...is the management-research question hierarchy for Akron Children’s Hospital? The management research hierarchy for Akron Children’s Hospital includes: Discover the Management Dilemma: Akron’s Children’s Hospital felt the need to distinguish itself from the other prominent pediatric hospitals in the Northeastern Ohio area: Akron Children’s wanted to be the top pediatric hospital choice in Akron and the surrounding counties. Define the Management Question: How can we (Akron Children’s) convince the public, or parents of acutely ill children, to utilize the caring, compassionate, and technologically advanced resources of Akron Children’s Hospital over Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital or The Cleveland Clinic? Define the Research Questions: How can Akron Children’s Hospital distinguish itself from its competitors and prove its excellence in healthcare to the Akron area and surrounding counties? Investigative Questions: What factors do parents use to make a decision as to what hospital to use? Is a decision based on hospital reputation or is their decision an emotional decision? What do we need to do to heighten our reputation as a caring, compassionate, technologically advanced facility and to appeal to the emotional level as a means to attract (the parents of) acutely ill children to Akron Children’s over our competitors? Measurement Questions: What measures does Akron Children’s Hospital take to demonstrate their superiority over their...
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...Cooper and Schindler (2008) provided a comprehensive case study that involves a children’s hospital called Akron Children’s Hospital, which is one of the largest pediatric care provider with 253 beds. This hospital was founded in 1890 and offers close to This hospital was founded in 1890 and offers several areas of practice all geared towards children. Akron Children’s Hospital operates in the shadows several other competitors that are also recognized nearby: Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital as well as the Cleveland Clinic. Cooper & Schindler (2008) stated that even though Akron Children’s Hospital is large and well regarded, it is overshadowed by its competitors. The hospital needs a communication strategy in order to distinguish itself and to strengthen its commitment to the children as well as the high-quality advanced care that it provides. The hospital also must find out the criteria that parents use in order to decide which hospital to use for their children if acute care services are needed. Expanding its market beyond Cleveland should also be something that the hospital should explore. The issue that Akron Children’s Hospital is experiencing is the fact that it does not know which strategies to use in order to expand and overshadow its competitors. While Akron Children’s Hospital is one of the largest pediatric care providers with 253beds, it lacks the strategies in which to compete in its market. The hospital is over shadowed by two other competitors and cannot...
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...CASE STUDY Shared Risk. Shared Reward. Insuring The Akron Children’s Expansion How a major metro-area hospital called on Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) – and a breakthrough insurance solution – to get its largest construction expansion in history off the ground Overview From the project’s initiation in 2010, the leaders behind Akron Children’s Hospital $200 million expansion “Building on the Promise” were dedicated to setting a new standard in the development and delivery of health care facility construction. Specifically behind this vision was Grace Wakulchik, Chief Operating Officer Akron Children’s Hospital, who drove the innovative and collaborative project approach. This included the incorporation of design feedback from all segments of the community – both civic and medical – to ensure an optimal patient and family experience. It also featured a commitment to lean construction principles, with the Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) method at the center of the plan. In contrast to the traditional Design-Bid-Build model, by definition, an IPD signifies that all constituents involved – from owners, to architects, to subcontractors and more – operate under the same governing contract. This shared risk/shared reward model is designed to give all parties an equal voice and to provide inherent project benefits including, but not limited to: reducing waste, lowering costs, supporting collaboration and maximizing productivity. For every decision, and at every stage, the IPD method...
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...Skyline University Akron Children's Hospital Case Study Name: Date: Discussion Questions 1) What is the management-research question hierarchy for Akron Children’s Hospital? Akron Children's Hospital identify five steps in their management-research questions hierarchy, which are: 1. Management Dilemma: the first step in the management- research question hierarchy, where the hospital choose specific objectives to generate solutions. The hospital is concerned mostly with increasing their business and the number of their patients. 2. Management Questions: searching for an innovative plan that differentiate them from their competitors and gain a competitive advantage over them. 3. Research Questions: looking for ways in which the hospital can provide for children advanced technology care equipments in their treatment. 4. Investigation Questions: the hospital investigates different questions, like "How can we attract patients from other countries to get their treatment at out hospital?" and "How parents decide whether to bring their children to our hospital?" 5. Measurement Questions: the hospital utilize a collecting data tool such as surveys and questioners to gather information from their customers regarding the hospital treatment and care for their children, the distance from the hospital to the home, and the quality of technology and medicines used. 2) What are the advantages/disadvantages of an observation study for this research? Each...
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...Akron Children's Hospital Executive summary The health care market in the Northeastern Ohio has been experiencing tremendous changes in the last few years. These changes have been more prominent among the health services for seriously ill children. Institutions that have in the past been involved in other health care services have turned to pediatrics. In order to combat this, Akron Children's Hospital has resulted to trying to understand the decision making procedures on institution or physician selection among the parents with seriously sick children. This was in an effort to differentiate itself from the other health care service providers. With the identification of similarities in advertisement approaches within the major contenders for the Industry, more unique differentiation strategies were sought through researches to identify how to best communicate with the customers in a unique way that would give the company a competitive edge over other service providers. Marcus Thomas LLC, the researcher contracted by Akron Children's Hospital, used telephone interviews and focus groups in learning the decision making behaviors. In both research approaches, parents with children between the ages of one month and eighteen years were sampled. The geographical spread of the sample exceeded the Summit County, where the hospital is based. From the survey, it was inferred that the decision makers use their emotions rather than rationality when making decisions on health care provision...
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...Case Study: Akron Children’s Hospital 1) What is the management-research question hierarchy for Akron Children’s Hospital? a. Management Dilemma- Step 1 is identifying the management dilemma. The dilemma that the hospital faces is how to increase the bed-occupancy rate and what can the hospital do to gain more business than its competitors. b. Management Question- Step 2 is how to differentiate itself and step out of the shadow of its competitors. c. Research Questions- Step 3 consists of defining the research questions The questions focus on how to distinguish itself and convey its commitment to children and to the highest-quality and most medically advanced care. d. Investigative Questions- Step 4 consists of investigative questions such as “How do parents come to a decision on where to bring their children?” and “How do we gain more customers from surrounding counties?” e. Measurement Questions- Step 5 consists of some questions with supplied answers that range on a scale of 1 to 5 (bad to good). These questions can include those about distance to home, comfort of leaving children in the hospital’s care, feelings of technology and medical quality. 2) What are the advantages/disadvantages of an observation study for this research? f. Advantages- The researcher can see first-hand the experiences of parents and children in the hospital every step of the way. Researchers can instantly record their observances and findings....
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...Healthcare System “Privacy Issues, Akron Children’s Hospital” Yoannis Marquez Professor Hiram Paz Healthcare Law Florida National University December 15, 2015 Abstract The basic approach of this study should one that puts into consideration and knowledge of presenting complete as well as accurate information. The patient’s privacy has been debated for a long time, some issues are addressed but other just keep rising and becoming stronger which in result ends up with a catastrophic result. From 2013 until now the health information of around 18 million people have been breached electronically in the U.S. Issues of the American Healthcare System “Privacy Issues, Akron Children’s Hospital” Hey, Professor Paz, someone is watching you from the window! This probably freaked you out, but don’t worry; nobody is looking through your window, or is there? Just kidding; pretty much this is what invasion of privacy is. Privacy is a human right, and the right to privacy has been an ethical debate throughout the years, and it will keep being for many years. Every single country on Earth spies on other countries, and the other countries complain of invasion of privacy when they themselves are doing the same thing. The thing is that we all want privacy, even public figures deserve and want some privacy (even though since you become a public figure you want have much of it). In this particular case, I will be talking about Akron Children’s Hospital which is part of the American Healthcare...
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...Collaboration to Build Healthier Communities A Report for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America Wilder Research Wilder Research Wilder Research Report prepared for the RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America by Paul W. Mattessich, Ph.D. Wilder Research Saint Paul, Minnesota Ela J. Rausch, M.P . .P Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Minneapolis, Minnesota With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation June 2013 Creating Healthy Communities Cross-sector partnerships are sparking widespread action to improve community health COATESVILLE , PA SEATTLE, WA Access to healthy foods Access to preventative care and healthy housing LOS ANGELES , CA Quality early child care and education CHICAGO, IL Data and evidence to build health into all policies and practices MIAMI , FL Opportunities for physical activity and healthy living health community development • community development finance • community planning • early child care/education • human services • housing Introduction “ Building a healthier America is feasible in years, not decades, if we collaborate and act on what is making a difference.” —Robert Wood Johnson Foundation In 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation convened a commission of nonpartisan leaders to identify opportunities to improve the health of all Americans by creating environments that protect and actively promote health. Their report, Beyond Health Care:...
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...TOXICOLOGICAL PROFILE FOR PENTACHLOROPHENOL U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Public Health Service Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry September 2001 PENTACHLOROPHENOL ii DISCLAIMER The use of company or product name(s) is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. PENTACHLOROPHENOL iii UPDATE STATEMENT Toxicological profiles are revised and republished as necessary, but no less than once every three years. For information regarding the update status of previously released profiles, contact ATSDR at: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Division of Toxicology/Toxicology Information Branch 1600 Clifton Road NE, E-29 Atlanta, Georgia 30333 PENTACHLOROPHENOL vi *Legislative Background The toxicological profiles are developed in response to the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) of 1986 (Public law 99-499) which amended the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA or Superfund). This public law directed ATSDR to prepared toxicological profiles for hazardous substances most commonly found at facilities on the CERCLA National Priorities List and that pose the most significant potential threat to human health, as determined by ATSDR and the EPA. The availability of the revised priority list of 275 hazardous substances was announced in the Federal Register on November 17, 1997 (62...
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...Business Research Methods Cooper 12th Edition Solutions Manual Click here to download the solutions manual INSTANTLY!!! http://www.solutionsmanualtestbank.com/products/2014/10/2 6/business-research-methods-cooper-12th-edition-solutionsmanual Business Research Methods Cooper 12th Edition Solutions Manual Business Research Methods Cooper Schindler 12th Edition Solutions Manual ***THIS IS NOT THE ACTUAL TEXTBOOK. YOU ARE PURCHASING the Solution Manual in e-version of the following textbook*** Name: Business Research Methods Author: Cooper Schindler Edition: 12th ISBN-10: 0073521507 Type: Solutions Manual - The file contains solutions and questions to all chapters and all questions. All the files are carefully checked and accuracy is ensured. - The file is either in .doc, .pdf, excel, or zipped in the package and can easily be read on PCs and Macs. - Delivery is INSTANT. You can download the files IMMEDIATELY once payment is done. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Our response is the fastest. All questions will always be answered in 6 hours. This is the quality of service we are providing and we hope to be your helper. Delivery is in the next moment. Solution Manual is accurate. Buy now below and the DOWNLOAD LINK WILL APPEAR IMMEDIATELY once payment is done! Prepare to receive your Business Research Methods Solution Manual in the next moment. -------------------------------------Business Research Methods Solution Manual Business Research Methods 12th...
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...Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 BRAIN POWER Myth #1 Most People Use Only 10% of Their Brain Power Myth #2 Some People Are Left-Brained, Others Are Right-Brained Myth #3 Extrasensory Perception (ESP) Is a Well-Established Scientific Phenomenon Myth #4 Visual Perceptions Are Accompanied by Tiny Emissions from the Eyes Myth #5 Subliminal Messages Can Persuade People to Purchase Products 2 FROM WOMB TO TOMB Myth #6 Playing Mozart’s Music to Infants Boosts Their Intelligence Myth #7 Adolescence Is Inevitably a Time of Psychological Turmoil Myth #8 Most People Experience a Midlife Crisis in | 8 Their 40s or Early 50s Myth #9 Old Age Is Typically Associated with Increased Dissatisfaction and Senility Myth #10 When Dying, People Pass through a Universal Series of Psychological Stages 3 A REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST Myth #11 Human Memory Works like a Tape Recorder or Video Camera, and Accurate Events We’ve Experienced Myth #12 Hypnosis Is Useful for Retrieving Memories of Forgotten Events Myth #13 Individuals Commonly Repress the Memories of Traumatic Experiences Myth #14 Most People with Amnesia Forget All Details of Their Earlier Lives 4 TEACHING OLD DOGS NEW TRICKS Myth #15 Intelligence (IQ) Tests Are Biased against Certain Groups of People My th #16 If You’re Unsure of Your Answer When Taking a Test, It’s Best to Stick with Your Initial Hunch Myth #17 The Defining Feature of Dyslexia Is Reversing Letters Myth #18 Students Learn Best When Teaching Styles Are Matched to...
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...THE POWER OF HABIT Duhi_9781400069286_2p_all_r1.j.indd i 10/17/11 12:01 PM Duhi_9781400069286_2p_all_r1.j.indd ii 10/17/11 12:01 PM HABIT W h y We D o W h a t We D o and How to Change It THE POWER OF CHARLES DUHIGG Random House e N e w Yo r k Duhi_9781400069286_2p_all_r1.j.indd iii 10/17/11 12:01 PM This is a work of nonfiction. Nonetheless, some names and personal characteristics of individuals or events have been changed in order to disguise identities. Any resulting resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental and unintentional. Copyright © 2012 by Charles Duhigg All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-1-4000-6928-6 eBook ISBN 978-0-679-60385-6 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Illustrations by Anton Ioukhnovets www.atrandom.com 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 First Edition Book design by Liz Cosgrove Duhi_9781400069286_2p_all_r1.j.indd iv 10/17/11 12:01 PM To Oliver, John Harry, John and Doris, and, everlastingly, to Liz Duhi_9781400069286_2p_all_r1.j.indd v 10/17/11 12:01 PM Duhi_9781400069286_2p_all_r1.j.indd vi 10/17/11 12:01 PM CONTENTS PROLOGUE The Habit Cure GGG xi PA R T O N E The Habits of Individuals 1. THE HABIT LOOP How Habits Work 3 31 60 2. THE...
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...A Report to the Nation Maggie Gallagher, Principal Investigator The Age of Unwed Mothers Is Teen Pregnancy the Problem? Institute for American Values This report comes from the Marriage Project of the Institute for American Values. Maggie Gallagher, the principal investigator, is an affiliate scholar at the Institute and the director of its Marriage Project. The Institute is grateful to Amara Bachu, Douglas J. Besharov, Norval Glenn, Dana Mack, Steven L. Nock, and Maris Vinovskis for their scholarly and editorial suggestions, and to the William H. Donner Foundation for its generous financial support of this initiative. The contributions of other supporters are also greatly appreciated. On the cover: Maternity (1950) by Milton Avery. Oil on canvas, 32 X 46 inches. Collection of Sally M. Avery. ©1999, Milton Avery Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY. © 1999, Institute for American Values. All rights reserved. No reproduction of the materials contained herein is permitted without the written permission of the Institute for American Values. ISBN 0-9659841-5-X Institute for American Values 1841 Broadway, Suite 211 New York, NY 10023 Tel: (212) 246-3942 Fax: (212) 541-6665 info@americanvalues.org www.americanvalues.org The Age of Unwed Mothers Is Teen Pregnancy the Problem? Executive Summary Why have three decades of intensive national effort to reduce teen pregnancy not been more successful? Largely because for three decades, we have framed...
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...Chapter 1 The Evolution of the Modern Firm Chapter Contents 1) Introduction 2) The World in 1840 • Doing Business in 1840 • Conditions of Business in 1840: Life Without a Modern Infrastructure Example 1.1: The Emergence of Chicago 3) The World in 1910 • Doing Business in 1910 Example 1.2: Responding to the Business Environment: The Case of American Whaling • Business Conditions in 1910: A "Modern" Infrastructure Example 1.3: Evolution of the Steel Industry 4) The World Today • Doing Business Today • The Infrastructure Today Example 1.4: Economic Gyrations and Traffic Gridlock in Thailand 5) Three Different Worlds: Consistent Principles, Changing Conditions, and Adaptive Strategies Example 1.5: Infrastructure and Emerging Markets: The Russian Privatization Program Example 1.6: Building National Infrastructure: The Transcontinental Railroad 6) Chapter Summary 7) Questions Chapter Summary This chapter analyses the business environment in three different time periods: 1840, 1910 and the present. It looks at the business infrastructure, market conditions, the size and scope of a firm’s activities and a firm’s response to changes. This historical perspective shows that all successful businesses have used similar principles to adapt to widely varying business conditions in order to succeed. Businesses in the period before 1840 were small and operated in localized markets...
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