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- July 2003 (Revised August 2003)
- Case
Global Healthcare Exchange
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Jamie Ladge
Founded in March 2000 at the height of the dot-com bubble, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) was one of 90 online marketplaces in the health care industry. The company's founders were among the largest suppliers in the industry, including Johnson & Johnson, GE Medical,...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Entrepreneurship;
Price;
Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Supply and Industry;
Organizational Design;
Expansion;
Internet and the Web;
Valuation;
Health Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Jamie Ladge. "Global Healthcare Exchange." Harvard Business School Case 804-002, July 2003. (Revised August 2003.)
- March 2003
- Article
Technological Development and Medical Productivity: The Diffusion of Angioplasty in New York State
By: David M. Cutler and Robert S. Huckman
A puzzling feature of many medical innovations is that they simultaneously appear to reduce unit costs and increase total costs. We consider this phenomenon by examining the diffusion of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA)—a treatment for coronary...
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Keywords:
Innovation and Invention;
Cost;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Disorders;
Performance Improvement;
Product;
New York (state, US)
Cutler, David M., and Robert S. Huckman. "Technological Development and Medical Productivity: The Diffusion of Angioplasty in New York State." Journal of Health Economics 22, no. 2 (March 2003): 187–217.
- January 2003 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
CareGroup
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Robert D. Austin
Describes the circumstances leading to the three-and-a-half-day collapse of a major hospital group's IS capabilities. Identifies the technical reasons for the failure, management steps in dealing with the problem short term, and the long-term lessons they believe they...
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Keywords:
Information Management;
Information Technology;
Safety;
Crisis Management;
Infrastructure;
Health Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Robert D. Austin. "CareGroup." Harvard Business School Case 303-097, January 2003. (Revised August 2005.)
- October 2002 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Intermountain Health Care
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman
Intermountain Health Care (IHC), an integrated delivery system based in Utah, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care delivery. The approach focuses management attention not only on the facilities where care takes place but also on physician decision making...
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Keywords:
Ethnicity;
Innovation Strategy;
Cost Management;
Information Technology;
Organizational Structure;
Technology Adoption;
Performance Improvement;
Problems and Challenges;
Adoption;
Change Management;
Cost vs Benefits;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
Utah
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Amy C. Edmondson, and Laura Feldman. "Intermountain Health Care." Harvard Business School Case 603-066, October 2002. (Revised March 2013.)
- September 2002
- Case
Align Technology, Inc.: Matching Manufacturing Capacity to Sales Demand
By: H. Kent Bowen and Jonathan P Groberg
Align Technology is a four-year-old medical products company that has invented a new product requiring new manufacturing processes. Demand for the new product has grown more slowly than initial forecasts predicted, and the cost structure is preventing the company from...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Problems and Challenges;
Product;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Marketing Strategy;
Sales;
Demand and Consumers;
Production;
Health Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Jonathan P Groberg. "Align Technology, Inc.: Matching Manufacturing Capacity to Sales Demand." Harvard Business School Case 603-058, September 2002.
- July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Washington Hospital Center (A): Rescuing Emergency Medicine
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied and Dr. Mark Smith, recruited to turn around the Washington Hospital Center Emergency Department, prepare to roll out their most revolutionary change yet--an information system that could radically improve the practice of emergency medicine. A review of...
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- July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Washington Hospital Center (B): The Power of Insight
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied considers how to take a major technical innovation beyond his own department into a large hospital system. Reviews how proprietary information systems became indispensable in the department of emergency medicine and what it took to introduce the change...
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- July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Washington Hospital Center (C): Progress and Prospects, 1995-2001
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied and Dr. Mark Smith have already transformed a "worst-in-area" emergency medicine department into the best in the area. Industry-wide and hospital system-specific challenges remain, including their newest project of national importance--creating an...
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- July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Washington Hospital Center (D): Emergency Medicine After September 11
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
The all-risks-ready emergency room prototype project becomes widely accepted as a need after September 11, 2001. The already operational medical informatics system, Insight, comes under heavy demand after its strong performance during crises and is noticed by various...
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- July 2002
- Article
Asset Accumulation, Interdependence and Technological Change: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery
By: Stefan Thomke and Walter Kuemmerle
Thomke, Stefan, and Walter Kuemmerle. "Asset Accumulation, Interdependence and Technological Change: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery." Strategic Management Journal 23, no. 7 (July 2002): 619–635.
- October 2001
- Case
TIGR and ILRI: Solving Problems with Genomics
By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle
Discusses nonprofit institutional leadership applying advances in genetic science to solve health and animal problems in industrial countries and the developing world.
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- January 2001
- Case
Abgenix and the XenoMouse
By: Robert J. Dolan
Abgenix has a unique method for generating antibodies useful in treating a number of diseases, including cancer. In early 2000, the company's cancer has performed very well in animal testing and is moving to early stage human testing. Abgenix must decide whether to...
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Keywords:
Product Development;
Marketing Strategy;
Health Testing and Trials;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Technological Innovation;
Innovation Strategy;
Science-Based Business;
Biotechnology Industry
Dolan, Robert J. "Abgenix and the XenoMouse." Harvard Business School Case 501-061, January 2001.
- 2001
- Chapter
Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry
By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn
U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While...
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Keywords:
Public Sector;
Science-Based Business;
Research and Development;
Sovereign Finance;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Henderson, Rebecca, and Ian Cockburn. "Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 1, edited by Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 1–34. MIT Press, 2001.
- August 2000
- Case
Beansprout Networks
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Rasheea Williams
Beansprout Networks is a 3-year-old Internet company designed to foster effective communication between parents and the pediatricians and child-care providers who care for their children. With a significant headstart in the marketplace, it has attracted considerable...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Human Resources;
Employees;
Employee Relationship Management;
Recruitment;
Business or Company Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Practices and Processes;
Organizational Culture;
Strategy;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
Amabile, Teresa M., and Rasheea Williams. "Beansprout Networks." Harvard Business School Case 801-079, August 2000.
- Article
Strategic Assets, Interdependence and Technological Change: An Empirical Investigation of Complementarity in Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery
By: S. Thomke and W. Kuemmerle
Keywords:
Strategy;
Assets;
Information Technology;
Change;
Information;
Health;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Thomke, S., and W. Kuemmerle. "Strategic Assets, Interdependence and Technological Change: An Empirical Investigation of Complementarity in Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery." Academy of Management Proceedings and Membership Directory (2000).
- July 2000 (Revised November 2001)
- Case
Catalyst Medical Solutions
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M.J. Bohmer and Naomi Atkins
Faced with a drop in the NASDAQ, four eHealth entrepreneurs must decide between two distribution strategies for their new company's technology. The team, comprised of three full-time resident physicians and an MBA, has developed software to enable electronic...
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Keywords:
Product Development;
Health Care and Treatment;
Distribution;
Strategy;
Venture Capital;
Applications and Software;
Partners and Partnerships;
Borrowing and Debt;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Edmondson, Amy C., Richard M.J. Bohmer, and Naomi Atkins. "Catalyst Medical Solutions." Harvard Business School Case 601-014, July 2000. (Revised November 2001.)
- June 2000
- Case
Lifeline Systems, Inc. (A)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
Lifeline Systems provides emergency response equipment to the elderly who live at home. The company uses local hospitals to market, sell, and install these units in homes, while the hospital monitors and calls for aid to respond to emergency calls from the elderly...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Product Marketing;
Sales;
Problems and Challenges;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Managerial Roles;
Service Operations;
Information Infrastructure;
Age;
Service Delivery;
Restructuring;
Crisis Management;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Marilyn Matis. "Lifeline Systems, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 600-099, June 2000.
- March 2000
- Case
Heartport, Inc.
By: Gary P. Pisano and Shoshana Dobrow
Heartport, an entrepreneurial medical device maker, has introduced several innovative systems for conducting less-invasive cardiac surgery. Despite initially high expectations, the company has struggled to get its technology adopted by cardiac surgeons. The company's...
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Keywords:
History;
Product Positioning;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Technology Adoption;
Health Care and Treatment
Pisano, Gary P., and Shoshana Dobrow. "Heartport, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 600-020, March 2000.
- December 1999 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A)
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade
Focuses on Millennium's strategy to grow and revolutionize drug development through the use of new technologies such as genomics. Describes how Millennium Pharmaceuticals--a fast-growing biotechnology firm in Cambridge, MA--has used strategic alliances to finance the...
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Keywords:
Cost Management;
Financing and Loans;
Medical Specialties;
Retention;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Time Management;
Product Development;
Problems and Challenges;
Alliances;
Technology;
Biotechnology Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Cambridge
Thomke, Stefan H., and Ashok Nimgade. "Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 600-038, December 1999. (Revised August 2001.)
- June 1999 (Revised May 2000)
- Exercise
Working with your "Shadow Partner" in the healthcare industry (A)
By: Richard L. Nolan
Intended to introduce individuals to search engines and databases on the Internet, in particular those that are available to HBS. This exercise is a more difficult version of Working with Your "Shadow Partner" and is intended for those with some previous Internet...
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Nolan, Richard L. Working with your "Shadow Partner" in the healthcare industry (A). Harvard Business School Exercise 399-177, June 1999. (Revised May 2000.)