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COVID-19 Testing: How Hard Can It Be (B)
Matherne, G. Paul; Orr, Emily JaneCase DARDEN-E-0456-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn early March 2020, Amy Mathers, a physician and faculty member at the University of Virginia Health System (UVA Health), contemplated how UVA Health could get access to COVID-19 testing - and fast. The first patients with COVID-19 symptoms had arrived at the UVA hospital that week, but hospital staff had no ability to confirm the cases. Waiting seven days for a commercial result meant wasting precious isolation rooms and gear if the patient was...Starting at €5.74
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COVID-19 Testing: How Hard Can It Be (A)
Matherne, G. Paul; Orr, Emily JaneCase DARDEN-E-0455-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn early March 2020, Amy Mathers, a physician and faculty member at the University of Virginia Health System (UVA Health), contemplated how UVA Health could get access to COVID-19 testing - and fast. The first patients with COVID-19 symptoms had arrived at the UVA hospital that week, but hospital staff had no ability to confirm the cases. Waiting seven days for a commercial result meant wasting precious isolation rooms and gear if the patient was...Starting at €8.20
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High Health Care Premiums in Charlottesville: Who Is to Blame? And What Should Be Done?
Matherne, G. Paul; Goldberg, Rebecca; Feist, J. CoreyCase DARDEN-E-0439-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityWhen Karl Quist, a resident of Charlottesville, Virginia, looks at the rate increases in his unsubsidized, individual-market Affordable Care Act (ACA) health care insurance premiums in November 2017, he realizes that they have nearly tripled from the year before and that he will have to spend over $35,000 during the year in premiums for coverage that will entitle him to a benefit only after he has spent another $14,400 in deductible payments. Ast...Starting at €8.20
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Tests and Triumphs in Telemedicine (A) and (B) (TN)
Matherne, G. Paul; Behrman, Katelyn; Shepard, Taylor AnneTeaching Note DARDEN-E-0468TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityTeaching note for products E-0468 and E-0469Starting at €0.00
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Translating Personal Tragedy into Action: Starting the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation -Teaching Note
Matherne, G. Paul; Behrman, KatelynTeaching Note DARDEN-E-0462TN-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityTeaching note for product E-0462Starting at €0.00
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Serving the World's Poor, Profitably (Spanish version)
Prahalad, C.K.; Hammond, AllenArticle HBS-R0209CEconomicsBy stimulating commerce and development at the bottom of the economic pyramid, multinationals could radically improve the lives of billions of people and help create a more stable, less dangerous world. Achieving this goal does not require MNCs to spearhead global social-development initiatives for charitable purposes. They need only act in their own self-interest. How? The authors lay out the business case for entering the world's poorest market...Starting at €8.20
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Best Practices Get You Only So Far
Prahalad, C.K.Article HBS-F1004H-EBenchmarking best practices allows enterprises to catch up with the competition, but it won't turn them into market leaders. Organizations become winners by spotting big opportunities and inventing next practices. Executives can unearth opportunities by identifying big problems that their companies will benefit by tackling. They must ask six questions: (1) Is the problem widely recognized? (2) Does it affect other industries? (3) Are radical inno...Starting at €8.20
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Cath Lab Catastrophe: Person or Process Issue
Matherne, G. PaulCase DARDEN-OM-1673-EService and Operations ManagementThis case follows fictional Baby Girl Jones, born with a life-threatening condition: cyanotic heart disease (not enough oxygen in the blood). Her initial evaluation revealed transposition of the great arteries, a condition in which the two main arteries carrying blood away from the heart are reversed. The doctors also realized that the baby’s heart had a hole between the pumping chambers. The baby’s condition worsened and the doctors decided to p...Starting at €8.20
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Uncertainty in Surgical Supplies—A Cardinal Error (B): Decision-Making as a Crisis Unfolds
Matherne, G. PaulCase DARDEN-OM-1765-EService and Operations ManagementThis case set is about the unfolding uncertainty associated with a supply chain issue involving Cardinal Health (Cardinal), the primary supplier of surgical packs to Garfield Health System (GHS). John Jenkins, MD, the newly appointed chief medical officer (CMO) at a medium-size university hospital at GHS, must assess the issue and respond as Cardinal notifies GHS of potential contamination in the manufacture of surgical gowns. Cardinal initially ...Starting at €5.74
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Uncertainty in Surgical Supplies—A Cardinal Error (D): Uncertainty in Everything as COVID-19 Arrives
Matherne, G. PaulCase DARDEN-OM-1767-EService and Operations ManagementThis case set is about the unfolding uncertainty associated with a supply chain issue involving Cardinal Health (Cardinal), the primary supplier of surgical packs to Garfield Health System (GHS). John Jenkins, MD, the newly appointed chief medical officer (CMO) at a medium-size university hospital at GHS, must assess the issue and respond as Cardinal notifies GHS of potential contamination in the manufacture of surgical gowns. Cardinal initially ...Starting at €5.74