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MedVal Ventures
Herzlinger, Regina E.Case HBS-308087-EIs medical travel a viable business opportunity? A group of MBA students consider the pros and cons of starting a business that would send people from the U.S. to India for elective non-emergency surgeries.Starting at €8.20
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The Eli Lilly MDR-TB Partnership: Creating Private and Public Value: Teaching Note
Trager, Alan M.Teaching Note HBS-HKS567-EEconomicsIn 2003, pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly created the MDR-TB Partnership to fight MDR-TB, a form of tuberculosis. An estimated 450,000 new cases of this disease were reported each year, primarily in China, India, and Russia. The Partnership, an alliance of 14 public and private organizations, attempted to transfer technology to increase the supply of drugs that could cure MDR-TB; train health care workers to design successful strategies for ...Starting at €0.00
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The "Jaipur Foot" - Teaching Note
Viassa Monteiro, EugénioTeaching Note AESE-DG-A-773(I) TN-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThe case presents a new business model to produce low cost prosthesis, made and adapted in less than a day and with no need of maintenance for several years. Also, the low cost makes the prosthesis accessible to just about anybody.The case describes a company which produces and places foot or leg prosthesis, as a way to alleviate people suffering from a deficiency which seriously impairs their quality of life. They are people who for some reason ...Starting at €0.00
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The "Jaipur foot"
de Matos, Luis; Viassa Monteiro, EugénioCase AESE-DG-A-773(I)-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThe case presents a new business model to produce low cost prosthesis, made and adapted in less than a day and with no need of maintenance for several years. Also, the low cost makes the prosthesis accessible to just about anybody.The case describes a company which produces and places foot or leg prosthesis, as a way to alleviate people suffering from a deficiency which seriously impairs their quality of life. They are people who for some reason ...Starting at €8.20
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Tom Baker Cancer Centre
Murray J. Bryant; Eileen PeplerCase IVEY-9B07M078-EStrategyThe director for the Tom Baker Cancer Centre (TBCC) and vice-president of the Alberta Cancer Board (ACB) took a moment to reflect on the past six months. He had assumed the leadership of the TBCC in December 2006. Alberta Health & Wellness had created an ambitious provincial vision for cancer in which the director would play a key role. The director recognized that it would be difficult to gain buy-in from the different stakeholders because they ...Starting at €8.20
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Youth Villages
Grossman, Allen S.; Foster, William; Ross, CatherineCase HBS-309007-ETennessee-based nonprofit Youth Villages had an impressive record of serving emotionally and behaviorally troubled youth and their families, with higher success rates and lower costs than most child services providers. Yet expanding to offer its services on a broader scale proved challenging.Starting at €8.20
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Goedehoop: When Social Issues Become Strategic
Margaret Sutherland; Verity HawardenCase IVEY-9B08M067-EStrategyThis case chronicles a change process to counteract the epidemic of HIV/AIDS on a coalmine in South Africa that impacts the sustainability of the organization. The case describes the business case for dealing with the problem and the sequence of events that were instituted. It illustrates the type of leadership activities needed to deal with a compelling environmental force impacting business. It shows how a wide range of stakeholders needs to be...Starting at €8.20
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Cleveland Clinic: Transformation and Growth 2015
Porter, Michael E.; Teisberg, Elizabeth OlmstedCase HBS-709473-EStrategyThe Cleveland Clinic's health care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic began to restructure the organization into teams defined around patient needs, rather than traditional medical specialties."Patients First! takes shape as the teams measure and report outcomes, coordinate care, and develop to support improving value for patients. In addition to restructuring care delivery in the hospitals and throughout north...Starting at €8.20
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Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy, Teaching Note
Porter, Michael E.; Baron, Jennifer F.Teaching Note HBS-709483-EStrategyTeaching Note for 709458.Starting at €0.00
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Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Ogletree, Charles J., Jr.; Koh, Howard; Atkinson, Abbye; Salhi, Carmel; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-309111-E"Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum" charts the many different career paths of Hooks, a civil right activist and pioneer. Hooks' positions ranged from lawyer, judge, preacher, entrepreneur to the first African American commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and to the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to the co-founder of the non-profit Children's Health Forum (CHF). CH...Starting at €8.20