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This case explores Nigerian attorney Hauwa Ibrahim’s defense of a woman charged with adultery by Islamic Shariah law. One of Nigeria’s first female lawyers, Ibrahim develops a strategy to defend a young married woman, Amina Lawal, against adultery…

Bill Hurt, the new CEO of Hillside Hospital, knew that the forecast was grim. The hospital’s service volumes and market share were dropping precipitously. The direct causes of the problems were numerous, but an indirect cause—and major barrier to…

Dr. Laurie Gianturco (“Dr. G.”), Chief of Radiology at Baystate Health and President of the private imaging practice Radiology & Imaging, Inc. (“R&I”), and her partner for this project, Suzanne Hendery, VP of Marketing & Communications at…

While violence against children in Turkey was widespread, people across the country were shocked by the news of seven atrocious child molestation cases,one after another over the course of a week in April 2010. Ayşen Özyeğin, Founder and President of the…

When Dr. Marwan started as director of Ramses Hospital in Cairo in 2008, charged by the Minister of Health with improving performance, he found the hospital had been neglected for decades. A Ministry of Health quality audit had recently given the…

Lucy Normen, Chief Operating Officer of Sweetbriar Hospital, had just gotten off the phone with her Emergency Department Director, Dr. Max Warner. He was very upset with the present situation in the ED: people currently boarding in the ED hallways…

Thandeka Sisulu had just been hired as the new administrative director for the Eastern Cape Clinic, located in the outskirts of the South African city of East London. The Clinic had opened about 18 months ago with support from the government and from two…

Southcoast Health System consists of three hospitals in southeastern Massachusetts: St. Luke’s in New Bedford, Charlton Memorial in Fall River, and Tobey in Wareham, as well as numerous affiliated entities. But how did the merger that created the…