Business Case Studies, Leadership Case Study, Tata Group,Ratan Tata

Code : BSM0001

Year : 2003

Industry : Education

Region : USA

Teaching Note:Not Available

Structured Assignment : Not Available

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Introduction:"Once little more than a good regional medical institution in an agriculture- focussed state school system, University of California,San Francisco(UCSF)has become a world-classs how case for biomedical innovation. Its achievements and culture have attracted both faculty and funding on a new scale few other medical-research school shave been able to match."

For years UCSF was considered to be an unlikely place for radical inventions. Even in the late 1960's, UCSF, which had been inexistence since 18732, was known more for it's efficient clinical care to the public through San Francisco's General hospital than for fundamental research. However, since 1968, prudent planning coupled with collaborative approach to fundamental research in UCSF attracted some of the brightest scientific minds and turned the institution in to a research powerhouse.