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- July–August 1994
- Article
Making Competition in Health Care Work
By: Elizabeth O. Teisberg, M. E. Porter and Gregory B. Brown
Teisberg, Elizabeth O., M. E. Porter, and Gregory B. Brown. "Making Competition in Health Care Work." Harvard Business Review 72, no. 4 (July–August 1994).
- May 1994
- Teaching Note
Brush with AIDS, A (A) & (B) TN
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
Teaching Note for (9-394-058) and (9-394-059).
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- May 1994 (Revised February 2021)
- Background Note
Note on Reimbursement of Health Care Providers: Case-Based and Capitation Payment
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Tom Nagle
Explains how managed care organizations use capitation as a payment method for providers.
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Keywords:
Managed Care;
Capitation;
Health Care and Treatment;
Insurance;
Accounting;
Financial Management;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Tom Nagle. "Note on Reimbursement of Health Care Providers: Case-Based and Capitation Payment." Harvard Business School Background Note 194-141, May 1994. (Revised February 2021.)
- March 1994 (Revised December 2014)
- Case
Humana, Inc.: Managing in a Changing Industry
By: Stuart Gilson
Intensifying competition and change in the U.S. health care industry force a large integrated health-care provider to reassess its strategy of operating both hospitals and health insurance plans (HMOs). In an attempt to increase its stock price and operating...
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Keywords:
Business Strategy;
Restructuring;
Change Management;
Financial Management;
Health Industry
Gilson, Stuart. "Humana, Inc.: Managing in a Changing Industry." Harvard Business School Case 294-062, March 1994. (Revised December 2014.)
- February 27, 1994
- Article
Innovation: Medicine's Best Cost-Cutter
By: M. E. Porter, Elizabeth Teisberg and Gregory Brown
Porter, M. E., Elizabeth Teisberg, and Gregory Brown. "Innovation: Medicine's Best Cost-Cutter." New York Times (February 27, 1994).
- January 1994 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
NovaCare, Inc.: Living the Vision
By: Lynn S. Paine
NovaCare's CEO is considering how further to institutionalize the company's espoused values and beliefs. One challenge is integrating two newly acquired businesses; another is better aligning the values of the company's managers with those of its front-line...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Health Care and Treatment;
Labor and Management Relations;
Management Teams;
Values and Beliefs;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Mission and Purpose;
Health Industry
Paine, Lynn S. "NovaCare, Inc.: Living the Vision." Harvard Business School Case 394-110, January 1994. (Revised March 1995.)
- January 1994 (Revised June 1996)
- Case
Problems at InSpeech
By: Lynn S. Paine
InSpeech, Inc., the largest U.S. provider of speech, occupational, and physical therapists to nursing homes and hospitals, is faltering badly. The company is having trouble retaining its frontline employees--the clinicians who deliver its services--and its customers....
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Business Strategy;
Problems and Challenges;
Health Care and Treatment;
Crisis Management;
Mission and Purpose;
Values and Beliefs;
Health Industry
Paine, Lynn S. "Problems at InSpeech." Harvard Business School Case 394-109, January 1994. (Revised June 1996.)
- winter 1994
- Article
The Fundamental Forces Reshaping U.S. Health Care and How to Respond to Them
Herzlinger, Regina E. "The Fundamental Forces Reshaping U.S. Health Care and How to Respond to Them." Managed Care Quarterly (winter 1994).
- December 1993 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Medical Products Co.
By: Robert H. Hayes
In early 1990, the company is contemplating changes in its European plant network for producing hypodermic products, including the total production capacity to be provided, the number and location of plants over which to spread this capacity, and which products should...
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Keywords:
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Decision Making;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Cost;
Production;
Performance Capacity;
Performance Effectiveness;
Strategic Planning;
Competitive Strategy;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
Europe
Hayes, Robert H. "Medical Products Co." Harvard Business School Case 694-065, December 1993. (Revised March 1995.)
- October 1993 (Revised July 1994)
- Case
A Brush with AIDS (A)
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
A product manager at a health products company is responsible for marketing sharps containers, which hospitals use to store used needles in order to protect medical workers from being pricked with AIDS-contaminated needles. After hospitals report repeated instances of...
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Keywords:
Health;
Cost vs Benefits;
Motivation and Incentives;
Safety;
Values and Beliefs;
Profit;
Goals and Objectives;
Compensation and Benefits;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and Jerry Useem. "A Brush with AIDS (A)." Harvard Business School Case 394-058, October 1993. (Revised July 1994.)
- August 1993
- Article
Transaction Cost Theory: Inferences from Clinical Field Research
Cespedes, Frank V. "Transaction Cost Theory: Inferences from Clinical Field Research." Organization Science 4, no. 3 (August 1993): 454–477.
- August 1993
- Article
Transaction Cost Theory: Inferences from Clinical Field Research on Downstream Vertical Integration
By: V. K. Rangan, E. R. Corey and F. V. Cespedes
Rangan, V. K., E. R. Corey, and F. V. Cespedes. "Transaction Cost Theory: Inferences from Clinical Field Research on Downstream Vertical Integration." Organization Science 4, no. 3 (August 1993): 454–477.
- May 1993
- Case
Patient Transfusion Services Lab of Central Blood Bank
By: James L. Heskett
The vice president of the Lab and Clinical Services at Central Blood Bank is faced with the challenge of convincing a hospital to use economical shared patient transfusion testing services.
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Quality;
Service Operations;
Mathematical Methods;
Customer Satisfaction;
Health Industry
Heskett, James L. "Patient Transfusion Services Lab of Central Blood Bank." Harvard Business School Case 693-091, May 1993.
- May 1993
- Teaching Note
Alexander Hospital Gift Shoppe TN
- May 1993
- Teaching Note
Lourdville Health Center TN
- May 1993
- Teaching Note
Nasus Clinic TN
- April 1993 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India: In Service for Sight, The
Starting as a modest 20-bed hospital, Aravind had grown into a 1,400-bed hospital complex by 1992. It had by then screened 3.65 million patients and performed 335,000 cataract surgeries, nearly 70% of them free of cost for the poorest of India's blind population....
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Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Social Marketing;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Welfare;
Expansion;
Health Industry;
India
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India: In Service for Sight, The." Harvard Business School Case 593-098, April 1993. (Revised May 2009.)
- February 1993 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Bernd Sterzel at the IVth Medizinische Klinik (A)
By: Linda A. Hill
After 10 years of running a small laboratory at Yale Medical School, Dr. R. Bernd Sterzel assumes leadership of a nephrology clinic in Nurnberg and Erlangen, Germany. In his ambitious efforts to transform the clinic into a leading academic research institution, he...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Problems and Challenges;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Health Industry;
Germany;
Connecticut
Hill, Linda A. "Bernd Sterzel at the IVth Medizinische Klinik (A)." Harvard Business School Case 493-059, February 1993. (Revised March 1995.)
- February 1993 (Revised August 1995)
- Case
Medicare Payment for Drugs and Medical Devices
Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Business and Government Relations;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Medicare Payment for Drugs and Medical Devices." Harvard Business School Case 193-099, February 1993. (Revised August 1995.)
- December 1992 (Revised November 1994)
- Case
Becton Dickinson Division: Marketing Organization
The marketing director for the largest division of a health care products company is reviewing the structure and staffing of the division's marketing organization. The division has authorization to hire an additional marketing manager. Hence, the immediate case...
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Keywords:
Business Conglomerates;
Health Care and Treatment;
Human Resources;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Managerial Roles;
Product Marketing;
Measurement and Metrics;
Organizational Structure;
Strategy;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
Cespedes, Frank V. "Becton Dickinson Division: Marketing Organization." Harvard Business School Case 593-070, December 1992. (Revised November 1994.)