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In June 2014, leading healthcare and consumer technology company, Royal Philips (“Philips”), announced its HealthSuite Digital Platform to house healthcare data and enable applications used by physicians and patients. Philips had strong…

The CEO of a health care-based REIT is considering alternative nursing home investment strategies. Students must consider macro-industry trends, scale and scope issues and consumer segmentation data in making their recommendations.

In October 2013, Colgate-Palmolive Company, the world’s leading oral care company, was about to launch its new Colgate® Maximum Cavity Protection™ plus Sugar Acid Neutralizer™ toothpaste in Brazil. Oral care category accounted for 46 percent of…

The president of the North America unit of NutriSciences, the $450 million (annual revenue) subsidiary of the French company Biomérieux, is considering how best to persuade an American chicken producer named Gallus to outsource its in-house food safety…

The Envision Healthcare (EVHC) case examines the operations of one of EVHC’s divisions, EmCare, a national physician services outsourcing company. The case describes EmCare’s controversial use of out-of-network billing for a significant share…

Insigne Health is a for-profit, integrated health insurer/health care provider whose leadership believes that by shifting members’ focus from “sickness” to “well-being” it could increase the overall health of its insured…

Three months into her job as secretary of health for Washington State in 1999-a position which had been vacant for nearly a year following the previous secretary’s resignation-Mary Selecky read a newspaper story that the state’s largest and…

The 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, unleashed a 30-foot tsunami along Japan’s Pacific Coast that damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear complex. The crippled reactors leaked radiation into the sea…

A deep sense of foreboding filled Dr. James O’Connell and his team at Boston Health Care for the Homeless (BHCHP) in October 2014. The Boston mayor’s office had just condemned the 64-year-old bridge that provided the only passage to the…

As administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2013-2017), Gina McCarthy faced a daunting challenge: to write a technically airtight and legally defensible regulation, the Clean Power Plan, to reduce carbon pollution from existing power…