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John Deere Component Works (A) (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.; March, ArtemisCase HBS-115S03Accounting and ControlThe division has recognized the inadequacies of its existing, traditional cost system for estimating product costs. Describes the innovative activity-based system that was developed to more accurately trace overhead costs to individual products. Provides students with the opportunity to critique a standard cost system and to assess the characteristics of the proposed system that traces costs to production activities.Starting at €8.20
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Componentes de Obras John Deere (B)
Kaplan, Robert S.; March, ArtemisCase HBS-115S04Accounting and ControlDespués de haber instalado un sistema basado en la actividad, la división está explorando la visión proporcionada por ese sistema. En particular, se estudia la economía del proceso de planificación del tamaño de lote y la gestión de la mezcla de productos.Starting at €5.74
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A Sharper Look at Zero Tolerance: Reports of Sexual Assault Rock the United States Air Force Academy (Sequel)
Born, Dana; Datla, AnjaniCase HBS-KS1232-EEconomicsSupplement to case KS1231. This case traces the sexual assault scandal that rocked the United States Air Force Academy in 2003. Over a period of several months, dozens of current and former female students came forward to the media and government representatives about being sexually assaulted by their male peers on campus. Several victims also implicated the Academy's leadership for not doing enough to address the problem. When the scandal broke...Starting at €8.20
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Cracking the Monolith: California's Child Welfare Services Disrupts Technology Procurement (A)
Datla, Anjani; Eaves, DavidCase HBS-KS1235-EEconomicsIn October 2015, two senior California officials: Marybel Batjer, Secretary for Government Operations, and Michael Wilkening, Undersecretary for the Health and Human Services Agency seized on an idea that had the potential to turn the state's long dysfunctional technology procurement process on its head. After years of planning, California was about to request bids for a new child welfare management system to replace a twenty-year-old technology...Starting at €8.20
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Airlines and Antitrust: Scrutinizing the American Airlines-US Airways Merger Sequel
Gomez-Ibanez, Jose; Datla, AnjaniCase HBS-KS1141-EEconomicsThis sequel accompanies case number 2044.0. In August 2013, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) shocked many in the airline industry by filing a lawsuit to block the merger of American Airlines and US Airways on the grounds that the merger would reduce competition. The two airlines had announced their intention to merge in February, making way for the creation of the largest airline in the world. The new airline would carry ...Starting at €8.20
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Reclaiming the American Dream: Thomas Perez and the Department of Labor
Datla, Anjani; Donahue, JohnCase HBS-KS1121-EEconomicsIn July 2013 Tom Perez became the United States' 26th Secretary of Labor. Perez took the helm of the Department of Labor at a critical juncture. In recent years, the US economy was marred by historically high rates of unemployment, fueled by the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Although the economy had begun a slow recovery in 2010, there were only lackluster gains in private sector jobs. By 2013, more than 11 million Americans...Starting at €8.20
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Setting the Standard in Free Trade: The Making of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Datla, Anjani; Lawrence, RobertCase HBS-KS1142-EEconomicsIn July 2013, more than 150 negotiators from the European Union and the United States converged in Washington, D.C. to begin crafting what could become the world's largest free trade agreement-the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Billed as a transformational trade accord, the TTIP would go beyond tariffs to cut non-tariff barriers, expand trade in services, streamline regulatory standards, and incorporate trade elements to s...Starting at €8.20
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Pricing Carbon: The Birth of British Columbia's Carbon Tax
Datla, Anjani; Lee, HenryCase HBS-KS1170-EEconomicsIn 2008, British Columbia became one of the few jurisdictions in the world to successfully implement a comprehensive carbon tax. The architect of the tax, Premier Gordon Campbell, championed the broad-based carbon tax that applied to nearly all fossil fuels and made it "revenue neutral." Every dollar raised from the tax would be returned to BC residents and businesses in the form of personal income and corporate tax cuts. Campbell was an unlikel...Starting at €8.20
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A Sharper Look at Zero Tolerance: Reports of Sexual Assault Rock the United States Air Force Academy
Datla, Anjani; Born, DanaCase HBS-KS1231-EEconomicsThis case traces the sexual assault scandal that rocked the United States Air Force Academy in 2003. Over a period of several months, dozens of current and former female students came forward to the media and government representatives about being sexually assaulted by their male peers on campus. Several victims also implicated the Academy's leadership for not doing enough to address the problem. When the scandal broke, Lieutenant General John D...Starting at €8.20
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Copeland Corp.: Evolution of a Manufacturing Strategy--1975-82 (A) (Spanish Version)
Garvin, David A.; March, ArtemisCase HBS-606S15Service and Operations ManagementDescribe la evolución de la estrategia de producción de una empresa durante un período de ocho años. Copeland había seguido una estrategia de construcción de plantas Autosoportados enfocadas dedicadas a los procesos individuales o líneas de productos, y luego mover los productos desde la planta de su casa en Sidney, Ohio, para la nueva instalación. Sidney queda ahora con una mezcla de productos y procesos no relacionados, y la administración debe...Starting at €8.20