Launching the European Food Safety Authority

The first food safety commission for the European Union is created. What about food safety, scientific assessments and people’s attitudes towards scientific changes in food growing and processing, for example genetically modified organisms?

Shisong Cardiac Center: Kumbo, Cameroon

The Shisong Heart Center in Kumbo, Cameroon, is a regional heart center in Central Africa. As the continent shifts from communicable to noncommunicable diseases, there is a critical shortage of the surgical care needed to treat these diseases. This case describes an innovative solution to the shortage of skilled workers, an international collaboration between a …

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Sesame Workshop (C): Mission Critical Responses to Global and National Crises

Starting in March 2020, Sesame Workshop tackled a global pandemic and racial justice crisis that resulted in unemployment, business closings, school closings, and remote work. The executive director and team responded with a new partnership, leveraging its assets and stepping up its mission, including working with CNN to produce free television news specials for children …

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Hospital Corp. of America (B)

It focuses on HCA funding opportunities to meet its target capital structure. Options include a new convertible bond stock conversion, a debt currency swap, asset sales, and fixed income debt. Students must address the issue of timing and market signaling when choosing financing instruments.

Jay Winsten and the Designated Driver Campaign

Harvard T.H. Center for Health Communication Jay Winsten, director of the Chan School of Public Health, led a national media campaign, the Harvard Alcohol Project, also known as the Designated Driver Campaign, to quickly spread the word “Designated Driver” in the lexicon and American culture. The campaign broke new ground, in large part harnessing the …

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Health Leads: Reaching for Impact (B)

Case B documents the development of a system-level impact strategy in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape for a nonprofit organization that focuses on serving the basic social needs of patients through healthcare facilities. . Founded in 1996 with a volunteer help desk at Boston Medical Center that connects low-income patients with basic resources such as …

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The KIDSNET Story: Sequel

This continuation accompanies case 1800.0. In January 1997, the Rhode Island Department of Health launched KIDSNET to harness the power of information technology and ensure that all of the state’s children receive appropriate care. The medical “informatics” system was developed to track vital health data, such as vaccinations, and make it available to health care …

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