HBSP (USA)
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Rovna Dan: The Flat Tax in Slovakia
Alfaro, Laura; Di Tella, Rafael; Damgaard Jensen, Ane; Dessain, VincentCase HBS-707043-EEconomicsExplores the tax policy choices made by Slovakia and the impact of reforms. Set in 2006, looks at the decision facing new Prime Minister Robert Fico as he faces the public's "reform fatigue." Traces the development of tax and fiscal policies since Slovakia's independence in 1993, focusing on the 2004 implementation of the rovna dan, or "equal tax," a drastic simplification of the tax system. A major theme is the impact of labor market and welfare...Starting at €8.20
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Hopital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners In Health in Haiti
Kaplan, Robert S.; Mistry, Bipin; Bertrand, KarlaCase HBS-116041-EAccounting and ControlThe case describes the application of time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) at a new tertiary hospital operated by Partners-in-Health in Mirebelais, Haiti. A project team mapped the clinical processes for use in estimating the direct costs of personnel, equipment, and facilities for obstetric and breast cancer care. The accurate cost information revealed opportunities to optimize resource-utilization and reduce costs by establishing more eff...Starting at €8.20
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Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti
Kaplan, Robert S.; Shah, Mahek A.Case HBS-118051-EAccounting and ControlPartners in Health, a global NGO focused on delivering health care to residents of rural underserved communities, conducts a project on the cost of primary care at five sites in the Central Highlands of Haiti. It devises a simple approach for tracking the resources used by patients being treated for diverse medical conditions, as an input to a time-driven activity-based costing model. The results show considerable cost diversity across the five s...Starting at €8.20
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PROTECTA - Promoting Civil Society in Serbia, Teaching Note
Letts, Christine W.; Cornell, IanTeaching Note HBS-HKS558-ETeaching Note for #HKS-124.Starting at €0.00
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Rovna Dan: The Flat Tax in Slovakia, Teaching Note
Alfaro, Laura; Di Tella, Rafael; Kim, ReneeTeaching Note HBS-708003-EEconomicsTeaching Note to 707043.Starting at €0.00
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PROTECTA - Promoting Civil Society in Serbia
Letts, Christine W.; Cornell, IanCase HBS-HKS124-EIn 1997 three students joined a protest against the electoral victory of Slobodan Milosevic's Serbian Socialist Party. Upon the protest's ultimate defeat, and Milosevic's return to power, the students vowed to continue the struggle for civic activism in Serbia. Their efforts manifested in the creation of the Centre for Civil Society Development PROTECTA, an NGO committed to promoting civic engagement throughout Serbia. Twelve years following the ...Starting at €8.20
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Building a Community Organizing Organization: Serbia on the Move
Winig, Laura; Ganz, MarshallCase HBS-KS1243-ELeadership and People ManagementIn Serbia, citizens are reluctant to become politically active but young leaders Babovi and Stojicic, the case protagonists, are determined to prod their peers into taking a stronger role in the country's government. Using community organizing principles, they launch Serbia on the Move, a nongovernmental organization created to organize and energize citizens to drive change in Serbia. On several occasions, Serbia on the Move's leaders find them...Starting at €8.20
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Building a Community Organizing Organization: Serbia on the Move, Teaching Plan
Ganz, MarshallTeaching Note HBS-KS1245-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for case KS1243.Starting at €0.00
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Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief: What Can We Learn from Commercial Supply Chains
Shih, Willy; Pierson, MargaretCase HBS-615003-EService and Operations ManagementOrganizing speedy and efficient supply operations for unpredictable major natural disasters was a continuing challenge for the U.S. military, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti was both unique in its operational scope and political complexity. As he reviewed the after-action reports, George Topic, the Vice Director of the Center for Joint and Strategic Logistics at the National Defense University wondered how the performance of disaster relief effo...Starting at €8.20
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Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain
Edmondson, Amy C.; Harvey, Jean-FrancoisCase HBS-616040-EService and Operations ManagementThis case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the final year of the project, presents the project's advances, and invites students to position themselves in front of three options regarding the exit strategy to be deployed to ensure sustain...Starting at €8.20