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Recent MBA graduate Majed finds his dream job: high-tech, entrepreneurial, senior, social – contributing to the economy of Palestine, a cause close to his heart. But the new CEO of WebTeb, an online medical information service in Arabic, finds it more challenging than expected. Recruiting IT talent in Palestine is particularly tough.
Reference 6343
Published 28 May 2018
Length 5 page(s)
Topic Responsibility
Region Middle-East
Industry Wireless, Medical Practice, Information Services
Recent MBA graduate Majed finds his dream job: high-tech, entrepreneurial, senior, social – contributing to the economy of Palestine, a cause close to his heart. But the new CEO of WebTeb, an online medical information service in Arabic, finds it more challenging than expected. Recruiting IT talent in Palestine is particularly tough.
Recent MBA graduate Majed finds his dream job: high-tech, entrepreneurial, senior, social – contributing to the economy of Palestine, a cause close to his heart. But the new CEO of WebTeb, an online medical information service in Arabic, finds it more challenging than expected. Recruiting IT talent in Palestine is particularly tough.
Reference 6343
Published 28 May 2018
Length 1 page(s)
Topic Responsibility
Region Middle-East
Industry Wireless, Medical Practice, Information Services
Recent MBA graduate Majed finds his dream job: high-tech, entrepreneurial, senior, social – contributing to the economy of Palestine, a cause close to his heart. But the new CEO of WebTeb, an online medical information service in Arabic, finds it more challenging than expected. Recruiting IT talent in Palestine is particularly tough.
This case documents challenges in the growth of a NGO whose mission is to educate and inspire individuals with diabetes. Team Type 1 engages and encourages healthy lifestyles and effective control of diabetes by example. The original model is based on active participation of patients in cycling clubs, and the question of how to scale the model to broader geographies is raised.
Reference 5825
Published 31 Oct 2011
Length 21 page(s)
Topic Operations
Region Global
Industry Health, Wellness and Fitness, Medical Practice
This case documents challenges in the growth of a NGO whose mission is to educate and inspire individuals with diabetes. Team Type 1 engages and encourages healthy lifestyles and effective control of diabetes by example. The original model is based on active participation of patients in cycling clubs, and the question of how to scale the model to broader geographies is raised.
The case narrates the trigger points that encouraged Roche to make a 15-fold increase in its production capacity of Tamiflu, an antiviral pandemic flu drug recommended by the World Health Organisation as of 2004.
Reference 5501
Published 28 Apr 2008
Length 12 page(s)
Topic Responsibility
Region Global
Industry Pharmaceuticals, Medical Practice
The case narrates the trigger points that encouraged Roche to make a 15-fold increase in its production capacity of Tamiflu, an antiviral pandemic flu drug recommended by the World Health Organisation as of 2004.
Technological and medical innovation in recent years has opened many new lines of research and development in the healthcare industry. Developments in medicines and devices have begun to yield new treatments offering hope to many cancer sufferers, and many more are predicted to emerge in the coming decade.
Reference 5151
Published 01 Oct 2003
Length 17 page(s)
Topic Strategy
Region Global
Industry Medical Practice
Technological and medical innovation in recent years has opened many new lines of research and development in the healthcare industry. Developments in medicines and devices have begun to yield new treatments offering hope to many cancer sufferers, and many more are predicted to emerge in the coming decade.
The objective of this teaching case is to place students in the complex moral and legal environment of AIDS in South Africa. During the 1990s, South Africa, along with many other developing countries, agreed to accept World Trade Organization disciplines with respect to trade in intellectual property the so-called TRIPS agreement.
Reference 5127
Published 10 Jan 2003
Length 23 page(s)
Topic Responsibility
Region Global
Industry Pharmaceuticals, Medical Practice
The objective of this teaching case is to place students in the complex moral and legal environment of AIDS in South Africa. During the 1990s, South Africa, along with many other developing countries, agreed to accept World Trade Organization disciplines with respect to trade in intellectual property the so-called TRIPS agreement.
Teva appoints four senior executives as global "integrators", for specific functional areas (strategic marketing, R&D, manufacturing and business development) reporting to a key general manager, following a phase of rapid internationalisation via acquisitions. How are they going to define their mission, roles, priorities, and action plans?
Reference 4946
Published 26 Nov 2002
Length 16 page(s)
Topic Strategy
Region Global
Industry Pharmaceuticals, Medical Practice
Teva appoints four senior executives as global "integrators", for specific functional areas (strategic marketing, R&D, manufacturing and business development) reporting to a key general manager, following a phase of rapid internationalisation via acquisitions. How are they going to define their mission, roles, priorities, and action plans?
Case (A) describes Roche Diagnostics Division designs, manufactures and markets a range of in vitro diagnostic systems that consist of electronic instrumentation and chemical reagents. Case (A) sets the scene in 1991. It describes the launch of a service quality process to improve service from headquarters to subsidiary companies and eventually from subsidiaries to end customer.
Reference 4680
Published 01 Jan 2004
Length 12 page(s)
Topic Operations
Region Europe
Industry Medical Practice
Case (A) describes Roche Diagnostics Division designs, manufactures and markets a range of in vitro diagnostic systems that consist of electronic instrumentation and chemical reagents. Case (A) sets the scene in 1991. It describes the launch of a service quality process to improve service from headquarters to subsidiary companies and eventually from subsidiaries to end customer.
Roche Diagnostics Division designs, manufactures and markets a range of in vitro diagnostic systems that consist of electronic instrumentation and chemical reagents.
Reference 4680
Published 10 Jan 1997
Length 10 page(s)
Topic Operations
Region Europe
Industry Medical Practice
Roche Diagnostics Division designs, manufactures and markets a range of in vitro diagnostic systems that consist of electronic instrumentation and chemical reagents.
In October 1988, members of the Board and CEOs of Roussel-Uclaf (one of the French leaders of the pharmaceutical industry) had to decide whether or not to put on the market RU486, a pill that provokes abortion without use of surgical methods.
Reference 2886
Published 01 Jan 1991
Length 16 page(s)
Region Europe
Industry Pharmaceuticals, Medical Practice
In October 1988, members of the Board and CEOs of Roussel-Uclaf (one of the French leaders of the pharmaceutical industry) had to decide whether or not to put on the market RU486, a pill that provokes abortion without use of surgical methods.
Case (B) describes subsequent events: Roussel-Uclaf decides to suspend distribution of the product. However, two days after the firm makes its decision public, the French Government intervenes and mandates the firm to reverse its decision.
Reference 2886
Published 01 Jan 1991
Length 5 page(s)
Region Europe
Industry Pharmaceuticals, Medical Practice
Case (B) describes subsequent events: Roussel-Uclaf decides to suspend distribution of the product. However, two days after the firm makes its decision public, the French Government intervenes and mandates the firm to reverse its decision.
Case (C) describes the French experience with RU486 and the possibilities of making the product available worldwide and emphasises the problems that would arise should it be marketed in the United States, where abortion is a politically sensitive issue, and in the Third World, where the lack of medical facilities would pose a serious risk of the product being misused.
Reference 2886
Published 01 Jan 1991
Length 13 page(s)
Region Europe
Industry Pharmaceuticals, Medical Practice
Case (C) describes the French experience with RU486 and the possibilities of making the product available worldwide and emphasises the problems that would arise should it be marketed in the United States, where abortion is a politically sensitive issue, and in the Third World, where the lack of medical facilities would pose a serious risk of the product being misused.
