
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Working on Nonprofit Boards: Don't Assume the Shoe Fits
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleContrary to popular perception, business people can be benevolent. For instance, one recent study notes that four-fifths of all Harvard Business School... -
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 U.S. Health Systems Can Build Capacity to Handle Demand Surges
Business models Digital ArticleHospitals have long struggled with seasonal spikes. Embracing telemedicine, walk-in clinics, and home-based care can help them prepare. -
How Geisinger Health System Uses Big Data to Save Lives
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Organizational Grit
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleTurning passion and perseverance into performance: the view from the health care industry
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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Describes the reorganization of the drug discovery organization at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and focuses on the decisions to: (1) centralize decision-making... -
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and the Global Economy (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In April 2020, the world struggled to contain the exponential escalation of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Dozens of countries had imposed restrictions... -
Imprimis (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details This case is a supplement to Imprimis (Case A) and Imprimis (Case B). Set in 2015, it first describes Imprimis's decision to introduce its own line of... -
CSR at Torrent Group
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as an important area of corporate attention in an informationally integrated world. Corporates are realizing... -
Scaling Digital Transformation: Growing LVPEI's eyeSmart Electronic Medical Record (EMR) System
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case explores the journey of developing and implementing an electronic medical record (EMR) solution across the vast LVPEI network. The leadership... -
Hans Fritz at Novartis Thailand (D): The First 18 Months
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Abbott and the AIDS Crisis (C): What Lies Ahead?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The partnership between Abbott and the government of Tanzania continued to flourish. As a demonstration of Abbott's long-term commitment to Tanzania,... -
Revamping the Drug Testing System in Punjab: Public Management Challenges in a Multi-Level Governance Framework
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case is about the various management challenges faced by Ali Jan, the Secretary of the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department (P&SHD) of the... -
Cardinal Health: Deploying Blockchain Technology
Management Case Study11.95View Details The chief technology officer of a leading pharmaceutical distributor in the US is facing a crossroads. Driven by the company's mission of "reimagining... -
Does Detailing Pay
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Detailing, or visits from pharmaceutical sales representatives to medical offices to provide details about a drug's purpose and side effects, has become... -
MedNet.com Confronts 'Click-Through' Competition
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In January 2007, "MedNet.com" is a leading website that provides science-based health information free of charge to online visitors. MedNet communicates... -
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals: Building Value from the IP Estate
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The learning objective of this case is to help students to recognize the interplay between intellectual property (IP) rights and corporate strategy. We... -
Genmor Pharmaceuticals' Acquisition of Vascorex Corporation
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case asks students to identify and evaluate the merits of two factors that have led a buy-side analyst to conclude that an acquiring company is a... -
On Weldon's Watch: Recalls at Johnson & Johnson from 2009 to 2010
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In October of 2010, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) was unable to extricate itself from a year long recall crisis that had subjected the firm to criticism from... -
The "Wonder Drug" that Killed Babies
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In the early 1960s, a popular drug taken by patients worldwide for a range of maladies was found to cause severe birth defects and other health problems... -
Khalil Abdo Group
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Three brothers inherit a business in Egypt; the complications begin as each gets married, has a family, and becomes torn among different family interests.... -
Kathryne Cooper and CTIP: Accelerating Diversity in Medtech
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In an industry that is struggling to diversify, Kathryne Cooper and her co-directors at CTIP have created a highly successful model for supporting non-traditional... -
The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World
30.00View Details The inside story of an unprecedented feat of science and business. At the start of 2020, Moderna was a biotech unicorn with dim prospects. Yes, there... -
Cost Plus Drugs
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In September 2022, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company CEO Alex Oshmyansky considered the future of the company. Cost Plus Drugs was a retailer for more... -
Zandu Pharmaceutical Works: The Takeover Bid (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case is about the takeover bid of Zandu Pharmaceutical Works, a small Indian traditional medicine manufacturer based at Jamnagar, (Gujarat, India)....
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Better Healing from Better Hospital Design
Design thinking Digital ArticleHow physical space can reduce pain, lower costs, and save lives. -
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. -
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Describes the reorganization of the drug discovery organization at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and focuses on the decisions to: (1) centralize decision-making... -
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and the Global Economy (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In April 2020, the world struggled to contain the exponential escalation of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Dozens of countries had imposed restrictions... -
How Medical Nonprofits Set Winning Strategy
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleA study of nearly 100 organizations. -
Imprimis (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details This case is a supplement to Imprimis (Case A) and Imprimis (Case B). Set in 2015, it first describes Imprimis's decision to introduce its own line of... -
CSR at Torrent Group
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as an important area of corporate attention in an informationally integrated world. Corporates are realizing... -
Scaling Digital Transformation: Growing LVPEI's eyeSmart Electronic Medical Record (EMR) System
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case explores the journey of developing and implementing an electronic medical record (EMR) solution across the vast LVPEI network. The leadership... -
How Health Care Providers Can Ensure Patients’ End-of-Life Wishes Are Known
Government Digital ArticleJust having the conversation isn’t enough.