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The Challenge of Adapting to Climate Change: King County Brings Local Action to a Global Threat
Garcia-Rios, Patricia; Varley, Pamela; Donahue, John D.Case HBS-HKS107-EThis public leadership case puts students in the shoes of King County Executive Ron Sims, the top elected official in Washington State's largest and most diverse county. The year is 2005, and Sims wishes to take a high profile leadership role on the climate change issue-locally and on the national stage-by tackling the nearly uncharted realm of "adaptation," preparing at the local level for impacts of climate change considered inevitable. In addi...Starting at €8.20
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Buying Property in a Hot Market: NYC Creates a Fund to Keep Affordable Housing Developers in Play
Garcia-Rios, Patricia; Varley, Pamela; Goldsmith, StephenCase HBS-HKS110-EThis case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details. This three-part case study presents the initial problem, the thinking, the politics, and the design negotiations that produced New York City's "NYC Acquisition Fund" in August 2006. The case concludes with a brief round-up of ...Starting at €8.20
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Taking a Therapeutic Approach to Juvenile Offenders: The "Missouri Model"
Garcia-Rios, Patricia; Scott, Esther; Boatright Wilson, JulieCase HBS-HKS104-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details. In the early 1970s, the Missouri Division of Youth Services (DYS) took its first steps toward radically changing the way it dealt with youthful offenders remanded to its custody. For years, like most states, it had incarcerate...Starting at €8.20
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Bringing Kids Home: The Wraparound Milwaukee Model
Garcia-Rios, Patricia; Boatright Wilson, Julie; Melkote, KatyaCase HBS-HKS127-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details. The Wraparound Milwaukee program was created in 1995 by Milwaukee County, Wisconsin and provides services and treatment to severely emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children and youth. The program utilizes the "wraparound...Starting at €8.20
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Michelle Rhee and the Washington D.C. Public Schools
Garcia-Rios, Patricia; Winig, Laura; Kelman, SteveCase HBS-HKS693-EEconomicsThis case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details. The case opens in 2007, when theStarting at €8.20
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Negotiating from the Margins: The Santa Clara Pueblo Seeks Key Ancestral Lands
Garcia-Rios, Patricia; Varley, Pamela; Hong, KesselyCase HBS-HKS886-EA suite of 5 Video Shorts is an integral part of the case study. It features interviews with four leading members of the Santa Clara Pueblo, including the case protagonist, Alvin Warren. This negotiations case describes the approach, over time, of Santa Clara, a small Pueblo Indian tribe in New Mexico, to recover a piece of land tribal leaders viewed as integral to their ancestral homeland. Unlike many negotiations cases, which concern the strate...Starting at €8.20
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Beauregard Textile Co. (Spanish version)
Aguilar, Francis J.Case HBS-113S01StrategyThe sales manager and controller have to decide on a price for a textile that lost significant market share as a result of a recent price increase. Information on manufacturing costs and on the pricing behavior of Beauregard and its only competitor are available for analysis. The case provides an opportunity to practice contribution analysis, considering fixed and variable costs as reported in a typical cost report. Also tests the students' abili...Starting at €8.20
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Rein Chemical Co.: Specialty Division (Spanish Version)
Aguilar, Francis J.Case HBS-906S02Este caso describe reciente descubrimiento de la gestión empresarial de las transacciones de precios no éticos generalizados en una división y diferentes puntos de vista clave de los gerentes sobre cómo responder. Se les pide a los estudiantes para evaluar la posición de gestión y decidir quién debe hacer qué para el problema de la determinación Rein Chemical Co. El problema de precios inadecuada, que implica un gran número indeterminado de clien...Starting at €8.20
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General Electric, 1984 (Spanish Version)
Aguilar, Francis J.; Hamermesh, Richard G.; Brainard, Caroline E.Case HBS-302S36Knowledge and CommunicationDescribe los primeros cuatro años de permanencia de Jack Welch como CEO de las ofertas de General Electric Co. con las formas Welch ha tratado de actividades de estrategia y planificación del cambio de GE y sus intentos de hacer la empresa más empresarial.Starting at €8.20
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General Electric: Reg Jones and Jack Welch (Spanish Version)
Bartlett, Christopher A.; Aguilar, Francis J.; Elderkin, Kenton W.Case HBS-308S03Knowledge and CommunicationCuando retirarse de GE Reginald Jones volvió el trabajo de CEO a Jack Welch, el 1 de abril de 1981, el Wall Street Journal informó que GE había "decidido sustituir una leyenda con un cable de alta tensión." Algunos se preguntaban si el joven dínamo podría llenar los zapatos muy grandes del estadista. Pero Welch tenía una visión muy potente y bien articulado de donde él quería su compañía para ir. Para 1984, se había reagrupado sectores de GE, red...Starting at €8.20