Press Ganey and HCAHPS

Author: Kessler, D.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Business School
Publication Year: 2009

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This case studies how a private healthcare performance measurement company responds to a government effort to improve quality reporting and standardize hospital surveys. It highlights the private company's decisions regarding both its business strategy as well as its potential to affect public policy.

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Climate Change Strategy: The Business Logic Behind Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reductions

Author: Hoffman, Andrew J.
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review, 47 (3): 21-46 (2005).
Publication Year: 2005

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To date, the United States has declined to ratify the Kyoto Treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, many companies are taking advantage of the lack of a mandatory U.S. GHG emission reduction program to set targets at their own pace and in ways that complement their own strategic objectives.

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Selfless, Candid, and Quick: Is That All There is to Crisis Management?

Authors: Buchanan, L; Simmons, C
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 2005

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In 1982, seven people died after taking cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules. It was a potential disaster for the brand as well as for its parent company, Johnson & Johnson.

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Rethinking Lean: Beyond the Shop Floor

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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Knowledge@Wharton, Boston Consulting Group
Publication Year: 2009

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In this special report, experts from Wharton and The Boston Consulting Group look at how lean is transforming health care, R&D and finance.

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World Health

Author: Bhalotra, Sarita
Product Type: Syllabi
Source: Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Publication Year: 2005

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This course is a primer on major issues in health care in developing nations. Topics include descriptions of disease incidence and prevalence including infectious, chronic, and mental disease; determinants of health including culture and behavior; the role of nutrition, education, reproductive trends and poverty; demographic transitions including aging and urbanization; and the globalization of health.

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Testimony of Wendell Potter

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Product Type: Interviews
Source: ConsumerWatchdog
Publication Year: 2009

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Medicines for Malaria Venture: Accessing the Inaccessible

Authors: Yadav, P.; Stapleton, O.; Van Wassenhove, Luk
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2009

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Malaria causes over 1 million deaths per year, 90% of which are preventable.

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Delivering Innovation in Hospital Construction

Authors: Barlow, James; Koberle-Gaiser, Martina
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: California Management Review
Publication Year: 2009

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This article discusses the relationship between the system for planning, financing, constructing, and operating new hospitals and the design and construction innovation.

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Beyond the biomedical and behavioural: towards an integrated approach to HIV prevention in the Southern African mining industry

Authors: Campbell, Catherine; Williams, Brian
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Social Science & Medicine
Publication Year: 1999

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While migrant labor is believed to play an important role in the dynamics of HIV-transmission in many of the countries of southern Africa, little has been written about the way in which HIV/AIDS has been dealt with in the industrial settings in which many migrant workers are employed.

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A Patent for Dr. Pallin

Author: Tancer, R
Product Type: Cases
Source: Thunderbird School of Global Management
Publication Year: 1998

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This case is based on an actual patent infringement lawsuit brought by Dr Sam Pallin against Dr Jack L Singer for unauthorized use by the latter of the frown incision in performing cataract surgery. In addition to the issue of patentability, the case raises an ethical question since medical process patents are viewed as unethical by the American Medical Association (AMA) and in many other countries in the world.

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