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Amenazas globales: diagnóstico y acción
Done, Adrian A.Article ART-2076Service and Operations Management, Strategy¿Cuánto tiempo dedica a pensar en las grandes cuestiones que afectarán a su vida personal y profesional en los próximos 20 años? Si está tan ocupado como la mayoría de sus colegas, no mucho. Pero las perspectivas de la economía mundial son peores hoy que cuando la crisis crediticia tocó fondo, así que de nada sirve esconder la cabeza. Es mejor atisbar las tendencias globales que acechan en el horizonte, analizar a fondo las fuerzas subyacentes y ...Starting at €8.20
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The San Miguel Arcángel Hospital
Bitrán, Ricardo; Vergara, Carles; Má C.; Sánchez, Loppacher J.Case P-1045-EService and Operations ManagementThe case describes a Panamanian public hospital's efforts to overcome two of the most important weaknesses of the health system in Panama: the lack of investment coordination between the ministry of health and social security hospitals, and the divorce between budget and performance. The approach involves sharing hospital financing between the ministry of health and the social security, and linking the hospital budget to the quantity and quality ...Starting at €8.20
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El nuevo hospital para Heredia Colaboración Pública-Privada para la atención sanitaria
Cercone J.; Rosenmöller, MagdaCase P-1003Service and Operations ManagementEl director de un hospital regional de Costa Rica elabora, junto con un alto funcionario de la CCSS, la Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social, un nuevo modelo de colaboración publico-privada en la atención sanitaria, ante unas estrictas limitaciones de inversión publica. El caso sigue el proceso del proyecto, presenta los diferentes problemas encontrados y muestra como ha logrado asegurar el soporte de los distintos grupos involucrados. La CCSS ha...Starting at €8.20
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A New Hospital for Heredia. A Public-Private Partnership for Health Care
Cercone J.; Rosenmöller, MagdaCase P-1003-EService and Operations ManagementTogether with a senior official from the CCSS, the Costa Rican Social Security organization, the principal of a regional hospital in Costa Rica draws up a new model for public-private cooperation in health care, given the stringent limitations on public investment. The case follows the project's progress, presents the various problems encountered, and shows how it has succeeded in gaining the support of the various stakeholders involved. The CCSS...Starting at €8.20
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El Hospital de San Miguel Arcángel
Bitrán, Ricardo; Vergara, Carles; Má C.; Sánchez, Loppacher J.Case P-1045Service and Operations ManagementEl caso describe la experiencia de un hospital público en Panamá para resolver dos de las más importantes debilidades de los sistemas de salud: la poca coordinación de inversión entre el Ministerio de Salud y los hospitales de seguro social, y el divorcio entre presupuesto y resultados. El enfoque involucra el financiamiento de hospitales compartida por las dos instituciones y el nexo del presupuesto de hospitales con la cantidad y calidad de l...Starting at €8.20
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Strategic Purchasing in Haiti to Improve Health: Why pay for inputs when you can pay for results
Eichler R.; Savedoff B.; Ribera, JaumeCase P-1043-EService and Operations ManagementHolding health institutions accountable for achieving explicitly defined results by linking payment to results can be a powerful strategy to improve health system performance. The Director of a USAID supported project that funds nongovernmental organizations in Haiti to provide basic health services used strategic purchasing to improve the effectiveness of primary health care by paying providers for results. These providers had been operating und...Starting at €8.20
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Introducing DRGs as an Instrument for Clinical Management
Cercone J.; Márquez G.; García Prat, AntoniCase P-1048-EService and Operations ManagementThe case focuses on the use of DRGs in Costa Rica from the original motivation to use them, the implementation steps, the difficulties found and how they were addressed. The case describes the changes that occurred as a result of DRG introduction, and how the ?perverse incentives? were managed. The emphasis is on the lessons learnt in order to define the following implementation steps. The DRG system can be a useful tool to better organizing medi...Starting at €8.20
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Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief: What Can We Learn from Commercial Supply Chains
Shih, Willy; Pierson, MargaretCase HBS-615003-EService and Operations ManagementOrganizing speedy and efficient supply operations for unpredictable major natural disasters was a continuing challenge for the U.S. military, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti was both unique in its operational scope and political complexity. As he reviewed the after-action reports, George Topic, the Vice Director of the Center for Joint and Strategic Logistics at the National Defense University wondered how the performance of disaster relief effo...Starting at €8.20
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Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain
Edmondson, Amy C.; Harvey, Jean-FrancoisCase HBS-616040-EService and Operations ManagementThis case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the final year of the project, presents the project's advances, and invites students to position themselves in front of three options regarding the exit strategy to be deployed to ensure sustain...Starting at €8.20
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Introducción de los Grupos de Diagnóstico Relacionado (GDR) como instrumento de gestión clínica
Cercone J.; Márquez G.; García Prat, AntoniCase P-1048Service and Operations ManagementEl caso se concentra en el uso de los GDR en Costa Rica, desde la motivación para comenzar a usarlos, los diferentes pasos a seguir, las dificultades en la implementación y cómo se resolvieron. Se discuten los cambios que ocurrieron como resultado de la introducción de los GDR, y cómo se manejaron los "incentivos perversos". Se hace énfasis en las lecciones aprendidas con el objeto de definir cómo seguir adelante a partir de este punto. El sistem...Starting at €8.20