Cases

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 2014, Dr. Michael Dulin, chief clinical officer for analytics and outcomes research and head of the Dickson Advanced Analytics (DA2) group at Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS), successfully unified all analytics talent and resources into one group…

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…

In August of 2020, after a day treating patients, John McAdams, MD, gets ready to meet with a young couple from the community. He is excited to share the latest progress on his institution’s Cancer Treatment and Control Center, which is set to open in 3…

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…

The case recounts the events of the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola Outbreak, starting with the death of patient zero, a young Guinean boy named Emile Ouamouno in December 2013 and ending in August 2014 when the World Health Organization declared the…

This case is located within the multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis, as key managers decide what kind of monitoring and evaluation to implement for one of its social business programs, Novartis Access. This new program will expand the company’s…

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…

Elizabeth, a middle-aged African American woman living in Minnesota, develops chest pain and eventually presents to a local emergency room, where she is diagnosed with stress-related pain and given Vicodin. Members of a non-profit wellness center where…